Fionn Byrne is the recipient of the 2015–2016 Daniel Urban Kiley Teaching Fellowship in Landscape Architecture and will join the GSD faculty for the 2015–2016 academic year as a lecturer in landscape architecture.
The GSD is pleased to announce the appointment of Diane Davis as Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design as of July 1, 2015. Davis is currently the Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism at the GSD.
The GSD is pleased to announce the appointment of Anita Berrizbeitia (MLA ’87) as Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture as of July 1, 2015.
Kathleen Hanley (BA ’16), a student in Harvard’s undergraduate architecture studies track, has received an award of academic excellence from the Danish Institute for Study Abroad (DIS) in Copenhagen.
Stephanie Hsia and Lara Mehling (both MLA ’15) have been announced as first-prize winners in the Keney Park Design Contest, a joint project of the City of Hartford and the Garden Club of Hartford.
On Tuesday, May 4, the Architectural League of New York presented its highest honor, the President’s Medal, to Henry N. Cobb (MArch ’49), founding partner of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners and former chair of the GSD’s Department of Architecture.
Within hours of April 25’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Nepal, Harvard Graduate School of Design students had initiated support and advocacy projects in GSD’s Gund Hall and began collaborating with students and faculty from within Harvard and beyond
GSD professor Jorge Silvetti contributed to and advised on the latest issue of ReVista magazine
Rosetta Elkin, assistant professor of landscape architecture, opens her new exhibition Live Matter on Tuesday, May 5, offering a meditation on plant life from the perspective that is the most concealed: through the roots
Artist Rick Lowe, a pioneer in public art and founder of Houston-based initiative Project Row Houses, will be the speaker at the GSD's 2015 Class Day on Wednesday, May 27.