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Shaping Contemporary Indigenous Design: An interview with Sam Olbekson

Sam Olbekson is committed to improving the lives of Native Americans. An Indigenous architect with…

Mar 28, 2022

A cartoon hand holding a controller in front of a virtual site model.

“From Virtual by Emergency to Virtual by Design,” the 2020–2021 Irving Innovation Fellows Advance Virtual Pedagogy

Each year, the Irving Innovation Fellowship enables recent Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni…

Mar 21, 2022

A photo of a student sitting at a white picnic table in the front plaza of Gund Hall that faces the street.

Two Years Later: What has COVID-19 Permanently Changed for Design?

Tables on the Gund Hall front plaza accommodate outdoor learning and social space. Photograph…

Mar 10, 2022

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Interrogative Design: Selected Works of Krzysztof Wodiczko through Seven Candid Conversations

Listen to Krzysztof Wodiczko and the curator Dan Borelli discussing six of…

Mar 1, 2022

Black and white archival photo of the bottom floors of the Banque Lambert.

Heat Magnets: Jeannette Kuo on Mitigating the Harmful Effects of Glass Building Facades

Lever House, Gordon Bunshaft and Natalie de Blois (SOM), New York City, 1952. Photo…

Mar 1, 2022

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Blank: Speculations on CLT edited by Jennifer Bonner and Hanif Kara

When I began studying architecture in the 1980s, students would often get asked at crits…

Mar 1, 2022

Collage featuring a map of Chicago with a masked Black person holding a stick over a larger than life drawing of cotton.

Excerpt from Harvard Design Magazine: “South Side Land Narratives: The Lost Histories and Hidden Joys of Black Chicago” by Toni L. Griffin

Publicly expressing Black pain can render reactions of solidarity, healing, and empowerment, or exhaustion, guilt,…

Feb 22, 2022

Black and white photograph of church goers exiting the building.

Mise-en-Scène: A new book from Chris Reed and Mike Belleme explores the theater of urban landscapes

Photo by Mike Belleme for Mise-en-Scène. Conceived as a multidimensional investigation into “the social…

Feb 18, 2022

Map of US with interstate highway lines bisecting the land.

Design Proposals for the Uncertain Future of American Infrastructure

As the world ground to a halt in the spring of 2020, with the COVID-19…

Feb 2, 2022

Richard Rogers standing on the stairs at home in west London.

Mohsen Mostafavi Remembers Richard Rogers (1933-2021)

Richard Rogers in front of 22 Parkside in 2017. Photo: Mohsen Mostafavi. Richard Rogers was one…

Jan 26, 2022