Spring 2015

GSD students drive collaborative Nepal relief, awareness efforts

Within hours of April 25’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Nepal, Harvard Graduate School of Design students had initiated support and advocacy projects in GSD’s Gund Hall and began collaborating with students and faculty from within Harvard and beyond

May 5, 2015

News

GSD/Van Alen Institute conference explores highs and lows of design competitions

Last week’s Design Competition Conference, co-sponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Van Alen Institute, probed both the bright and the dark sides of design competitions.

Apr 30, 2015

Lecture

Lecture

Apr 8, 2015

06:30PM – 08:00PM

Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138

Lecture

Department of Architecture

Department of Landscape Architecture

Department of Urban Planning and Design

Free and open to the public

News

Mehrotra, Panzano bring interdisciplinary look at worlds largest religious festival to SAI Symposium

Last week’s Harvard South Asia Institute (SAI) 2015 Annual Symposium offered an interdisciplinary look at the the world’s largest religious festival, the Kumbh Mela—a Hindu mass pilgrimage—through projects launched by Rahul Mehrotra, professor of Urban Planning and Design and chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, and Megan Panzano (MArch ’10), design critic in Architecture.

Apr 23, 2015

News

A Watershed Approach: Kim Lutz at the GSD

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.

Apr 17, 2015

Studio Reports

April 2015

News

Héctor Tarrido-Picart featured in Aggregate’s special black lives matter dossier

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).

Apr 1, 2015

News

Urban Theory Lab opens “Operational Landscapes” in Melbourne

The Urban Theory Lab recently opened their exhibition "Operational Landscapes" at the Melbourne School of Design (MSD).

Mar 26, 2015

News

GSD teams selected as finalists in Urban Land Institute Hines Competition

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.

Mar 18, 2015

Archive

Rethinking Taj Heritage Corridor: A River as Historic Connection

GSD students drive collaborative Nepal relief, awareness efforts

GSD/Van Alen Institute conference explores highs and lows of design competitions

Informing Justice: A Conversation about the Role of Design in Building Equitable Communities

Mehrotra, Panzano bring interdisciplinary look at worlds largest religious festival to SAI Symposium

A Watershed Approach: Kim Lutz at the GSD

Design and Politics: Managing Risks and Vulnerabilities

Héctor Tarrido-Picart featured in Aggregate’s special black lives matter dossier

Urban Theory Lab opens “Operational Landscapes” in Melbourne

GSD teams selected as finalists in Urban Land Institute Hines Competition

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