Far Niente
by Alexandros Spentzaris (March II ’19) Can we think of another, smaller scale of housing?…
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.
The Labyrinthic Block
by Marc Dessauvage (MArch I ’21) and Sarah Cheung (MArch I ’21) This housing project is schizophrenic…
Work in Progress: Sarah Fayad’s strategy for equitable distribution of affordable housing in Los Angeles
Sarah Fayad (MLAUD ’20) describes her final project for the option…
John T. Dunlop Lecture: POSTPONED “Addressing Homelessness: What Can (and Can’t) Architecture Do?” with Michael Maltzan
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this event was postponed to October 2020. Event Description…
Maison Héroine
by Tasos Giannakopoulos (MArch II ‘19). A future has arrived. The year is 2048 and…
Aging in Place: For America’s older adults, access to housing is a question of race and class
America is on the cusp of a senior housing crisis. As the baby-boom generation enters…
Climate change, transportation, urbanism: 2019 ASLA Student Award winners tackle pressing landscape issues
The American Society of Landscape Architects has honored six projects by nine Harvard University Graduate School of…
The Affordability Crisis: What are the greatest challenges to affordable housing today?
At Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, affordable housing is an urgent concern…
Domestic Orbits: Frida Escobedo on architecture’s tendency to conceal spaces of domestic labor
Selective concealment is a typical, though often unacknowledged, function of architecture. Architectural detailing, for example,…
Empty House
By David Kim (MArch II ‘20) Think of visiting an empty house that you want…