Common Frameworks: Rethinking the Developmental City in China
The dazzling scale and mesmerizing speed of China’s development in the early 21st century have…
The dazzling scale and mesmerizing speed of China’s development in the early 21st century have…
by Trax Yinan Wang (MAUD ’16) — Recipient of the 2016 Thesis Prize This thesis aims to…
What is it that gives places their individual qualities and defines the life of a city? Architects and urbanists are accustomed to describing and creating the organizational structures, the layouts and physical attributes of our cities. But what are the relations between the design of…
Common Frameworks: Rethinking the Developmental City in China documents the first year of a three-year research and…
Both Croatia and Slovenia have had a complex cultural, economic, and political history, and now as members of a New Europe are sites of intense, inspiring, and productive architectural and urban debates. The exhibition focused on innovative practices in architecture and urbanism in Croatia and…
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…
During the summer of 2012, Melissa Alexander (MAUD 2013) served as a Program Associate at The…
Compared with other continents, the architecture and urbanism of the 52 capital cities of Africa are not well known. The majority of them were important centers in the colonial period, and buildings from these times still play a significant role in the life of the…
According to some estimates, China’s gross domestic product seems likely to increase substantially during the…
01/28/2008–03/14/2008 John Beardsley, curator Christian Werthmann, curator The exhibition presented new terrain and tactics for landscape architecture. It had two subjects. One was physical: low-income communities, variously called squatter settlements, shantytowns, or slums, which are a dominant feature of the developing world’s…