In Conversation with the Land: Two Indigenous Practices

NYC GSD alumni were invited to  In Conversation with the Land: Two Indigenous Practices. Elisapeta Heta and Chris T Cornelius discussed their experiences as Indigenous designers, comparing and expanding upon their practices and how they seek to change the built environment and embed a stronger relationship to place through their indigenous worldviews. A panel discussion moderated by Zoë Toledo (MArch ’23) followed the presentations.

Opening Remarks were given by AIANY Global Dialogues Committee members: Gregory Haley (MAUD ’98), Andrea Lamberti (MArch ’97), and Betsy Williamson (MArch ’97). 

Speakers:
Chris T Cornelius (Citizen of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, North America), Professor and Chair of Architecture, University of New Mexico; Principal and Founder, studio:indigenous

Elisapeta Heta (Ngātiwai, Ngāpuhi, Waikato Tainui, Sāmoan, Tokelauan), Principal and Kaihautū Whaihanga (Māori Design Leader), Jasmax

Moderator:
Zoë Toledo (MArch ’23) (Citizen of the Navajo Nation)

The event was free for AIANY members and open to the public. Learn more .

Organized by AIANY Diversity and Inclusion Committee, AIANY Global Dialogues Committee, and Rafael Viñoly Architects.

Questions? Contact [email protected].

One Harvard Alumni Panel: Design for Learning

Brought to you by the Harvard Alumni Association Directors for the Graduate School of Education and Graduate School of Design, this panel discussed learning spaces both in person, hybrid and virtual, along with the effects on educational outcomes and well-being, including the need for space (in all senses) to address neurodiversity and variety of learning styles.

This panel explored designing for learners at both the macro and micro levels with an engaging group of alumni practitioners.

Panelists: Erika Eitland (SD ’20), Eileen McGivney (PhD ’23), and Jeff Murphy (MArch ’86).

Moderators: Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar (EdM ’05, EdD ’13), and Jonathan Steele (EdM ’05).

If you would like to learn more about Harvard Alumni Day 2023 and view the full-day of programming, please visit the HAA website .

Questions? Contact [email protected].

Designing Sustainable Solutions for a Better Built Environment

Alumni were invited to join the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities on Wednesday, May 10, 2023, from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. EDT, for Designing Sustainable Solutions for a Better Built Environment. The event was held in 112 Stubbins, Gund Hall, at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Alumni were welcome to attend virtually or in person.

This event featured a keynote address by Harvard’s Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability James Stock, followed by short presentations by CGBC core and affiliated GSD faculty, whose research topics range from a carbon-free electrical grid to radiant cooling devices. A five-minute Q&A session followed each presentation.

Faculty speakers included:

Martin Bechthold (DDes ’01), Director of the Master in Design Engineering Program, Kumagai Professor of Architectural Technology

 Craig Douglas, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture

Jonathan Grinham (DDes ’17), Assistant Professor of Architecture

 Niall Kirkwood, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Technology, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Rosalea Monacella, Design Critic in Landscape Architecture

Erika Naginski (GSAJF ’00, RF ’04), Robert P. Hubbard Professor of Architectural History

Peter Rowe, Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor

Holly Samuelson (MDes ’09, DDes ’13), Associate Professor of Architecture

For more information about the event, please visit the Harvard CGBC website .

This event is part of Harvard Climate Action Week, which gathers climate leaders and experts in pursuit of durable, effective, and equitable solutions to the climate change challenges confronting humanity. Visit the Harvard Climate Action Week website for more information and additional ways to participate.

Please be aware that a photographer and videographer will be present at this event. By attending this event, you are giving permission for the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability and Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities to record and use your likeness for promotional purposes and inclusion on websites, social media, or any other purpose.

Questions? Contact [email protected].

 

Life After the GSD

Five recent GSD graduates walked attendees through their transition from education to full-time work. Sharing experiences of entering new work scenarios while pushing the boundaries to preserve intellectual rigor and artistic and discipline-specific knowledge.

Attendees learned about creating a work-life balance in new cities and outside of the halls of Gund.

Whether an idealist or a pragmatist, pondering the questions and challenges of life after the GSD together with peers is a gift of graduate studies to be preserved and continued.

Panel:
• Dylan Anslow (MLA ’20), Greenworks, Portland, OR
• Charuvi Begwani (MUP ’22), WSP, Washington D.C.
• Damian Bolden (MArch ’22), Machado Silvetti, Boston, MA
• Panharith Ean (MArch ’20), Slalom, New York, NY
• Whytne Stevens (MUP ’22), McAfee3 Architects, Atlanta, GA

Sponsored by the GSD Alumni Council’s Student Alumni Exchange Committee (SA/X), the Office of Career Services, and the Office of Development and Alumni Relations.

