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…
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.
Monastery & Brewery in Säynätsalo
by Benjamin Hayes (MArch '19) The monastery and brewery reinvigorate Säynätsalo, Finland, by providing a…
In Between Pitched Roof and Modernist Slab
by Francisco Ramos (MArch '19) This project is an essay on urban morphology, architectural typology,…
Collected Towers: Life as a Spectacle
by Kaoru Lovett (MArch '20) Nested within Boston’s urban topography, the opera house serves as…
PostGuild, Guild House
by Farnoosh Rafaie (MArch '18) The presence of perimeter is what we subconsciously associated with…
Form-Based Coding
by Evan Shieh (MAUD '19) The proposed design methodology in this project examines form‐based code…
Manila: Future Habitations
Manila’s extraordinary history—written, erased, and rewritten—has rendered a current condition that is one of extremes…
“286 South” and the Essential Role of Architects
by Benjamin Halpern (MArch '17)—Winner of the 2017 Clifford Wong Prize in Housing Design This…
Dwelling + Ground: Terraformed Housing for Port-Au-Prince
by Belle Verwaay (MArch '18)—Winner of the 2018 Clifford Wong Prize in Housing Design This…
Students experience “Extreme Urbanism” first-hand on studio trip to Mumbai
The Spring 2018 option studio “Extreme Urbanism V: Exploring Hybrid Housing Typologies, Elphinstone State”…