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Erik LHeureux wins 2015 Wheelwright Prize

Harvard University Graduate School of Design announces Erik L’Heureux, an American architect based in Singapore, as the winner of the GSD’s 2015 Wheelwright Prize, a $100,000 traveling fellowship aimed at fostering investigative approaches to contemporary design.

Apr 28, 2015

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Mehrotra, Panzano bring interdisciplinary look at worlds largest religious festival to SAI Symposium

Last week’s Harvard South Asia Institute (SAI) 2015 Annual Symposium offered an interdisciplinary look at the the world’s largest religious festival, the Kumbh Mela—a Hindu mass pilgrimage—through projects launched by Rahul Mehrotra, professor of Urban Planning and Design and chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, and Megan Panzano (MArch ’10), design critic in Architecture. 

Apr 23, 2015

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Wodiczko’s John Harvard Projection debuts

A video installation by featuring student faces projected onto the John Harvard Statue debuted on Tuesday night in the first work that Krzysztof Wodiczko, professor in residence in art, design and the public domain, has created on Harvard’s campus.

Apr 22, 2015

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Gia Wolff and the Floating City

Caipirinhas and samba set the mood at the GSD for a recent talk by Gia Wolff (MArch '08) about her research on Floating City: The Community-Based Architecture of Parade Floats. The project was supported by the first Wheelwright Prize, which Wolff won in 2013. Read Sarah Bolivar's recap in the LOEBlog. Photo by Daryan Dornelles

Apr 20, 2015

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A Watershed Approach: Kim Lutz at the GSD

Kim Lutz of the Nature Conservancy was at the GSD on April 6th for a lunchtime lecture entitled “Taking it to Scale: a Watershed Approach to Conservation Design.” It was part of a series addressing large landscape conservation issues, sponsored by the Loeb Fellowship and curated by Scott Campbell. Margaret Scott (MUP candidate) reports in the LOEBlog.

Apr 17, 2015

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inFORMing Justice: a conversation about the role of design in building equitable communities

On the surface, inFORMing Justice was a typical event at the GSD: a panel of experts discussing the role of design in building equitable communities with an audience of students, faculty, staff and fellows from across the university. But the seats in Piper Hall were arranged around tables, the panelists spoke from the heart and the audience members were the experts.  Read more in the LOEBlog.

Apr 15, 2015