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…
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.
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…
The State of the Nation’s Housing 2016
The national housing market has now regained enough momentum to provide an engine of growth…
Affirmatively Further: Fair Housing After Ferguson
Daniel D’Oca
When asked to name the most surprising finding of the Ferguson Commission, which was tasked…
Hutong Metabolism, Beijing
Zhang Ke
Hutongs in Beijing, the traditional courtyard-and-alley system of urban dwelling that is the most…
Retrofitting the (post?) Industrial Metropolis: Housing and Economic Growth in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area and the Bajío Region
Diane Davis, Jose Castillo
Mexico’s national authorities are rethinking their housing policy frameworks, so as to connect questions of…