Student Q&A: My Tam Nguyen (MUP ’15)
Hometown: Seattle, WA Undergraduate school/major University of Washington, Journalism Major and International Studies Minor…
Hometown: Seattle, WA Undergraduate school/major University of Washington, Journalism Major and International Studies Minor…
Maurice Cox, Detroit’s new planning director, views the city through the lens of opportunity. While others can’t see beyond acres of abandoned land, he sees the walkable streets and neighborhood density that foster community and plenty of parks, gardens and local enterprise. He also sees the resilient spirit that can make it all happen. Read “Detroit’s new planning director: Dream Big” and view a video interview with Maurice Cox.
Latest issue of Log magazine features range of GSD contributors
Nader Tehrani (MAUD ’91) has been appointed dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.
Cynthia Davidson (LF ’89) has been selected by the State Department as co-curator of the United States Pavilion exhibition in the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, along with Monica Ponce de Leon, dean of Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. Read more at the LOEBlog.
Diane Davis’s appointment as Chair of the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Department of Urban Planning and Design made news this week.
Erin Kelly (MLA '12) and project “The Buzz" has been named one of 32 winners in the Knight Foundation’s first-annual Knight Cities Challenge and was spotlighted this week by Smithsonian magazine.
The Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Kate Kennen (MLA ’05) and Niall Kirkwood recently coauthored Phyto: Principles and Resources for Site Remediation and Landscape Design, published in May by Routledge.
Harvard Graduate School of Design students are spending the summer developing their skills beyond studio walls—and giving back to local and global communities—through the GSD’s Community Service Fellowship Program (CSFP).
Virginia Keesler and Jon Springfield (both MUP ‘15) have been selected for the inaugural class of the Kuehn Fellows Program, a new initiative of the Kuehn Charitable Foundation.