Maison Héroine
by Tasos Giannakopoulos (MArch II ‘19). A future has arrived. The year is 2048 and…
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.
Aging in Place: For America’s older adults, access to housing is a question of race and class
America is on the cusp of a senior housing crisis. As the baby-boom generation enters…
Climate change, transportation, urbanism: 2019 ASLA Student Award winners tackle pressing landscape issues
The American Society of Landscape Architects has honored six projects by nine Harvard University Graduate School of…
The Affordability Crisis: What are the greatest challenges to affordable housing today?
At Harvard's Graduate School of Design, affordable housing is an urgent concern…
Domestic Orbits: Frida Escobedo on architecture’s tendency to conceal spaces of domestic labor
Selective concealment is a typical, though often unacknowledged, function of architecture. Architectural detailing, for example,…
Empty House
By David Kim (MArch II ‘20) Think of visiting an empty house that you want…
The Humanitarian Activist’s Handbook: Understanding the role of architects and planners in humanitarian crises
African refugees, who fled the besieged Libyan city of Misrata, stand outside tents in the…
Wheelwright Prize Lecture: Samuel Bravo, “PROJECTLESS: on the emergence of a dwell”
This journey focuses on a portion of the human environment that has…
Common Grounds: An Alternative Way of Living
by Parawee Wachirabuntoon (MLA I '19) and Charles Smith (MLAUD '19) This project looks to…
Facing the nation’s largest-ever infrastructure investment, GSD students ask: Who stands to benefit from a less car-centric LA?
UPDATE, 10/18/19: The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has awarded the project Mobility As Equality:…