2021 Digital Design Prize: Ana Gabriela Loayza’s “Center – Periphery: Encoding New Processes in Shenzhen’s Boundaries”
by Ana Gabriela Loayza (MArch II '21) — Recipient of the Digital Design Prize…
Topic China
Landscapes of the Void: Speculative design for tunnels, mines, cemeteries and other underground spaces
At once welcoming and foreboding, the underground realm has long captured our attention. When considered…
Hong Kong GSD Symposium 2020: After Graduation: How to Craft A Practice?
Event Description The first of a series of fireside chats with design professionals on what…
Embracing Dichotomy
by Xijia Zhang (MLA I AP '20), Shunfan Zheng (MAUD '20), and Sungchan Kim (MArch…
Can technology enable site-specific knowledge? A studio examining transformations in rural China tests the limits of remote ethnography
Last March, the option studio I led with…
Work in Progress: Nhi Tran’s Hotel within the Shikumen Home
Nhi Tran (MArch '21) describes her final project for the option studio…
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…