Hiroki Ohara: “Ikebana” by the Headmaster of the Ohara School of Ikebana
Ikebana (, Japanese flower arranging) developed in the 16th century as a medium of refined artistic expression. As…
Ikebana (, Japanese flower arranging) developed in the 16th century as a medium of refined artistic expression. As…
Kim Lutz of the Nature Conservancy was at the GSD on April 6th for a lunchtime lecture entitled “Taking it to Scale: a Watershed Approach to Conservation Design.” It was part of a series addressing large landscape conservation issues, sponsored by the Loeb Fellowship and curated by Scott Campbell. Margaret Scott (MUP candidate) reports in the LOEBlog.
Charles Waldheim, John E. Irving Professor of Landscape Architecture and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, will deliver the keynote address at this year's Society of Architectural Historians conference.
Lecturer Alistair McIntosh, Marissa Angell MLA ’15, Ian Brennick MLA ’15 and Skip Burck MLA ’85 were awarded first place in the Connect Kendall Square Open Space Planning Competition sponsored by the City of Cambridge.
The Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative has just published its Black Lives Matter dossier, edited by Jonathan Massey and Meredith TenHoor with Sben Korsh, and featuring the work of current student Héctor Tarrido-Picart (LA and MUD '15).
From a pool of 120 participating teams, two Harvard University Graduate School of Design teams made to the final four in the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Hines Competition of 2015.
In his Abitare review of lecturer Luis Callejas's "small but striking exhibition" in Medellín, "Excursiones," Fabrizio Gallanti notes that Callejas's "recent rise has been meteoric."
In "Making Print Matter," Harvard Gazette staff writer Cory Ireland notes that Harvard Design Magazine—whose 39th issue, "Wet Matter," was launched at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design last week—"fervently embraces the thingness of print."
In her recent contribution the Beirut-based Portal 9's "Forest" issue, Rosetta S. Elkin, assistant professor of landscape architecture, explores the history and usage of the term "desertification," with a particular lens to the Middle East and Africa.
Students at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design teamed up with the Harvard Ceramics Program to design innovative techniques for ceramic materials. Led by Leire Asensio-Villoria, lecturer in architecture and landscape architecture, and DDes candidate Felix Raspall, the “Ceramic Materials Formations” exhibition at Gallery 224 in Allston showcased the students' exploration of fabrication techniques and the behavior of different ceramic materials.