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Utopia Across Scales: Highlights from the Kenzo Tange Archive

The Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) presents the first mono-graphic exhibition on Kenzo Tange in the United States: Utopia Across Scales: Highlights from the Kenzo Tange Archive. It is the first comprehensive exhibition on Tange anywhere in the world in more than twenty years.

AUG 26 – OCT 18, 2009

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Max Bond: Practice, Education and Activism

Max Bond: Practice, Education and Activism celebrates the life and work of architect Max Bond (MArch ’48), one of the GSDs first African-American alumni, who forged his way through the barriers of discrimination to become a leading architect and educator.  …

SEP 14 – NOV 8, 2009

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Distillations: Gropius_Japan_1954

You cannot imagine what it meant to me to come suddenly face to face with these houses, with a culture still alive, which in the past had already found the answer to many of our modern requirements of simplicity, of outdoor-indoor relations, of modular coordination,…

SEP 1 – DEC 1, 2009

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Ecological Urbanism

The contemporary urban environment is facilitated by ecologies that exceed the city’s physical and political limits, reaching into hinterlands and beyond. Urbanism is also made up of many smaller pieces—a mosaic, as Richard T.T. Forman describes urban as well as rural landscapes—between which the boundaries…

MAR 30 – MAY 17, 2009

Gareth Doherty, Curator

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Concrete in the Landscape: 3 Sites|3 Projects

Peter Rose’s exhibit used video, line drawings, renderings, and physical models to show how concrete is placed in the landscape to shape building spaces while also capturing and focusing energies essential to each of three very different sites. Used for its robust material qualities and…

MAR 13 – APR 22, 2009

Peter Rose, Curator