All Exhibitions

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The Midtown Beat

2016 Urban Land Institute Hines Competition Winning Submission The Midtown Beat is the 2016 Urban Land Institute Hines Student Competition Winner based in Atlanta, Georgia. The project draws from Atlanta’s rich cultural and economic history to ensure its continued place as the primary hub of…

exhibition dates: NOV 1 – DEC 23, 2016

Alex Krieger, Curator

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The Kid Gets Out of the Picture at the GSD

The vocabulary of early nineteenth-century picturesque landscape architecture is almost entirely alien to contemporary ears. Clumps, lumps, masses, groups, belts, hollows—these are a few of a vast catalog of objects that once belonged to design and have long since been absorbed into colloquial ubiquity. While…

exhibition dates: OCT 27 – DEC 23, 2016

Andrew Holder, Curator

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Responsive Topography Fluvial Landscapes

  The Responsive Environments and Artifacts Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Design conducts research that examines the potential of responsive technologies across a variety of scales. An area of research examining systems at the territorial scale, focuses on the manipulation of indeterminate land…

exhibition dates: OCT 27 – DEC 23, 2016

Bradley Cantrell, Curator

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New Issues for the Future of the City

Barcelona, Metropolis of Cities The Department of Urban Planning and Design is promoting a wide-ranging debate to highlight the extent to which twenty-first-century ecological, economic, and social issues are giving shape to new urban forms. Concerns for the environment, energy, sustainable mobility, and social equity…

exhibition dates: OCT 27 – DEC 18, 2016

Joan Busquets, Curator

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Inhabiting Java’s Volcanic

Jakarta epitomizes and defies the definition of a megacity. The capital of Southeast Asia’s largest economy and the world’s second most populated metropolitan area appears as an agglomeration of villages, stretched across the 21st century mutation of a colonial entrepot. Interconnected with he interior of…

exhibition dates: SEP 12 – NOV 15, 2016

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Happening Now: Historiography in the Making

If we were to accept that “history” is contingent upon the depth and breadth of one’s point of view, where would the writing of history begin? What would it aim for? What would be its evidence? How would the validity of its iconic examples…

exhibition dates: SEP 7 – OCT 17, 2016

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Towards a Critical Pragmatism: Contemporary Architecture in China

From the last decades of the twentieth century leading up to today, much attention has been paid to the expedient strategies that have driven construction activities in China. Distinct from the shortsighted operations, an experimental phase in Chinese architecture emerged in the early 1990s. Independent…

exhibition dates: AUG 24 – OCT 14, 2016

Xiangning Li, Curator

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Alpine Shelter, Skuta, Slovenia

Peak House is modular mountaineering shelter – a bivouac – constructed for a remote site in the Slovenian Alps.  Such shelters pepper the Alps across Europe, serving as much-needed outposts from harsh winds, snow conditions, and treacherous terrains. The project was an international collaboration between…

exhibition dates: APR 4 – AUG 21, 2016

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Commencement 2016

  Each year we celebrate the achievements of the GSD’s graduating class by gathering an exhibition of their work. Although it only provides a glimpse of what these amazing groups of students have created during their studies at Harvard, this exhibition nonetheless presents numerous exemplary…

exhibition dates: MAY 30 – AUG 15, 2016

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Light Hive

by Aziz Barbar (MDes ’16) & Akshay Goyal (MDes ’16) LIGHT HIVE is a continuous series of investigations that explore notions of form, space and shadows informed through experiments in computational design and materiality. These explorations employ light and surface as mediums in constant negotiation with…

exhibition dates: APR 22 – MAY 20, 2016