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.

Image of Shakers dancing at spiritual visit

Preston Scott Cohen’s Post-Shaker studio draws on the austere formal language of Shaker design in proposing a new art colony in Mount Lebanon, NY

Mount Lebanon, NY has faded. When its last seven inhabitants moved away in 1947 it…

Nov 12, 2020

Rendered perspective of new main square facing barraco, Casa de Oxumarê

Sacred Groves and Secret Parks: A two-day colloquium focused on the landscapes of Orisha

Princess Faniyi in front of Gund Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Design. Photo: Moisés…

Oct 22, 2020

Jennifer Bonner and Hanif Kara, Instructors

Spring 2020

Section GIF of tower

Jennifer Bonner and Hanif Kara, Instructors

Spring 2020

Photograph of model at oblique angle

Oliver Lütjens and Thomas Padmanabhan, Instructors

Spring 2020

Cover page for KREATE

Urban Planning Students Place at APA National Student Design Competition

In a first for the Harvard Graduate School of Design, a group of urban planning…

Sep 8, 2020

Nighttime photograph of apartment complex with streetlights

Public Lecture Series

Oct 13, 2020

07:30PM – 09:00PM

GSD, Gund Hall Virtual Event Space

Lecture

Open to the public, but requires registration

Public Lecture Series

Oct 29, 2020

07:30PM – 09:00PM

GSD, Gund Hall Virtual Event Space

Lecture

Department of Urban Planning and Design

Open to the public, but requires registration

A grid of three color blocks (yellow, purple, green) and three images. On the yellow color block is the text

Public Lecture Series

Sep 25, 2020

12:30PM – 04:30PM

GSD, Gund Hall Virtual Event Space

Symposium

Department of Urban Planning and Design

Open to the public, but requires registration

An overhead view of a suburban neighborhood with many houses, all with roofs in different shades of gray.

Aug 27, 2020

06:15PM – 09:00PM

GSD, Gund Hall Virtual Event Space

Lecture

Open to the public, but requires registration