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.
Horizon House was developed by a team of eight students at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and was selected First Place in the 3rd LIXIL International University Architectural Competition, held on April 20, 2013 in Tokyo. The competition focused on the concept of…
The project was a small two-story house which was located at Chambery, France. The goal of the competition was to achieve a surplus-energy house by manipulation of the given base design through integrated building strategies. A site weather file, two floor plans and a building…
by Aaron Mendonca (MDes ’17), Sarah Kantrowitz (MArch ’17), and Jerónimo van Schendel Erice (MArch…
Chris Reed
Carbon C is ubiquitous—it is one of the primary elements supporting life on earth,…
by Palak Gadodia (MDes ’16) This thesis explores how the form and mass of a…
by Alexander Timmer (MArch ’16) Inference or logical reasoning in the design, representation, and dissemination…
by Amira Abdel-Rahman (MDes ’17), Gabriel Muñoz Moreno (MDes ’17), and Santiago Serna Gonzalez (MArch/MDes…
In the immediate aftermath of the April 2015 Nepal earthquake, Harvard Graduate School of Design…
Architecture’s interior matters in new ways today. The question of the interior challenges architecture’s assumed…
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