Jeanne Gang’s David Rubenstein Treehouse conference center for Harvard’s Enterprise Research Campus (ERC) in Allston is the university’s first project employing mass timber.

By the early 1900s, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, had emerged as an industrial powerhouse, due in large part to its prodigious steel production. More than a century later, the city has refashioned itself as a center for innovation. It is thus fitting that Jeremy Ficca (MArch II ’00), an associate professor and incoming Associate Head of Design […]

Continuing a trend from this summer, September 2023 was the hottest September on record, according to scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. As climate change increases global temperatures, world cooling demands are expected to triple by 2050. While globally accessible and cheap to manufacture, conventional air conditioners still rely on wasteful mechanical vapor-compression methods […]

Karen Lee Bar-Sinai is developing tools for humans and nonhumans to co-design healthier landscapes together.