Student Activism: Women in Design
An online petition created by a GSD student group defending the rights of architectural pioneer Denise Scott Brown garnered a media maelstrom this spring.
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YOUNG ALUMNI CAST A WEB
Each spring, many GSD graduates leave campus and exchange the GSD’s creative, collaborative environment for the anonymity of the big city. Two recent graduates are re-building the supportive design network that made their GSD experience so rich by creating venues for networking and social opportunities in which alumni can come together.
GSD brains + Brooklyn Brawn = innovative lab
150 GSD students, alumni and friends gathered on a Brooklyn rooftop as the sun set over Manhattan in late July. GSD alumni hosted the cocktail reception at the New Lab, a Beta space facility in the Brooklyn Navy Yard that brings together design, prototyping and new manufacturing that incubates and encourages innovative work in a range of disciplines.
Erle Elliss long view of population growth
Erle Ellis just got to the GSD for his stint as visiting associate professor of landscape architecture and he’s already making a splash. In an opinion piece for the N.Y. Times, he challenges the conventional wisdom that human population growth is outstripping the earth’s ability to provide sustenance.
UPD students tour Boston
The UPD Department hosted its annual bus tour of Boston on September 7, led by Alex Krieger and Kathy Spiegelman, to introduce first year UPD students to the history of planning and development in the city.
Brian Vargo (MDes 15) named winner in San Francisco competition
Brian Vargo (MDes Real Estate '15) is named a winner in the ideas competition for the removal of Interstate 280 in San Francisco, CA.
Richard Peiser and David Hamilton publication receives Silver Award for best real estate book of the year
Richard Peiser and David Hamilton receive the Silver Award for best real estate book of the year by the National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE) for Professional Real Estate Development: The ULI Guide to the Business, 3rd Edition.
Scott Cohen in pursuit of excellence
Preston Scott Cohen (professor of architecture) will join other notable design figures selected to present 10 exemplary buildings of the last decade at a symposium September 21 at MoMA titled In Pursuit of Architecture.
Michael Ezban (MLA ’13) considers “Decoys, Dikes, and Lures” in Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes
Michael Ezban's (MLA ’13) article titled “Decoys, Dikes, and Lures: Polyfunctional Landscapes of Waterfowl Hunting” has been published in Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, the peer-reviewed journal edited by John Dixon Hunt.
Celebrating transformative urban design: the Veronica Rudge Green Prize
The 11th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design has been awarded to two projects in very different parts of the world: Porto, Portugal and Medellin, Colombia. The theme this year, Transformative Mobility, goes beyond physical movement to encompass social mobility and the reinvigoration of civic space. Today, as throughout its 27-year history, the Prize celebrates broad design interventions that repair and regenerate cities.
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