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.
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…
The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies—a joint center affiliated with the GSD and the Kennedy School—and the AARP Foundation released a new report entitled "Housing America's Older Adults: Meeting the Needs of an Aging Population."
Deidre Schmidt (LF ’08) and Matt Nohn (LF ’14) are working with policymakers in Indonesia to formulate a comprehensive and integrated housing framework to meet the needs of a rapidly urbanizing population. More in the LOEBlog.
A new book, Homeownership Built to Last: Affordability, Access, and Risk after the Housing Crisis, features essays by Eric Belsky, Chris Herbert and Jen Molinsky of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies and the Department of Urban Planning and Design. They offer solutions and strategies to create an affordable, fair, and sustainable future for all Americans.
Thirty-four members of the Second Semester Core Urban Planning Studio developed three planning alternatives for…
First Prize Winner of the 3rd LIXIL International University Architectural Competition Designed by…
The policy brief was written as a component of the Urbanization and International Development…