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Jingru (Cyan) Cheng 2023 Wheelwright Winner

Harvard GSD Announces 2024 Wheelwright Prize Cycle

The Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) is pleased to announce the 2024 cycle…

Dec 4, 2023

Podcasts

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Future of the American City: The Architecture of Disability

  Designer, historian, and theorist David Gissen joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his new book…

Nov 21, 2023

News

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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,…

Nov 3, 2023

Features

A panel discussion at Carceral Landscapes at the Graduate School of Design.

“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…

Nov 9, 2023

Features

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Theaster Gates and Karel Miler’s “Actions”: An Excerpt from “Pairs 4”

Pairs 4, edited by Isabel Lewis, Adrea Piazza, and Andrea Sandell Pairs is a student-led journal…

Nov 6, 2023

Podcasts

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Nexus Podcast: Nifemi Marcus-Bello and Curry J. Hackett

Season 3, Episode 1: Nifemi Marcus-Bello and Curry J. Hackett engage in a conversation…

Oct 18, 2023

Features

A large black sculpture by Mac Collins in the Great Britain Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

Experiments with Memory: Reflections on the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale

Euro-American conceptions of the future often disregard the past—or, worse, reject it. From the Bauhaus…

Oct 30, 2023

OP-ED

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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…

Oct 11, 2023

News

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Remembering Claude Cormier (1960–2023)

I first met Claude Cormier (MDes ’94) when he approached me about being a teaching…

Sep 27, 2023

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Announcing the Harvard GSD Fall 2023 Public Program

The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) announces its Fall 2023 schedule of public programs…

Aug 28, 2023

Harvard Design Magazine

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Multihyphenate

Multihyphenation is a compound term referring to alternate modes of creative production: “Collab”…

By John May, Zeina Koreitem and Sean Canty

September 2023

Podcasts

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Talking Practice: Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee

In this episode of Talking Practice, host Grace La interviews Sharon…

Aug 16, 2023

News

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The Design Thinking behind the GSD’s New Identity

A Language and a Tool A visual identity is both a language and a tool.

Aug 24, 2023

News

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Jingru (Cyan) Cheng Wins Harvard GSD’s 2023 Wheelwright Prize

Fellowship to support Cheng’s research proposal, an examination of the critical role of sand in…

Jul 5, 2023

Features

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Data, Digital Media, and a Different Design Office

In the summer of 2022, the nonprofit artificial intelligence group OpenAI introduced DALL-E, a groundbreaking…

Jun 13, 2023

Interviews

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Beyond Zoning: A New Approach for Today’s Cities

The early 20th-century zoning paradigm has outlasted its usefulness for 21st-century cities. Harvard GSD’s Matthew…

Aug 1, 2023

OP-ED

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How Designers Can Help Keep Our Air Breathable

Smoke from wildfires raging in Canada blanketed the Northeastern United States this month, turning the…

Jun 13, 2023

Podcasts

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Design Now Podcast, Episode 5: The future of library design

Designers and architects spend their time thinking about how to fit the form of…

May 11, 2023

Harvard Design Press

John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense

John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense Paul Walker With contributions by Mary Lou Lobsinger, Peter…

February 2023

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Architect of the Two-by-Four: Jean-Louis Cohen on Frank Gehry’s Drawings

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Kongjian Yu (DDes ’95) Wins 2023 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize

Oct 18

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Black in Design 2023 Creates a “Home Away From Home” at the GSD

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