Democratizing Tech: A Co-Operative for Overtown, Miami
Sidra Fatima (MUP '19) & Stefano Trevisan (MUP '19) Our project explored the all-too-familiar narrative…
Topic Housing
The ongoing conversation about housing speculates on design’s capacity to address a range of disparate agendas and priorities. Investigations imagine housing as a central agent of change, responding to international, generational, cultural, demographic, psychological, and environmental issues in order to develop a more inclusive and sustainable engagement moving forward.
Pattern-making is a tool for meaningful change in Toni L. Griffin’s pursuit of justice in American cities
About four miles from downtown Pittsburgh along the Monongahela River, the neighborhood of Hazelwood suffers…
A Pattern Language: A user’s guide to the seminal, if much maligned, architectural handbook
“A complex of buildings with no center is like a man without a head.” This…
The Detroit model: Kimberly Dowdell discusses strategies for revitalization
Cities like Detroit have become increasingly central to public dialogue about the nature and politics…
What can the utopian communities of the 60s teach today’s designers about co-living?
Wind blows hard over the bluff as huge waves roll in from the horizon, crashing…
$2000 Home: Cocreating in the Bengal Delta
The Bengal Delta is defined by the fluidity and chemistry of land and…
Work In Progress: Ian Miley’s future Provincetown
Ian Miley (MArch '20) describes his final project for the option studio “The…
Manila Port: Gateway to the New Urban District
by Chengzhe Zhang (MLA '19), Chenghao Lyu (MAUD '18), Chi-Hsuan Wang (MArch '19) In order to transform the…
Parametric Energy Simulation in Early Design
This project proposed a framework for the development of early-design guidance to inform architects and policy-makers using…
Housing, politics, climate change, ecology: range of student projects honored with 2018 ASLA Awards
Nine Harvard University Graduate School of Design students and recent graduates are among the…