Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (GSD), is pleased to announce that Jose M. Ahedo, an architect based in Barcelona, Spain, is the winner of the 2014 Wheelwright Prize, a $100,000 traveling fellowship aimed at fostering investigative approaches to contemporary design.
Theaster Gates (LF '11) now has an extra $3.5 million to put toward using the arts and culture to strengthen communities, courtesy of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Read about it in the LOEBlog.
In March, the deans announced 18 finalists in the deans innovation challenges, including four from the GSD. We sat down with the Design Challenge finalists to find out more about their propsals and what winning the challenge—and its $50,000 prize—would mean to them.
Michael Van Valkenburgh, Eliot professor in practice of landscape architecture, will be the Harvard Graduate School of Design Class Day speaker on May 28.
Dimitris Papanikolaou's (PhD candidate) project Cloudcommuting is a finalist in the 2014 Deans’ Design Challenge.
Matan Mayer’s MateriaLEASE project is a finalist in the 2014 Deans’ Design Challenge.
Wendy Fok's Resilient Modular Systems project is a finalist in the 2014 Deans' Design Challenge.
The GSD is well represented among the The Graham Foundation's 2014 Grants to Individuals.
Leif Estrada (MLA/MDes '14) has won the 2014 Howard T. Fisher Prize for Excellence in GIS (Graduate Category) for his entry, “Temporal Morphology: Synthetic Growth and Natural Decline of Alameda Island.”
Research projects by Alexander Arrojo (MLA '13) and Daia Stutz (MLAUD '13) were featured in the February issue of Landscape Architecture Frontiers.