Environmental Justice, Energy Infrastructure, Migration and War: What Role Does Design Play in Mitigating a Crisis?
At their speculative edge, the design professions flourish in envisioning future scenarios, and we usually…
The Future of Tourism: Can the pandemic change how we visit popular sites for the better?
Oonagh Davis’s (MArch II ’23) proposal for the option studio “Between Wilderness and Civilization,”…
Practice in a Time of Economic Uncertainty: Advice for Emerging Architects
For many architects—particularly those at the start of their careers—the current moment feels fraught with…
GSD experts on a major barrier to climate crisis mitigation: “The majority of Americans have little experience with the land and its rhythms”
If Earth’s biosphere is in crisis, it is a peculiar sort of crisis. To human…
Designing for Disability Justice: On the need to take a variety of human bodies into account
Disability ought to be an exciting subject for architects: it’s about lived experience, problem solving,…
Hidden Territories: Uncovering the racist legacy of the American landscape
The term “landscape” historically referred to pictures of the world—vistas or views—and so it is…
The pandemic has caused an unprecedented reckoning with digital culture. Architecture may never be the same again (and that’s okay)
Images from “The Architecture of Light” by Serge Najjar Reflections on creating architectural culture online…
The Thinking Machine: Paola Sturla calls on designers to renew their commitment to humanism
Smart cities, search engines, autonomous vehicles: The pairing of massive data sets and self-learning algorithms…
If it’s for us, but not with us, it’s against us: Hicham Khalidi on the challenges of curating in public spaces
Sprawling across entire cities, the biennial has become a prominent means for architects, designers, and…