Summer Reading: Recent Publications by GSD Faculty, Students & Alumni
Inventing Greenland by Bert De Jonghe Looking for something design-related to read this August? In…
Nexus Podcast: Sean Canty
Season 2, Episode 10: Sean Canty expresses the value of looking outside the profession, especially…
Shigeru Ban in Conversation with Mohsen Mostafavi about Designing for Refugee Relief
In the early weeks of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Pritzker-winning architect …
Work in Progress: Rayshad Dorsey’s Domestic Grounds
Rayshad Dorsey (MArch I ’23) describes his final project for the option…
Environmental Justice, Energy Infrastructure, Migration and War: What Role Does Design Play in Mitigating a Crisis?
At their speculative edge, the design professions flourish in envisioning future scenarios, and we usually…
Work in Progress: Sijia Zhong’s heritage site in Lima, Peru
Sijia Zhong (MLA I AP ’23) describes her final project for the…
Work in Progress: Justin Hailey’s Tar Creek Superfund Site
Justin Hailey (MLA II ’23) describes his final project for the option…
Harvard Design Press announces fall 2022 titles
Following the launch of Harvard Design Press last spring, the Press is…
The Queer Home: Combining Architecture with Movement to Speculate on the Future of Housing
As early as the 1960s, movement artist Simone Forti began interrogating what dance is. In…
Allowing for mutual aid, friendships, and families of choice, and the pooling of certain resources while maintaining individual household ownership and separation of finances is in many ways a subtly subversive counter to normative multifamily housing.
Jenny French on re-centering collective housing in pedagogy and practice
Redefining Wilderness: How Designers are Grappling with the Radical Interconnectedness of Nature and Culture
Two decades ago, the United Nations Convention on Biodiversity set a goal of designating 17…
Designing Sustainable Solutions for a Better Built Environment: A Meeting of Ideas at Harvard’s Center for Green Buildings and Cities
Commemorating Earth Day, the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) hosted its…
Omotara Oluwafemi (MArch ’22): Fostering Black Community and Afrofuturist Architectural Practice
A curious stranger at an airport recently asked Omotara Oluwafemi (MArch I ’22) what she…
Coming Soon: Harvard Design Magazine #50: Today’s Global Edited by Sarah M. Whiting and Rahul Mehrotra
Is globalization the most powerful single force shaping the built environment today? Guest edited by…
Design Now Podcast, Episode 3: Designing for Social Justice
What does a just society look like? Often, it’s not about the things you…
A Call to Action: Just City Mayoral Fellows Discuss Design Interventions to Address Racial Injustice in America
“Everything we do at the GSD,” Dean Sarah Whiting said, “is affected by or affects…
Marina Otero Wins Harvard GSD’s 2022 Wheelwright Prize
Fellowship to support Otero’s research proposal Future Storage: Architectures to Host the Metaverse, an examination…
The world is, and will continue to be, unavoidably unstable—environmentally, politically, and socially. Our Early Design Education programs claim that instability as a material of design. We use design to continuously question the world as we’ve come to know it.
Megan Panzano on the GSD's Early Design Education Programs
Dianne Lê (MLA ’22): A First-Generation Student Designs Spaces for Recovery, Resilience, and Community-Building
For Dianne Lê (MLA II ’22), design and research is deeply informed by her background.
Heat Magnets: Jeannette Kuo on Mitigating the Harmful Effects of Glass Building Facades
Lever House, Gordon Bunshaft and Natalie de Blois (SOM), New York City, 1952. Photo…
Climate Migration: Latin America Prepares for an Increase in Environmental Refugees
Infrastructure, in conventional imaginations, exists as a tool of permanence: bridges, roads, sidewalks, and utilities…
With opportunity comes a whole lot of responsibility: To bring back a sense of care for the world, care for our neighbors, and our environment.
Sam Olbekson on shaping contemporary Indigenous design
Sara Arman (MUP ’22): Promoting Health Equity through Community Organizing and Urban Planning
For Sara Arman (MUP ’22), community organizing is essential. When Arman graduated from Tufts with…
Does Originality Still Exist? On Pushing the Boundaries of Architecture Representation
Architecture students arrive at the task of representation with a mounting sense of urgency. There…
If disability is somewhere between what’s happening to your body and the inherited state of the built world, where do designers do their best work?
Sara Hendren on designing with and not just for people with atypical bodies and minds
Nexus Podcast: Lesley Lokko on the Relationship between Fiction Writing and Architecture
Season 2, Episode 9: Lesley Lokko delves into the relationship between fiction writing and Architecture…