The bathroom is inevitably a space where we find ourselves spending time each day, and yet, say Laila Seewang and Chris Reed, its impact on urban space is often overlooked in terms of design. The studio Seewang and Reed are leading this semester, “FLUSH: Waste and Intimacy in Berlin’s Civic Realm,” explores issues around water […]

A new visitor bathroom by at the Gropius House reflects a broader shift as studios at the Harvard GSD rethink sanitation and everyday life.

In Nicky Rhodes’s thesis project, human waste is reused for fertilizer and energy in a Cape Cod cooperative community that prevents water pollution.