Multi-disciplinary team wins Urban Heat Island Effect 2015
Cold Spot: Evaporative Cooling through Ceramics, a research-build project that investigates passive cooling strategies developed by the…
Cold Spot: Evaporative Cooling through Ceramics, a research-build project that investigates passive cooling strategies developed by the…
During January 2015, Pedro Aparicio joined an open-ended field-work research about shared conditions of risk…
Longfeng Wu (MDes ULE ’16) received a 2015 Penny White Grant to study the Pearl Delta…
An interdisciplinary GSD team worked over the course of 8 months to develop entries for…
Dave Hampton (MDes Risk + Resilience ’16) takes us on a journey to the year…
After receiving over 250 submissions, the curatorial team for the 2016 Venice Biennale’s U.S. Pavilion has named 12 architect teams to produce the pavilion’s U.S. exhibition, with several Harvard Graduate School of Design faculty and alumni among those selected.
Harvard-based startup Getaway is tapping into the “tiny house movement,” and a Harvard Graduate School of Design pair is embracing the creative challenges of designing Getaway’s star attraction: so-called “tiny houses” available for vacation rental.
The GSD’s six-week Career Discovery program presents a hyperintensive engagement with design that mirrors a graduate-level studio experience.
Maurice Cox, Detroit’s new planning director, views the city through the lens of opportunity. While others can’t see beyond acres of abandoned land, he sees the walkable streets and neighborhood density that foster community and plenty of parks, gardens and local enterprise. He also sees the resilient spirit that can make it all happen. Read “Detroit’s new planning director: Dream Big” and view a video interview with Maurice Cox.
Erin Pellegrino (MArch ’16) traveled to the Anchorage Museum this past April to present student exhibition “Habitation in Extreme Environments”—bred by option-studio course Housing in Extreme Environments—alongside studio instructor Rok Oman.