The Danube School, based in the valley of the Danube River in Bavaria, Germany, propelled an aesthetic sensibility that allowed landscape to become an autonomous genre of painting during the early 16th century. Rather than prioritizing human figures or historical references, the paintings, etchings and…
Holly Samuelon (MDes '09, DDes '13), assistant professor of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, been awarded a grant by Harvard’s Climate Change Solutions Fund, an initiative launched last year by Harvard University President Drew Faust
South Florida and Sea Level: Adaptive Strategies for Green Infrastructure, Landscape Ecology, and Cultural Heritage…
The exhibition “360+ Weathers" showcases the complex microclimatic conditions of the Danube Valley in Bavaria, and employs unique media: a thick felt canopy that envelopes the viewer and isolates the experience of viewing the exhibition’s time-lapse video.
by Sourav Kumar Biswas (MLA ’16) and Flavio Sciaraffia (MLA ’15) recipients of American Society of…
A Harvard Graduate School of Design student team is one of five winners in a unique competition titled “A Beautiful Decay,” an endeavor of Miami-based initiative Save Before Quitting. GSD students B. Cannon Ivers, Devin Dobrowolski, and Mary Catherine Miller (all MLA ’16) entered the competition in June and were announced as winners on September 8.
An interdisciplinary GSD team worked over the course of 8 months to develop entries for…
Dave Hampton (MDes Risk + Resilience ’16) takes us on a journey to the year…
Today, as humanity lives its most intense period of urbanization, the largest and fastest growing cities are increasingly concentrated in the Majority World [Latin America, Africa and Asia]. Whether in Rio de Janeiro, Medellin, Cape Town or Mumbai, the prevalence of the Divided City Program…
by Jina Kim (MArch ’15) How do we meet the demands of agricultural production in…