Lecture
Perfect Days (2023), A Film by Wim Wenders
The History of Gund Hall
Gund Hall, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 1972. Photo by Scott Rosenthal.
Contemporary Memorials: Spaces of Engagement, Calls to Action
The Robert E. Lee Statue at Monument Avenue, Richmond, VA, in June 2020. (Mobilus in…
Plug-In Pastoral: Polinature Delivers Instant Urban Greening
A vertical garden in the backyard of 40 Kirkland Street on the campus of the…
GSD Announces Fall 2024 Public Programs and Exhibitions
The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) announces its fall 2024 schedule of public…
A System of Gaps and Linkages: On Sarah Oppenheimer’s Art Practice and Pedagogy
For almost two decades, Sarah Oppenheimer has investigated the conditions that enable us to act…
I.M. Pei’s Museum of Chinese Art, Shanghai: Modernism between East and West
In 2017, the Harvard Graduate School of Design hosted a conference co-organized with M+ museum…
Remembering Fumihiko Maki (1928–2024)
A graduate of the University of Tokyo and Harvard Graduate School Design (GSD; MArch ’54),…
Housing, By and For the Public
Bounded by the Blackstone River, a vital artery for industry since the late eighteenth century,…
Resourceful Urbanism: Dan Stubbergaard’s Adaptive Reuse of Cities
Even before the last flight had taken off from Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport, in 2008,…
From Drought to Flood: Solutions for Extreme Climate Events in Monterrey, Mexico
In 2022 and 2023, Monterrey, Mexico’s second largest city, experienced a critical shortage of water…
The Plan for a More Sustainable and Accessible Gund Hall
This fall, teams of workers at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design began the…
Talking Practice: Pier Vittorio Aureli
In this episode of Talking Practice, host Grace La interviews Pier Vittorio Aureli, architect, educator, and…
A Public Artwork by GSD Students Embraces Enclosure
Near the south entrance to the Radcliffe Yard, a structure of fir beams clad in…
What Oysters Can Teach about Life in the Climate Crisis
On the southern coast of Taiwan, groundwater pumped from the earth flows through dense…
A New Future for a Colonial Fort in Ghana
The village of Ada Foah sits on the coast of Ghana where the Volta River…
Nexus Podcast: Mpho Matsipa and Antawan Byrd
Season 3, Episode 4: Mpho Matsipa and Antawan Byrd navigate Pan-Africanism and Counter-Cartographies in…