Can technology enable site-specific knowledge? A studio examining transformations in rural China tests the limits of remote ethnography

Last March, the option studio I led with Kathryn…

May 7, 2020

The Unstable Condition: What the pandemic can teach us about the need for more affordable rental housing

Photograph © Frederik Vercruysse America’s rental housing system is broken. For anyone living in high-cost,…

May 1, 2020

The coronavirus outbreak has both revealed and exacerbated structural inequities in American cities. Challenges faced…

Apr 29, 2020

Homeless people sleep in a temporary parking lot shelter at Cashman Center, with spaces marked…

Apr 28, 2020

Hospitals have not always been sites for curing. In a 1974 lecture entitled “The Incorporation…

Apr 27, 2020

Images from “The Architecture of Light” by Serge Najjar Reflections on creating architectural culture online…

Apr 22, 2020

In the first week of March, Australia’s New South Wales announced itself free of bushfires…

Apr 21, 2020

Amid ongoing fabrication and delivery of face masks and shields, Harvard Graduate School of…

Apr 15, 2020

David Moreno Mateos, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of…

Apr 15, 2020

A 1908 illustration from the Virginia Health Bulletin shows urban diseases threatening the bucolic conditions…

Apr 13, 2020