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Excerpt: A Democratic Infrastructure for Johannesburg, by Benjamin Bradlow

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

Dec 8, 2020

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Toni Griffin discusses what Biden’s presidency could mean for America’s cities in Architectural Digest

Professor in Practice of Urban Planning and founder of Urban American City Toni L.

Dec 2, 2020

Landscape Architecture Magazine discusses “Dismantling the Design Syllabus” with GSD’s Sara Zewde, Anita Berrizbeitia

Amid a year of design introspection on issues of race, culture, identity, and equity, Landscape…

Dec 1, 2020

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Excerpt: Justice from the Ground Up, by Julie Bargmann

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

Nov 30, 2020

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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

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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

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With student advocates’ help, Cambridge set to build more affordable housing

Last month, the city council in Cambridge, Massachusetts, voted to…

Nov 19, 2020