Strong GSD showing in 2017 regional LafargeHolcim Awards
A variety of Harvard Graduate School of Design faculty and alumni have found themselves honored…
Topic Sustainability
Teardrop Park
Teardrop Park is a 1.8-acre public park in lower Manhattan that transcends its small size,…
“Future Retail”
Future Retail explores the rapidly accelerating pace of retailing at the intersection…
Colloquium: “Ecology for Land & City: Exploring the Confluences of Landscape, Road, and Urban Ecology”
In a bare twenty-five years, landscape ecology, road ecology, and urban ecology have sprung from…
Chris Reed reimagines Los Angeles freeway as vibrant, eco-smart park
Associate professor in practice of landscape architecture Chris Reed and his firm, Stoss Landscape Urbanism,…
Un-Greening Golden Gate Park
by Josselyn Ivanov (MDes '16) — Recipient of the 2016 Thesis Prize, awarded by the faculty of…
2007 Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design
The Harvard University Graduate School of Design awards the Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design to recognize urban design excellence through projects that contribute to the public realm of the city and improve the overall quality of life. As the ninth recipient of the…
Horizon House: A Retreat in Nature
Horizon House was developed by a team of eight students at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and was selected First Place in the 3rd LIXIL International University Architectural Competition, held on April 20, 2013 in Tokyo. The competition focused on the concept of…
Deconstruction/Construction: Cheonggyecheon River Project
Recipient of the 10th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design. The evolution of the Cheonggyecheon River in just twenty-nine months from an outmoded utilitarian highway into a multipurpose performative infrastructural piece of unprecedented size merits recognition as a seminal project in contemporary urban design. …
Ecology.Design.Synergy
Behnisch Architekten + Transsolar Climate Engineering, Stuttgart August 22–October 3, 2007 Behnisch Architekten + Transsolar Climate Engineering, Stuttgart Behnisch Architekten and Transsolar Klimaengineering have been collaborating for many years in pursuit of an environmentally responsive architecture. Works extend from architectural competitions to…