Allometric Sake
by Amira Abdel-Rahman (MDes ’17), Gabriel Muñoz Moreno (MDes ’17), and Santiago Serna Gonzalez (MArch/MDes…
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.
Post-disaster Nepal and the power of fieldwork
In the immediate aftermath of the April 2015 Nepal earthquake, Harvard Graduate School of Design…
Symposium on Architecture: Interior Matters
Architecture’s interior matters in new ways today. The question…
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
A Sustainable Future for Exuma: Environmental Management, Design, and Planning
This multi-year ecological planning project is a collaboration among the Government of The Bahamas, the…
Energy in Nepal: How has the fuel shortage changed the way people access and use energy?
by Justin W. Henceroth (MDes ’17) and Ashley C. Thompson (MDes ’17) Nepal is struggling to…
Musical Box: The Well-Tempered House and the Hollowed Column
by Daniel Quesada Lombo (MArch ’17) The project reconfigures the horizontal patio house into a…
GSD Team Participates in IBPSA Student Modeling Competition
Palak Gadodia (MDes EE ’16), Huishan He (MDes EE ’16), Rufei Wang (MDes RR ’16), and…
Multi-disciplinary team wins Urban Heat Island Effect 2015
Cold Spot: Evaporative Cooling through Ceramics, a research-build project that investigates passive cooling strategies developed by the…
Real-World Energy Model Calibration
by Holly Samuelson This research evaluates the accuracy of 18 design-phase building energy models…