Work in Progress: Nhi Tran’s Hotel within the Shikumen Home
Nhi Tran (MArch '21) describes her final project for the option studio…
Topic China
Remembering Pei: Tracing the architect’s legacy to the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Ieoh Ming (I.M.) Pei died on May 16, 2019, at the age of 102. Over…
Dazibao
Dazibao (大字报; Chinese: “big character report”) proposes a selection of 360 student drawings spanning a decade of GSD option studios taught by George L. Legendre. Themes include the legacy of High Modernism (“Mies Immersion II,” 2009), form vs. function (“Real and Imaginary Variables: Art Spaces,”…
Stanislaus Fung, “Recent Projects in Rural China”
Stanislaus Fung is a researcher in landscape architecture and architecture…
Real Estate and City Making in China
Bing Wang
Real estate has increasingly become a compelling force in the process of city making, one…
Not so skin deep: vernacularism in XL
by Ziwei Song (MArch II '18) — Recipient of James Templeton Kelley Prize, Masters in Architecture II…
Rethinking Pei: A Centenary Symposium
A two-part symposium examining the work and life of I. M. Pei from multiple…
Unfolding the Western District Public Cargo Working Area in Hong Kong
Benni Yu-ling Pong (MDes '17) The Western District Public Cargo Working Area (WDPCWA) in Hong…
Towards a New Geography: Rural Tourism in China
by Guan Min (MDes '17) Urban, widely understood as the elementary unit of human settlement,…
Critical Chinese Copying
by Boya Gua (MDes '17) The modern influence of the West in changing the concepts…