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At a moment when “design” has become everything—and hence nothing—Harvard Design Magazine, no. 52, “Instruments…
At a moment when “design” has become everything—and hence nothing—Harvard Design Magazine, no. 52, “Instruments…
Democracy and Urban Form Richard Sennett with introduction by Moshe Safdie “Never have the…
Tunisian Nightscapes: Nocturnal Landscapes in the Medina of Tunis is a studio report from the…
WildWays 3.0: California Connectivity is a Studio Report from the Spring 2024 semester at the…
Nexus of Ecology, Education, and Design—A New School of Design on an Island at Yangtze…
Forgotten Fort Kongestein is a Studio Report from the Fall of 2023 based…
Revisiting Field Conditions is an Open Project report from the Spring 2023 semester…
Housing has become unaffordable and increasingly disconnected from contemporary lifestyles. Changing household compositions and habits…
Aqua Incognita I, II: Deciphering and Reimagining Liquidity in the Mexican Altiplano is a Studio…
Buildings and Urban Intelligence is a course report from the Fall 2023 semester at the…
A Rage in Harlem: June Jordan and Architecture Nikil Saval with introduction by…
Pairs is a journal of conversations edited by students at the Harvard…
Below, Above, and Beyond: Future of Antwerp’s Mobility and Public Space is a Studio Report…
Multihyphenation is a compound term referring to alternate modes of creative production: “Collab”…
Technology, Trust, & Governance is an Open Project Studio Report from the Spring…
Houston, Texas, has been called the “prophetic city.” It is a city that is reflective…
John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense Paul Walker With contributions by Mary Lou Lobsinger, Peter…
Pairs is a journal of conversations edited by students at the Harvard…
Boston’s subway system is the oldest in the United States and the second oldest…
Wild Ways: A Fifth Ecology for Metropolitan Los Angeles explores themes of connectivity,…
Once a necessary disturbance for landscape management and economic growth, fire has become an…
In A–Z: Harvard University Graduate School of Design, graduates from the Class of 2020 share…
In A–Z: Harvard University Graduate School of Design, graduates from the Class of 2021 share…
The hyperconnected world of the late 20th and early 21st centuries has revealed that effortless…
Harvard Design Magazine 49: Publics questions how public spaces—the physical, the cultural, and the theoretical—operate…
The second issue of Pairs is an opportunity to…
Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech Edited by K. Michael Hays and Andrew Holder Inscriptions: Architecture…
Edited by Seng Kuan Kazuo Shinohara (1925–2006) was one of the greatest and most influential…
Edited by Mojdeh Mahdavi and Liang Wang New Geographies 12: Commons seeks to open…
“A terrible mechanism [is] on the march, its gears multiplying.” So begins the first essay…
Pairs is a student-led journal at the Harvard GSD dedicated to…
On a promontory on the left bank of the lower Rhone River, just before it…
Inhabiting the Negative Space Jenny Odell with foreword by Sarah…
Design in a Frame of Emotion Hannah Beachler with Jacqueline Stewart and…
Edited by Jeffrey S. Nesbit and Guy Trangoš New Geographies 11: Extraterrestrial explores the…
Edited by Carrie Bly (MDes History and Philosophy of Design and Media ’19), Isabella Caterina…
The 47th issue of Harvard Design Magazine is a renewed call to…
Edited by Michael Chieffalo and Julia Smachylo New Geographies 10 borrows the term fallow as a…
The House: The Waken Desire critically examines the latent assumptions or incentives driving the contemporary…
Kayoko Ota and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design In 2016, the GSD…
Regenerative Empathy: Complex Assemblages in a Shared Environment explores the relationship between humans and…
By Andrew Witt and Eliza Pertigkiozoglou The second in the Studies in the…
Omishima, an island in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan, has forested mountains…
The Bengal Delta is defined by the fluidity and chemistry of land and…
This issue of Harvard Design Magazine is about the design of work and the work of design. “No Sweat” challenges designers…
Beyond the Collaboration Sterling Ruby and Raf Simons How do you tell the story…
By Andrew Witt and Christopher Reznich The first in the Studies in the…
Edited by Esther Mira Bang (MArch I ’18), Lane Raffaldini Rubin (MArch I, MLA I…
Manila’s extraordinary history—written, erased, and rewritten—has rendered a current condition that is one of extremes…
