Living in the Kinetic City: Mapping Housing in a Landscape of Flux, Mumbai
Rahul Mehrotra
Increasing concentrations of global flows have exacerbated the inequalities and spatial divisions of social…
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.
Barcelona-based architect Anna Puigjaner winner of the 2016 Wheelwright Prize
The Harvard University Graduate School of Design is pleased to name Barcelona architect Anna Puigjaner the winner of the 2016 Wheelwright Prize, a $100,000 traveling fellowship aimed at fostering investigative approaches to contemporary design
High-Rise, High-Density
This book is the result of the High-Rise, High-Density studio taught by Jonathan Sergison and…
Habitation in Extreme Environments
The extreme climatic conditions of the North introduce a design paradox for architects. The fragile environmental conditions require incisive designs that respond to irregular loading from strong winds, heavy snowfalls, avalanche risk zones, and extreme cold. These phenomena are often instantaneous, sudden, and unpredictable. Risk…
Living Anatomy: An Exhibition About Housing
Living Anatomy brings together a selection of projects that demonstrate innovative solutions for housing in urban contexts. The exhibition focuses on a 50-year period from 1965 to 2015 that witnessed the waning of Modernism and the ensuing controversy about its legacy. Housing was a central…
Family Planning
As family configurations evolve and atomize, and “exceptions” become the norm—divorced, blended, solo, cooperative, childless,…
Habitation in Extreme Environments
Habitation in Extreme Environments was a studio of the Department of Architecture at the Harvard…
Student team finalist in HUD Innovation in Affordable Housing Competition
A Harvard Graduate School of Design student team has been named one of four finalists…
Imagine the Barracks of Pion: Developing the Edge of the Park of Versailles
by Zheming (Taro) Cai (MLA ’15) recipient of American Society of Landscape Architects Student Award…
Freedom of Use
Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal are known for an architecture that privileges inhabitants’ freedom and…