Jennifer Min Lee wins APA scholarship
Jennifer Min Le (MUP’14) has won the American Planning Association’s 2013 Charles Abrams Scholarship.
Jennifer Min Le (MUP’14) has won the American Planning Association’s 2013 Charles Abrams Scholarship.
Section Cut, a new website of resources for design students, emerging practitioners and design educators, recently launched its new “Giants!” series with a profile of Rahul Mehrotra (chair and professor of urban planning and design).
Over two dozen students crammed into the newly opened photo studio in the basement of Gund Hall on Wednesday for a hands-on workshop with one of the world’s premier architectural photographers, Iwan Baan.
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc., is awarded the American Planning Association's 2014 National Planning Excellence Award for Urban Design for their design transformation of the Brooklyn Bridge Park project
Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure at Harvard GSD awarded Surdna Foundation research grant.
In January 2014, Niall Kirkwood, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Technology presented a keynote lecture in the symposium Re-Calibrating Bangkok's Infrastructure, as well as participated in the symposium workshop
A team from Harvard that includes 3 GSD students has advanced to the regional finals of the 4th Annual Hult Prize. Venkata Krishna Kumar Matturi, Conor OShea and Ghazal Jafari (MDesS candidates) working with Varun Bhandari (MPA, HKS) and Yogeeta Manglani (MSc, HSPH) will compete for$1 million to launch a sustainable social venture that promotes global food security.
Nathan King (Fall 2013 Instructor of Architecture and DDes ’14) presented the results of the course relating to Innovation in Ceramics and The Future of Architectural Applications, during the Form|Rule|RuleForm symposium on Self-organizing forms and processes at the University of Innsbruck Institute for Structure and Deign, Innsbruck Austria.
The current explosive growth of South Asian cities was the impetus for the Contemporary South Asian City Conference this month in Karachi, Pakistan, where Rahul Mehrotra (chair and professor of urban planning and design) gave the first guest lecture, titled “Kinetic City.” He was attending as part of a Harvard team that included Spiro Pollalis (Professor of Design, Technology and Management) and Justin D. Stern (PhD student in urban planning and design), as well as representatives from the School of Public Health, South Asia Institute (a co-sponsor of the conference) and Harvard Medical School.
Lizzie MacWillie (MDesS ADPD/MAUD '14) and Nicolas Rivard (MAUD '13, 2013 Global Health Corps Fellow with MASS Design) have published a paper entitled "Beyond Participation: Community Storytelling for Self-Organization".