LatinGSD and Women in Design: Female Voices of Latin American Architecture
In Latin America, a new generation of talented women designers is beginning to emerge. To…
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Club MEdiNA: Pascal Menoret, “Joyriding in Riyadh”
Pascal Menoret completed his Ph.D. in 2008 from the Department of History at the Université…
Carla Juaçaba, “Perceiving and Working”
Carla Juaçaba founded her independent studio in 2000, in Rio de Janeiro, following a period…
Caroline Shannon de Cristo and Pedro Henrique de Cristo, “Architectures of Urban Integration in Latin America”
This talk marks the opening of the exhibition, curated by Caroline Shannon de Cristo and…
SpainGSD: Daniel Fraile, “From Virtual to Real: Architectural Practice in African Contexts”
This lecture explores the dynamics of contemporary practice in African contexts. Derived by the consecuences…
Working GSD and Women in Design: “HOW? Lecture II: Sanda Iliescu in Conversation with Grace La and Jay Wickerhsam”
Sanda Iliescu of UVA co-presented by WorkingGSD and Women in Design. Sanda will be speaking…
Florian Idenburg, “To Be Determined”
Florian Idenburg, associate professor of practice, will discuss the work of SO – IL, the…
Barry Bergdoll, “Learning from the Americas: Gropius and Breuer in the New World”
Barry Bergdoll will present a short lecture on Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, arguing that the Bauhaus…
Spain GSD Lecture: Studio Banana
Architects by education, entrepreneurs by miseducation, creative mavericks by definition. Key Kawamura (AA Dip) and…
Climate Week: Kairos Shen, “Building and Planning For Climate Change”
Kairos Shen is the Director of Planning at the Boston Redevelopment Authority. He has served…
Informing Justice: A Conversation about the Role of Design in Building Equitable Communities
In the wake of events in Ferguson, Staten Island, and around the country, three organizations…
Gallery Talk: “Books that Built Democracy; Public Patronage, Civic Significance, and Regional Identity in 1980s Valencian Architecture”
A tour of the exhibition, “Books that Built Democracy” will be led by curator Manuel…
SpainGSD and GSD Ecological Thinking: Miriam García García, “Coastal Resilience, Sustainable Development of the Spanish Atlantic Coast”
The Coastal Management Plan of Galicia is a landmark project in the Spanish context. It…
Hiroki Ohara: “Ikebana” by the Headmaster of the Ohara School of Ikebana
Ikebana (, Japanese flower arranging) developed in the 16th century as a medium of refined artistic expression. As…
Project Delivery Lecture: Stephen Kieran, “Rethinking Refabricating Architecture”
Stephen Kieran, FAIA, FAAR, LEED AP BC+D is a founding principal of Kieran Timberlake LLP,…
GSD Talks: Cambridge Talks IX: “Inscriptions of Power; Spaces, Institutions, and Crisis”
Over two days, fostering dialogue between social scientists and spatial thinkers, an interdisciplinary gathering of…
GSD Talks: Cambridge Talks IX: “Inscriptions of Power; Spaces, Institutions, and Crisis”
Over two days, fostering dialogue between social scientists and spatial thinkers, an interdisciplinary gathering of…
Cambridge Talks IX Keynote by Reinhold Martin, “Infrastructure, Media, and Power-Knowledge: The Research University”
Reinhold Martin, author of The Organizational Complex (MIT Press, 2003), will present the keynote lecture for…
AsiaGSD: Dixon Junliang Lu, MAD Architects
Founded by Chinese architect Ma Yansong in 2004, MAD Architects is a global architecture firm…
AsiaGSD: Dixon Junliang Lu, MAD Architects
Founded by Chinese architect Ma Yansong in 2004, MAD Architects is a global architecture firm…
Druker Presentation: Form and Pedagogy: The Design of the University City in Latin America
Carlos Garciavelez, 2012 Druker Fellow, will present his research in a talk entitled, Form and…
Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, “Freedom of Use”
The lecture by Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal of Lacaton Vassal (Paris) will illustrate a…
Sonja Dümpelmann and John Beardsley, “Women and Modernity in Landscape Architecture”
Charles Waldheim will talk with Sonja Dümpelmann and John Beardsley, the editors of “Women, Modernity, and Landscape Architecture”…
UPD Lecture: The Resilience Dividend: Judith Rodin in conversation with Jerold S. Kayden
Judith Rodin is president of The Rockefeller Foundation, one of the world’s leading philanthropic organizations,…
South America Project: Jean Pierre Crousse in conversation with Felipe Correa
In a talk titled “Architecture Matters,” Jean Pierre Crousse, a principal of Barclay and Crousse (Lima),…
South America Project: Jean Pierre Crousse in conversation with Felipe Correa
In a talk titled “Architecture Matters,” Jean Pierre Crousse, a principal of Barclay and Crousse (Lima),…
HAPI Webinar series: Gary Adamkiewicz, “Creating Evidence-based Healthy and Energy-Efficient Housing”
This webinar, presented by Harvard School of Public Health professor, Dr. Gary Adamkiewicz, will present…
Pei Zhu, “Kong – Inspiration from Nature and Tradition”
The design process in recent projects by Pei Zhu, of Studio Pei-Zhu (Beijing) has been…
Cancún Practicum Presents: “Cancún: All Exclusive Urbanism”
In January 2015, a team of 10 students from Harvard GSD in the MDes, MUP…
HAPI Webinar Series: Jack Spengler and Linda Tomasso, “Urbanization and the Changing Landscape: Land Use Changes and Carbon Budgets in China”
Presented by Dr. Jack Spengler and Linda Tomasso, Project Associate, both at the Harvard School…
Spain GSD Lecture: Montse Zamorano, “Branding in Architecture”
In the constantly and rapidly changing panorama of the architecture profession, it is our responsibility…
Project Delivery Lecture: Phil Bernstein, “Alternate Design Values”
Phil Bernstein, FAIA, Vice President at Autodesk where he is responsible for the company’s future…
Lola Sheppard and Mason White, “Undisciplined”
Every act of architecture is simultaneously a declaration and realignment of its disciplinarity. Architecture’s recent…
Practice Beginning
Practice and rehearsal go hand in hand, yet formats to rehearse means and methods…
HAPI Webinar Series: Jack Spengler and Jianxiang Huang, “Assessing Human Comfort in Urban Public Places in China”
Content research is focused on the modeling and measurement of thermal comfort in public places.
Innovate: Daniel Lopez-Perez and Hanif Kara, “R. Buckminster Fuller, Pattern Thinking”
In celebration of R. Buckminster Fuller’s 120th anniversary (1895-2015), “Pattern Thinking” explores the relationship between artifacts…
Paul Andreu, “Airports in the Last Fifty Years,” in conversation with Alastair Gordon
Airport designer Paul Andreu of Paul Andreu Architecte (Paris) will present his work on airports…
Innovate: David Assael and David Basulto, founders of ArchDaily
Join David Assael and David Basulto, founders of the architecture publication, ArchDaily, in a talk cosponsored by…
Symposium on Architecture: “Design Techniques II,” with Momoyo Kaijima, Tom Emerson, Kersten Geers, Florian Idenburg, Silvia Benedito, and Antoine Picon; moderated by Enrique Walker
In a discipline reformulating the role of the architect, the question of technique has acquired…
Spela Videcnik, “Housing in Extreme Environments: Alpine Shelter”
The extreme climatic conditions of the North introduce a design paradox for architects. The fragile…