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Harvard’s Graduate School of Design shortlists four architects for 2022 Wheelwright Prize
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The Queer Home: Combining architecture with movement-based practice to speculate on the future of housing
As early as the 1960s, movement artist Simone Forti began interrogating what dance is. In…
Designing for a New Wilderness
Two decades ago, the United Nations Convention on Biodiversity set a goal of designating 17…
The GSD’s Early Design Education Programs: An Interview with Megan Panzano
Megan Panzano In 2021, the Harvard Graduate School of Design invested in a…
A Call to Action: MICD Just City Mayoral Fellows discuss design interventions to address racial injustice in America
“Everything we do at the GSD,” Dean Sarah Whiting said, “is affected by or affects…
Designing With and Not Just For People with Atypical Bodies and Minds
We live in a world designed under a highly constrained idea of what is normal.
Climate Migration: Imagining adaptable infrastructures as Latin America prepares for an increase in environmental refugees
Infrastructure, in conventional imaginations, exists as a tool of permanence: bridges, roads, sidewalks, and utilities…
“Never demolish. Always transform, with and for the inhabitants”: Anne Lacaton delivers inaugural Jaqueline Tyrwhitt Urban Design Lecture
“Living well in the city,” the French architect Anne Lacaton declared, “is the most important…
Excerpt from Pairs Issue 02: “Labyrinth of Affinities” by Jorge Silvetti with Nicolás Delgado Álcega
Pairs is a student-led journal at the Harvard Graduate School of Design dedicated to conversations…
Moshe Safdie Remembers John Andrews (1933–2022)
John Andrews (center) with Landscape Architect Michael Hough (left) and Architect and Urban Planner…
Shaping Contemporary Indigenous Design: An interview with Sam Olbekson
Sam Olbekson is committed to improving the lives of Native Americans. An Indigenous architect with…
Announcements
2022 Graduating Student Award Recipients
Each year at commencement, the Harvard Graduate School of Design confers awards on graduating students…
Meet the GSD Class of 2022 Commencement Marshals
Each year, graduating students from the Harvard Graduate School of Design come together to nominate…
Harvard GSD announces Master in Real Estate degree
Gund Hall, Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Photo by Noritaka Minami. The Harvard Graduate…
Eve Blau among the newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Eve Blau Eve Blau, adjunct professor of the history and theory…
Inventing Greenland by Bert De Jonghe Examines the Urban Transformation of an Arctic Nation
A new book by doctor of design candidate Bert De Jonghe (MDes ’21),…
Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee among American Academy of Arts and Letters 2022 Architecture Award winners
Sharon Johnston, left, and Mark Lee, founders of the L.A. architectural firm Johnston Marklee.(Marcus Yam…
Coming Soon: Harvard Design Magazine #50: Today’s Global explores how globalism has shaped the built environment in the 21st century
Is globalization the most powerful single force shaping the built environment today? Guest edited by…
Zina Fraser (MLA ’23) named a 2022 Hart Howerton Fellow
Courtesy of Zina Fraser The global planning and design firm, Hart Howerton has named Zina…
Katarina Richter-Lunn (MDes ’21) awarded a 2022 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship
Courtesy of Katarina Richter-Lunn Harvard University Graduate School of Design DDes candidate Katarina Richter-Lunn (MDes…
Jeanne Gang, Special Commencement Ceremony Speaker for the Classes of 2020 and 2021
Jeanne Gang, Open House Lecture, 2018 Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design has named…