Climate Change, Water Rights, and the Future of the Mexican Altiplano: An interview with Lorena Bello
Apan Lagoon, formerly a 600-hectare lake, dries up seasonally. Image: Gustavo Madrid The recent United…
The Nexus X Black in Design
Season 2, Episode 7: The Nexus goes live with Black in Design 2021: Black…
2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial features a range of projects by the GSD community
Southside Landnarratives by Toni L. Griffin's Urban American City (urbanAC). Photo by Nathan Keay. The…
What if Washington DC were granted statehood? Preston Scott Cohen on designing a new American city-state
Since 2000, the standard Washington, DC, license plate carries the message: “Taxation Without Representation,” and…
Interrogative Design: Selected Works of Krzysztof Wodiczko
Materials for this exhibit provided by the artist, with unique edits specially produced for this project by GSD Exhibitions. Spanning five decades, the artistic practice of Krzysztof Wodiczko has interrogated a variety of social conditions across cultures, through artistic interventions that deploy creative…
Excerpt from The Kinetic City & Other Essays: The Permanent and Ephemeral by Rahul Mehrotra
The Kinetic City & Other Essays is the latest book from…
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…
In Inaugural Cycle, REA Fund Supports Diverse Projects United by Pursuit of Equity and Anti-Racism
In spring 2021, the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and…
An Island in Flux: Envisioning a more resilient Nantucket
Nantucket offers a vivid illustration of the principle of flux, the idea that everything is…
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,…
‘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”
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…
Small Institutions: On rediscovering the emotional conditions of architecture
The city, according to Louis Kahn, arose through the establishment of institutions. By extension, he…
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,…