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.
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…
As family configurations evolve and atomize, and “exceptions” become the norm—divorced, blended, solo, cooperative, childless,…
Habitation in Extreme Environments was a studio of the Department of Architecture at the Harvard…
A Harvard Graduate School of Design student team has been named one of four finalists…
by Zheming (Taro) Cai (MLA ’15) recipient of American Society of Landscape Architects Student Award…
Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal are known for an architecture that privileges inhabitants’ freedom and…
Our lives are at stake. BANG! We are living in a moment of crisis that affects everyone. BANG! Everyday across the United States, at least three gunshots are heard. BANG! These gunshots are what The Guardian calls, “fatal encounters.” BANG! BANG! BANG! According to Fatal Encounters,…
Set within the wider framework of “Living Anatomy: an Exhibition about Housing,” this exhibition focuses on ‘Robin Hood Gardens’ – Alison and Peter Smithson’s housing project in East London, completed in 1972. Threatened with demolition yet again, despite an ongoing campaign that still hopes to…
Macro As an endeavour to regain the agency, productivity and economic independence of the Chinese rural, the thesis proposes an alternative to the current trend in new development where farmer’s land ownership rights are overlooked and the centuries long connection to the ‘land’ is lost.
by Carly Augustine (MArch II ’16) and Nicolas Lee (MArch II ’15), recipients of American…