Two Years Later: What has COVID-19 Permanently Changed for Design?
Tables on the Gund Hall front plaza accommodate outdoor learning and social space. Photograph…
Blank: Speculations on CLT edited by Jennifer Bonner and Hanif Kara
When I began studying architecture in the 1980s, students would often get asked at crits…
Talking Practice: Kersten Geers
In this episode, host Grace La interviews Kersten Geers, who is…
A behind-the-scenes look at Interrogative Design: Selected Works of Krzysztof Wodiczko through seven candid conversations
Listen to Krzysztof Wodiczko and the curator Dan Borelli discussing six of…
Heat Magnets: Jeannette Kuo on mitigating the harmful effects of all-glass building facades
Lever House, Gordon Bunshaft and Natalie de Blois (SOM), New York City, 1952. Photo…
Design Now Podcast, Episode 2: Public Health, the Pandemic, and Beyond
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are all thinking more actively…
Announcing the Harvard GSD Spring 2022 Public Program
Pergamon Museum 1, Berlin 2001 © Thomas Struth. The photographer will be in conversation…
Mise-en-Scène: A new book from Chris Reed and Mike Belleme explores the theater of urban landscapes
Photo by Mike Belleme for Mise-en-Scène. Conceived as a multidimensional investigation into “the social…
Future of the American City: David Gissen
David Gissen is a designer, author, and educator. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his…
On Pushing the Boundaries of Architecture Representation
Architecture students arrive at the task of representation with a mounting sense of urgency. There…
Excerpt from Harvard Design Magazine: “South Side Land Narratives: The Lost Histories and Hidden Joys of Black Chicago” by Toni L. Griffin
Publicly expressing Black pain can render reactions of solidarity, healing, and empowerment, or exhaustion, guilt,…
Design Proposals for the Uncertain Future of American Infrastructure
As the world ground to a halt in the spring of 2020, with the COVID-19…
The Future of Tourism: Can the pandemic change how we visit popular sites for the better?
Oonagh Davis’s (MArch II ’23) proposal for the option studio “Between Wilderness and Civilization,”…
Nexus Podcast: Dana McKinney on Activism, Practice, and Education
Season 2, Episode 7: Dana McKinney describes her time at the GSD as a…
Meet the Loeb Fellowship Class of 2022
The Loeb Fellowship’s Class of 2022. Clockwise from top left: Andrea Bolnick, Jordan Weber, Will…
Fostering Relationships Between Insects and Humans Through Design
Liwei Shen (MLA I ’22) and Hyemin Gu (MLA I AP ’22) are researching…
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…
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…
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,…
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…