Professor of Architectural Technology and Founding Director of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities Ali Malkawi was recently interviewed by Architectural Record about the Center, how he sees "green buildings," and retrofitting a prewar house.
Encouraged by placing 1st Runner-up in the inaugural Dean's Design Challenge last May, Wendy Fok (DDes candidate) and her team have gone full steam ahead to bring their innovative Resilient Modular Systems to the world market.
MDes Professor of Art, Design, and the Public Domain Krzysztof Wodiczko’s “Homeless Projection: Place des Arts” will be on view at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal from October 8, 2014 to November 22, 2014.
The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) announced the recipients of the 2014 ASLA Professional and Student Awards, and several Harvard University Graduate School of Design students were among the honorees.
That architects, urban planners, landscape architects, lawyers, government officials, and many other professionals all make valuable contributions to solving systemic problems underlies the interest of many individuals in enrolling in a joint or concurrent degree program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
The Frances Loeb Library has recently renovated its lower level, changing what used to be stacks space into an open, focused workspace for PhD students.
As part of Storefront for Art and Architecture's "Host: Natural Histories for Los Angeles," which uses the Neutra VDL Research House in Los Angeles as a platform for exploring questions of provision, domesticity, and palimpsestic architecture, lecturer in Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Luis Callejas, presents the installation "Wet Horizons."
The Harvard Graduate School of Design is pleased to welcome Shohei Nakamura as the Pollman Fellow in Real Estate and Urban Development for the 2014-2015 academic year.
On the morning of Friday, September 18th, a group of Harvard Graduate School of Design Urban Planning and Design students blocked cars from using a parallel parking space on a busy Cambridge street by creating a temporary park within its lines. Potted plants, hammocks, couches, and a dozen people occupied the asphalt normally reserved for SUVs and sedans. This transformation of public space was part of PARK(ing) Day, a national event dedicated to raising awareness about the lack of open space in cities.
Jane Philbrick, artist and current student in the Harvard University Graduate School of Design's Critical Conservation program, was recently included in the Pratt Manhattan Gallery's group show, "Sleuthing the Mind."