A Pattern Language: A user’s guide to the seminal architectural handbook
“A complex of buildings with no center is like a man without a head.” This…
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 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…
International Womxn’s Week Keynote Address: Demita Frazier, “Aesthetic Apartheid: Gender, Race, and Socio-economic Class, and the Impact on Perception, Engagement and Experience”
Tonight’s lecture will be a personal exploration of the impact that the city landscape of…
Work In Progress: Ian Miley’s future Provincetown
Ian Miley (MArch ’20) describes his final project for the option studio “The Future…
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…
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…
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,…