What we think we know about architecture: A conversation with Sharon Johnston
Unsettled ground is familiar territory to Sharon Johnston. Her firm with partner…
Topic Practice
Balanced between concept and realization, design practice exposes the connections between the design imagination and the space in which it operates. By critically studying issues of practice, designers imagine new methods to advance their influence and to intervene in the world.
Instigations, speculations, and platforms: Dean Mohsen Mostafavi’s lasting contribution to Harvard Graduate School of Design
Mohsen Mostafavi’s deanship has been booked-ended by publications: The first was Ecological…
A Pattern Language: A user’s guide to the seminal architectural handbook
“A complex of buildings with no center is like a man without a head.” This…
The Detroit model: Kimberly Dowdell discusses strategies for revitalization
Cities like Detroit have become increasingly central to public dialogue about the nature and politics…
What can the utopian communities of the 60s teach today’s designers about co-living?
Wind blows hard over the bluff as huge waves roll in from the horizon, crashing…
Assemblage, San Rocco and the shifting value of architecture discourse
“Books and Looks” is a series of discussions at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design about…
Talking Practice: Gary Hilderbrand
In this episode of Talking Practice, host Grace La interviews Gary Hilderbrand, founding principal…
2018 Rouse Visiting Artist Hannah Beachler on her history-making Oscar nomination
Of the seven Oscar nominations that Marvel Studios’ blockbuster Black Panther received this year, two are…
Beate Hølmebakk discusses her paper projects and rejecting the dominance of user-friendly architecture
In 2004, Norwegian architect Beate Hølmebakk co-founded Manthey Kula with Per Tamsen,…
Margaret McCurry Lectureship in the Design Arts: Norman Kelley, “Things not as they are”
A close examination of architecture and design’s relationship to translations in two-…