Houston: Extreme Weather, Environmental Justice, and the Energy Transition
Houston, Texas, has been called the “prophetic city.” It is a city that is reflective…
Topic Energy
Materials, buildings, landscapes, cities, and urbanization are all overtly connected energy hierarchies that must be lucidly understood as the basis of any design agenda for energy today.
Environmental Justice, Energy Infrastructure, Migration and War: What Role Does Design Play in Mitigating a Crisis?
At their speculative edge, the design professions flourish in envisioning future scenarios, and we usually…
Designing Sustainable Solutions for a Better Built Environment: A Meeting of Ideas at Harvard’s Center for Green Buildings and Cities
Commemorating Earth Day, the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) hosted its…
2022 Design Studies Thesis Prize: Allison Hyatt’s “Priorities in Building Decarbonization: Accounting for total carbon and the time value of carbon in cost-benefit analyses of residential retrofits”
by Allison Hyatt (MDes ’22) — Recipient of the Design Studies Thesis Prize. Energy consumption…
2022 Landscape Architecture Thesis Prize: Lucy Humphreys Chebot’s “Reciprocal Optimism: Projecting Terrestrial Analogues”
by Lucy Humphreys Chebot (MLA I ’22) — Recipient of the Landscape Architecture Thesis Prize.
Student-Developed Environmental-Impact Assessment Tool Released for Grasshopper
Cardinal LCA, an early-stage environmental-impact assessment tool developed by Jessica Chen (MDes…
“ResilientHub” wins third place in Solar Decathlon Design Challenge
“ResilientHub,” a project by a team of Harvard Graduate School of Design students, received third…
ResilientHub
by Kuan-Ting Chen (MDes EE ’22), Sihui (Iris) Chen (MArch I ’21), Andrew Gibbs (MDes…
Power and Justice in the Lone Grid State: Abby Spinak and Sarah Stanford-McIntyre on the crisis in Texas
Newspapers this week are swamped with headlines like, “What Went Wrong…
LOW-ENERGY | HIGH-RISE
by David Ling (MArch ’20) — Recipient of second prize in the…