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…
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…
Nexus Podcast: Rob “ProBlak” Gibbs
Season 2, Episode 3: Rob “ProBlak” Gibbs details how his origins as a graffiti…
Shading Sunset: Charles Waldheim on reimagining the streets of Los Angeles for a warmer future
In 1965, Ed Ruscha stood on the bed of a moving pickup truck and photographed…
Can Parkitecture Heal? Jeanne Gang on making American National Parks “more accessible, more inviting, and more welcoming”
Early federal policies that set aside land for the national parks focused mainly on the…
Students in Dialogue: A conversation with MLA candidate Xinyi Chen
Xinyi Chen. Portrait by Chidy Wayne. What is it like to be a Landscape Architecture…
Excerpt from Pairs Issue 01: “On the Foundational Spirit: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits” by Sara Zewde with Kimberley Huggins
Pairs is a student-led journal at the Harvard Graduate School of Design dedicated to conversations…
The African American Design Nexus’ Harlem StoryMap traces the neighborhood’s Black-designed places
Black Harlem, storied and resilient, has been chronicled from many perspectives. Missing until now has…
Excerpt: The Incidents: Inhabiting the Negative Space by Jenny Odell
Designed by ELLA. Three time zones and three thousand miles…
Groundscrapers: Exploring the logic behind long, low buildings
A visionary architect of the modern metropolis surveyed the vast urban scene unfolding from his…
Talking Practice: Practice in an Uncertain World
In this episode of Talking Practice, host Grace La moderates a special roundtable, Practice in…
Continuing to unearth and reflect on the degree to which owning, shipping, and selling millions of humans was a centrifugal force in the creation of our cities, industry, and socio-politics is crucial in shaping what we do as designers, and as citizens, today.
Sara Zewde on retracing Frederick Law Olmsted’s route through the Southern states
Womxn in Design on shifts in design pedagogy: “The conditions in which we learn become the conditions we practice and reproduce.”
It’s been almost three years since the #MeToo movement started launching public awareness around the…
Land for a City on a Hill: Alex Krieger’s iconic tour of Boston
Watch as Alex Krieger, professor and former chair of the Department…
This Land Is Your Land: Why are “urban” and “Indigenous” cast as opposing identities?
Until the last decade, Native American, First Nations, and other Indigenous architecture has been a…
Pier Paolo Tamburelli on the “hardscrabble, repressed, and perverted” American Gothic psyche
In Sherwood Anderson’s collection of short stories, Winesburg, Ohio, the author…
Making Next to Forest: Toshiko Mori’s studio demonstrates how design decisions relate to natural-resource use and protection
The argument that forests should remain untouched by human beings poses counterintuitive but considerable risks.
The Architecture of Waste: Is wasting resources a necessary part of the design process?
A linear economy conceives of waste as an end. It presumes that refuse cast off,…
A radical transformation in building and designing for health is underway—but not everyone will benefit equally
Hospitals have not always been sites for curing. In a 1974 lecture entitled “The Incorporation…
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,…