Topic Health

Health can be a powerful lens for analyzing design and planning priorities. Investigations of the many links between health and the built environment—from air quality and food access to housing and mobility—reveal the power of design to support health and healing in preemptive and progressive ways.

Spoons containing vibrant amuse-bouches laid out on a plate

Public Lecture Series

Mar 2, 2020

12:00PM – 01:30PM

GSD, Gund Hall Gund 112 Stubbins

Lecture

Department of Landscape Architecture

Free and open to the public

Love in a Mist—or Devil in a Bush? How the politics of fertility relate to the subjugation of the natural world

In June 1648, a Puritan midwife named Margaret Jones was executed by hanging from an…

Oct 30, 2019

Aging in Place: For America’s older adults, access to housing is a question of race and class

America is on the cusp of a senior housing crisis. As the baby-boom generation enters…

Oct 24, 2019

Martin Bechthold, Peter Stark and Mary Tolikas, Faculty Advisors

Spring 2019

exhibition dates: OCT 28 – DEC 20, 2019

Malkit Shoshan, Curator

The Humanitarian Activist’s Handbook: Understanding the role of architects and planners in humanitarian crises

African refugees, who fled the besieged Libyan city of Misrata, stand outside tents in the…

Sep 6, 2019

Student work: Mining an emerging area of dementia studies, Alicia Valencia encourages memory-care facilities to embrace aesthetic play

Children may be celebrated for their non-rational thoughts, but society expects that adults will use…

Aug 28, 2019

An image of women seated around a circular table. The text

Public Lecture Series

Oct 30, 2019

06:30PM – 08:00PM

GSD, Gund Hall Piper Auditorium

Lecture

Free and open to the public

At the Gardner Museum, Big Plans draws on landscape architecture’s progressive, reform-minded roots

By the time Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. founded the world’s first landscape architecture program at…

Aug 20, 2019

Democratizing Miami’s Healthcare Economy

Fall 2018