“How can a building just collapse?” Hanif Kara shares lessons in building safety
On Thursday, the partial collapse of a residential building in Surfside,…
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.
John Rahaim on the California Housing Crisis: What are planners to do?
In the past decade, San Francisco has become the poster child for income inequality, housing…
The State of the Nation’s Housing 2021 Release
Event Description Even as the US economy continues to recover, the inequalities amplified…
2021 Clifford Wong Prize in Housing Design: Isabel Dunham Strauss’s “Up from the Past: Housing as Reparations on Chicago’s South Side”
by Isabel Dunham Strauss (MArch I ’21) — Recipient of the 2021 Clifford Wong…
2021 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, Honorable Mention: Dolvi Township Project
by Andriani Wira Atmadja (MUP ’21) and Nadege Giraudet (MArch I ’21) — Recipients of…
A mixed-use proposal for historic Massachusetts site wins first place in affordable housing competition
Young girls at the Industrial School for Girls, 1903 (credit: Harvard Art Museums) Lancaster Commons,…
“H.U.D., Sweat, and Tears” team is runner-up in affordable housing competition
Harvard Graduate School of Design student Avanti Krovi (MUP ’21) and teammates from the University…
Cutting the Tall Grass
by Sharon Cornelissen (Postdoctoral Fellow) Sharon Cornelissen lived and became a homeowner as an…
The African American Design Nexus’ Harlem StoryMap traces the neighborhood’s Black-designed places
Black Harlem, storied and resilient, has been chronicled from many perspectives. Missing until now has…
Live/Work/Rent
by Tyler Rodgers (MArch I '22) and Tracy Tang (MArch I '22) This project addresses…