Max Bond: Practice, Education and Activism celebrates the life and work of architect Max Bond (MArch ’48), one of the GSDs first African-American alumni, who forged his way through the barriers of discrimination to become a leading architect and educator. …
The Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) presents the first mono-graphic exhibition on Kenzo Tange in the United States: Utopia Across Scales: Highlights from the Kenzo Tange Archive. It is the first comprehensive exhibition on Tange anywhere in the world in more than twenty years.
April 28, 2009–June 05, 2009 Lars Mueller, curator, publisher and designer Mary Daniels, organizer The historical perspective is encouraging. Ever since Vitruvius, important architects have been aware of the necessity to convey the theoretical superstructure of their creative activities in an independent…
A selection of materials acquired by the Special Collections Department within the past academic year. The items displayed indicate the breadth and variety of a year’s acquisition: by purchase, transfer or gift. Images Broadcasting House. London : BBC, 1932 Mendelsohn, Erich, 1887-1953. Neues…
04/28/2009–05/25/2009 Lars Muller, curator…
The contemporary urban environment is facilitated by ecologies that exceed the city’s physical and political limits, reaching into hinterlands and beyond. Urbanism is also made up of many smaller pieces—a mosaic, as Richard T.T. Forman describes urban as well as rural landscapes—between which the boundaries…
This exhibition includes printed books, plans, photographs and manuscripts from the Special Collections. Included are photographs of mediaeval Spanish fortresses from the H.H. Richardson Collection, materials from the Norman T. Newton Collection related to the work of the Allied Subcommission on Monuments in Italy in…
Peter Rose’s exhibit used video, line drawings, renderings, and physical models to show how concrete is placed in the landscape to shape building spaces while also capturing and focusing energies essential to each of three very different sites. Used for its robust material qualities and…
Establishing links between otherwise disparate cultural, intellectual, and technological categories has long been the job of the architect. An arbiter of aesthetic connection, who else can create a bond between the Parthenon and a sportscar, bricks and B movies, octogenarians and the color orange? This…
Lluis Ortega, curator …