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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

Black poster with white text listing the GSD's spring 2022 public programs.

Strictly Typographic: Behind this year’s public programs posters by Harsh Patel

The Harvard Graduate School of Design’s art director Chad Kloepfer first came across designer…

Jan 25, 2022

Architectural drawing of several structures drawn in blue and arranged in a grid

Does Originality Still Exist? On Pushing the Boundaries of Architecture Representation

Architecture students arrive at the task of representation with a mounting sense of urgency. There…

Jan 19, 2022

Aerial photograph of a garden with a stone sculpture where four path meet. A white play button is in the middle.

Meet the Loeb Fellowship Class of 2022

The Loeb Fellowship’s Class of 2022. Clockwise from top left: Andrea Bolnick, Jordan Weber, Will…

Jan 5, 2022

Mannequin with googles and a backpack looks out the window of the Frances Loeb Library at a masked student entering Gund Hall.

Best of 2021: The GSD’s most popular stories, podcasts, photos, and public programs this year

“Dis-Armor 2” by Krzysztof Wodiczko (Courtesy of Galerie Lelong & Co.) is displayed in…

Dec 16, 2021

Rendering of a building wrapped around a tree in a forest.

The Future of Tourism: Can the pandemic change how we visit popular sites for the better? 

Oonagh Davis’s (MArch II ’23) proposal for the option studio “Between Wilderness and Civilization,”…

Dec 14, 2021