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“From Virtual by Emergency to Virtual by Design,” the 2020–2021 Irving Innovation Fellows Advance Virtual Pedagogy

Each year, the Irving Innovation Fellowship enables recent Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni…

Mar 21, 2022

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Sunghea Khil Receives Travel and Research Grant from the American Planning Association

Sunghea Khil, a joint degree Master in Urban Planning and Public Policy candidate at…

Mar 15, 2022

Department of Landscape Architecture Announces 2022 Penny White Project Fund Recipients

The Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Department of Landscape Architecture has announced the 2022…

Mar 11, 2022

New book from REAL considers Responsive Environments through a design manifesto

A new book from the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Responsive Environments…

Mar 5, 2022

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Heat Magnets: Jeannette Kuo on Mitigating the Harmful Effects of Glass Building Facades

Lever House, Gordon Bunshaft and Natalie de Blois (SOM), New York City, 1952. Photo…

Mar 1, 2022

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Blank: Speculations on CLT edited by Jennifer Bonner and Hanif Kara

When I began studying architecture in the 1980s, students would often get asked at crits…

Mar 1, 2022

Collage featuring a map of Chicago with a masked Black person holding a stick over a larger than life drawing of cotton.

Excerpt from Harvard Design Magazine: “South Side Land Narratives: The Lost Histories and Hidden Joys of Black Chicago” by Toni L. Griffin

Publicly expressing Black pain can render reactions of solidarity, healing, and empowerment, or exhaustion, guilt,…

Feb 22, 2022

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Mise-en-Scène: A new book from Chris Reed and Mike Belleme explores the theater of urban landscapes

Photo by Mike Belleme for Mise-en-Scène. Conceived as a multidimensional investigation into “the social…

Feb 18, 2022

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Toni L. Griffin Honored with Edmund N. Bacon Urban Design Award from Center for Architecture and Design

Toni L. Griffin, professor in practice of Urban Planning and Publics Domain head,…

Feb 18, 2022

Rendering of the Suffolk Downs Master Plan show a vibrant landscape design populated by people and pets walking on paths. Groups lounge in the shade under trees and play by the water. There are kits in the sky. The scene is joyful and bright.

Stoss Landscape Urbanism Receives AIA Regional & Urban Design Award for Suffolk Downs Master Plan

Rendering from the the Suffolk Downs Master Plan. Image courtesy of HYM & CBT.

Feb 11, 2022