Design collaborative colab-19 is changing how we think about post-pandemic architecture
Late last year, a scaffolding structure rose to abut the facade of the popular…
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.
Designing for Disability Justice: On the need to take a variety of human bodies into account
Disability ought to be an exciting subject for architects: it’s about lived experience, problem solving,…
Growing-Up Warrendale: Trauma-Informed Landscape Operations for Neighborhood Intersections
by Ana Cristina Garcia (MLA I ’17) The neighborhood of Warrendale in Detroit is transforming…
The Future of Air Travel: Toward a better in-flight experience
Anyone remember air travel? In early 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the globe…
Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, “The Miasmist: George E. Waring, Jr. and Landscapes of Public Health”
The GSD’s Spring 2021 Public Programs are all virtual and require registration.
In Cotton Kingdom, Now, Sara Zewde retraces Frederick Law Olmsted’s route through the Southern states
“The mountain ranges, the valleys, and the great waters of America, all trend north and…
Womxn in Design on shifts in design pedagogy: “The conditions in which we learn become the conditions we practice and reproduce.”
It’s been almost three years since the #MeToo movement started launching public awareness around the…
Dual-Use: Farshid Moussavi on rethinking residential architecture in the wake of Covid-19
The pandemic has had an immediate and tangible impact upon urban life—rewiring and, in some…
Toshiko Mori talks designing pandemic-resilient cities for BBC’s The Conversation podcast
Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture Toshiko Mori was recently a…
Will cities remain resilient in a post-COVID world? BBC asks Jerold Kayden
Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design Jerold Kayden is one of…