Exhibitions

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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…

exhibition dates: AUG 19 – OCT 22, 2023

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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…

exhibition dates: SEP 1 – OCT 18, 2023

Dora Mugerwa and Kai Walcott, Curators
Cory Henry, Faculty Advisor

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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…

exhibition dates: SEP 1 – OCT 15, 2023

Irma Boom, Phillip Denny and Remment Koolhaas, Curators

Upcoming Exhibitions

Past Exhibitions

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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…

exhibition dates: MAY 23 – JUL 23, 2023

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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 – JUL 23, 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 – MAY 12, 2023

By Peter Rowe
Rahul Mehrotra, Curator

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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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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

Danielle Choi, Curator

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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