Talking Practice: Sheila O’Donnell
In this episode of Talking Practice, host Grace La interviews…
Loeb Fellowship Announces Class of 2026
The Loeb Fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Design is proud to welcome…
Harvard Graduate School of Design Community Makes a Strong Showing at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale
Venice in Conversation, AI-altered image of Venice. Courtesy of Eliyahu Keller and the Augmented Historiography…
The ReefLine: An Unprecedented Underwater Sculpture Park Brings Art, Marine Habitats, and Public Education to Miami Beach
Render of Carlos Betancourt and Alberto Latorre’s Miami Reef Star. Courtesy of the ReefLine.
Harvard Graduate School of Design Honors Alumnus J. Max Bond Jr. and Reckons with the University’s History of Racial Discrimination
Widely known during his life as the “dean of African American architects,”…
Yen-Ting Cho on Transdisciplinary Practice: Interweaving the Human and the Digital
Yen-Ting Cho. Photographer: Han Yueh Liang. “Video installation, sculpture, ceramic, printmaking, textile—our work…
Kengo Kuma Urges a Return to Nature
Kengo Kuma & Associates, National Stadium, Tokyo, Japan, 2019. The wood planks are the same…
The Final Experience is Beyond Our Control: An-My Lê Speaks About Landscape, Photography, and the Construction of Memory
This month marks the fiftieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon, a time…
Rest Stops at the Top of the World
For the last 30 years, motorists in Norway have driven winding roads into…
The Plural Forms of African Landscape Architecture
“Landscape is a way of beholding that is inclusive of nature and culture, of people…
Jeremy Ficca on Biogenic Materials: Where High Tech and Low Tech Meet
Students in the “Material Embodiment” studio, taught by Jeremy Ficca, fabricating hempcrete blocks.*…
Paperwork: An Interview with Karel Martens and the Martens and Martens Studio
A pair of colorful calendars appeared around Gund Hall during the 2024–2025 academic year to…
Peter Chermayeff on Taking Risks and Embracing Collaboration
Cambridge Seven Associates and Buckminster Fuller, US Pavilion at Expo ’67, Montreal. Photo: Guilhermeduartegarcia,…
When the Client is a Nation: Eric Henson’s GSD Students Collaborate with Indigenous Tribes
Inside the Peabody Museum on a windy October day, leaders of the…
Landscape Architecture Students Explore Pioneering Climate Visualization Techniques to Inform Design
Stephen Guerin of Harvard’s Visualization Research and Teaching Laboratory explains the Simtable to GSD master…
Five Lessons from the Gund Hall Renovation
In late May 2024, following commencement at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD),…
Life on Earth: Zhang Ke’s Studio Melds Contemporary Architecture with an Ancient Landscape
The terraced rice fields of Yuanyang, in Yunnan Province, China, have been maintained and…
Neeraj Bhatia’s Studio Envisions California’s High-Speed Rail as an Armature for Care
The studio walks the San Joaquin River viaduct during their October visit.
Shana M. griffin on Resisting Reproductive Violence in the Built Environment
For the last three years, Shana M. griffin has been collecting soil,…
What Musicals Teach Us About Cities
Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story (2021), still of Anita, Bernardo, and friends dancing on an…
Flood Control as a Social Movement: Coastal Communities Adapt to a Wetter Reality
Students in the project-based seminar “Rockaway’s Housing Superstorm: Between Rising Waters and Climate Gentrification,” led…
An Advocate for Architecture: Jhaelen Hernandez-Eli
Jhaelen Hernandez-Eli speaking at The Met. Nearly twenty years after his graduation, Jhaelen…