2021 Class Day Speaker Jia Tolentino: An Interview
Jia Tolentino will present the GSD’s 2021 Class Day Address. Photo by Elena Mudd. Jia…
Interviews
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…
Students in Dialogue: A conversation with MArch II candidate Selwyn Bachus
Selwyn Bachus. Portrait by Chidy Wayne. What is it like to be a…
Students in Dialogue: A conversation with MDE candidate Nupur Gurjar
Nupur Gurjar. Portrait by Chidy Wayne. What is it like to be a Master in…
Students in Dialogue: A conversation with MLA candidate Xinyi Chen
Xinyi Chen. Portrait by Chidy Wayne. What is it like to be a Landscape Architecture…
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…
Designing for Disability Justice: On the need to take a variety of human bodies into account
Disability ought to be an exciting subject for architects: it’s about lived experience, problem solving,…
How Not to Write About Design: A guide for anyone looking to move beyond form, space, order, and structure
Architects are often reluctant writers, choosing instead to express themselves in other ways. Perhaps this…
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…
Pier Paolo Tamburelli on the “hardscrabble, repressed, and perverted” American Gothic psyche
In Sherwood Anderson’s collection of short stories, Winesburg, Ohio, the author…