Peter Christensen (PhD '14) publishes Architecturalized Asia: Mapping a Continent Through History which is co-edited with Vimalin Rujivacharakul, Hazel Hahn and Ken Oshima.
Ecosistema Urbano, the firm of Belinda Tato and Jose Luis Vallejo (both design critics in urban planning and design), just won the Silver Award of the Taipei International Design Award 2013 in the Public Space Design category . Their "Energy carousel" is the creative embodiment of a more sustainable approach to urbanism.
Airport Landscape: Urban Ecologies in the Aerial Age, the exhibition curated by Charles Waldheim and Sonja Dümpelmann, has been featured in The Atlantic Cities.
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study unveiled a public-art installation designed by MDesS students Keojin Jin and Juhun Lee as part of its capital campaign launch event on October 28.
The Landscape Architecture department is now accepting applications for the Daniel Urban Kiley Teaching Fellowship for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Lukas Pauer (MAUD '14) has been invited to speak on his work “Reclaiming Post-NAFTA Open Space: On the Electrical Transmission Corridors of Mexico City” at the Early Career Workshop of the Flexible City Symposium.
Aliki Economides and Marrikka Trotter, both in the GSD PhD program, presented papers on ornament in contemporary global architecture at IDEA@UdeM 2013 (International Doctoral Encounters in Architecture at the Université de Montréal). The papers will be published in 2014 in a collection co-edited by Economides.
Bing Wang invited to Zhuhai, China to present as a domain expert by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of China.
Peter Christensen's review of the exhibition, "Baghdad: City of Mirages, 1952-1982" featured in recent issue of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH).
The UPD Department hosted its annual bus tour of Boston on September 7, led by Alex Krieger and Kathy Spiegelman, to introduce first year UPD students to the history of planning and development in the city.