Anne Anlin Cheng on the Importance of Discussing Beauty and Aesthetics to Dismantle Systems of Oppression
In her latest book, Ornamentalism, multidisciplinary scholar and Princeton professor Anne Anlin Cheng focuses on…
Julie Bargmann (MLA’ 87) wins inaugural Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize
The Oberlander Prize, an initiative of The Cultural Landscape Foundation, includes a $100,000 award and…
Nexus Podcast: Sekou Cooke on Hip-Hop Architecture and the origins of the Black in Design Conference
Season 2, Episode 6: Sekou Cooke interrogates the notion of Hip-Hop Architecture through a…
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…
Coming Soon: Harvard Design Magazine #49: Publics questions how public spaces operate in a fragmented social and political environment
Harvard Design Magazine relaunched with March 2021’s Harvard Design Magazine 48: America, an issue that…
In Inaugural Cycle, REA Fund Supports Diverse Projects United by Pursuit of Equity and Anti-Racism
In spring 2021, the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and…
Zero-Waste Architecture for Climate Resilience: Iman S. Fayyad’s CloudHouse Shade Pavilion
In the months that Iman S. Fayyad, lecturer in architecture at the Harvard Graduate…
Daniela Bleichmar, “The history of cochineal and the changing value of Mexican indigenous environmental knowledge, ca. 1500–1800”
Registration Information The GSD's Fall 2021 Public Programs are all virtual and require registration.
‘How many Black urbanists can you name? How many Latinx architects from the 20th century do you know? Maybe one? None?’ These are the questions we started with.
Hansy Better Barraza, “Hidden Figures: The City, Architecture and the Construction of Race and Gender”
An Island in Flux: Envisioning a more resilient Nantucket
Nantucket offers a vivid illustration of the principle of flux, the idea that everything is…
“Interrogative Designs: Conversations with Krzysztof Wodiczko”
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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,…
GSD faculty participate in Venice Architecture Biennale’s 17th installation, “How Will We Live Together?”
The Venice Architecture Biennale has returned with its 17th installation, “How Will We Live Together?,”…
This Land Is Your Land: Students interrogate why “urban” and “Indigenous” are cast as opposing identities
Until the last decade, Native American, First Nations, and other Indigenous architecture has been a…
Rachel Dorothy Tanur Memorial Lecture: Andrea Roberts, “The Community Core: Making and Keeping Place Heritage in Texas’s Freedom Colonies”
Registration Information The GSD's Fall 2021 Public Programs are all virtual and require registration.
GSD experts on a major barrier to climate crisis mitigation: “The majority of Americans have little experience with the land and its rhythms”
If Earth’s biosphere is in crisis, it is a peculiar sort of crisis. To human…
Harvard GSD announces Fall 2021 public program
Harvard GSD announces its series of virtual public lectures for the Fall 2021 semester, inviting…
Small Institutions: On rediscovering the emotional conditions of architecture
The city, according to Louis Kahn, arose through the establishment of institutions. By extension, he…
As an undergraduate, I didn’t have any professors of color, and I only had one professor who was female. So I saw a severe lack of representation in my own education, and moving forward I want to play a role in changing that.
From "Students in Dialogue: A conversation with MArch II candidate Selwyn Bachus"
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…
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,…