Charles Waldheim (John E. Irving professor and chair of the department of landscape architecture) recently presented at the Thinking the Contemporary Landscape - Positions & Oppositions international conference in Hanover, Germany.
After more than 20 years of service former GSD Dean Alan A. Altshuler retired in May 2013, and a celebration was held in his honor on June 7 at the Taubman Building.
Michael Kubo (MArch '06), Mark Pasnik (MDesS '95) and Chris Grimley curators of pinkcomma gallery, publish "Archive," a book that catalogues fifty-seven projects of the nineteen Design Biennial Boston winners--which include 25 GSD alumni and/or faculty.
Harvard’s ability to foster innovation has long been a core strength of the university, never more so than today. President Faust's mission to create One Harvard is spurring greater collaboration across schools, disciplines and facilities, and the GSD is at the forefront of the explosion of creativity.
A selection of GSD events posters has been acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago for its permanent collection.
In the Life of Cities, edited by Dean Mohsen Mostafavi and published by Lars Müller, has been named one of the 50 best designed books of 2012 by Design Observer.
“Helsinki Link,” a proposal by Matthew Jull (MArch ’08) and Leena Cho (MLA ’09) of Kutonotuk, received honorable mention in the Helsinki Central Library International Competition.
Chris Reed’s (adjunct associate professor of landscape architecture) Flux City studio was recently featured on Urban Omnibus. The report details student work that reconceives the vulnerable coastal span of NY’s Jamaica Bay as a more dynamic and fluid urban landscape able to meet the challenges of sea level rise and storm surges. Rendering of Shifting Gradients by Cara Walsh and Andy Wisniewski
GSD faculty and alumni were among the 2013 honors recipients in a recent announcement by The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA).
In the digital age, what will become of our libraries? For the past 3 years, Jeffrey Schnapp (director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, faculty director of metaLAB and visiting professor in architecture) has been answering that question with the help of students, librarians and library users of all stamps in the Library Test Kitchen. Read “The Library Test Kitchen at Harvard” in the Boston Globe.