“Insert Complicated Title Here” Virgil Abloh with Oana Stanescu “What’s my DNA?” Virgil Abloh…
Frontier City documents a landscape architecture studio that envisioned a new urban landscape on…
To go “into the woods” is to enter both nightmare and wonderment, chaos…
Edited by Mariano Gomez Luque and Ghazal Jafari “Posthuman” signals a historical condition in which…
Design Thinking in the Digital Age Peter G. Rowe In 1987, Peter G. Rowe…
Platform is the Harvard University Graduate School of Design’s annual compendium of select student work,…
This design studio at Harvard University Graduate School of Design is the last of three…
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s capital, is an extraordinary city informed by multiple cultures. Largely comprised of…
It’s 2017. The millennium is in its teenage years—and it shows. The world is acting…
What is the status of the 20th-century metropolis? How do we rethink it (and retool…
Architectural Ethnography Atelier Bow-Wow with K. Michael Hays When Yoshi Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima…
Often considered utilitarian and unsightly, power plants and other industrial buildings seldom involve architects in…
Portman’s America & Other Speculations takes an unconventional and speculative approach towards the understanding…
This studio explores a material paradox that the discipline of architecture has constructed the idea…
The studio addresses the relationship between art and architecture. The students developed monographic museums dedicated…
This publication showcases designs and writings inspired by a vast aquatic territory in Argentina,…
Is democracy spatial? How are the physical aspects of our cities bearers of our values?…
In a manner similar to other megacities in Southeast Asia, Jakarta has witnessed unprecedented metropolitan…
The more stuff we accumulate, the more space we need to store it all. Vast portions…
The Generic Sublime: Organizational Models for Global Architecture recognizes the normative consistency across prevailing developmental forms…
Edited by Daniel Daou and Pablo Pérez-Ramos “Everything is connected to everything else” is the…
Platform is the Harvard University Graduate School of Design’s annual compendium of select student work,…
While climate change, sustainable architecture and green technologies have become increasingly topical issues, concerns regarding…
Marxist geographer David Harvey opened his lecture with a fact: between 2011 and 2013 China…
This design studio at Harvard University Graduate School of Design is the second of three…
This studio took stock of how Long Island is changing, and worked with community-based organizations…
Designed by Josef Paul Kleihues and completed in 1996, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago…
In biology, most load-bearing structures are fibrous systems. These natural composites share their fundamental characteristics…
What new forms for communal dwelling challenge the status quo in a growing city that…
The dazzling scale and mesmerizing speed of China’s development in the early 21st century have…
Like all animals, humans are programmed for survival. Fight or flight? Duck! Run for cover!…
Versailles is often considered the site of invention of the classical city. Strikingly, the shapes…
Edited by Ken Tadashi Oshima For more than half a century, visionary architect Kiyonori Kikutake…
Airports have never been more central to the life of cities, yet they remain peripheral…
Edited by Zaneta Hong Platform 8 catalogs a curated selection of work generated in the…
As family configurations evolve and atomize, and “exceptions” become the norm—divorced, blended, solo, cooperative, childless,…
Spatializing Politics is an anthology of emerging scholarship that treats built and imagined spaces as…
This design studio at Harvard University Graduate School of Design is the first of three sponsored…
Edited by Ali Fard and Taraneh Meshkani Digital information and data flows permeate every aspect of…
Within the global constellation of increasingly connected urban centers, shifts in cultural preferences, design thinking,…
Taiqian: The Countryside as a City is premised upon two fundamental ambitions: the recuperation of…
Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal are known for an architecture that privileges inhabitants’ freedom and…
Health, and the information around it, is messy. As are our bodies and the systems…
Habitation in Extreme Environments was a studio of the Department of Architecture at the Harvard…
On November 27, 2012, world-renowned pastry chef Pierre Hermé arrived at Harvard University from Paris.
