Harvard Graduate School of Design students, alumni, and professors offered visionary, winning designs in the Boston Living with Water competition, which announced finalists on Monday, June 8.
Along with a new name, architecture and urban design firm Machado Silvetti has four new principals, including three Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni.
Contrary to the recent assertion in The Atlantic City Lab–that there’s no syllabus for an urban design course on race and justice–there is at least one: Toni Griffin (LF ’98) created it and teaches it at the CCNY J.Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City. She writes about it in Next City.
Eve Blau, adjunct professor of the history of urban form, was recently awarded the Victor Adler State Prize from the Austrian Ministry of Science, Research, and Economy, in Vienna.
GSD alumna Monica Ponce de Leon (MAUD ’91) has been selected as the next dean of Princeton University’s School of Architecture. Her appointment is effective January 1, 2016.
GSD awards 324 degrees during Harvard’s 364th Commencement.
Héctor Tarrido-Picart (MLA/MAUD ’15) is among the students from around the university whom the Harvard Gazette is spotlighting as part of its Commencement 2015 coverage.
John “Tad” Read (MDes ’04), a senior planner with the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA), has been appointed the BRA’s acting director of planning.
April’s InFORMing Justice: A Conversation about the Role of Design in Building Equitable Communities event was the subject of a recent Al Jazeera America article.
The GSD is pleased to announce the appointment of Diane Davis as Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design as of July 1, 2015. Davis is currently the Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism at the GSD.