Lecture
Dan Stubbergaard, “City as a Resource – Cobe’s Current Works on the City”
Topics: Resilience Sustainability Urbanism
From Drought to Flood: Solutions for Extreme Climate Events in Monterrey, Mexico
In 2022 and 2023, Monterrey, Mexico’s second largest city, experienced a critical shortage of water…
A New Future for a Colonial Fort in Ghana
The village of Ada Foah sits on the coast of Ghana where the Volta River…
Boston Mayor Speaks at the GSD about Urban Forests, Community Resilience, and Environmental Justice
Describing herself as an avowed “tree hugger” from her childhood as part of an…
Remembering George Baird, 1939–2023
The architect and scholar George Baird served on the faculty at the Harvard University Graduate…
Design and Time: An Interview with Offshore
The public program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design features speakers in the…
Disguised Density: An Excerpt from “The State of Housing Design 2023”
This essay is an excerpt from The State of Housing Design 2023, a book published…
Announcing the Harvard GSD Spring 2024 Public Program
The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) announces its Spring 2024 schedule of public…
How Public Health Methods Can Bolster Socially Conscious Urban Development
Cities today are faced with complex challenges that require careful decisions about the future of…
Nexus Podcast: Mpho Matsipa and Antawan Byrd
Season 3, Episode 4: Mpho Matsipa and Antawan Byrd navigate Pan-Africanism and Counter-Cartographies in…
The Plan for a More Sustainable and Accessible Gund Hall
This fall, teams of workers at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design began the…
A Team of Harvard Researchers Develop a Prototype for a More Efficient and Eco-friendly Air Conditioner
Continuing a trend from this summer, September 2023 was the hottest September on record,…
“A Radical Obvious Idea”: “Carceral Landscapes” Confronts the Role of Design in Mass Incarceration
Melanie Newport delivers her presentation “A Bigger, Better Jail: Jail Overcrowding and the Making of…
Future of the American City: The Architecture of Disability
Designer, historian, and theorist David Gissen joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his new book…
The Forest for the Trees (and the Birds, and the People, and the Planet)
As we continue to face the twin crises of rapidly accelerating climate change…
Multihyphenate
Multihyphenation is a compound term referring to alternate modes of creative production: “Collab”…