Work In Progress: Ting Liang and Zishen Wen’s Ephemeral City
Ting Liang (MAUD/MLA ’19) and Zishen Wen (MLA ’19) describe their final project for the option studio “Multiple Miamis” led by Chris Reed and Sean Canty, fall 2018.Independent Study by Candidates for Doctoral Degrees
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Announcing the GSD’s Spring 2019 public program
On January 29, the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Spring 2019 public program opens with a conversation led by Michael Jakob to introduce the exhibition Mountains and the Rise of Landscape, while Dilip da Cunha takes up “The Invention of Rivers” for his February 19 Daniel Urban Kiley Lecture. Elsewhere in the program, Kimberly Dowdell (March 26) and Janette Sadik-Khan (March 28) present observations on transformative urban design and development.
Early-career architects bring fresh perspectives to the series, including talks by Beate Hølmebakk (February 4), Norman Kelley (February 5), and TEd’A (April 8). A range of artists, philosophers, and historians enliven the program, with contributions from David Hartt (February 26) and Rosi Braidotti (March 12), among others.
Other conversations on timely issues round out the semester, including an April 9 panel discussion on race, violence, and design; an April 11 panel on “Designing Detroit,” featuring Rip Rapson with Maurice Cox and Toni L. Griffin; and an April 12 roundtable from the GSD’s Practice Platform on “First Projects.”
The full public program appears below and can be viewed on the GSD’s events calendar. Please visit the GSD’s home page to sign up to receive periodic emails about the School’s public programs, exhibitions, and other news. Previous GSD lectures and events can be viewed on the GSD’s YouTube channel .
Harvard GSD Spring 2019 public program
“On Mountains” with Anita Berrizbeitia, Ed Eigen, Michael Jakob, Pablo Perez Ramos, and Jeffrey Schnapp
January 29
Jakob is lead curator of the Spring 2019 main exhibition Mountains and the Rise of Landscape. He joins exhibition co-curators in a conversation about mountains and their complex, fascinating history.
Beate Hølmebakk, “Constructions on Sites and Paper”
February 4
Norwegian architect Hølmebakk established Manthey Kula in 2004 and has been professor at Oslo’s AHO since 2007.
Norman Kelley (Carrie Norman & Thomas Kelley), “Things not as they are”
February 5
Architects Norman and Kelley established Norman Kelley in 2012, and operate the office jointly between New York City and Chicago.
Daniel Urban Kiley Lecture: Dilip da Cunha, “The Invention of Rivers”
February 19
da Cunha is an architect and planner based in Philadelphia and Bangalore. Drawing on his new book, The Invention of Rivers, he will discuss how the separation of land and water is not just an act of division but also an act of creation.
HECTOR (Jae Shin & Damon Rich)
February 21
HECTOR is an urban design, planning & civic arts practice led by Jae Shin & Damon Rich. They work on designs for public places, neighborhood plans, and development regulations.
Kuehn Malvezzi, “A HOUSE BETWEEN”
February 22
Architects Simona Malvezzi, Wilfried Kuehn, and Johannes Kuehn founded Kuehn Malvezzi in Berlin in 2001.
Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture: David Hartt, “Urban Futures of the Recent Past”
February 26
Hartt creates work that unpacks the social, cultural, and economic complexities of his various subjects. He explores how historic ideas and ideals persist or transform over time.
Loreta Castro Reguera
February 28
Castro Reguera is founder of Taller Capital, an architecture practice in Mexico City.
Aga Khan Program Lecture: Rania Ghosn
March 4
Ghosn is associate professor of architecture and urbanism at MIT and founding partner of DESIGN EARTH.
Kenneth Helphand, “Lawrence Halprin”
March 11
Helphand is Philip H. Knight emeritus professor of landscape architecture at the University of Oregon.
Rosi Braidotti
March 12
Braidotti is a contemporary philosopher and feminist theoretician.
Aga Khan Program Lecture: Sahel Al Hiyari
March 14
Al Hiyari is the principal of Sahel Al Hiyari Architects, an Amman-based architectural practice working in a wide spectrum of disciplines.
