Eve Blau (adjunct professor of the history of urban form) Julie Buckler (professor of Slavic literature) delivered keynote addresses, at the International Conference on HistoriCity: Urban Space and Changing Historical Culture in Moscow last month.
HUD has announced 6 winning design proposals in the Rebuild by Design competition to increase climate resiliency in NY and NJ coastal communities. One of the winning teams is led by Interboro, founded by Dan D’Oca (design critic in urban planning and design and MUP ‘02), Tobias Armborst, (MAUD '02) and Georgeen Theodore (MAUD '02), and includes Reese Fayde (LF ‘79) of RFA Investors.
Despite stiff competition, Christina Geros (MAUD, MLA '15) has emerged as the winner in the Radcliffe Public Art Competition with “Latent (e)Scapes,” an interactive installation now in Radcliffe Yard.
Natalia Gaerlan (MUP '14) can run 100 meters in 11.84 seconds, design a public park, identify the native plants of North America, chat in Ukrainian, pole vault, bake a cake that looks like a watering can, recite plot lines from both "Downton Abbey" and "The Walking Dead," and win $20,000 on the game show "Wheel of Fortune.” Want to know more? Read her Harvard Gazette profile “Learning from nature, native peoples.”
The work of the Urban Theory Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Design was recently profiled in Epicenter, the web newsletter of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
Chris Bennett's (MDes '15) video animation on the extended urbanization of the atmosphere was featured in The Atlantic's CityLab.
Ashley Mendelsohn (MDesS '14) and Craig Reschke (MLA '15), along with Ann Lui, Larisa Ovalles and Ben Widger are one of the 10 winning teams of the WorldWide Storefront competition for art & architecture. They will present their project, the Spectacle Syndicate, an itinerant event venue located on the back of a traveling truck, in the fall.
Harvard GSD students collaborate with Biennale curator Rem Koolhaas on central exhibition; faculty and alumni on exhibit; launch of redesigned Harvard Design Magazine
Martin Bechthold (professor of architectural technology, co-director of the DDes Program and director of the GSD Technology Platform) and a group of GSD students joined hundreds of artists, designers, fabricators and industry leaders at Rob|Arch 2014, a biannual conference created by the Association for Robots in Architecture.
Dean Mohsen Mostafavi of the Graduate School of Design and Dean Cherry Murray of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences announced the winner of the Deans' Design Challenge during Demo Day at the Harvard Innovation Lab.