DDes Faculty

Many GSD faculty serve as thesis advisors for students in the Doctor of Design program. The listing below includes faculty available to serve as primary advisors for DDes students, loosely structured according to typical faculty research interests. Primary advisors are typically senior faculty that guide students during the entire program length. They chair the thesis committees that form in the second year of the program. Thesis committees normally include three individuals, of which two need to have an appointment at the GSD. For a listing of all full-time and part-time faculty eligible to serve on a DDes thesis committee, please consult the GSD faculty directory.

Urbanism and Landscape

Anita Berrizbeitia, Professor of Landscape Architecture, Interim Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture
Mohsen Mostafavi, Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design and Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
Charles Waldheim, John E. Irving Professor of Landscape Architecture

Planning and Real Estate

Diane Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism
Jerold S. Kayden, Founding Director, Master in Real Estate Program, Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design
Hannah Teicher, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning
Carole Voulgaris, Associate Professor of Urban Planning

Technology and Innovation

Martin Bechthold, Kumagai Professor of Architectural Technology, Academic Dean
Jonathan Grinham, Assistant Professor of Architecture
Ali Malkawi, Professor of Architectural Technology, Director of the Doctor of Design Studies Program, and Founding Director of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities

Criticism and Contemporary Spatial Practice

K. Michael Hays, Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory
John May, Associate Professor of Architecture
Rahul Mehrotra, John T. Dunlop Professor in Housing and Urbanization
Mohsen Mostafavi, Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design and Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
Erika Naginski, Robert P. Hubbard Professor of Architectural History
Antoine Picon, Director of Doctoral Programs, Director of the PhD Program, G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology