Interior of exhibition on RMA Architects with architecture models on a long table

Retrospective of Rahul Mehrotra’s RMA Architects Showcased at Goethe-Institut Indien

The Goethe-Institut Indien in Mumbai recently organized Architecture of Practice: Research, Reflections and Reformulations,…

Jan 3, 2022

Features

Rendering of a building wrapped around a tree in a forest.

The Future of Tourism: Can the pandemic change how we visit popular sites for the better? 

Oonagh Davis’s (MArch II ’23) proposal for the option studio “Between Wilderness and Civilization,”…

Dec 14, 2021

Harvard Design Magazine

By Anita Berrizbeitia, Diane Davis, Toni L. Griffin, Daniel D’Oca, Sara Zewde, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Malkit Shoshan, George Thomas, Susan Snyder, Alex Krieger and Silvia Benedito

January 2022

Features

Front steps of L'Enfant Plaza, a brutalist building in black and white, with a woman standing on the front steps.

What if Washington DC were granted statehood? Preston Scott Cohen on designing a new American city-state

Since 2000, the standard Washington, DC, license plate carries the message: “Taxation Without Representation,” and…

Nov 12, 2021

Features

Book cover of Mehrotra’s “The Kinetic City & Other Essays”

Excerpt from The Kinetic City & Other Essays: The Permanent and Ephemeral by Rahul Mehrotra

The Kinetic City & Other Essays is the latest book from…

Nov 4, 2021

Announcements

A pavilion sits in the centre of a plaza in Seaport, Boston. The pavilion is cobalt-blue and gray, with layers of puffy polished vinyl cells packed with recycled denim, hung from a timber frame in layers.

Faculty-led CO-G Wins WS Development’s Inaugural Design Competition for Public Art

CO-G, the design studio led by Design Critic in Architecture Elle Gerdeman, is…

Nov 1, 2021

News

A slide from a powerpoint presentation showing the flowcart from warehouse, office, retail, and residential to a mix-used building.

Three Student Proposals Addressing the National Housing Crisis Place at the 2021 Hack-A-House Competition

Proposals developed by three groups of Harvard Graduate School of DesignGSD students were recently recognized…

Nov 1, 2021

News

Using Math to Reduce COVID-19 Transmission in Informal Settlements

With the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, “social distancing” became a household term. While governments…

Sep 2, 2021

Lecture

Drawing of a series of buildings scattered along a lush landscape under a blue sky with clouds.

Public Lecture Series

Lecture

Oct 19, 2021

06:30PM – 08:00PM

GSD, Gund Hall Virtual Event Space

Lecture

Department of Urban Planning and Design

Free and open to the public

Lecture

Photograph pf a multi-story white building complex near train tracks.

Public Lecture Series

Lecture

Sep 14, 2021

06:30PM – 08:00PM

GSD, Gund Hall Virtual Event Space

Lecture

Department of Urban Planning and Design

Free and open to the public

Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Topic Urbanism

Retrospective of Rahul Mehrotra’s RMA Architects Showcased at Goethe-Institut Indien

The Future of Tourism: Can the pandemic change how we visit popular sites for the better?

Publics

What if Washington DC were granted statehood? Preston Scott Cohen on designing a new American city-state

Excerpt from The Kinetic City & Other Essays: The Permanent and Ephemeral by Rahul Mehrotra

Faculty-led CO-G Wins WS Development’s Inaugural Design Competition for Public Art

Three Student Proposals Addressing the National Housing Crisis Place at the 2021 Hack-A-House Competition

Using Math to Reduce COVID-19 Transmission in Informal Settlements

Margaret McCurry Lectureship in the Design Arts: Jade Kake, “Indigenous Urbanism”

Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, “The City as Accumulated Knowledge: Urban Design and Research”

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