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FOREST FUTURES
FOREST FUTURES explores the intertwined history of forests and humanity, critically examining the past and the present to emphasize our profound connection with these vital habitats. A glance at the ungraspable timeline of forest evolution, 350 million years, reveals an alarming fact: a millennium of human activity—a blink of an eye in geological…
Our Artificial Nature: Design Research for an Era of Environmental Change
Our Artificial Nature daylights the cultural, social, and technological processes emerging within design discourse in response to the environmental imperatives of our time. The in-progress research of the Center of Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) core and affiliated research faculty at the GSD provides a…
Multihyphenation
Multihyphenation is a compound term referring to alternate modes of creative production: “Collab” culture; “brand X brand” projects; and multiple, or even opaque styles of attribution and ownership among the individuals, studios, and practices that engage in such work. For them, the “body of work”…
Commencement Exhibition 2023
This begets that. This is a group of students who have spent years together at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD). That is the world out there. This is the always changing route that our students have taken to get here. That is the compass that each of them will set on their way forward. This is the…
John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense
John Andrews (MArch ’58) was the architect of a remarkable series of buildings, from Scarborough College in Toronto’s outer suburbs in 1965 to the Intelsat Headquarters in Washington, DC, in 1988. In between came a bright and prolific career, with buildings completed across Canada, the…
Unprecedented Realism: Selections from the Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti Collection
On the occasion of Jorge Silvetti’s retirement from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and the Frances Loeb Library’s acquisition of the Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti Collection, Unprecedented Realism presents a series of narratives that reflect the evolution of the Machado and Silvetti…
2022 Commencement Exhibition
On view in the Druker Design Gallery and the Frances Loeb Library is a selection of thesis and independent final projects completed by this year’s graduates, as well as exceptional work by graduating students who have earned awards given out annually by the school. I…
Interrogative Design: Selected Works of Krzysztof Wodiczko
Materials for this exhibit provided by the artist, with unique edits specially produced for this project by GSD Exhibitions. Spanning five decades, the artistic practice of Krzysztof Wodiczko has interrogated a variety of social conditions across cultures, through artistic interventions that deploy creative…