Shigeru Ban in Conversation with Mohsen Mostafavi about Designing for Refugee Relief
In the early weeks of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Pritzker-winning architect …
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Celebrating Recipients of the 2022 President’s Innovation Challenge Award
Recipients of the 2022 President’s Innovation Challenge (PIC) Award were announced in a ceremony…
Blank: Speculations on CLT edited by Jennifer Bonner and Hanif Kara
When I began studying architecture in the 1980s, students would often get asked at crits…
Faculty-led CO-G Wins WS Development’s Inaugural Design Competition for Public Art
CO-G, the design studio led by Design Critic in Architecture Elle Gerdeman, is…
Zero-Waste Architecture for Climate Resilience: Iman S. Fayyad’s CloudHouse Shade Pavilion
In the months that Iman S. Fayyad, lecturer in architecture at the Harvard Graduate…
2021 Peter Rice Prize: Erin Hunt and Yaxuan Liu’s “NuBlock”
by Erin Hunt (MDes Tech ’21) and Yaxuan Liu (MArch I ’21) — Recipient of…
Landscapes of the Void: Speculative design for tunnels, mines, cemeteries and other underground spaces
At once welcoming and foreboding, the underground realm has long captured our attention. When considered…
With Mass Timber and the Scandinavian Effect, Jennifer Bonner and Hanif Kara speculate how wood might recapture the American architectural imagination
Moments of intense constraint have driven architecture toward seismic ruptures, which go on to determine…
The Architecture of Waste: Is wasting resources a necessary part of the design process?
A linear economy conceives of waste as an end. It presumes that refuse cast off,…
Stage Design in a Pandemic: With Fidelio, Barkow Leibinger grapples with translating the immersive experience of theater to a 2D screen
When renowned US-German architecture firm Barkow Leibinger was approached by the Oscar-winning actor Christoph Waltz…