Habitation in Extreme Environments
Habitation in Extreme Environments was a studio of the Department of Architecture at the Harvard…
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.
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…
BANG! BANG! BANG! Housing Policy and the Geography of Fatal Police Encounters
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,…
A Poetry of the Ordinary: Life in Alison & Peter Smithson’s Robin Hood Gardens, 1972
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…
A Non-Urban Apparatus: Winner of the Clifford Wong Housing Prize
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.
Within the Frame: The Countryside as a City
by Carly Augustine (MArch II ’16) and Nicolas Lee (MArch II ’15), recipients of American…
Joint Center for Housing Studies publishes paper with AARP on aging
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."
Loeb Fellows influence housing policy in indonesia
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.