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Tokyo Underground Floor prevention center

Landscapes of the Void: Speculative design for tunnels, mines, cemeteries and other underground spaces

At once welcoming and foreboding, the underground realm has long captured our attention. When considered…

May 5, 2021

Harvard GSD names Jia Tolentino the 2021 Class Day speaker

Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design has named writer and author Jia Tolentino as its…

May 4, 2021

Agreement for architects to work with their communities

The Black New Deal: Bryan C. Lee on challenging the power structures that use architecture and design as tools of oppression

When asked about the theoretical touchstones for his new studio, “The…

Apr 30, 2021

(Left to right) Amy C. Edmondson, John Katzenberger, Buckminster Fuller, and Thomas Crum (1982). Photo courtesy Amy C. Edmondson.

Harvard GSD announces establishment of the R. Buckminster Fuller Professorship of Design Science

Harvard Graduate School of Design announces the establishment of the R. Buckminster Fuller Professorship of…

Apr 22, 2021

Ed Ruscha

Shading Sunset: Charles Waldheim on reimagining the streets of Los Angeles for a warmer future

In 1965, Ed Ruscha stood on the bed of a moving pickup truck and photographed…

Apr 19, 2021

Masked woman walking on elevated scaffolding.

Design collaborative colab-19 is changing how we think about post-pandemic architecture

Late last year, a scaffolding structure rose to abut the facade of the popular…

Apr 8, 2021

Harvard GSD's 2021 Wheelwright Prize finalists, L to R: Germane Barnes, Luis Berríos-Negrón, Iulia Statica, and Catty Dan Zhang

Harvard GSD shortlists four architects for 2021 Wheelwright Prize

Harvard University Graduate School of Design has announced four shortlisted architects for the 2021 Wheelwright…

Apr 7, 2021

Areal view of Sugarland Visitor Center, 1964.

Can Parkitecture Heal? Jeanne Gang on making American National Parks “more accessible, more inviting, and more welcoming”

Early federal policies that set aside land for the national parks focused mainly on the…

Mar 25, 2021

Image of brightly colored (pinks, yellow, blues, green) map of Georgia

Excerpt from Pairs Issue 01: “On the Foundational Spirit: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits” by Sara Zewde with Kimberley Huggins

Pairs is a student-led journal at the Harvard Graduate School of Design dedicated to conversations…

Mar 12, 2021

Inhabiting the Negative Space by Jenny Odell

Excerpt: The Incidents: Inhabiting the Negative Space by Jenny Odell

Designed by ELLA. Three time zones and three thousand miles…

Mar 5, 2021