Architecture of impossibility: Kuehn Malvezzi on liberating institutional design from all that is “dark, serious, and deeply moral”
This spring, Berlin-based architects Johannes Kuehn, Wilfried Kuehn, and Simona Malvezzi asked…
Work in Progress: Xiaotang Tang’s egalitarian museum
Xiaotang Tang (MArch '20) describes her final project for the option studio “…
What we think we know about architecture: A conversation with Sharon Johnston
Unsettled ground is familiar territory to Sharon Johnston. Her firm with partner…
Work in Progress: Aimilios’ bridge
Aimilios Davlantis Lo (MArch '19) describes his final project for the option studio…
Work in Progress: Melissa Naranjo’s exploration of regenerative practices in Les Alpilles, France
Melissa Naranjo (MLA '19) describes her final project for the option studio “…
Janette Sadik-Khan on creating bike- and pedestrian-friendly cities: “Don’t be shy about stealing solutions.”
In 2016, Janette Sadik-Khan published Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution, drawing lessons from her…
Teju Cole on the unpredictability and potential of the city: “Once you give up insisting on stereotypes, you can really start to see.”
The work of novelist, essayist, and photographer Teju Cole is a genre-defying…
Inside Scoop
The 47th issue of Harvard Design Magazine is a renewed call to…
Mixed metaphors and manifestos: Five prizes are awarded for exemplary student thesis work in 2019
Melody Stein (MLA '19) and Emily Hicks (MLA '19) are the recipients of the…
Thing Tank exhibition imagines a parallel history of 20th-century Italian industrial design
“Often research in design involves going to Google Images and looking at a page of…
GSD launches the African American Design Nexus
The Harvard University Graduate School of Design is proud to launch the African American…
Harvard Graduate School of Design redefines the post-Brexit landscape of the Irish Northwest
Ireland’s northwestern borderland is a place that has changed a lot over the last two…
Instigations, speculations, and platforms: Dean Mohsen Mostafavi’s lasting contribution to Harvard Graduate School of Design
Mohsen Mostafavi’s deanship has been booked-ended by publications: The first was Ecological…
Work in Progress: Lina Karain’s day-care center for Rohingya children in Bangladesh
Lina Karain (MArch '20) describes her final project for the option studio “…
Students of Jeanne Gang’s architecture studio seek redemption for the concrete behemoths of Brutalism
Cold, alienating, unfriendly; an architectural abomination, one of the world’s ugliest buildings. Although these are…
Regenerative Empathy: Complex Assemblages in a Shared Environment
Regenerative Empathy: Complex Assemblages in a Shared Environment explores the relationship between humans and…
“You belong here”: Naisha Bradley’s vision for community-building at Harvard Graduate School of Design
When Naisha Bradley was appointed Assistant Dean of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at the Graduate…
In Space, Movement, and the Technological Body, Bauhaus performance finds new context in contemporary technology
More so than any other art form, the theatre creates apocalypses, the…
Pioneering conceptual artist Agnes Denes addresses the students of the Harvard Graduate School of Design
For more than 50 years, artist Agnes Denes has dedicated herself to…
Pattern-making is a tool for meaningful change in Toni L. Griffin’s pursuit of justice in American cities
About four miles from downtown Pittsburgh along the Monongahela River, the neighborhood of Hazelwood suffers…
“We were never considered fully human, so why should we care about this crisis?” Rosi Braidotti on collective positivity in the face of human extinction
We do not have time for entrenched antagonisms or building communities that bask in apocalyptic…
What can the utopian communities of the 60s teach today’s designers about co-living?
Wind blows hard over the bluff as huge waves roll in from the horizon, crashing…
Talking Practice: Gary Hilderbrand
In this episode of Talking Practice, host Grace La interviews Gary Hilderbrand, founding principal…
Assemblage, San Rocco and the shifting value of architecture discourse
“Books and Looks” is a series of discussions at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design about…
The Detroit model: Kimberly Dowdell discusses strategies for revitalization
Cities like Detroit have become increasingly central to public dialogue about the nature and politics…
$2000 Home: Cocreating in the Bengal Delta
The Bengal Delta is defined by the fluidity and chemistry of land and…
The Trans-Siberian Railway: A borderless landscape ripe for reimagination
It is hard to avoid superlatives when discussing Siberia: Covering over five million square miles,…
Sarah Whiting named next dean of Harvard Graduate School of Design
Sarah Whiting, dean of architecture at Rice University, will return to Harvard, where she taught…