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…
Topic China
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…
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,…