What Musicals Teach Us About Cities
Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story (2021), still of Anita, Bernardo, and friends dancing on an…
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Announcing Spring 2025 Public Programs and Exhibitions
The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) announces its spring 2025 public programs and exhibitions,…
Unifying Research and Practice: Sam Naylor
Belfast Co-housing & Ecovillage, Belfast, Maine. All housing photographed by Sam Naylor during his Druker…
Winter Reading 2025: Design Books by GSD Faculty and Alumni
Also Know As, by Michelle Jaja Chang. In need of new reading for the…
Humphry Repton’s Pop-up ‘Red Book’ at the Frances Loeb Library
At 36, Humphry Repton (1752-1818) retreated to the country after failing in yet…
Bas Smets Teaches How to Hack Urban Landscapes for a Changing Climate
In the Attica region of Greece this August, says Bas Smets, wildfires ripped through forests…
The Lessons of Grenfell
In the early hours of June 14, 2017, a fire engulfed Grenfell Tower, a high-rise…
Flood Control as a Social Movement: Coastal Communities Adapt to a Wetter Reality
Students in the project-based seminar “Rockaway’s Housing Superstorm: Between Rising Waters and Climate Gentrification,” led…
An Advocate for Architecture: Jhaelen Hernandez-Eli
Jhaelen Hernandez-Eli speaking at The Met. Nearly twenty years after his graduation, Jhaelen…
Remembering Joseph Edward Brown (1947–2024)
Joseph E. Brown, c. 2000. Photo courtesy of Jacinta McCann. Joseph Edward Brown…