First-ever compendium of indigenous technologies provides a powerful toolkit for climate-resilient design
The design field is at an inflection point. It must challenge its repertoire, rethink technology,…
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.
Studios by Daniel D’Oca present a corrective for racial inequities
Excerpted from the Harvard Gazette series, To…
Further Reading: John May’s Signal. Image. Architecture
In his new book-length essay, Signal. Image. Architecture. (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City,…
Historian Lizabeth Cohen reflects on Alex Krieger’s new book, City on a Hill
A beautifully illustrated book that comes out of more than three decades of teaching and…
Learning from Susan Fainstein: Do planners have a responsibility to fight for social equity?
Susan Fainstein’s ideas for the “just city” crystallized in the 1960s and ’70s, during a…
The Thinking Machine: Paola Sturla calls on designers to renew their commitment to humanism
Smart cities, search engines, autonomous vehicles: The pairing of massive data sets and self-learning algorithms…
Zoom! The Archigram Collection Arrives at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Imagine yourself a couple of months out of architecture school recalling the moments and projects…
Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee profiled in the Los Angeles Times: “Buildings that make you say, ‘Huh?,’ then ‘Wow!'”
Harvard Graduate School of Design professors (and alumni) Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee,…
Talking Practice: Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu
In this episode of Talking Practice, host Grace La interviews Lyndon Neri and…
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,…