The Thinking Machine: Paola Sturla calls on designers to renew their commitment to humanism
Smart cities, search engines, autonomous vehicles: The pairing of massive data sets and self-learning algorithms…
Profiles
Rhythm of the Torrent: Susie Ibarra’s sonic maps capture the texture, story, and architecture of a place in sound
Composer, percussionist, and sound artist Susie Ibarra is standing in the…
Radical geometry: With Haus Gables, Jennifer Bonner proposes a new urban typology
Photo credit: NAARO On the first day of the construction of Haus Gables–after 11 trucks…
Teju Cole on the unpredictability and potential of the city: “Once you give up insisting on stereotypes, you can really start to see.”
The work of novelist, essayist, and photographer Teju Cole is a…
Instigations, speculations, and platforms: Dean Mohsen Mostafavi’s lasting contribution to Harvard Graduate School of Design
Mohsen Mostafavi’s deanship has been booked-ended by publications: The first was Ecological…
2018 Rouse Visiting Artist Hannah Beachler on her history-making Oscar nomination
Of the seven Oscar nominations that Marvel Studios’ blockbuster Black Panther received this year, two are…
Beate Hølmebakk discusses her paper projects and rejecting the dominance of user-friendly architecture
In 2004, Norwegian architect Beate Hølmebakk co-founded Manthey Kula with Per Tamsen,…
Empowering Citizen Students: Faculty Q&A with Abby Spinak
We caught up with Abby Spinak, lecturer in urban planning and design, to discuss the courses she…
Student Profile: William Baumgardner (MLA ’18)
William Baumgardner (MLA '18) talks about his Community Service…
“Zap, zoom, Twitter, and Flickr”: Faculty Q&A with Bridget Baines and Eelco Hooftman
Each semester, practitioners and theorists from across design disciplines and around the world join the Harvard…