Practices led by Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni are well represented on this year’s Architect 50, Architect magazine's annual ranking of top architecture and design firms, announced earlier this month.
Wondering what the Extreme Urbanism III studio was up to with the Loeb Fellows and the Critical Conservation students in Agra last spring? Rahul Mehrotra (professor of Urban Design and Planning) provides a field guide in this newly released video about the course and the trip.
Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) student John McCartin (MUP ’16) has been named the winner of the American Planning Association’s 2015 Charles Abrams Scholarship.
Cynthia Davidson (LF ’89) has been selected by the State Department as co-curator of the United States Pavilion exhibition in the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, along with Monica Ponce de Leon, dean of Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. Read more at the LOEBlog.
The Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Kate Kennen (MLA ’05) and Niall Kirkwood recently coauthored Phyto: Principles and Resources for Site Remediation and Landscape Design, published in May by Routledge.
Along with a new name, architecture and urban design firm Machado Silvetti has four new principals, including three Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni.
Rick Lowe—public-art pioneer, 2002 Loeb Fellow, 2014 MacArthur Fellow, and founder of Houston-based initiative Project Row Houses—addressed the Class of 2015 and their families at the GSD's Class Day on Wednesday, May 27.
The Urban Land Institute (ULI) awarded its 2015 ULI Apgar Urban Land Award to Dan Malone (MDes ’14) and Richard Peiser, Michael D. Spear Professor of Real Estate Development at the GSD, for their article “The Making of Miami Beach’s Mixed-Use Garage” on the famed 1111 Lincoln Road parking garage project.
April’s InFORMing Justice: A Conversation about the Role of Design in Building Equitable Communities event was the subject of a recent Al Jazeera America article.
Stephanie Hsia and Lara Mehling (both MLA ’15) have been announced as first-prize winners in the Keney Park Design Contest, a joint project of the City of Hartford and the Garden Club of Hartford.