Realities and Realms: Responsive Technologies in Ecological Systems
The Realities and Realms colloquium focuses on the role…
Topic Computation
City Form Lab’s Grid Structures
The City Form Lab’s research on grid structures has developed a novel building technology…
Projectors, Experiments in Image Tectonics
by Zeina Koreitem (MDes Tech '16) — Recipient of the Daniel L. Schodek Award for Technology…
The Phantom Projective
by Iman Fayyad (MArch '16) This thesis is an investigation of the production of form…
Student-designed pavilion celebrates the unbuilt at Design Miami
The annual Design Miami fair traditionally features an entry pavilion designed by early-career architects, a…
Ceramic Materials Formations now on view
Innovation fosters collaboration, and at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design important and exciting cross-university dialogues are always taking place. Leire Asensio-Villoria’s “Ceramic Materials Formations” exhibition is a case in point.
Bradley Cantrell receives TEDGlobal 2014 Fellowship
Bradley Cantrell (MLA ‘03), associate professor of landscape architecture, has been named a TEDGlobal 2014 Fellow.
Mass Customization of Reciprocol Frame Structures: Digital Optimization and Robotic Manufacture
by Ana Garcia Puyol (MDes '14) This thesis focuses on the creation of a digital…
When the GSD Designed Software: Experiments in Computer Vision, 1965-1991
Between 1965 and 1991, the Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis* involved Harvard and the GSD in the mercurial business of software development. Both academic and entrepreneurial, the Lab created dozens of pieces of software – from minimal, experimental apps to general purpose packages…
Material Performances: Fibrous Tectonics
“In one philosophy one thinks of form or design as primarily conceptual or cerebral, something to be generated as a pure thought in isolation from the messy world of matter and energy. Once conceived, a design can be given a physical form by simply imposing…