La Folie Divine
La Folie Divine is the first of the twelve follies to be built on brownfield…
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.
On Adapting
by Caio Barboza (MArch ’16) and Sofia Blanco Santos (MArch ’16) — Recipient of the James Templeton…
Heterotic Architecture: Stacks, Chimneys & Chutes
by Joshua Feldman (MArch ’16) — Recipient of the 2016 James Templeton Kelly Prize The…
Te Vas o Te Quedas? Variations in the Explanations for Housing Abandonment in Tijuana, México
by Francisco Lara-García (MUP ’16) — Recipient of the 2016 Thesis Prize, awarded by the faculty of the Department…
OBJECTHOOD — Recipient of the 2016 Clifford Wong Prize in Housing Design
by Liang Wang (MAUD ’17) and Lu Zhang (MAUD ’17) — Recipient of the 2016 Clifford Wong Prize…
Alpine Shelter, Skuta, Slovenia
Peak House is modular mountaineering shelter – a bivouac – constructed for a remote site in the Slovenian Alps. Such shelters pepper the Alps across Europe, serving as much-needed outposts from harsh winds, snow conditions, and treacherous terrains. The project was an international collaboration between…
RESHIM: Rethinking Social Housing in Mexico
RESHIM is a multifaceted project focused on two central research components: 1) report on…
Common Frameworks: Rethinking the Developmental City in China, Part 1
Common Frameworks: Rethinking the Developmental City in China documents the first year of a three-year research and…
Health and Places Initiative
Who We Are This project has had two phases. The first phase of the Health and…
Horizon House: A Retreat in Nature
Horizon House was developed by a team of eight students at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and was selected First Place in the 3rd LIXIL International University Architectural Competition, held on April 20, 2013 in Tokyo. The competition focused on the concept of…