Plot Zero: Sensing the Landscape to Map the Dynamic Atmospheric Environment of the Urban Fabric
Introduction Working at the nexus of the social, ecological, and technological in the built environment…
Faculty Research
Atlas for a City-Region: Imagining the Post-Brexit Landscapes of the Irish Northwest
Centered on the northwest of Ireland, this eighteen-month long research project investigates how a…
Future of Streets
The Future of Streets (FoS) research project at the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s City…
Urban Intermedia
“Urban Intermedia” argues that the complexity of contemporary urban societies and environments makes…
Global Design Initiative for Refugee Children
Global displacement has surpassed that witnessed in the wake of World War…
Future of the American City
The Future of the American City project is an urban study initiative…
Human-Building Interaction
Our research has highlighted the challenges of understanding, simulating, and designing for the complex interactions between…
Parametric Energy Simulation in Early Design
This project proposed a framework for the development of early-design guidance to inform architects and policy-makers using…
New Towns Initiative
New towns have been a dominant concept in urban planning throughout the 20th…
City Form Lab’s Grid Structures
The City Form Lab’s research on grid structures has developed a novel building technology…
Pneuma(tic) Bodies
Installation-Performance, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (CCVA), Cambridge, MA, 2016 Pneuma(tic) Bodies…
Phyto Garden
A New Paradise-Renewal of Damaged and Polluted City Land with the Power and Work of…
The State of the Nation’s Housing 2016
The national housing market has now regained enough momentum to provide an engine of growth…
The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion
Who gets to be where? The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion examines the policies, practices,…
Information Tool on Urban Water Systems
The Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure has developed the Information Tool on Urban Water…
The Project on South Florida and Sea Level
South Florida and Sea Level: Adaptive Strategies for Green Infrastructure, Landscape Ecology, and Cultural Heritage…
A Sustainable Future for Exuma: Environmental Management, Design, and Planning
This multi-year ecological planning project is a collaboration among the Government of The Bahamas, the…
Mexican Cities Initiative
The Mexican Cities Initiative (MCI) at the Harvard Graduate School of Design is an emerging…
Transforming Urban Transport—The Role of Political Leadership
Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design is hosting Transforming Urban Transport—The Role of Political Leadership,…
RESHIM: Rethinking Social Housing in Mexico
RESHIM is a multifaceted project focused on two central research components: 1) report on…
Health and Places Initiative
Who We Are This project has had two phases. The first phase of the Health and…
Harvard Mellon Initiative: Reconceptualizing the Urban
“Reconceptualizing the Urban” is the title of a four-year investigation of urban studies undertaken by…
Toward Buildings that Work: Reusing Design-Phase Energy Models for Operations-Phase Improvements
Too frequently today’s energy-efficient building designs fall far short of performance expectations. Yet, most building…
Real-World Energy Model Calibration
by Holly Samuelson This research evaluates the accuracy of 18 design-phase building energy models…
Terracotta Bricks
Unfamiliar with many of the properties and methods of working with ceramics—armed only with a…
Horizon House
First Prize Winner of the 3rd LIXIL International University Architectural Competition Designed by…
Priority Setting Amid the Rubble: Organizational Responses to Post-Disaster Reconstruction in Haiti
Since 2012, this project has been investigating how development organizations establish, and act on, priorities…
Urban India Atlas
The Urban India Atlas project is a long-term critical assessment of emergent patterns of urban…
Urban Theory Lab
In the early 1970s, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization…
Kumbh Mela
The Kumbh Mela is a Hindu religious festival that occurs every twelve years at the…
Korean and East Asian Urban Research Program
Research focuses on urban settlement dynamics in evolving natural and regional contexts of Korea, China…
Urban Resilience in Situations of Chronic Conflict
The sources and forms of social and political violence have been extensively examined, but the…
MudWorks
MudWorks is a design-build installation and exhibition demonstrating the potential of building with raw earth.
Assessing the relationship between urban design and urban climate in selected Bronx neighborhoods
Research assessing the relationship between urban design features and urban climate in densely populated neighborhoods…
Extreme Urbanism I: Reimagining Mumbai’s Back Bay
The Back Bay of Mumbai—underdeveloped, sandwiched between high rise office and residential blocks, historic buildings,…
South America Project
The South America Project (SAP) is a trans-continental applied research network that proactively endorses…
Designing Process: Creating long-term replicable community building solutions in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
The earthquake of January 12, 2010 turned the already critical shortage of housing in Haiti…
Digital Archaeology: Unearthing Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel, Part I
This project began from a simple idea: to explore how the latest generation of…
Digital Archaeology: Unearthing Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel, Part II
This project began from a simple idea: to explore how the latest generation of modeling…
Ceramic Futures
Martin Bechthold, Professor of Architectural Technology, and Christoph Reinhart, Associate Professor of Architectural Technology, with…
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