19th Annual John T. Dunlop Lecture: Kimberly Dowdell, “Diverse City: How Equitable Design and Development Will Shape Urban Futures”
March 26
Dowdell’s career with major architectural and real estate firms in Washington, D.C. and New York coupled with her tenure working with the City of Detroit have rounded out her experience as an equitable development professional.
Janette Sadik-Khan, “Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution”
March 28
One of the leading voices on urban transportation policy, Sadik-Khan is internationally respected for her transformative redesigns of New York City streets and rapid-implementation strategies that are being replicated today in cities around the world. She was Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation from 2007–2013 under Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Kiley Fellow Lecture: Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich
April 1
Bonvehi Rosich was the GSD’s 2017-2018 Daniel Urban Kiley Fellow. She is a licensed Spanish architect and urban designer.
Open House Lecture: Ellen Van Loon
April 4
Van Loon is a partner at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA).
TEd’A Arquitectes
April 8
TEd’A Arquitectes is a Mallorca-based studio founded by Irene Pérez and Jaume May.
“Beyond the Surface: Race, Violence, and Design,” with Anita Berrizbeitia, Eve Blau, Julian Bonder, Lizabeth Cohen, John Davis, Jeanne Gang, Mark Lee, Erika Naginski, Finola O’Kane, Antoine Picon, and Delia Wendel
April 9
This half-day symposium will explore design and its problematic relationship with violence, from war to racism. Speakers will address how design may become complicit in violence, and how it can, alternatively, engage with and confront a site’s conflicted past.
Rip Rapson with Maurice Cox and Toni L. Griffin, “Designing Detroit: A Decade of Change and Transformation”
April 11
Rapson is president and CEO of The Kresge Foundation. Cox is the Director of Planning and Development for the City of Detroit. Griffin is Professor in Practice of Urban Planning at the GSD.
“First Projects: An Unplugged Conversation”
April 12
The GSD’s Practice Platform convenes a candid roundtable conversation with leading designers, revealing stories behind first projects and the seminal efforts that launch remarkable careers.
Romy Hecht
April 18
Hecht is Associate Professor at the School of Architecture, Ponticia Universidad Católica de Chile.
“Space, Movement, and the Technological Body: A Tribute to the Bauhaus”
April 24
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus School of Design, the GSD hosts a night of screenings and performances that explore new bodily and spatial interfaces, including a movement-based performance by students developed in collaboration with a course taught by Krzysztof Wodiczko and Ani Liu. This event is organized in conjunction with the Harvard Art Museums’ exhibition The Bauhaus and Harvard.
Julie Perlman
Julie Perlman is the Vice President of Real Estate & Growth Strategy for Transformations Care Network, a national platform of outpatient mental healthcare clinics. Julie leads the site selection, negotiation, design, and construction processes to achieve the rapid expansion goals of new therapy and psychiatry offices across the country. Additionally, Julie is a Lecturer at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design where she teaches real estate finance for a graduate course about public-private development.
With a career built across nearly all product types, Julie brings a multidisciplinary lens of design and architecture, planning, project management, and consulting. Previously, Julie led the Trader Joe’s real estate, design, construction, and facilities teams as Vice President of Real Estate and Construction. She has also managed over $750 Million and 2 Million square feet of ground-up, real estate development in Greater Boston.
Julie graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College with a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and earned a Master of Design Studies in Real Estate from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. She is an associate member of the Sudbury Planning Board and serves on the executive committee of the Harvard Alumni Real Estate Board.
Loreta Castro Reguera
Loreta Castro Reguera
Born in Mexico City in 1979, Loreta Castro Reguera MAUD ’10 studied Architecture at the School of Architecture of UNAM, has a Master in Architecture form Mendrisio Academy of Architecture, and a Master in Urban Design with Distinction from the Harvard GSD. She has been awarded with several scholarships and prizes for both her trayectory and her independent work such as the FONCA Young Creators Program in Mexico, a Fulbright scholarship, and the CEMEX Marcelo Zambrano scholarship. As a result of focusing her research on water and design, she received the 2010 Druker Traveling Fellowship Award, and later the Global Gold Prize and Latinamerica Gold Prize of the 5th emission of the Lafarge Holcim Awards for La Quebradora, where she was design director and general coordinator. In 2010 she founded Taller Capital with José Pablo Ambrosi. Their work focuses on designing the city through densification and infrastructural public spaces, understanding different strategies for managing water. They have received several national recognitions and prizes such as the installation of the 2015 Eco Pavillion and a silver medal at the 2017 Bienialle. Loreta teaches a thesis design seminar at UNAM. She has been invited as guest professor and speaker to several institutions in America and Europe and has written essays and articles for several magazines and books. Since 2018 she is part of the National Creators System of Mexico.
Rip Rapson with Maurice Cox and Toni Griffin, “Designing Detroit”: A Decade of Change and Transformation”
Rip Rapson with Maurice Cox and Toni Griffin, “Designing Detroit”: A Decade of Change and Transformation”
Join Rip Rapson, president of the Kresge Foundation, and urban planners and designers Maurice Cox and Toni L. Griffin in a discussion about the complex design, economic and political innovations required to create transformational change for the city that helped create the American Dream.
Participants
Rip Rapson is president and CEO of The Kresge Foundation, a $3.6 billion private, national foundation dedicated to building and strengthening pathways to opportunity for people with low incomes living in America’s cities, including Kresge’s hometown of Detroit. Since 2006, he has expanded the foundation’s grantmaking and investing tools to improve the economic, social, cultural and environmental conditions of city life across the nation.
He previously served as president of the McKnight Foundation in Minneapolis, where he led early childhood development efforts, created a regional public-private-philanthropic economic development organization, and enhanced environmental protections along the Mississippi River. He earlier served as the deputy mayor of Minneapolis, with responsibility for designing a $400 million neighborhood revitalization program, revamping the municipal budgeting process and elevating the city’s commitment to children and families.
Maurice Cox LF ’05: Mayor Mike Duggan selected Cox from among several national finalists to reorganize and lead the City’s Planning Department in 2015. Cox, an urban designer, architectural educator and former mayor of the City of Charlottesville, VA, left a tenured position with Tulane University in New Orleans to accept the Detroit position.
An outspoken advocate of neighborhood development, Cox told a Detroit audience at the Museum of Contemporary Art in February that he feels a responsibility “to ensure the Detroiters who stuck it out in the hard times now share in the city’s growing prosperity.”
Cox has taught at Syracuse University, the University of Virginia and Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. His experience merging architecture, politics and design education led to his being named one of “20 Masters of Design” in 2004 by Fast Company Business Magazine. He served as Design Director of the National Endowment for the Arts from 2007-2010 where he led the NEA’s Your Town Rural Institute, the Governor’s Institute on Community Design, the Mayors’ Institute on City Design, and oversaw direct design grants to the design community across the U.S. In 2013, Cox was named one of the Most Admired Design Educators in America in the annual ranking of Design Intelligence.
Toni L. Griffin LF ’98 is the founder of Urban Planning and Design for the American City, based in New York. Through the practice, Toni served as Project Director the long range planning initiative of the Detroit Work Project, and in 2013 completed and released Detroit Future City, a comprehensive citywide framework plan for urban transformation. Most recent clients include working with the cities of Memphis, Milwaukee and Pittsburgh.
Ms. Griffin was recently a Professor of Architecture and the founding Director of the J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City at the Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York. Founded in 2011, the Bond Center is dedicated to the advancement of design practice, education, research and advocacy in ways that build and sustain resilient and just communities, cities and regions. Currently the Center is focused on several design research initiatives including the Legacy City Design Initiative, that explores innovative design solutions for cities that have lost greater than 20% population lost since their peak; “Just City Design Indicators Project” that seeks to define the core values of a just city and offer a performance measure tool to assist cities and communities with evaluating how design facilitates urban justice in the built environment; and “Inclusion in Architecture” that examines the participation of people of color in architecture and related design fields.
