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More Than a Roof: The Evolution of Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies
Since its founding in 1959, the Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies has helped shape urban policy, drive innovative practice, and develop the housing leaders of tomorrow.
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Student Journals Recount the GSD’s Intellectual History
Archival issues of Open Letters were exhibited in the student-run Quotes Gallery. The history of the publication was also the subject of a separate event that celebrated the long history of student journals at the GSD. Â
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Jeanne Gang on the David Rubenstein Treehouse and the Future of Sustainable Design
Jeanne Gang’s David Rubenstein Treehouse conference center for Harvard’s Enterprise Research Campus (ERC) in Allston is the university’s first project employing mass timber.
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Designing for Endless Fire
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How GSD Students Design For Wildfire Prevention
Five months after California wildfires killed 29 people and devastated Los Angeles neighborhoods and surrounding areas, three GSD students interned at the Southern California offices of landscape architecture and urban design firm SWA.
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What Oysters Can Teach about Life in the Climate CrisisÂ
On the southern coast of Taiwan, groundwater pumped from the earth flows through dense tangles of pipes to supply industrial-scale fish farms. This intensive aquaculture has had a dramatic effect on the surrounding land of Pingtung County. Daniel Fernández Pascual, winner of the 2020 Wheelwright Prize, noted that the pumping of groundwater has caused some […]
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In this episode of Talking Practice, host Grace La interviews Sheila O’Donnell , architect, educator and co-founder of O’Donnell + Tuomey . Sheila reflects on the creation of O’Donnell + Tuomey, the practice she formed with John Tuomey in 1988. She traces the evolution of her practice through the workings of Group 91 and shares her insights […]
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Serpentwithfeet has exhibited versatility through experimental R&B music, and the creation of safe spaces for Black queer communities to relate and flourish through critical reading, and self-reflection. This episode is dedicated to taking an expansive approach to design, one that is focused on and based on the multimedia, and multidisciplinary techniques approached by Black artists, […]
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In this episode of Talking Practice, host Grace La interviews Pier Vittorio Aureli, architect, educator, and co-founder of Dogma , an architecture and research-based practice in Brussels. Pier Vittorio reveals early beginnings of Dogma, which started as an academic comradery and became a professional cooperation. He expands on the reception and interpretation of his work and writing, including the […]
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In this episode of Design Now, we discuss designing libraries for a world in which books are often accessed remotely and knowledge sought via search engines rather than librarians. Francine Houben, John Ronan, and Joshua Ramus have all built acclaimed libraries—including the New York Public Library, the Independence Library and Apartments in Chicago, and the […]
