Work in Progress: Edgar Rodriguez’s Cross-Laminated Timber Experiments
Edgar Rodriguez (MArch '20) describes his final project for the option studio…
“Building Biras: A Hurricane Adapted Caribbean Resort” by McKenzie Wasson (MArch I '20) — Recipient of the 2020 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, First Prize
The Department of Architecture is a unique community, rich in diversity, collaboration, and scholarship through design. Here, students explore today’s most creative design approaches, with an international faculty prominent across the field. More
The program leading to the Master in Architecture is an accredited professional degree intended for individuals who have completed the bachelor's degree with a major other than one of the design professions or with a pre-professional undergraduate major in one of the design professions.
The program leading to the Master in Architecture II is a post-professional degree intended for individuals who have completed a five-year undergraduate professional program in architecture or its equivalent.
Together with visiting design critics and theorists from around the world, architecture faculty and students explore a range of design investigations, expand knowledge, and confront the challenges of the contemporary built environment. Collaboration thrives in Gund Hall’s distinctive trays, five continuous tiers of open studio space.
The Department’s philosophy of design excellence integrates the imaginative and skillful manipulation of form, as well as the ability to draw inspiration from a broad body of knowledge. The architecture curriculum includes design studio, theory, visual studies, history, technology, and professional practice, with design as the central focus of instruction.
Gund Hall’s studio trays form both the physical and pedagogical core of the GSD experience, drawing together students and faculty from across the departments of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning and design. The creative, collaborative atmosphere of the trays is supplemented by Gund Hall’s advanced information infrastructure, media-enriched presentation spaces, vast library resources, and open access to fabrication technologies, enabling architecture students to develop, discuss, exchange, and materialize ideas through a comprehensive range of platforms and media. The student experience is further enriched by the School’s renowned lecture and public program series, exhibitions, and publications, as well as the resources available across Harvard University and the nearby Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Students in the Department of Architecture are integrated into an active network of internationally recognized designers, dedicated to addressing the changing needs of the modern world.
As new ways of thinking emerge in the profession of architecture, the field grows increasingly complex and requires new techniques of inquiry and design. For generations, the GSD has educated committed individuals who have assumed leadership roles in shaping the built environment. Today’s graduates in architecture continue this tradition by pioneering new design approaches to the challenges posed by contemporary society.
Edgar Rodriguez (MArch '20) describes his final project for the option studio…
In his new book-length essay, Signal. Image. Architecture. (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City,…
Hometowns Richmond, VA London, UK Undergraduate Schools and Majors James Madison…
For much of his career, Shinohara Kazuo built beautiful single-family houses that have reconfigured and enriched our understanding of domesticity, tradition, form, language, scale, nature, and the city. He famously declared “A house is a work of art” just as the Metabolists, who were his…
Calvin Boyd (MArch I ’21) describes his final project for the option…
In this excerpt from Studio Gang's new Phaidon monograph, the GSD's Professor in Practice of…
Nhi Tran (MArch '21) describes her final project for the option studio…
Each December, the art world descends on Miami Beach for Art Basel’s American installment, Design…
A team of Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni is among the six finalists in…