Contrary to the recent assertion in The Atlantic City Lab–that there’s no syllabus for an urban design course on race and justice–there is at least one: Toni Griffin (LF ’98) created it and teaches it at the CCNY J.Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City. She writes about it in Next City.
Eve Blau, adjunct professor of the history of urban form, was recently awarded the Victor Adler State Prize from the Austrian Ministry of Science, Research, and Economy, in Vienna.
GSD alumna Monica Ponce de Leon (MAUD ’91) has been selected as the next dean of Princeton University’s School of Architecture. Her appointment is effective January 1, 2016.
Four members of the GSD community are among this year's recipients of individual grants from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
GSD awards 324 degrees during Harvard’s 364th Commencement.
Rick Lowe—public-art pioneer, 2002 Loeb Fellow, 2014 MacArthur Fellow, and founder of Houston-based initiative Project Row Houses—addressed the Class of 2015 and their families at the GSD's Class Day on Wednesday, May 27.
Héctor Tarrido-Picart (MLA/MAUD ’15) is among the students from around the university whom the Harvard Gazette is spotlighting as part of its Commencement 2015 coverage.
John “Tad” Read (MDes ’04), a senior planner with the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA), has been appointed the BRA’s acting director of planning.
The Urban Land Institute (ULI) awarded its 2015 ULI Apgar Urban Land Award to Dan Malone (MDes ’14) and Richard Peiser, Michael D. Spear Professor of Real Estate Development at the GSD, for their article “The Making of Miami Beach’s Mixed-Use Garage” on the famed 1111 Lincoln Road parking garage project.
April’s InFORMing Justice: A Conversation about the Role of Design in Building Equitable Communities event was the subject of a recent Al Jazeera America article.