Open House Lecture: Ann Forsyth, “What is a Healthy Place? Cities, Neighborhoods, and Homes”
Please join us for the Spring 2020 Open House Lecture delivered by…
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Elizabeth Hoover, “Seed Sovereignty and ‘Our Living Relatives’ in Native American Community Farming and Gardening”
Native heirloom seed varieties, many of which…
Sylvester Baxter Lecture: “Plants in the Design Imagination” with Ron Henderson, Julian Raxworthy, and Douglas Reed with Danielle Choi
Please join us for the Sylvester Baxter Lecture featuring a discussion by…
Frederick Law Olmsted Lecture: Günther Vogt, “The Imprint of the Landscape”
Please join us for the Frederick Law Olmsted Lecture delivered by landscape…
Daniel Urban Kiley Lecture: Michelle Delk
Michelle Delk is a passionate champion and designer of the urban public…
Kiley Fellow Lecture: Paola Sturla, “Designer: the last humanist?”
Is the designer the last humanist? In the age of data and…
Teresa Galí-Izard, “PRODUCTIVE RESURGENCES : the garden of the XXI century”
Please note that this event begins at 12:30 PM and not noon as…
Sacred Groves & Secret Parks: Orisha Landscapes in Brazil and West Africa
The Sacred Groves & Secret Parks colloquium and exhibition will bring together insights on the…
Sacred Groves & Secret Parks: Orisha Landscapes in Brazil and West Africa
The Sacred Groves & Secret Parks colloquium and exhibition will bring together insights on the…
Commencement 2019
Commencement for the academic year 2018-2019 will be held on Thursday, May 30, 2019. Commencement Day activities…
Romy Hecht, “The Green Ideal: Botanical Practices and the Creation of Santiago’s Civic Landscape”
Romy Hecht is a Professor at the School of Architecture, Pontificia Universidad…
POSTPONED “Beyond the Surface: Violence, Design, and History”
“Beyond the Surface: Violence, Design, and History” has been postponed until the 2019-2020 school year.
Kiley Fellow Lecture: Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich
Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich is a Lecturer of Landscape Architecture…
Kenneth Helphand, “Lawrence Halprin”
Kenneth I. Helphand FASLA is Philip H. Knight Professor…
Daniel Urban Kiley Lecture: Dilip Da Cunha, “The Invention of Rivers”
Separating land and water is not just an act of division; it…
“On Mountains” Panel Discussion and Exhibition Opening Reception
Michael Jakob is lead curator of the GSD’s Spring 2019 main exhibition Mountains and the…
Stanislaus Fung, “Recent Projects in Rural China”
Stanislaus Fung is a researcher in landscape architecture and architecture…
The Veronica Rudge Green Prize In Urban Design: The High Line
Please join us for two days of events in conjunction with the 2017…
The Veronica Rudge Green Prize In Urban Design: The High Line
Please join us for two days of events in conjunction with the 2017…
Thomas Woltz, “Threatened Landscapes: Designed Countermeasures of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects”
Public parks are a source of civic identity for the communities…
Elisa Silva, “Territorial inequality and the urban Cassandras of our times”
As slums emerged in the XX century due to rapid rural-urban migration,…
Frederick Law Olmsted Lecture: Michael Van Valkenburgh, “New Parks”
This lecture is summary of thirty years of park-making by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates with…
Marty Poirier, “The Creativity Continuum | How I learned about the place of art and design in culture”
Poirier will discuss the people and places that have shaped his sensibilities…
Carl M. Sapers Ethics in Practice Lecture: PRACTICE: Outside In | Inside Out
This symposium considers discourse on contemporary issues of design practice in…
Francesca Benedetto, “Names, Things, Cities: Divine Comedy”
Francesca Benedetto, Design Critic in Landscape Architecture, will speak about her exhibition Nomi, Cose,…
Stig L. Andersson, “After Nature”
We live in the Anthropocene Era where the world’s…
Harvard HouseZero Typology Symposium
The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) retrofitted its headquarters, a…
Alumni Insights Lecture: Experiments in Global Design Practice: The VERITAS Adventure
Join us for a GSD Alumni Insights…
The Camp and the City: Territories of Extraction
Please join editors, Jeannette Sordi, Luis Valenzuela, and Felipe Vera for a…
Frederick Law Olmsted Lecture: Aaron Sachs, “A Common Treasury for All”: Toward a Deeper History of Environmental Justice”
In recent years, environmental justice scholarship has exploded. But virtually every relevant…
Kiley Fellow Lecture: Danielle Choi
Danielle Choi is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the…
Ken Yeang, “Ecoarchitecture and Ecomasterplanning: The Work of Ken Yeang”
Please join us for a lecture by…
Michael Jakob, “Landscape Architecture and the ‘New Generic'”
Michael Jakob teaches History and Theory of Landscape at hepia, Geneva, and…
Daniel Urban Kiley Lecture: Toru Mitani
Is there any essential difference between the detail design of landscape architecture…
Sylvester Baxter Lecture: Teresa Moller, “A Moment of Silence”
The studio Teresa Moller y Asociados has been working in the world…
GSD Talks: Mia Lehrer, “Advocacy by Design”
As founder and president of Mia Lehrer + Associates (MLA), Mia Lehrer…
Kathryn Gustafson
Kathryn Gustafson brings more than thirty years of distinguished practice to her…
After Dark: Nocturnal Landscapes and Public Spaces in the Arabian Peninsula
In the Arabian Peninsula, public spaces are often most used after…
“Planting in the Public Realm: Projects and Projections,” with Steven Handel, Noel Kingsbury, Norbert Kühn, Doug Reed, and Matthew Urbanski
Plant life, long regarded in cities as an amenity, has throughout the…
GSD Talks: Exhibition Opening for “Designing Planes and Seams”
Curators Anita Berrizbeitia MLA ’87, professor of landscape architecture, chair of the…