Prior to returning to private practice, Toni was the Director of Community Development for the City of Newark, New Jersey, where she was responsible for creating a centralized division of planning and urban design, launching the city’s complete overhaul of its comprehensive master plan and zoning ordinance. Between 2000-2006, Ms. Griffin served as Vice President and Director of Design for the Anacostia Waterfront Corporation in Washington, DC, leading the planning for the Washington Nationals Ballpark District, and held the position of Deputy Director for Revitalization Planning and Neighborhood Planning in the D.C. Office of Planning, responsible for the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative, the downtown City Center redevelopment, and numbers neighborhood revitalization plans.
Between 1998-2000, Ms. Griffin served as Vice President for Planning & Tourism Development for the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation in New York City. She began her career as an architect with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP in Chicago, where she became an Associate Partner involved in architecture and urban design projects in London and Chicago.
Ms. Griffin received a Bachelors of Architecture from the University of Notre Dame and a Loeb Fellowship from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where she also taught as an Adjunct Associate Professor between 2006-2011. In 2014, Toni was the Visiting Associate Professor and Theodore B. and Doris Shoong Lee Chair in Real Estate Law and Urban Planning, in the Department of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley, and serves on the board of the New York Regional Plan Association.
Kimberly Dowdell, “Diverse City: How Equitable Design and Development Will Shape Urban Futures”
Kimberly Dowdell, “Diverse City: How Equitable Design and Development Will Shape Urban Futures”
How can real estate development and sustainable design be used to foster equitable and inclusive redevelopment in cities? That’s the challenge that has animated the career of Kimberly Dowdell MPA ’15, an architect, developer, and educator who is focused on leading projects that help contribute to the revitalization of cities like Detroit, and also preparing the next generation of urban change agents.
Dowdell, who will give the 19th Annual John T. Dunlop Lecture, presented by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, is a partner at Century Partners, an innovative real estate development firm in Detroit focused on equitable neighborhood revitalization, and a lecturer at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. She is also the new president of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA). In that position, she has outlined an ambitious agenda focused on helping to ensure that African-American architects—who make up less than two percent of the profession in a country that is 13 percent African-American—play a larger role in efforts to revitalize America’s cities.
In her lecture, Dowdell, who has designed or managed over $100 million in assets in her work as an architect, real estate project manager, government staffer and developer, will draw on her varied experiences to discuss steps needed to create neighborhoods in which all people feel safe and empowered to build a brighter urban future for generations to come.
For more information, please visit the Joint Center for Housing Studies’ webpage.
Dilip Da Cunha, “The Invention of Rivers”
Dilip Da Cunha, “The Invention of Rivers”
Separating land and water is not just an act of division; it is also an act of creation. It creates land and water from ubiquitous wetness, defining them on either side of a line. It is one of the first acts of design, setting out a ground of habitation with a line that has largely been naturalized in features such as the coastline, the riverbank, and the water’s edge. These features are subjected to artistic representations, scientific inquiry, infrastructural engineering, and landscape design with little awareness of the act that brought them into being. Today, however, with the increasing frequency of flood and, not unrelatedly, sea-level rise attributed to climate change, the line of separation has come into sharp focus with proposals for walls, levees, natural defenses, and land retirement schemes. These responses raise questions on where the line is drawn, but they also raise questions on the separation that this line facilitates. Is this separation found in nature or does nature follow from its assertion? Are there other beginnings to design and consequently, other possible natures and grounds of habitation?
Dilip da Cunha is an architect and planner based in Philadelphia and Bangalore. He is co-director of the Risk and Resilience program at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, and Adjunct Professor at the GSAPP, Columbia University. He is author with Anuradha Mathur of Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape (2001); Deccan Traverses: The Making of Bangalore’s Terrain (2006); Soak: Mumbai in an Estuary (2009); and Design in the Terrain of Water (2014). His new book, The Invention of Rivers: Alexander’s Eye and Ganga’s Descent, was just published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. In 2017, da Cunha along with Anuradha Mathur received a Pew Fellowship Grant in recognition of their collaborative work. They are currently working on a multimedia exhibition titled The Ocean of Rain. http://www.mathurdacunha.com
Da Cunha’s The Invention of Rivers: Alexander’s Eye and Ganga’s Descent is available for purchase through University of Pennsylvania Press (http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15913.html).
HECTOR (Jae Shin & Damon Rich)
HECTOR (Jae Shin & Damon Rich)
