Class of 2026 Student Profiles
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PUBLIC DISCOURSE
Explore GSD research on water and waste infrastructure.
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HDM Digital Restoring Boston’s Buried Waterways
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Designing Toilets and Sewage Systems in Laila Seewang and Chris Reed’s FLUSH Studio
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 […]
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From Bauhaus to Bathroom: Isabel Strauss Designs for the Gropius House
A new visitor bathroom by at the Gropius House reflects a broader shift as studios at the Harvard GSD rethink sanitation and everyday life.
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Re-Designing Perceptions of Human Waste Infrastructure on Cape Cod
In Nicky Rhodes’s thesis project, human waste is reused for fertilizer and energy in a Cape Cod cooperative community that prevents water pollution.
Prize-Winning Student Projects
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Building Resilience Out of Air: Reimagining a Typology of Thin Shell Air-Formed Shelters
Maggie Anabelle Martin (MArch I '26), Mohsen Mostafavi, Elle Gerdeman -
Entre Futuros: Más Allá de Las Fronteras y Las Cicatrices del Río Bravo / In-Between Futures: Beyond Frontiers and Scars in the Rio Bravo
Miriam Hernandez Medina (MLA I '26), Anita Berrizbeitia -
Revisiting the Seokbinggo
Ella Claire Larkin (MArch II '26), Minsuk Cho, Ryan Otterson -
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Hana Khurshid (MDE '26), Steffek Rainey (MDE '26), Justin W. Cook, Karen Reuther -
Reclaiming Oblivion: Sacral Assemblies in Poletown, Detroit
Andrew M. Schwartz (MLA II '26), Charles Waldheim -
Mindful Urbanism: Buddhist Frameworks and Bhutan’s Model of City-Building
Adin Becker (MUP '26), Diane Davis -
Towards Metabolic Circularity in South Korean Housing: From Extraction to Renovation
Gabriel Geonwoo Bae (MAUD '26), Peter Rowe, Dan Stubbergaard