Miami Rise and Sink: Design for Urban Adaptation
Rosetta S. Elkin
This studio addresses contemporary conditions for ‘urban adaptation’ in an era of sea level rise,…
Topic Climate Change
The Ocean State
Michael Van Valkenburgh, Rosetta S. Elkin, Gullivar Shepard
Collaboration is the future of design research. Sites are no longer fixed points, but emerge…
Meteorological Architecture
Philippe Rahm
The building industry is one of the main culprits in global warming because the…
carbonurbanism: projective futures
Chris Reed
Carbon C is ubiquitous—it is one of the primary elements supporting life on earth,…
360+ Weathers
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 Rather than prioritizing human figures or historical references, the paintings, etchings and…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 Samuelson receives grant from Harvard’s Climate Change Solutions Fund
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
The Project on South Florida and Sea Level
South Florida and Sea Level: Adaptive Strategies for Green Infrastructure, Landscape Ecology, and Cultural Heritage…
Exhibition showcases complex microclimatic conditions of Danube Valley
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.
Productive Conservation: Utilizing Landscape Ecology and Precision Agriculture Towards Land-Water Conservation
by Sourav Kumar Biswas (MLA '16) and Flavio Sciaraffia (MLA '15) recipients of American Society of…
GSD students win Save Before Quitting competition with Wanderers
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.