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Patient isolation hood (PIH) components being gathered outside Gund Hall for delivery

GSD participates in global, open-source effort to develop patient isolation hoods for Boston hospitals

Harvard University Graduate School of Design announces the rapid development of patient isolation hoods (PIH),…

May 12, 2020

2020 graduate Juan Reynoso bridges the worlds of public health and urban planning

Excerpted from a Harvard Gazette series of profiles showcasing some of…

May 12, 2020

Jenny Odell standing in a field

GSD names Jenny Odell the 2020 Class Day speaker

Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design has named Jenny Odell as its 2020 Class Day speaker.

May 11, 2020

Rifat Chadirji standing by a chair

Remembering Iraqi architect, photographer, author and activist Rifat Chadirji (1926-2020)

© Rifat Chadirji, from the Rifat Chadirji photographic archive “Rifat Chadirji was a Loeb Fellow…

May 11, 2020

Model photo of Bay State Commons Cohousing, using as a cover for Architect Magazine

March and April 2020 News Roundup

Bay State Commons Cohousing, a “typology-challenging 45,000-square-foot multifamily structure,” recently broke ground for…

May 8, 2020

Aerial view of Duanfen town in China

Can technology enable site-specific knowledge? A studio examining transformations in rural China tests the limits of remote ethnography

Last March, the option studio I led with…

May 7, 2020

Abstract image with bandaids

The Unstable Condition: What the pandemic can teach us about the need for more affordable rental housing

Photograph © Frederik Vercruysse America’s rental housing system is broken. For anyone living in high-cost,…

May 1, 2020

From 3D-printed face shields to strategies for a just recovery: How the Harvard Graduate School of Design community is contributing to COVID-19 response efforts

Amid the COVID-19 global pandemic, the Harvard Graduate School of Design community is working to…

Apr 30, 2020

Person sitting alone on a park bench

Resources for a just recovery from the GSD’s CoDesign Field Lab

The coronavirus outbreak has both revealed and exacerbated structural inequities in American cities. Challenges faced…

Apr 29, 2020

ABSTRACT GREEN PAINTING

Jeffrey Schnapp on the spatial logic of quarantine: “When the world is again unparked, will it know how to unplug?”

Homeless people sleep in a temporary parking lot shelter at Cashman Center, with spaces marked…

Apr 28, 2020