AIA awards 2019 Topaz Medallion to Toshiko Mori
The Harvard Graduate School of Design's Toshiko Mori has been named the 2019 winner…
Admissions
Thank you for your interest in applying to the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
The Harvard Graduate School of Design offers a dynamic setting for the exchange of ideas across the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning and design, and design studies—united in the pursuit of a more just, coherent, and beautiful world.
The GSD Admissions Office will be closed from December 24, 2018, through January 1, 2019. We will reopen at 10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2019.
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Office of Admissions
Harvard Graduate School of Design
48 Quincy Street, Gund Hall 422
Cambridge, Massachusetts
02138admissions@gsd.harvard.edu | 617-495-3880
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