In calling out the AIA for bypassing Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi for the 2015 Gold Prize, Alexandra Lange (LF ’14) highlights larger problems in the field of architecture symbolized by its preeminent professional organization. Read more in the LOEBlog.
Armando Carbonell (LF ’93) was one of 34 new Fellows recently elected to the National Academy of Academics, Learned Societies and Practitioners in the Social Sciences in the United Kingdom. Carbonell was cited as a leader for his international research in land use and taxation.
In conjunction with Yale University Press, the Harvard Graduate School of Design announces the forthcoming release of The Writings of Josep Lluís Sert, edited by Eric Mumford and with a foreword by Dean Mohsen Mostafavi.
Carlos Garciavelez (MAUD '12), recipient of the 2012 Druker Traveling Fellowship and lecturer in urban planning and design, culminated his research with the release of a book titled Form and Pedagogy: The Design of the University City in Latin America (ARD 2014).
In Dallas, a real estate developer and his colleagues are grappling with the perplexing question of how to revitalize a sprawling, vacant industrial complex. On December 16th, students in Professor Richard Peiser’s Field Studies in Real Estate course at the Harvard Graduate School of Design offered these professionals support by presenting a number of innovative ideas for the site.
Jennifer Cooper (MLA’10) received the 2014 Bradford Williams Medal for her article, “The Art of Taking Apart,” which appeared in the March 2013 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine (LAM).
A musical composition by urban planning and design professor Jerold Kayden was featured at the opening of the Harvard Art Museums on November 16.
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Submissions are now being accepted for the 2015 Wheelwright Prize. The open international competition awards $100,000 to a talented early-career architect to support travel-based research.
Collette Creppell AB '82 MArch '90, Kevin Harris MAUD '80, and Sabeen Hasan MArch '09 hosted an alumni reception to welcome the Loeb Fellows to New Orleans while Mark Johnson MLAUD '82 welcomed GSD alumni in Denver during the ASLA Annual Meeting.