The Chinese Block: Searching for A New Spatial Construct
by Laing Wang (MUP ’17) — Recipient of 2017 Urban Planning and Design Thesis Prize in Urban…
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.
The W
by Van-Tuong Nguyen (MDes REBE ’18), Carla Wijaya (MAUD ’18) and Maxime Faure (MAUD ’18)…
Design for Recovery: Fieldwork in Nepal & Somalia
During January of 2016, a group of GSD students travelled to Nepal and Kenya, to…
State(s) of Housing Colloquium
Collective housing is inseparable from a vision of urbanity,…
John T. Dunlop Lecture in Housing and Urbanization: Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh
Presented by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies Since taking…
Critical Conservation Lecture: A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida
Professor Connolly will talk about older discussions of racism’s profitability by treating Jim Crow…
New Towns Initiative
The New Towns Initiative at Harvard University researches historical and contemporary new town developments in…
Go Hasegawa, “Amplitude in the Experience of Space”
Rescheduled from February 9. “Architectural spaces can take away or awaken abilities…
Architectural Ethnography: Atelier Bow-Wow
Atelier Bow-Wow investigates the living condition of people through various fieldwork and design practices. They observe architecture and its environments from a behaviorological point of view and always invent unique visual representations specific to the subject and scope at hand, like the book Graphic Anatomy (Toto, 2007). Their interests…
Mexican Cities Initiative: “Staying a Step Ahead: Institutional Flexibility in the Rehabilitation of Social Housing in Oaxaca, Mexico”
Officials from Fundación Hogares and the Mexican National Workers’ Housing Fund Institute (Infonavit) will join…