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Design for Real Estate: Contemporary Topics

cover of a book with a photograph of a building with balconies against a blue sky. Type on top in white says Timothy Love, Design for Real Estate Contemporary Topics

Design for Real Estate: Contemporary Topics is a Course Report from the Fall 2024 semester at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, based on the course “Design for Real Estate” taught by Professor Timothy Love. The publication features student-led research at the intersection of real estate development and design, exploring how financing strategies, regulatory frameworks, and spatial thinking converge to shape projects and the contemporary city.

For one of the assignments of Design for Real Estate, students were asked to organize themselves into groups of three or four and propose a topic they would like to research at the intersection of real estate development and design. The open-ended nature of the assignment gave students agency to suggest relevant topics and themes, important for a class that is being developed and refined within the larger context of the now two-year old Master in Real Estate program.

As much as feasible, students with different disciplinary backgrounds, which included finance, planning and design, were encouraged to work together so they could bring their individual perspectives to their chosen topic. The compendium of essays that resulted provides a fascinating snapshot of the preoccupations of students who are, in many cases for the first time, learning about the many ways that financing strategies, regulations, and design considerations intersect to shape individual projects and the contemporary city.

Series designed by Zak Jensen and Laura Grey

Report designed by Zeyad Almajed, Katerina Apostolopoulou, Brittany Arceneaux, Esteban Bolanos, Meredith Busch, Juan Sebastian Castaneda, Ming Hong Choi, Simon Colloredo-Mansfeld, Gordon Cooke, Edwina Dai, Maurice El Helou, Ariel Estwick, Cindy Fang, Jason Fong, Jesumiseun Gbotosho, Abby Glass, Antione Gray, Ryan Han, John Heaster, Joanna Ho, David Hogan, Jake Jones, Robert Kang, Nikhil Kapoor, Terry Kipp, Connor Kramer, Shanice Lam, Mitchell Lazerus, So Jung Lee, Elly Li, Harry Liner, Nathan Lowrey, Lily Ma, Sania Mulk, Raymond Narbi, Victor Ohene, Navya Raju, Sulaya Ranjit, Gerry Reyes Varela, Tal Richtman, Xander Ryman, Tatiana Schlesinger, Mohammad Shwiqi, Ryan Snow, Daisy Son, Amy Tomasso, Dylan Walker, Zihao Wang, Francis Wu, Hanxiao Wu, Ronny Xiong, Hongxin Yang, Emily Yuan, Rui Zhang.

Softcover, 236 pages, 17 x 24.5 cm

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