In Dallas, a real estate developer and his colleagues are grappling with the perplexing question of how to revitalize a sprawling, vacant industrial complex. On December 16th, students in Professor Richard Peiser’s Field Studies in Real Estate course at the Harvard Graduate School of Design offered these professionals support by presenting a number of innovative ideas for the site.
Jennifer Cooper (MLA’10) received the 2014 Bradford Williams Medal for her article, “The Art of Taking Apart,” which appeared in the March 2013 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine (LAM).
A musical composition by urban planning and design professor Jerold Kayden was featured at the opening of the Harvard Art Museums on November 16.
Submissions are now being accepted for the 2015 Wheelwright Prize. The open international competition awards $100,000 to a talented early-career architect to support travel-based research.
Justine Kwiatkowski Vélez MLA ’06, MUP ’06 came to the field of landscape architecture because of her desire to give back to the world, whether through the restoration of environmentally-degraded sites, or the beautification of space.
Collette Creppell AB '82 MArch '90, Kevin Harris MAUD '80, and Sabeen Hasan MArch '09 hosted an alumni reception to welcome the Loeb Fellows to New Orleans while Mark Johnson MLAUD '82 welcomed GSD alumni in Denver during the ASLA Annual Meeting.
Over Thanksgiving weekend, the Class of 1961 held a mini reunion in Reston, VA.
It was announced recently that associate professor of landscape architecture, Pierre Bélanger, was awarded the prize for the next edition of the Pamphlet Architecture series (Going Live, from Models to Systems) to be published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2015.
The PhD Program in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning announces an additional track in Architectural Technology.
Sururban development trends were explored in-depth by a Harvard University Graduate School of Design option studio entitled the Storm, the Strife, and Everyday Life: Sea Change in the Suburbs. Led by design critic Daniel D’Oca (MUP ’02), this studio tasked each student with examining a major concern in the suburbs.