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Exhibitions
Aamha//قمحة: Uncovering Beirut’s Phantom Ecologies
The National Institutes of Health defines a phantom limb as the perception of pain or discomfort in a limb that is no longer there. This project explores the notion of phantom limbs in urban environments, investigating what has been forgotten, gone unseen, or been left…
Stories That Take Me Home
In conjunction with the Black in Design 2023 Conference, “The Black Home” Across languages and cultures, the notion of home resonates universally as a sanctuary, a refuge, and a testament to our deep connection with a specific place—a…
The Book in the Age of …
Since the invention of the codex in antiquity, to the emergence of today’s global publishing industry, transformations of the book are entangled with evolutions of modernity. Following the argument of Marshall McLuhan, Gutenberg’s movable-type printing press yielded not only a Bible, but also created a…
Upcoming Exhibitions
Plantation Futures: Foregrounding Lost Narratives
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Sixteen Student Stools
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Our Artificial Nature: Design Research for an Era of Environmental Change
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Past Exhibitions
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…
Upon Concrete: Retrofitting Architecture With Malleability
by Hangsoo Jeong (MArch ’22) — Recipient of the Peter Rice Prize Throughout history, architecture has evolved and advanced in parallel with the technical development of reinforcements. With the innovations of processing and shaping smelted metals and the development of reinforced concrete structural systems,…
Womxn In Design: Yeah, they were all Yellow: Asian Feminist Architectural Possibilities
This exhibition will showcase discursive and/or non-discursive inquiries around various Asian Feminist Architectural Possibilities. It majorly serves as a group working project of the Spring 2023 elective seminar HIS 4506 “Yeah, they were all Yellow: Asian Feminist Architectural Possibilities,” instructed by Ruo Jia at Harvard…
Research & Writing as Practice: Peter Rowe
Research & Writing as Practice: Peter Rowe, Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) This exhibition celebrates four decades of the academic oeuvre…
American Architecture (Model)
OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen American Architecture (Model) aspires to foreground the mythical cornerstone of American constitutional democracy-freedom of expression. Evoking the tradition of a soapbox or public square, the pavilion provides a dedicated space for communal discourse and debate. At a time when…
Reconfiguring the City through Radical Infrastructure: Grand Paris Express
The 14th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design The Grand Paris Express (GPE) is a transformative urban project of the 21st century that recalibrates the concept and practice of urban planning, with its scale and complexity far exceeding commonly held conceptions of the operative…
Robin Evans: Drawings for Thinking
Drawings played an important part in Robin Evans’s thinking about architectural history. For Evans, making drawings was a way to understand and unravel the relation between idea and form–between the concept of architecture and its implementation. Even in his earlier career as…
Archived Landscapes
“Environmental Histories, Archived Landscapes” is a seminar that investigates the relationships between design history and environmental history through archival research. Participants explore archives as evidence of material, spatial, ecological, and cultural change in constructed landscapes using measured drawings, diagrams, and visual analysis. Because archives seek…
Anny Li’s “The World was Their Garden,” Design Studies thesis prize
The World Was Their Garden: Plant Introductions at the US Department of Agriculture, 1898–1984 In 1898, the US Department of Agriculture established the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction (SPI) to systematically collect and introduce plants of economic interest to US soil. Employing a…
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…
Tar Creek: Toxic Legacies, Racism and Tribal Landscape Transformations
The studios in North-East Oklahoma explored toxic land regeneration, indigenous ecologies and their combined agency in advancing environmental and social equity for tribal nations. The study site is still the largest and most dangerous polluted landscape in the United States and home to tribal communities…
Eco-Folly
Exhibition Opening Event: Friday September 16, 4:30-6pm, Frances Loeb Library Our exhibition develops the folly as a typological springboard for coalescing formal creativity with sustainable imperatives. Whether at the scale of the structure, garden, or machine, the folly is a playful moniker in which the…