This course focuses on the integration of the composites industry with the construction industry and contemporary architectural practice, pursuing the advancement of knowledge, research, and capabilities within the discipline. Through collaboration with material scientists, engineers, and fabricators in the composites industry, students create prototypes and…
May 30, 2013—August 2, 2013 This exhibition features an individual poster from each graduating student. They compose work that best represents their time at Harvard Graduate School of Design. Displayed along with each poster, postcard versions of their material are available for visitors to take.
This exhibition celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the design of Le Corbusier’s Carpenter Center, his only realized work in North America. In addition to establishing a new home for Harvard’s Center for Visual and Environmental Studies, the project laid bare the importance of the Graduate…
Peter Christensen (PhD ’14) curator Quotes by LeCorbusier from 1931 in reference to his development of the Polychrome Architecturale Related Exhibition VAC BOS: The Graduate School of Design and the Construction of Le Corbusier’s Carpenter Center …
A Network Campus for Milan | Harvard University – Graduate School of Design, 1st place February 2, 2013–May 17, 2013 Stefano Andreani, project leader Federico de Molfetta, project leader The importance of inner, urban voids is essential to the understanding of…
March 25, 2013–May 17, 2013 Mariana Ibañez, Curator Developed as a working curation of the environment of the Graduate School of Design, the Platform 5 book and exhibition have been designed to present various lenses through which to view the School in the…
We are pleased to present the second exhibition in Van Alen’s series River City: Waterfront Design for Civic Life. Exploring the reinvention of a once-buried urban waterway, Deconstruction/Construction: The Cheonggyecheon River Project in Seoul examines this complex work of Korean infrastructure as a case study…
February 11, 2013–March 24, 2013 Carlos Garciavelez, Prize Winner Of the twentieth-century large-scale urban interventions inscribed into the Latin American city, the university campus is the most salient symbol of progress. Throughout the twentieth century, the academy became an epicenter of architectural and urban…
This exhibition features a range of projects by Christian Kerez (Architect, Zürich). From residential housing to corporate headquarters to a museum, set in Swiss suburbs and in Warsaw, São Paulo, and Zhengzhou, these projects are conceptually different. But they are made of common architectural elements,…
January 21, 2013–February 24, 2013 Chuck Hoberman, Curator Nathan King, Co-curator Architects have long imagined a built environment that is fundamentally dynamic. Portable buildings, retractable coverings, kinetic facades, and spaces that morph: these transformable structures have become part of the lexicon of architectural possibilities.