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…
Topic China
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…
Not so skin deep: vernacularism in XL
by Ziwei Song (MArch II '18) — Recipient of James Templeton Kelley Prize, Masters in Architecture II…