Why the Digital World Needs Sustainable Architecture: An Interview with Marina Otero
Data centers located around the globe function 24 hours a day to support digital networks.
Topic Sustainability
Houston: Extreme Weather, Environmental Justice, and the Energy Transition
Houston, Texas, has been called the “prophetic city.” It is a city that is reflective…
A Moratorium on New Construction? Beyond the Provocation: A Call for Systemic Change from Access to Housing to Construction Protocols
“Yet what we need is a voluntary cessation, a conscious and fully consensual interruption. Without…
Sascha Delz, “Co-op Urbanism – A Co-operative Response to Common Myths of Housing Production”
A recording of this event is available with audio description. Event Description This…
Celebrating Recipients of the 2022 President’s Innovation Challenge Award
Recipients of the 2022 President’s Innovation Challenge (PIC) Award were announced in a ceremony…
Designing Sustainable Solutions for a Better Built Environment: A Meeting of Ideas at Harvard’s Center for Green Buildings and Cities
Commemorating Earth Day, the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) hosted its…
2022 Design Studies Thesis Prize: Anny Li’s “The World Was Their Garden: Plant introductions at the US Department of Agriculture, 1898–1984”
by Anny Li (MDes ’22) — Recipient of the Design Studies Thesis Prize. In 1898,…
Buy-One-Give-One Bottled Water Start-up is First of its Kind
Henrik Ilvesmäki (MArch II ’20/ MDes ’22) serves as Chief Creative Officer of GIVE…
Heat Magnets: Jeannette Kuo on Mitigating the Harmful Effects of Glass Building Facades
Lever House, Gordon Bunshaft and Natalie de Blois (SOM), New York City, 1952. Photo…
Blank: Speculations on CLT edited by Jennifer Bonner and Hanif Kara
When I began studying architecture in the 1980s, students would often get asked at crits…