Commencement
Special Commencement Ceremony for the Classes of 2020 and 2021
Commencement 2022
Live Stream and Captioning A live stream for this event will be available on this…
Special Commencement Ceremony for the Classes of 2020 and 2021
Live Stream and Captioning A live stream for this event will be available on this…
2022 Graduating Student Award Recipients
Each year at commencement, the Harvard Graduate School of Design confers awards on graduating students…
2022 Commencement Exhibition
On view in the Druker Design Gallery and the Frances Loeb Library is a selection of thesis and independent final projects completed by this year’s graduates, as well as exceptional work by graduating students who have earned awards given out annually by the school. I…
Meet the GSD Class of 2022 Commencement Marshals
Each year, graduating students from the Harvard Graduate School of Design come together to nominate…
2022 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, Second Prize: “Miami Gateway”
by Nicolas Carmona (MArch II ’22), George Guida (MArch II ’22), and Manu Moritz (MDes…
2022 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, First Prize: “Bracing Peter Bracy”
by Hana Cohn (MLA I ’24), Youngju Kim (MAUD ’23), Arami Matevosyan (MDes REBE ’22),…
2022 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, Third Prize: “Urban Health Catalyst”
by Vicky Chen (MAUD/ MDes REBE ’22) and Xudong Zhu (MAUD ’22) — Recipients of…
2022 Design Studies Thesis Prize: Nicole Piepenbrink’s “HERE LIES DARBY VASSALL: Rendering the obscured and concealed history of slavery at Christ Church Cambridge”
by Nicole Piepenbrink (MDes ’22) — Recipient of the Design Studies Thesis Prize. The material…
2022 Design Studies Thesis Prize: Anny Li’s “The World Was Their Garden: Plant introductions at the US Department of Agriculture, 1898–1984”
by Anny Li (MDes ’22) — Recipient of the Design Studies Thesis Prize. In 1898,…
2022 Landscape Architecture Thesis Prize: Lucy Humphreys Chebot’s “Reciprocal Optimism: Projecting Terrestrial Analogues”
by Lucy Humphreys Chebot (MLA I ’22) — Recipient of the Landscape Architecture Thesis Prize.
2022 James Templeton Kelley Prize: Qin Ye Chen’s “Fluid Permanence – A Shotengai-Archive in Tokyo”
by Qin Ye Chen (MArch I ’22) — Recipient of the James Templeton Kelley Prize,…
2022 Design Studies Thesis Prize: Allison Hyatt’s “Priorities in Building Decarbonization: Accounting for total carbon and the time value of carbon in cost-benefit analyses of residential retrofits”
by Allison Hyatt (MDes ’22) — Recipient of the Design Studies Thesis Prize. Energy consumption…
Jeanne Gang, 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…
2022 Urban Design Thesis Prize: Rogelio Cadena’s “How Are ‘We’ Living? Reevaluating the Chicago Boulevard System”
by Rogelio Cadena (MAUD ’22) — Recipient of the Urban Design Thesis Prize. At its…
Danielle Allen, 2022 Class Day Speaker
Photo Credit: Laura Rose Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design has named Danielle Allen as…
Ed Bayes (MDE ’22): Working at the intersection of technology, design, and policy
Before coming to the GSD, Ed Bayes (MDE ’22) studied law and anthropology and worked…
Omotara Oluwafemi (MArch ’22): Fostering Black community and Afrofuturist architectural practice
A curious stranger at an airport recently asked Omotara Oluwafemi (MArch I ’22) what she…
Dianne Lê (MLA ’22): A first-generation student designs spaces for recovery, resilience, and community-building
For Dianne Lê (MLA II ’22), design and research is deeply informed by her background.
A–Z: Harvard University Graduate School of Design 2020
In A–Z: Harvard University Graduate School of Design, graduates from the Class of 2020 share…
Sara Arman (MUP ’22): Promoting health equity through community organizing and urban planning
For Sara Arman (MUP ’22), community organizing is essential. When Arman graduated from Tufts with…
Musical Performances from the 2020 and 2021 Virtual Commencement Celebrations
The 2020 and 2021 Harvard Graduate School of Design Virtual Commencements included original…
Nina Sayles (MUP/ MPH ’22): Making field to table work regionally
Nina Sayles spent five months of COVID isolation at her parents’ place in New Hampshire.
A–Z: Harvard University Graduate School of Design 2021
In A–Z: Harvard University Graduate School of Design, graduates from the Class of 2021 share…
2022 Peter Rice Prize: Hangsoo Jeong’s “Upon Concrete: Retrofitting Architecture with Malleability” and “The Next Chapter of Bricks: The Arcadian Model of The American Campus” and “The Other School: Tectonic Reconsiderations on High-Rise”
by Hangsoo Jeong (MArch ’22) — Recipient of the Peter Rice Prize Upon Concrete:…
2022 Clifford Wong Prize in Housing Design: Brian Lee’s “People’s Park Complex: Repairing the Modern City”
by Brian Lee (MArch ’22) — Recipient of the 2021 Clifford Wong Prize in…
2022 Digital Design Prize: George Guida’s “Multimodal Architecture: Applications of Language in a Machine Learning Aided Design Process”
by George Guida (MArch II ’22) — Recipient of the Digital Design Prize. This thesis…