Exhibitions

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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…

exhibition dates: JUL 18, 2022 – APR 1, 2023

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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…

exhibition dates: MAR 27 – APR 20, 2023

By Peter Rowe
Rahul Mehrotra, Curator

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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,…

exhibition dates: MAR 27 – MAY 2, 2023

Past Exhibitions

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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…

exhibition dates: FEB 6 – MAR 12, 2023

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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…

exhibition dates: FEB 6 – MAR 12, 2023

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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…

exhibition dates: OCT 28 – DEC 22, 2022

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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…

exhibition dates: SEP 9 – OCT 14, 2022

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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…

exhibition dates: SEP 2 – OCT 14, 2022

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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…

exhibition dates: MAY 26 – JUL 22, 2022

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Stories We Should Tell

“Ubuntu = I am because you are.” – South African Proverb Do you remember the stories from your childhood? The ones about the people who came before you and paved your way. Stories from a time and place deeply etched in your memory or…

exhibition dates: APR 1 – APR 24, 2022

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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…

exhibition dates: OCT 21, 2021 – APR 8, 2022

Krzysztof Wodiczko
Dan Borelli, Curator

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GSD: A–Z 2020 & 2021

Harvard GSD has installed GSD: A–Z 2020 & 2021, the first exhibition on view inside of Gund Hall since campus buildings closed in March 2020. The exhibition welcomes back the Harvard…

exhibition dates: AUG 30 – OCT 1, 2021

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2021 Virtual Commencement Exhibition

Message from the Dean Each year, we celebrate the achievements of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design’s graduating class by organizing an exhibition of their work. In the space of this year’s virtual showcase, we can linger within the vast breadth of interests across…

exhibition dates: MAY 27 – AUG 1, 2021