John Collins, “Paper Airplane Guy”
John Collins had been a professional in television since 1979, working as a creative director,…
Topic Fabrication
Computational Craft: Construction of Carbon-fiber Composites
by Tiffany Cheng (MDes '16) How can new technologies enable carbon fiber to be pushed…
City Form Lab’s Grid Structures
The City Form Lab’s research on grid structures has developed a novel building technology…
BRICK: THICK/THIN
Frano Violich
Brick: Thick/Thin aims to challenge perceived notions of brick and its use in architecture…
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…
Material Processes and Systems Group students exhibit at 2016 Cevisama
The annual Cevisama fair is the largest exhibition of ceramics and terracotta in the world, and this year a team of students from the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Material Processes and Systems Group (MaP+S) are presenting what Architect’s Newspaper called “one of the most advanced and exciting projects in the entire fair.”
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…
Celosía Cosida
by Kritika Dhanda, Alkistis Mavroeidi, and Jake Rudin (all MDes ‘16) How can we create…
GSD duo designs tiny houses for cross-Harvard startup
Harvard-based startup Getaway is tapping into the “tiny house movement,” and a Harvard Graduate School of Design pair is embracing the creative challenges of designing Getaway’s star attraction: so-called “tiny houses” available for vacation rental.
Innovation from Tradition: Ceramic Materials Formations
Students at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design teamed up with the Harvard Ceramics Program to design innovative techniques for ceramic materials. Led by Leire Asensio-Villoria, lecturer in architecture and landscape architecture, and DDes candidate Felix Raspall, the “Ceramic Materials Formations” exhibition at Gallery 224 in Allston showcased the students' exploration of fabrication techniques and the behavior of different ceramic materials.