“Never demolish. Always transform, with and for the inhabitants”: Anne Lacaton delivers inaugural Jaqueline Tyrwhitt Urban Design Lecture
“Living well in the city,” the French architect Anne Lacaton declared, “is the most important…
Jeanne Gang named Special Commencement Ceremony Speaker for the Classes of 2020 and 2021
Jeanne Gang, Open House Lecture, 2018 Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design has named…
GSD names Danielle Allen the 2022 Class Day Speaker
Photo Credit: Laura Rose Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design has named Danielle Allen as…
Excerpt from Pairs Issue 02: “Labyrinth of Affinities” by Jorge Silvetti with Nicolás Delgado Álcega
Pairs is a student-led journal at the Harvard Graduate School of Design dedicated to conversations…
Moshe Safdie Remembers John Andrews (1933–2022)
John Andrews (center) with Landscape Architect Michael Hough (left) and Architect and Urban Planner…
Future of the American City: Sara Zewde
Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi are principals and founders of Weiss/Manfredi Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism. They join Charles…
Gary R. Hilderbrand Appointed Chair of the GSD Department of Landscape Architecture
Harvard Graduate School of Design announces Gary R. Hilderbrand (MLA ’85) as…
Shaping Contemporary Indigenous Design: An interview with Sam Olbekson
Sam Olbekson is committed to improving the lives of Native Americans. An Indigenous architect with…
Frida Escobedo to Design the Met’s New Art Wing
Photo: Zoltan Tombor The Metropolitan Museum of Art has named Frida Escobedo (MDes ’12) to…
“From virtual by emergency to virtual by design”: The 2020–2021 Irving Innovation Fellows advance virtual pedagogy
Each year, the Irving Innovation Fellowship enables recent Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni…
Two Years Later: What has COVID-19 Permanently Changed for Design?
Tables on the Gund Hall front plaza accommodate outdoor learning and social space. Photograph…
Blank: Speculations on CLT edited by Jennifer Bonner and Hanif Kara
When I began studying architecture in the 1980s, students would often get asked at crits…
Nexus Podcast: Lesley Lokko on the relationship between fiction writing and Architecture
Season 2, Episode 9: Lesley Lokko delves into the relationship between fiction writing and Architecture…
A behind-the-scenes look at Interrogative Design: Selected Works of Krzysztof Wodiczko through seven candid conversations
Listen to Krzysztof Wodiczko and the curator Dan Borelli discussing six of…
Heat Magnets: Jeannette Kuo on mitigating the harmful effects of all-glass building facades
Lever House, Gordon Bunshaft and Natalie de Blois (SOM), New York City, 1952. Photo…
Design Now Podcast, Episode 2: Public Health, the Pandemic, and Beyond
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are all thinking more actively…
Mise-en-Scène: A new book from Chris Reed and Mike Belleme explores the theater of urban landscapes
Photo by Mike Belleme for Mise-en-Scène. Conceived as a multidimensional investigation into “the social…
Talking Practice: Kersten Geers
In this episode, host Grace La interviews Kersten Geers, who is…
On Pushing the Boundaries of Architecture Representation
Architecture students arrive at the task of representation with a mounting sense of urgency. There…
Announcing the Harvard GSD Spring 2022 Public Program
Pergamon Museum 1, Berlin 2001 © Thomas Struth. The photographer will be in conversation…
Design Proposals for the Uncertain Future of American Infrastructure
As the world ground to a halt in the spring of 2020, with the COVID-19…
Excerpt from Harvard Design Magazine: “South Side Land Narratives: The Lost Histories and Hidden Joys of Black Chicago” by Toni L. Griffin
Publicly expressing Black pain can render reactions of solidarity, healing, and empowerment, or exhaustion, guilt,…
Fostering Relationships Between Insects and Humans Through Design
Liwei Shen (MLA I ’22) and Hyemin Gu (MLA I AP ’22) are researching…
Climate Change, Water Rights, and the Future of the Mexican Altiplano: An interview with Lorena Bello
Apan Lagoon, formerly a 600-hectare lake, dries up seasonally. Image: Gustavo Madrid The recent United…
Interrogative Design: Selected Works of Krzysztof Wodiczko
Materials for this exhibit provided by the artist, with unique edits specially produced for this project by GSD Exhibitions. Spanning five decades, the artistic practice of Krzysztof Wodiczko has interrogated a variety of social conditions across cultures, through artistic interventions that deploy creative…