Jeanne Gang’s David Rubenstein Treehouse conference center for Harvard’s Enterprise Research Campus (ERC) in Allston is the university’s first project employing mass timber.

The first phase of Harvard’s Enterprise Research Campus (ERC)—a vibrant mixed-use district in Boston’s Allston neighborhood—is nearing completion. Faculty and alumni of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) have played integral roles in the ERC, from conceptualization and planning through design and construction.

Alex Krieger speaks to the history of the Allston campus, upon the opening of the David Rubenstein Treehouse Conference Center.

Faculty and students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) study Allston as a site rich with potential for equitable development.