Fight or Flight? Designers and planners grapple with whether to fight the effects of climate change, or accept the inevitability of mass migration
To quote Margaret Atwood, climate change isn’t just about the climate, it’s…
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Living is Form
by John Wagner (MArch II '19) Among the extents of international human aid facilitated by…
The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic: an Adaption with Projections on a New Climate
by Tessa Crespo (MDes '20) As an experimental infrastructure, I reimagined the classic archetypes of…
Common Shallows
by Samuel Gilbert (MLA '20), Shira Grosman (MLA '20), and Yujue Wang (MLA1 '20) “Common…
Empty Monuments: Kaz Yoneda’s research on Olympic stadiums considers the future of cities
Just a year after the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, many of the stadiums…
INTRODUCING GIM: Geographic Information Machine
by Isabel Preciado (MLA ‘19), Annie H. Lynch (MLA ‘19), and Sarah Diamond(MLA ‘19). The production…
The Grand Tour: GSD’s Wheelwright Prize reminds architects of the power of global research
“Two years ago, when I received the call about the Wheelwright Prize, Mohsen Mostafavi mentioned…
The Humanitarian Activist’s Handbook: Understanding the role of architects and planners in humanitarian crises
African refugees, who fled the besieged Libyan city of Misrata, stand outside tents in the…
At the Gardner Museum, Big Plans draws on landscape architecture’s progressive, reform-minded roots
By the time Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. founded the world’s first landscape architecture program at…
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by Chuanying(Channing) Zheng (MLA AP '19) and Maoran Sun (MAUD/MDes Technology '20) This design is…