Ph.D. candidate David Theodore named Assistant Professor at McGill University
David Theodore, who is completing a combined PhD in architecture and history of science will join McGill University in August 2014.
David Theodore, who is completing a combined PhD in architecture and history of science will join McGill University in August 2014.
Allen Sayegh's (adjunct associate professor of architectural technology) firm INVIVIA has won the inaugural Creative City Challenge to produce a major public interactive art project in the city of Minneapolis.
GSD team is awarded second prize for best paper in the CAADRIA 2013 Open Systems at Singapore competition.
Karen Lee Bar-Sinai (LF 2013) and her design partner Yehuda Greenfield-Gilat, of Jerusalem-based SAYA studio, are profiled in a recent blog post for the New Yorker.
During a recent trip to Korea on behalf of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Dean Mohsen Mostafavi was interviewed by 1013 Main Street, an English-language radio show based in Seoul, Korea.
Florian Idenburg’s (adjunct associate professor of architecture) firm SO – IL has won the UC Davis competition for its new Museum of Art after a year of accolades culminating in the Architectural League of N.Y.'s “Emerging Voices” award.
Stoss Landscape Urbanism, the firm co-led by Chris Reed (adjunct associate professor of landscape architecture), has taken a slew of recent honors, including the Syracuse competition for Movement on Main and two 2013 Boston Society of Landscape Architecture Awards.
Matthew Gin (PhD student) recently was awarded the Philip Hofer Prize for Collecting Books or Art.
Admitted students were treated to a journey inside the mind of a protean designer when Thomas Heatherwick spoke at the conclusion of Open House last Friday. In his introduction, Dean Mohsen Mostafavi called Heatherwick “one of the exciting people crossing boundaries between art, architecture, engineering. Not only is his work innovative for the different scales it represents; he gives us new ways to view daily items: from a bus to a master plan.”
The design of technical objects often shapes their use, and can have political, social, and cultural consequences. A talk at N.Y.U. by Sara Hendren (MDesS ‘13, researcher in the Program on Art and the Public Domain and fellow at metaLAB) and Geoffrey Bowker (professor of informatics at U.C. Irvine) investigates the ways in which values become embodied in technological design and what efforts we might make to challenge maladaptive structures.