Design and Politics was a studio of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at…
What is the function of style today? If the 1970s were defined by Postmodernism and…
Josep Lluís Sert (1902–1983) was the last president of CIAM (International Congresses of Modern Architecture)…
When considering the “nature” of architecture today, isn’t it problematic to simply define it as…
This book is the result of the studio, Territorialism, held in fall 2012 and fall…
Edited by Daniel Ibañez and Nikos Katsikis New Geographies 06: Grounding Metabolism aims to trace…
This volume documents a selection of activities and events at the Harvard Graduate School of…
This book is the result of the High-Rise, High-Density studio taught by Jonathan Sergison and…
Macau: Cross-Border City documents the second year of a three-year research and…
Networked Urbanism was a series of studios in the Urban Planning and Design Department at…
The ocean remains a glaring blind spot in the Western imagination. Catastrophic events remind us…
“Do You Read Me?” marks a new direction for Harvard Design Magazine—one that invites “reading”…
Projective Ecologies takes stock of contemporary ecological research and speculates on potential paths forward for design.
The Harvard Graduate School of Design prides itself on the wide scope of its global…
Common Frameworks: Rethinking the Developmental City in China documents the first year of a three-year research and…
This book examines the impact of development policies and politics on the physical environment of…
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the Persian Gulf city of Dubai has…
Edited by Antonio Petrov Most literature on the Mediterranean in relation to architecture and urbanism…
Edited by Moshen Mostafavi and Peter Christensen The creative imagination is not solely based on…
Architects and engineers both claim to be designers, though how they define design and the…
Edited by Jinhee Park and John Hong A remarkable synthesis of history, culture, and innovative design,…
The Harvard Graduate School of Design has always recognized the indispensable importance and values of…
What is it that gives places their individual qualities and defines the life of a…
Kenzō Tange (1913–2005) is a peerless figure among twentieth-century Japanese architects, unmatched in his talent,…
From Introduction: “…what is to become of a regional urban center that currently is too…
Edited by El Hadi Jazairy The first Apollo images of the Earth produced a perspective…
The fourth volume of a series, Platform 4 is more than a catalog of courses.
Deserts are becoming increasingly popular tourist destinations. However, the growth of this tourism niche raises…
Edited by Gareth Doherty Color is a ubiquitous yet essential part of the city, creating…
The restoration of the Cheonggyecheon River that runs through Seoul, Korea, in a mere twenty-nine…
Platform 3 considers the expanded boundaries of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. It…
Edited by Rania Ghosn Energy infrastructures deploy space at a large scale, yet they remain…
This book is about a stream called Cheonggyecheon that runs through the center of Seoul,…
Farshid Moussavi, edited with Michael Kubo, Garrick Ambrose, Ben Fortunato, Ryan R. Ludwig, Ahmadreza Schricker Following…
Edited by Neyran Turan and Stephen Ramos Design disciplines are challenged by the condition of…
Platform 02 provides a sampling of the most salient research and design explorations undertaken at…
Edited by Neyran Turan New Geographies…
The Ninth Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design The Harvard University Graduate School of…
The central theme of the Studio was to gauge the impact of new 21st-century infrastructures…
Edited by Joseph Disponzio Contemporary European Landscape Design is based on an exhibition and conference of…
Barcelona can be regarded as a prototype of a European Mediterranean city with a long…
From the Introduction: “The Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design has been awarded every…
The Seventh Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design: Adriaan Geuze, West 8 Urban Design &…
Farshid Moussavi, edited with Michael Kubo Architecture needs mechanisms that allow it to become connected to…
A collection of lecture introductions given by Jorge Silvetti during his tenure as Chair of…
The work collected in this book captures spaces and buildings, domains and landscapes, university and…
The favelas of Rio de Janeiro are shantytowns that lack even the most basic infrastructure…
In 1999, an international competition was held to select an urban park design for a…
Edited by: Jola Gola Publisher: Warszawa & Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 1995