Archive
Charles Waldheim, Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture, talks about the invention of GIS
Since its origins in the 1960s, GIS has enabled designers, planners, developers, public agencies, and communities to make better decisions about the shape of urbanization and its impact. GIS improves design and planning by using geographically referenced data on subjects ranging from the economy to ecology and beyond.
Firm of Professor Jorge Silvetti Wins KLIFD Competition to Design Kuala Lumpur International Financial District
Machado and Silvetti Associates, firm of Jorge Silvetti, Nelson Robinson, Jr. Professor of Architecture, with its international partner, Akitek Jururancang (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. (AJM) has recently been awarded the commission as master planners for the Kuala Lumpur International Financial District (KLIFD).
Surface Deep: Reford Gardens, Grand Metis, Quebec, Canada
Surface Deep is a new garden recently installed within the entry sequence for the visitors to the Reford Gardens' Metis International Garden Festival in Quebec, Canada. Supported by the Department of Landscape Architecture, the project's design was led by Harvard Graduate School of Design lecturers Leire Asensio Villoria and David Syn Chee Mah and developed and fabricated in collaboration with students from the Landscape Architecture and Architecture programs at the Harvard GSD.
Jeanne Gang, MArch 93, Winner of MacArthur Foundation Genius Award, Talks about Intellectual Intensity and Breadth at GSD and in Her Work
For Jeanne Gang, who was just awarded one of the twenty-two $500,000 no-strings-attached MacArthur Fellowships, her time as a student and (last semester) as a studio critic at the GSD has meant primarily an experience of intellectual intensity and broadening.