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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

GSD exhibitions turn “Inside Out”

This spring, Harvard Graduate School of Design has turned its Druker Design Gallery, Experiments Wall,…

Feb 26, 2021

Faculty Honored with 2021 ACSA Architectural Education Awards

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) recently announced the recipients of its…

Feb 26, 2021

Image of man riding bike (silhouette) in front of pink Barragan wall

Silvia Benedito’s new book Atmosphere Anatomies explores weather, climate, and atmosphere as mediums of design

Much of modern civilization has been shaped by a fundamental need for shelter, and much…

Feb 23, 2021

Newly launched GSD Now offers novel connections for the school community

Harvard GSD has introduced digital platform GSD Now to its community of students, faculty, and…

Feb 19, 2021

Consumers living within the compeititive power markets of Texas — which cover about 85 percent of the state — have consistently paid higher prices for electricity than those buying electricity from regulated municipal utilities and cooperatives. Photograph: Allison V. Smith, STR / The New York Times

Power and Justice in the Lone Grid State: Abby Spinak and Sarah Stanford-McIntyre on the crisis in Texas

Newspapers this week are swamped with headlines like, “What Went Wrong…

Feb 19, 2021

Building facade in Harlem with many overlapping geometric colors

The African American Design Nexus’ Harlem StoryMap traces the neighborhood’s Black-designed places

Black Harlem, storied and resilient, has been chronicled from many perspectives. Missing until now has…

Feb 17, 2021

Black and white photograph of Steilneset Memorial is a monument in Vardø, Norway

Groundscrapers: Exploring the logic behind long, low buildings

A visionary architect of the modern metropolis surveyed the vast urban scene unfolding from his…

Feb 17, 2021

ABSTRACT artwork with two red shapes against a white background

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,…

Feb 10, 2021

Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo Lopez

Jose Luis García del Castillo y López talks “tech to expect” in Architect Magazine

Last year brought staggering change to our lives, but the impact on technology—and the resulting…

Feb 8, 2021