Harvard Magazine's most recent issue featured an in-depth story on Harvard's new undergraduate track in architecture studies, a joint program from the Graduate School of Design and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
The American Planning Association - Massachusetts Chapter (APA-MA) has awarded Student Project Awards to two plans created by Harvard University Graduate School of Design studios.
Five Harvard University Graduate School of Design alumni have contributed to the Architectural League of New York’s design study “Re-Envisioning Branch Libraries”.
2014 was a watershed year for landscape architecture, in the view of Charles Birnbaum (LF ’98): “This year there was a cultural shift that saw landscape architecture and its practitioners achieve an unprecedented level of visibility and influence.” He takes stock of the achievements and events in the Huffington Post.
On Sunday, November 29, the New York Times editorial board wrote of homeownership, the rental market, and the nation's economy. Central to their weighing of the economic benefits of homeownership versus renting is the Joint Center for Housing Studies' 2013 paper "Is Homeownership Still an Effective Means of Building Wealth for Low-income and Minority Households? (Was it Ever?)".
The Rockefeller Foundation initiative 100 Resilient Cities announced yesterday that Santiago, Chile, has just made the cut. Out of 330 applications, Santiago—nominated and submitted by a team of Harvard University Graduate School of Design students and alumni—was selected as a site to "become more resilient to the physical, social and economic challenges that are a growing part of the 21st century."
On October 16, 2014, at the second annual Harvard Real Estate Conference “Disruptive Innovation in Real Estate,” seven global real estate industry leaders demonstrated that disruptive innovation in real estate development, building typologies, and finance has been critical to the growth of the real estate industry.
This week, "Salvaged Stadium" by Yaohua Wang (MArch II '14), the winner of the James Templeton Kelley Prize, the annual award for the best final design project, was featured on ArchDaily.
Harvard University Graduate School of Design is pleased to announce that Diane Davis has been named the Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism.
Three Harvard University Graduate School of Design alumni Heidi Cho (MUP/MAUD '14) Edward Meng (MUP '14), and Tiffany Obser (MArch '14) are embarking on fellowships in Saudi Arabia sponsored by the New Cities Foundation.