 

GSD Alumni Council Presents: Hire Ukrainian Designers

Hire Ukrainian Designers is a volunteer initiative that creates pathways to help Ukrainian design professionals—in the fields of architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, interior design, furniture design and visualization—find work opportunities with firms worldwide.

Co-founded by John Wagner (MArch ’19), the initiative springs from Wagner’s fellowship work at Harvard Graduate School of Design studying how design can be engaged in novel ways to aid the victims of forced migration.

The Hire Ukrainian Designers initiative is led by a team of US- and Ukraine-based architects who have volunteered to create remote work opportunities provided by firms at all scales—a critical and urgent lifeline for those whose livelihoods have been jeopardized by war.

Since March 2022, the initiative has successfully matched over 50 Ukrainian design professionals with US-based design firms.

Attendees engaged in a one-hour session, with an interactive Q&A led by volunteers and principals of practices large and small who participate in Hire Ukrainian Designers, to learn how their firms can hire a designer today!

To find out more, visit www.hireukrainiandesigners.org and check out their Instagram @hire_ukrainian_designers .

Questions? Contact [email protected].

GSD Virtual Town Hall: Designing for a Planet in Peril: How design is addressing climate change

The GSD Virtual Town Hall explored how Option Studios are investigating the relationship between climate change and the built environment on a global scale. Dean Sarah M. Whiting, Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture, led an informative Q&A on climate-conscious design.

Speakers Included:

Joel Holley (MArch ’24), Student

Hanif Kara, Professor in Practice of Architectural Technology

Nina-Marie Lister, Visiting Professor in Landscape Architecture

Farshid Moussavi (MArch ’91), Professor in Practice of Architecture

Chris Reed (AB ’91), Co-Director of the Master of Landscape Architecture in Urban Design Program, Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture

Pitchapa Setpakdee (MLA ’23), Student

Sarah M. Whiting, Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture

Designing for a Planet in Peril: How design is addressing climate change

The Harvard Club of The Republic of China presents…

Designing for a Planet in Peril: How design is addressing climate change

Discussion moderated by Calvin Tsao (FAIA, MArch ’79), Principal, Tsao & McKown Architects

Speakers: Dean Whiting and Sean C. S. Chiao (FAIA, MAUD ’88), Fellow, AECOM

This event had limited capacity. Registration fee was required.

Sarah M. Whiting has been Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture at the Harvard University  Graduate School of Design since 2019. She is also a design principal and co-founder of WW Architecture, based in Cambridge, and served as the Dean of Rice University’s School of Architecture from 2010 to 2019. Whiting received an interdisciplinary, self-directed Bachelor of Arts  degree from Yale , a Master of Architecture  from Princeton  in 1990, and a Doctor of Philosophy  in the History and Theory of Architecture from MIT in 2001. Whiting’s research and writing is broadly interdisciplinary, with the built environment at its core. An expert in architectural theory and urbanism, she has particular interests in modern and contemporary architecture’s relationship with politics, economics, and society and how the built environment shapes the nature of public life.

Sean Chiao (FAIA, MAUD ’88) is an AECOM Fellow, driving AECOM’s commitment to global strategic projects, key clients, technical excellence, and thought leadership across its five Global Business Lines. Prior to serving as a Fellow, Sean was the Chief Executive of the Buildings + Places Global Business Line, where he actively oversaw global business operations and the mobilization of AECOM’s international talent, comprising over ten thousand individuals working in architecture and interiors, urbanism and planning, building and systems engineering, and cost and project management. With over 30 years of experience in urban design and management, Sean has spearheaded award-winning masterplans for new towns and the regeneration of existing urban landscapes across Asia, including the Kuala Lumpur River of Life; Metro Manila Bonifacio Global City in the Philippines; and Jinji Lake Suzhou Industrial Park new town in Suzhou, China.

Sean is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA), a Global Trustee of the Urban Land Institute (ULI), a member of Asia Society’s Executive Committee, Council Member of Harvard University Graduate School of Design Dean’s Leadership Council and Board Member of Harvard University’s Master in Design Engineering External Advisory Board.

Calvin Tsao (FAIA, MArch ’79) is a recognized and leading voice in contemporary architecture whose work draws from a lively engagement with a variety of art forms. He serves on the Board of The American Academy in Rome, and is an active board member and President Emeritus of The Architectural League of New York. He is also former Vice President for Design Excellence of the AIA New York chapter, and served several years as member of the Visiting Committee to Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. In 2012 Tsao received a Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) Legacy Award and in 2009 the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Award for Interior Design, along with his partner Zack McKown. A Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, he has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Cooper Union, Syracuse University, and at Parsons The New School for Design, and has also served as guest critic and lectured at universities internationally.

Questions? Contact [email protected].

