Two of the 3 winners of the KPF Traveling Fellowships this year are MArch I students Kevin Murray and Joanie Tom. The awardees were selected by a jury that includes Cathleen McGuigan (editor of Architectural Record and LF ’93) and Eric Höweler (assistant professor of architecture).
Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (GSD), is pleased to announce that Jose M. Ahedo, an architect based in Barcelona, Spain, is the winner of the 2014 Wheelwright Prize, a $100,000 traveling fellowship aimed at fostering investigative approaches to contemporary design.
Michael Van Valkenburgh, Eliot professor in practice of landscape architecture, will be the Harvard Graduate School of Design Class Day speaker on May 28.
Leif Estrada (MLA/MDes '14) has won the 2014 Howard T. Fisher Prize for Excellence in GIS (Graduate Category) for his entry, “Temporal Morphology: Synthetic Growth and Natural Decline of Alameda Island.”
The GSD is well represented among the The Graham Foundation's 2014 Grants to Individuals.
Research projects by Alexander Arrojo (MLA '13) and Daia Stutz (MLAUD '13) were featured in the February issue of Landscape Architecture Frontiers.
GA Collaborative, the non-profit design organization of Zaneta Hong (lecturer in landscape architecture and MLA I '07), Michael Leighton Beaman (MArch '03), James Setzler (MArch '05), and Yutaka Sho (MArch '05) is EDRA's 2014 Place Design Award recipient for the “Masoro Village Project."
Charles Waldheim, FAAR, John E. Irving Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture, delivered a public lecture to The Arts Club of Chicago on the subject of his forthcoming book-length history of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.
The garden exhibit Tiny Taxonomy, designed by Rosetta Elkin (lecturer of landscape architecture) will be on display at Belgrave Square in London May 16-31.
Jill Desimini, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, will give a talk at the Library of Congress on Friday, May 16 at 1:30pm as part of its conference From Terra to Terabytes: The History of 20th Century Cartography and Beyond.