Life at the GSD

Explore what it’s like to study at the GSD and live in Cambridge. Take a look at our facilities, the neighborhood, and what GSD students have going on outside the classroom and studio. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us!

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GSD Campus

The GSD campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts includes Gund Hall at 48 Quincy St., 485 Broadway, the Center for Green Buildings & Cities (or House Zero) at 20 Sumner Rd., 7 Sumner Rd., and 40 & 42 Kirkland St.
Student Experience

During their time at the GSD, students have the opportunity to take part in a range of extracurricular activities, both at the GSD and across the University. Making the commitment to explore events, places, and groups that align with their academic and personal interests, students find engagement and connections that enliven their experiences and extend beyond and across the classroom and studio.
Academic Experience

"The cores of the GSD’s various disciplines galvanize the dialogue that drives necessary change across the School and across the world to meet the demands of the 21st century—the dialogue between each of us as individuals and the fields we comprise; and also the dialogue between innovative ideas emerging on the periphery, and the established ways of thinking that underpin the disciplines as we know them today." –Dean Sarah Whiting

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Our Community

Students working in the trays

A faculty member sits at a student's desk and points at their monitor.

A person checks out a book at the library circulation desk.

An outside view of a Harvard housing building.

A faculty member and student sit at a desk and look at a project together.

A student stands at the end of a table covered with ceramic pieces.

A group of people look at an item from the library's special collections.

A student works with a large piece of equipment.

A student and faculty member look at a work in progress while sitting at a desk in the Trays.