Program
Commencement 2017
Dean’s year in review: Highlights from 2016–2017
Dear GSD Alumni and Friends, As the spring semester culminates in an exciting range of…
We the Publics: A manifesto to restore democracy and truth in the Republic
“We the Publics…” is a provocation, a proclamation, and a call for participatory action “We the Publics…” is a reflexive search for clarity that offers a space for individual and collective reflection in a time of ever-increasing noise and distraction “We the Publics…” creates a…
Brick: Thick/Thin
This studio explores a material paradox that the discipline of architecture has constructed the idea…
Riding the Rails: A Platform for Speculation on American Urbanization in the Age of High Speed Rail
by Melissa Alexander (MAUD ’13) from the Prologue: Unlike the United States, riding a train…
Remembering Eduard Sekler, 1920–2017
Eduard Franz Sekler, Harvard University’s Osgood Hooker Professor of Visual Art Emeritus and Professor of Architecture Emeritus at the Harvard…
African American Student Union, MArch duo contribute to Harvard’s ARTS FIRST festival
Teams of Harvard Graduate School of Design students have filled Harvard Yard with installations as…
Shelf Life
The more stuff we accumulate, the more space we need to store it all. Vast portions…
MLA students float “intriguing projects,” “wild future visions” for Houston bayous
Students in the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Fall 2016 option studio “Re-Tooling Metropolis: Provisional…
J-term workshop fosters collaboration and experimentation in form-making
The Komorebi Pavilion represents a collaborative project between the GSD, Tokyo University, and…
A Fair, A Fare, Affair for Architecture: Curating Architecture and Other Oxymora
by Daniela Leon (MArch ’17) This thesis is framed within the paradox of curating architecture.
Stephen Gray asks: Is “Imagine Boston 2030” climate-ready?
Harvard Graduate School of Design professor Stephen Gray (MAUD ’08) has raised inquiry over…
What can the role of innovation be in creating urban environments that are not built on the basis of investment?
David Harvey, Senior Loeb Scholar Lecture
Frontiers of innovation: reconsidering the Boston Harbor Islands
Through his work at West 8, Daniel Vasini started looking at the idea that…
Te Vas o Te Quedas? Variations in the Explanations for Housing Abandonment in Tijuana, México
by Francisco Lara-García (MUP ’16) — Recipient of the 2016 Thesis Prize, awarded by the faculty of the Department…