From an Autosimulacrum to a new Transitopia, 2019-20 Irving Innovation Fellows share their post-graduate research
Each year since 2016, the Irving Innovation Fellowship has enabled recent Harvard Graduate School of…
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Diffusive Geometries: Vapor as a Tectonic Element to Sculpt Microclimates in Architectural Space
by Honghao Deng (MDes Tech '18) An essential function of architecture is to…
DDes Conference 2020: “Architecture as a ‘Learning’ Living Machine”
This conference will address new emerging concepts in the field of adaptive and intelligent architecture…
Further Reading: John May’s Signal. Image. Architecture
In his new book-length essay, Signal. Image. Architecture. (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City,…
The Thinking Machine: Paola Sturla calls on designers to renew their commitment to humanism
Smart cities, search engines, autonomous vehicles: The pairing of massive data sets and self-learning algorithms…
Halftone Blur
by Estelle Yoon (MArch I '20) The project attempts to…
Rhythm of the Torrent: Susie Ibarra’s sonic maps capture the texture, story, and architecture of a place in sound
Composer, percussionist, and sound artist Susie Ibarra is standing in the…
A SELF-INTERSECTED WRAP AROUND COIL
by Mingxuan Qin (MAUD ‘20), Jichao Sun (MAUD ‘20) and Jiayi Wang (MAUD ‘20) This project…
The Death of the Genius: An alternative history of computation lays bare the problem of invisible labor in architecture
The development of the computer occasioned a radical paradigm shift in numerous fields. According…
Kiley Fellow Lecture: Paola Sturla, “Designer: the last humanist?”
Is the designer the last humanist? In the age of data and…