Zero-Waste Architecture for Climate Resilience: Iman S. Fayyad’s CloudHouse Shade Pavilion
In the months that Iman S. Fayyad, lecturer in architecture at the Harvard Graduate…
Practice in a Time of Economic Uncertainty: Advice for Emerging Architects
For many architects—particularly those at the start of their careers—the current moment feels fraught with…
Black in Design 2021: “Black Matter”
Event Description The Black in Design conference, organized by the…
Excerpt from Harvard Real Estate Review: “Transitioning Cross-laminated Timber to an American Context” by Ian Grohsgal
The Harvard Real Estate Review is a student-run…
Nexus Podcast: Dmitri Julius on terrestrial and outer space sustainable building practices
Season 2, Episode 5: Dmitri Julius connects the dots between terrestrial, sustainable building practices…
GSD: A–Z 2020 & 2021
Harvard GSD has installed GSD: A–Z 2020 & 2021, the first exhibition on view inside of Gund Hall since campus buildings closed in March 2020. The exhibition welcomes back the Harvard…
An Island in Flux: Envisioning a more resilient Nantucket
Nantucket offers a vivid illustration of the principle of flux, the idea that everything is…
‘How many Black urbanists can you name? How many Latinx architects from the 20th century do you know? Maybe one? None?’ These are the questions we started with.
Hansy Better Barraza, “Hidden Figures: The City, Architecture and the Construction of Race and Gender”
Harvard GSD announces Fall 2021 public program
Harvard GSD announces its series of virtual public lectures for the Fall 2021 semester, inviting…
Margaret McCurry Lectureship in the Design Arts: Jade Kake, “Indigenous Urbanism”
Registration Information The GSD's Fall 2021 Public Programs are all virtual and require registration.
GSD faculty participate in Venice Architecture Biennale’s 17th installation, “How Will We Live Together?”
The Venice Architecture Biennale has returned with its 17th installation, “How Will We Live Together?,”…
Rachel Dorothy Tanur Memorial Lecture: Andrea Roberts, “The Community Core: Making and Keeping Place Heritage in Texas’s Freedom Colonies”
Registration Information The GSD's Fall 2021 Public Programs are all virtual and require registration.
Small Institutions: On rediscovering the emotional conditions of architecture
The city, according to Louis Kahn, arose through the establishment of institutions. By extension, he…
GSD experts on a major barrier to climate crisis mitigation: “The majority of Americans have little experience with the land and its rhythms”
If Earth’s biosphere is in crisis, it is a peculiar sort of crisis. To human…
Landscapes of the Void: Speculative design for tunnels, mines, cemeteries and other underground spaces
At once welcoming and foreboding, the underground realm has long captured our attention. When considered…
Tar Creek Remade: Taking on 120 years of environmental injustice at an Oklahoma Superfund site
Envision a broad expanse of barren gray mounds riven with erosion channels. Pools of viridian,…
As an undergraduate, I didn't have any professors of color, and I only had one professor who was female. So I saw a severe lack of representation in my own education, and moving forward I want to play a role in changing that.
From "Students in Dialogue: A conversation with MArch II candidate Selwyn Bachus"
This Land Is Your Land: Students interrogate why “urban” and “Indigenous” are cast as opposing identities
Until the last decade, Native American, First Nations, and other Indigenous architecture has been a…
The Black New Deal: Bryan C. Lee on challenging the power structures that use architecture and design as tools of oppression
When asked about the theoretical touchstones for his new studio, “The…
First-ever compendium of indigenous technologies provides a powerful toolkit for climate-resilient design
The design field is at an inflection point. It must challenge its repertoire, rethink technology,…