Lecturer Alistair McIntosh, Marissa Angell MLA ’15, Ian Brennick MLA ’15 and Skip Burck MLA ’85 were awarded first place in the Connect Kendall Square Open Space Planning Competition sponsored by the City of Cambridge.
MDes candidates from the Art, Design and Public Domain concentration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design “made the building sing” as part of their “Post Facto” collaboration with Senior Loeb Scholar Michael Craig-Martin.
Jeannette Kuo (MArch '04) has been appointed as Assistant Professor in Practice of Architecture, effective January 1, 2016, at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
The Boston Globe spent time with architectural photographer Peter Vanderwarker (LF '97) to discover why he's so successful in capturing the soul of a city. Read "Architectural Photographer Knows Boston Like the Back of His Hand."
Steve Reich discussed WTC 9/11 and other work during a conversation at the Graduate School of Design on March 25.
The Hotel Okura, a landmark modernist hotel in Tokyo designed by Yoshiro Taniguchi and Hideo Kosaka, is slated for demolition in advance of the 2020 Olympic Games. But not if Tomas Maier, creative director of Bottega Veneta (which recently announced a general effort to preserve Japan’s modernist architecture) and Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture Toshiko Mori have anything to do with it.
The Harvard Gazette just profiled Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, of the Paris-based firm Lacaton & Vassal. Last week the two gave an inspiring, "poemlike" lecture, "Freedom of Use," on their practice, ethos, and influences.
Today, the Harvard University Graduate School of Design announced the finalists of the 2015 Wheelwright Prize, a $100,000 grant awarded annually to a single architect to support travel-based architectural research.
Eve Blau, adjunct professor of the history of urban form, spoke at the Japan Society in New York on April 1, 2015.
The Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative has just published its Black Lives Matter dossier, edited by Jonathan Massey and Meredith TenHoor with Sben Korsh, and featuring the work of current student Héctor Tarrido-Picart (LA and MUD '15).