By Stefano Romagnoli, Master of Landscape Architecture Candidate, 2019 Infrastructures are an intrinsically human and cultural phenomenon, which have occurred for millennia to sustain civilizations of many scales and levels of technology. “Global Energy Landscapes” is an essay on the new capabilities and responsibilities of…
This exhibition of a selection of projects by Toru Mitani and his practice, Studio on Site, is about how small things have a significant, perceptual impact on diffuse landscapes. The title itself is an incitement to connect ideas that operate at vastly different scales. Fabric,…
Borders shape and consolidate relations between states, people, jurisdictions, political entities, and territories. While some borders are stable, others are in a constant flow. The demarcation of borders is a body politic. It regulates economic relations and people’s access to places, resources, and rights. Borders…
“Real Talk” collects photographic portraits and personal reflections of participants in the GSD’s second Black in Design Conference, entitled “Designing Resistance, Building Coalitions,” to reveal how their stories relate to identity, design, resistance, and coalition building. This exhibition is a part of a larger…
The city is an electrifying fray, a maddening web of cacophony that connects every one of us to every one of others. How can we find solace in a world that doesn’t stop? PULSUS is an ambient, interactive, and experimental installation, part of a collaborative…
Combining the talents of an architect, artist and developer, John Portman was able to embark on a series of large-scale building projects —megastructures—that radically redefined the relationship of architecture to the city and its citizens. Iwan Baan’s new photographs of Portman’s work, commissioned for the…
An elephant and its family at the Hathigaon Elephant Village near Jaipur, Rajasthan. Photo: Rahul Mehrotra As a point of entry and exit, a threshold has a dual coding in society as both a physical and symbolic marker of separation and connection. Thresholds are often…
In Youngjin Song’s (MDes ’17) “A Spoon,” viewers are invited to choreograph improvisational movements with the spoons presented in front of them; a spoon is animated by two people and vice versa, the two subjects are animated by the object. The project presents an attempt…
The two studio-based courses offered in the Harvard Undergraduate Architecture Studies Track—“Transformations” and “Connections”—explore architectural means and methods of design. Each begins from a different scale of inquiry, but converge at a similar end. The work exhibited here combines the output from the two…
“We the Publics…” is a provocation, a proclamation, and a call for participatory action “We the Publics…” is a reflexive search for clarity that offers a space for individual and collective reflection in a time of ever-increasing noise and distraction “We the Publics…” creates a…