Today’s Global – Harvard Design Magazine 50: Sarah Whiting and Nicolai Ouroussoff

“Today’s Global – Harvard Design Magazine 50: Sarah Whiting and Nicolai Ouroussoff” hosted an hour-long discussion between educator and design critic Nicolai Ouroussoff and Sarah Whiting, Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design. The discussion explored topics of globalism and its ramifications for and influences on a broad spectrum of the design practices from landscape to urban planning. These topics were presented in Today’s Global, Harvard Design Magazines 50 for which Whiting was a guest editor and Ouroussoff was a contributor.

Speakers included:
Nicolai Ouroussoff, Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
Sarah Whiting, Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

This event was in person; COVID-19 vaccinations and face masks were strongly encouraged for all visitors.

Special thanks to our event partners Global Dialogues AIA NY, Harvard GSD Alumni Council, Harvard GSD Loeb Fellow Alumni Council, and Harvard Alumni Architectural and Urban Society

Questions? Please contact [email protected]. 

Druker Traveling Fellowship Presentations 2022

This fall’s Druker Traveling Fellowship Presentations, featured the 2017 and 2018 Druker Fellows, Marios Botis MAUD ’17, and Maxime Faure MAUD ’18. During this special presentation, Marios and Maxime shared findings from their research and travels on the Druker Traveling Fellowship.

Hosted by Rahul Mehrotra MAUD ’87, Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Director of the Master of Architecture in Urban Design Degree Program and Co-Director of the Master of Landscape Architecture in Urban Design Degree Program, John T. Dunlop Professor in Housing and Urbanization.

The presentations were followed by a panel discussion, led by Joan Busquets, Martin Bucksbaum Professor in Practice of Urban Planning and Design, and a wine and cheese reception.

Marios Botis MAUD ’17, “Elements of Logistics: Flows and Space in the Post Industrial City”

Marios Botis is an architect and urban designer. He holds a Diploma in Architecture Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, and a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD). He is also the 2017 recipient of the Druker Traveling Fellowship from Harvard GSD for his research on logistic operations and urbanism on a global scale, traveling in different areas of the world to document the coexistence of these operations with the contemporary city. He was the editor of the book “Chongqing: Searching for regularity as a transformative model in the design of the contemporary city’’ by Joan Busquets and Dingliang Yang, published by Harvard University-Graduate School of Design in 2018. As a member of the group for European students at Harvard, he actively contributed to the organization of the urbanism and green cities panel at the 2017 European Conference. He received a 2015 Metzelopoulos scholarship from the University of Patras, a 2015 scholarship from the Harvard Club of Greece, and a 2016 scholarship from the Gerondelis Foundation in the USA.

He has collaborated with different offices in Athens, Brussels, and Boston, where he participated both in competitions but also on private projects, from the stage of preliminary design to project management and site supervision.

Elements of Logistics: Flows and Space in the Post-Industrial City examines the spatial and urban implications of commercial logistics and how they reshape the patterns of urbanization in the post-industrial city. Through four case studies, the research will focus on how the physical footprint and operational systems of logistics affect the form, organization, and social life of the diverse geographic contexts where they are situated. Furthermore, the project is investigating how the agency of design and planning can contribute to the understanding of these important economic growth operations as they rapidly evolve around us while responding to the urban complexities, conflicts, and challenges they bring with them.

Maxime Faure MAUD ’18, “1960-2020 Sampling Urban Design: A Contemporary Portrait of Urban Design as a Globalized Practice”

Maxime is an architectural and urban designer based in Paris.

Born and raised in the South of France, he has been trained between his home country and the USA. He holds a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Master of Architecture from Paris’s Ecole Speciale d’Architecture, both of which he graduated with honors. At Harvard, he received the Druker Traveling Fellowship as well as the Arthur Sachs Scholarship.

His path led him to work across scales and geographies, in both professional and academic realms. Working at several renowned international practices, Maxime had the opportunity to be part of teams designing high-profile hospitality, mixed-use, and urban design projects in Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and North America.

Throughout his path, Maxime sought to develop a multidisciplinary and multi-scalar approach. With works ranging from furniture pieces to research-based urban design projects, he has paired attention to detail with an urban mindset.

1960-2020 Sampling Urban Design: A Contemporary Portrait of Urban Design as a Globalized Practice examines the legacy of urban design by bringing together urban design projects, models, and urban thoughts into a single research and travel project. In doing so, the investigation brings to the forefront the global relevance of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in shaping urban design frameworks across geographies, generations, scales, and institutions. The research seeks to portray urban design today and to question its role through the study of its academic goals and physical implementation.

This event was organized by the Development and Alumni Relations Department and the Department of Urban Planning and Design. 

Meet the 2023 Loeb Fellows

Event Description

Meet the Loeb Fellowship Class of 2023 , who will present their work and engage in moderated discussions. The 2023 Fellows are ten innovators who work across housing, public space, media, environmental sustainability, real estate development, gender equity, and other fields to advance positive social outcomes around the world.

This event is open to the public and can be attended in person and watched online via livestream. A livestream window will appear on this page at the time of the event.

Following the event, there will be an in-person reception at the GSD.