March 19, 2012–May 17, 2012 Eric Howeler, Curator On March 11, 2011, an 8.9 magnitude earthquake off the eastern coast of Japan sent 40 foot high waves crashing into the coastal city of Miyako, overwhelming the tsunami barriers and damaging the Fukushima Nuclear…
March 26, 2012–April 16, 2012 Ricardo Solar Lezama, exhibition design Melissa Hurcomb, exhibition design Anne Lacaton, instructor The goal of the studio was to enable the city to provide an exceptional quality of life for its inhabitants. This includes a wide range…
The visualization of complex surface geometry common in contemporary architectural practice and pedagogy has a history prior to its appearance as a product of contemporary digital tools. The methods of geometric analysis developed in the nineteenth century by mathematicians such as Gaspard Monge (1746–1818) in…
Lightfall is not only an exhibition design and a presentation of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art’s new Amir Building. It is an architectural intervention in the Harvard Graduate School of Design that embodies the deeply interiorized concept of the Amir Building’s “Lightfall,” an 87-foot-tall…
August 22, 2011–December 22, 2011 Peter Christiansen, curator Anniversaries offer the opportunity to consider the past as an active interlocutor with the present and the future. For the GSD, this means foregrounding an array of agents—people, events, objects, and ideas—in a rich institutional history…
Artists have the capacity to move conversations out of the realm of the theoretical and into the domain of the hyper-real. A space where gestural moments are both poetic and pragmatic. The projects that I am working on in Chicago, St. Louis and in other…
The Harvard Graduate School of Design and Harvard Art Museums collaborated on an unprecedented three-part exhibition that addressed the converging domains of contemporary art and design practice. Entitled The Divine Comedy, the exhibition was comprised of major installations by…
Published by The Architectural Association, these works offer stimulating content and notable portfolio design. Image: Shin Takamatsu, The Killing Moon (Folio XII, 1988) Spring 2011 Library Special Collections Department…
An Architecture Without Precedents January 04, 2011–April 4, 2011 Iddo Ginat, curator Venice Biennale Exhibition Curators: Galia Bar Or, Yuval Yasky Original Design Concept: Dan Hasson Archival Conceptualization: Zvi Efrat, Yuval Yasky Archival Research: Adi Biran, Adi Levy-Trau, Iris Kashman, Nur Efrat Video Concept:…
What the private house was to architecture in the first half of the twentieth century, the temporary installation is today. Transient constructions, such as pavilions and exhibition designs, arguably represent the premier site for innovation and experimentation in our time. To UNStudio, these specific temporal…