From 10,000 metres below the sea, to 35,000 kilometers in orbit above the surface of the earth, the infrastructure that supports urban life has reached unimaginable extents below ground, in the water, and across outer space. Re-profiling the conventional contours of the cities we live and the spaces…
A group show on design in and for water, exploring the sensitivity and responsiveness to shifting environmental conditions brought on by living in water. This exhibition puts in dialogue photography from student research on floating informal settlements in Thailand, an architecture student’s reflections on living…
Recipients of the Eleventh Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design: Metro do Porto by Architect Eduardo Souto de Moura Acknowledging the transportation authority Metro do Porto Northeastern Urban Integration Project by the City of Medellín Acknowledging the government agency Empresa de Desarrollo…
August 16, 2013–October 4, 2013 James Leng, Prize winner 2103 The SOM Prize and Travel Fellowship are two annual awards that are administered as a single competition. The awards are given to students and recent graduates of Architecture, Design (including interior…
August 9, 2013–October 4, 2013 Ciro Najle, Curator Professor Ciro Najle Assistant Pablo Barría Urenda Georgios Athanasopoulos Men in Retreat Alessandro Boccacci La Ville Tropicale Elle Gerdeman Neon Sector Parsa Kamali Shukovoids Jielu Lu In-between Helix Héctor…
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 …
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…