Work in Progress: William Smith’s Model of a Model of a Model
William Smith (MArch II ’20) describes his final project for the option…
Fantasy, Memory, & Longing: Robin Winogrond leads designers on a search for the poetic in banal landscapes
The strange and unexpected are disappearing from our towns and cities. In Europe and America…
Fight or Flight? Designers and planners grapple with whether to fight the effects of climate change, or accept the inevitability of mass migration
To quote Margaret Atwood, climate change isn’t just about the climate, it’s…
Socks Studio: Part visual atlas, part psychological voyage into the unknown
What do textured Aurelian walls, a Franciscan friar’s dabblings in typography, and a telecommunicated exhibition…
Zoom! The Archigram Collection Arrives at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Imagine yourself a couple of months out of architecture school recalling the moments and projects…
The Thinking Machine: Paola Sturla calls on designers to renew their commitment to humanism
Smart cities, search engines, autonomous vehicles: The pairing of massive data sets and self-learning algorithms…
The Collective Amnesia of Sugar Land: Unearthing a link between mass incarceration and slavery
In early 2018, the remains of 95 people were found in Sugar Land, Texas, as…
Love in a Mist—or Devil in a Bush? How the politics of fertility relate to the subjugation of the natural world
In June 1648, a Puritan midwife named Margaret Jones was executed by hanging from an…
Domestic Orbits: Frida Escobedo on architecture’s tendency to conceal spaces of domestic labor
Selective concealment is a typical, though often unacknowledged, function of architecture. Architectural detailing, for example,…
Further Reading: John May’s Signal. Image. Architecture
In his new book-length essay, Signal. Image. Architecture. (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City,…
The Affordability Crisis: What are the greatest challenges to affordable housing today?
At Harvard's Graduate School of Design, affordable housing is an urgent concern…
Aging in Place: For America’s older adults, access to housing is a question of race and class
America is on the cusp of a senior housing crisis. As the baby-boom generation enters…