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Four people dancing in a ring

Bodies in Motion: Jennifer Newsom on foregrounding the kinetic body in architectural representation

Can you depict a sweating body in an architectural drawing? Are lines capable of expressing…

Nov 30, 2020

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This Land Is Your Land: Students interrogate why “urban” and “Indigenous” are cast as opposing identities

Until the last decade, Native American, First Nations, and other Indigenous architecture has been a…

Nov 27, 2020

Models on blue background for the Mass Timber studio

With Mass Timber and the Scandinavian Effect, Jennifer Bonner and Hanif Kara speculate how wood might recapture the American architectural imagination

Moments of intense constraint have driven architecture toward seismic ruptures, which go on to determine…

Nov 24, 2020

Jean Renaudie, Cité du Parc Ivry-sur-Seine.

Dual-Use: Farshid Moussavi on rethinking residential architecture in the wake of Covid-19

The pandemic has had an immediate and tangible impact upon urban life—rewiring and, in some…

Nov 20, 2020

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Hidden Territories: Uncovering the racist legacy of the American landscape

The term “landscape” historically referred to pictures of the world—vistas or views—and so it is…

Nov 20, 2020

Illustration of city in a tree

Excerpt: Cities in Imagination, by David Maddox

“Five years ago, the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Just City…

Nov 19, 2020

Image of Shakers dancing at spiritual visit

Preston Scott Cohen’s Post-Shaker studio draws on the austere formal language of Shaker design in proposing a new art colony in Mount Lebanon, NY

Mount Lebanon, NY has faded. When its last seven inhabitants moved away in 1947 it…

Nov 12, 2020

Illustration of people between nature and city

Excerpt: Turning Migrant Workers into Citizens in Urbanizing China, by Pengfei Xie

“Five years ago, the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Just City…

Nov 10, 2020

Illustration of people crossing the street

Excerpt: Creating Universal Goals for Universal Growth, by Betsy Hodges

“Five years ago, the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Just City…

Nov 2, 2020

Oda chairs exhibited at the Higashikawa Arts Exchange Center

Making Next to Forest: Toshiko Mori’s studio demonstrates how design decisions relate to natural-resource use and protection

The argument that forests should remain untouched by human beings poses counterintuitive but considerable risks.

Oct 30, 2020