In the News
Hayley Eaves (PhD ’27) awarded Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship, 2026–2027
Hayley Eaves has been awarded a Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship for the 2026-2027 academic year. Traveling fellowships are awarded by the Committee on General Scholarships (CGS).
Sheldon Fellowships support research, study, and/or travel abroad. Hayley plans to travel in Italy, Germany, and Austria to support her research. Hayley’s dissertation examines the theatrical mutazione (rapid scene change) in the scenic arts of the Galli-Bibiena family as a critical technology in cultivating a modern visuality before the camera.
Phillip Denny (PhD ’25) and Olga Touloumi (PhD ’14) named recipients of Graham Foundation Awards
Phillip Denny (PhD ’25) is a winner of The Graham Foundation’s 2025 Grants to Individuals for his publication, What Else Could It Mean? Drawings and Writings by James Wines/SITE. The book comprises fifty years of work by James Wines—American artist, architect, and founder of SITE, an environmental arts organization chartered in New York City in 1970—on a wide range of topics including art, design, environment, and education.
Olga Touloumi (PhD ’14) has also won a 2025 grant for her publication, Building Worlds: A Feminist Biography of Postwar Architecture. Through a feminist biography of postwar architectural practice in the United States, this research follows the life and works of one of its workers, the Afro-French architect, adjunct professor, and crocheter Christine Benglia-Bevington (1936–2020).
Founded in 1956, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts fosters the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The Graham realizes this vision through making project-based grants to individuals and organizations and producing exhibitions, events, and publications.
Demetra Vogiatzaki (PhD ’23) to co-edit issue of Journal18, issue #22 ARCHIPELAGO in Fall 2026
Demetra Vogiatzaki (PhD ’23) is co-editing an upcoming issue of Journal18 with Catherine Doucette of University of Virginia.
This issue of Journal18 explores how archipelagic thinking informs the study of eighteenth-century art, architecture, and material culture. How might concepts of creolization, diaspora, and tidalectics, in the words of Kamau Brathwaite, reshape our understanding of artistic production and circulation? In the fragmentation of archival repositories, what can eighteenth-century objects and built environments made within archipelagic spaces reveal about the experiences of the people who lived there? How did eighteenth-century objects negotiate relationships between islands, oceans, and continents? How did artistic and architectural practices in the archipelago both reflect/reinforce and resist colonial power?
Yazmín M. Crespo Claudio (PhD ’24) and Samira Daneshvar (PhD ’26) among speakers at Symposium in Honor of Giuliana Bruno: With Keynotes by Isaac Julien and Emanuele Coccia
Recent graduate Yazmín M. Crespo Claudio spoke and current PhD student Samira Daneshvar moderated a panel at a symposium inspired by Giuliana Bruno’s career researching the intersections of the visual arts, architecture, film, and media. Bruno is the Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and a GSD Faculty Affiliate.
The symposium was held at Piper Auditorium in Gund Hall in November 2024. A recording has been made available to view on the GSD website.
This event was co-presented by the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard Graduate School of Design, and the Department of History of Art and Architecture.
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International Conference Takes a New View on Latin American Cities
This month, scholars from the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) gathered with researchers from across the Americas to explore how new approaches to visualizing Latin American cities can produce insights about the historical, geographic, social, and economic factors driving urban growth. The conference “Visualizing, Representing, and Interrogating Latin American Urbanism: Buenos Aires, São Paulo, […]
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Sameh Wahba: Expanding the Canvas of Sustainable Development
Harvard Graduate School of Design alumnus Sameh Wahba discusses his work on sustainable development with the World Bank.
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Harvard Graduate School of Design Community Makes a Strong Showing at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale
As spring emerges in Venice, Italy, so too does the 2025 Architecture Biennale, also known as the 19th International Architecture Exhibition, opening to the public on May 10. Curated by Italian architect/engineer Carlo Ratti and titled Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective., this prestigious event showcases design solutions to climatic adaptation, transcending disciplinary boundaries to address this […]
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Acts of Scaling
Please RSVP to receive reminders about the event. Cambridge Talks is an annual conference organized by students of the PhD Program in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and is generously supported by the GSD’s Advanced Studies programs. Cambridge Talks 2025: Acts of Scaling is organized by […]
Alumni Publications
Podcasts
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Future of the American City
New York Review of Architecture
Author and publisher Nicolas Kemper and architectural historian and critic Phillip Denny join Charles Waldheim to discuss their publication New York Review of Architecture. How to Listen You can listen to all available episodes on the Future of the American City website or subscribe to the series via one of the providers listed above. About the […]
Books
Articles
By Xiaoshi Wang (PhD ‘23), Xu Han, Ali Malkawi, Na Li
By Wei Zhang (PhD ‘21), Wentao Wu, Leslie Norford, Na Li, Ali Malkawi
“Unvanquished: Amin Alsaden on Iraq’s art under two decades of occupation”
By Amin Alsaden (PhD ’18)
By Sunghwan Lim (PhD ’27), Ali Malkawi, Leslie Norford
“Data-informed building energy management (DiBEM) towards ultra-low energy buildings”
By Jung Min Han, Sunghwan Lim (PhD ’27), Ali Malkawi, Xu Han, Elence Xinzhu Chen (DDes ’24), Shide Salimi, Tor Helge Dokka, Tine Hegli, Kristian Edwards
By Ali Malkawi, Stephen Ervin, Xu Han, Elence Xinzhu Chen, Sunghwan Lim (PhD ’27), Spyridon Ampanovos (DDes ’22), Peter Howard
“Constitutive outsides or hidden abodes? Totality and ideology in critical urban theory.”
By William Conroy (PhD ’26)