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…
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.
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…
Rethinking the “Room” through the Pandemic: Isolation, Openness, and Confrontation
by Clara Hu Me (MArch I ’24) Based on a formal and theoretical examination of…
Will urban life recover when the pandemic is finally over? Alex Krieger on the fate of the American city after Covid
Yes, the pandemic (somewhat understandably) and the protests for justice (sadly) are leading to a…
Sol Camacho on the impact of the pandemic on design: “It feels like a completely different world.”
“I feel how much of a protagonist public space is in this moment we’re going…
All Together: Alex Krieger on summoning ideals during a period of crisis
Optimism in America is in short supply. Could it be otherwise? A fearsome pandemic has…
The Right to Sewage: Agriculture, climate change, and the growing need for cities to embrace wastewater reuse
Epidemiological Soils. Drawing by Chelsea Kashan, Santiago Mota, and Seth Denizen. An immense pipe connects…
Design as Protest: How can designers stand for, fight for, and build an anti-racist future?
“For nearly every injustice in the world, there is an architecture that has been planned…
How can design improve disease modeling and outbreak response? A simulation tool by GSD alum Michael de St. Aubin offers answers
The global COVID-19 pandemic has placed roughly one-third of the human population on some form…