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Harvard GSD
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Profiles
Toni L. Griffin Is Reimagining What a Just City Can Be
The architect, urban planner, and 2026 ULI Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development recipient has spent decades developing frameworks for reparative, justice-centered urbanism. Through the Just City Index, her practice
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Alberto Kritzler is at the Forefront of Regenerative Design in Mexico
The Harvard Loeb Fellow is rethinking water scarcity and abundance through his Reserva el Peñón project in in Valle de Bravo, Mexico.
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Mariam Kamara Could Profoundly Change Design Pedagogy Everywhere
The Niger-based architect Mariam Kamara's rapidly growing practice informs a series of lectures she has delivered recently at MIT, Columbia University GSAPP, the African Futures Institute in Ghana, and Harvard GSD.
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In Uncertain Times, Spiegel Aihara Workshop is Just the Shape-Shifting Studio We Need
In addition to running their San Francisco-based practice, Megumi Aihara and Dan Spiegel are both professors of architecture at universities in California.
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Toshiko Mori on Collecting Wabanaki and Penobscot Baskets
The architect and Harvard GSD professor discusses the beauty and utility of Native American basketry.
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Sarah Whiting on the Many Lives of a Simple Family Salad Bowl
The newly appointed dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Design tells Metropolis about a beloved red dish.
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Projects
Outlier Lofts in Charlestown Has the Neighborhood in Its Bones
Designed by French 2D, the three floor-through lofts were built in the husk of a legendary Boston bar.
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Viewpoints
For a Time, Josep Lluís Sert’s Brawny Buildings Defined Modern Boston
Through his campus work, Sert left an incredible built legacy on the Boston area. But his building have taken some getting used to.
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Profiles
Planning For (In)Justice: Toni Griffin’s Mission to Foster Equitable Cities
Griffin founded the consultancy Urban Planning for the American City, which she complements with her pedagogical work at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.
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Viewpoints
Design and the Just City in NYC Opens at the Center for Architecture
At the exhibition, open through March 30, Harvard GSD’s Just City Lab presents five projects that use design to counter injustice.
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Harvard Opens Snøhetta-Designed Prototype for Super-Sustainable Retrofits
Dubbed HouseZero, the building uses data-collecting sensors, passive ventilation, low embodied energy materials, and geothermal wells, among other strategies.
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Mohsen Mostafavi to Leave Harvard GSD Deanship
Today, Harvard University announced that architect Mohsen Mostafavi would be stepping down as the dean of the Graduate School of Design (GSD), at the end the current academic year—June 30, 2019. The news comes not lon
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Viewpoints
Harvard GSD Taps Herzog & de Meuron and Beyer Blinder Belle to Expand Gund Hall
The two firms are designing a new space that aims to foster cross-disciplinary work among the GSD's many programs and Harvard at large.
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Harvard GSD Announces 2018 Richard Rogers Fellows
The six winners—who will stay in the Rogers-designed Wimbledon House in London—will research a diverse range of subjects, from housing cooperatives to digital fabrication.
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Viewpoints
“Resiliency” Has Lost Its Meaning: Why We Need a More Radical Approach
Sometimes it’s better to adapt and retreat before the waters rise again.
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Viewpoints
“Heliomorphic Chicago” Tinkers With the City’s Iconic Buildings to Create a More Equitable Skyline
On view at the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the installation advocates for a return to a “collective urban form.”
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The Bold Plan to Help Save the Mid-Atlantic Coast from Storm Surges
Metropolis talked to Harvard GSD Professor Jesse M. Keenan on "Blue Dunes: Climate Change By Design," a book he co-edited with Claire Weisz of WXY Architecture.
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Q&A: Samuel Bravo on Learning from the World’s Vernacular Architectures
We speak with the 2017 winner of the Wheelwright Prize to learn how he became interested in vernacular architecture, what he thinks about Alejandro Aravena's work, and what he hopes to accomplish with this grant.
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Diversity Champions: 8 Schools That Aren’t Just Paying Lip Service To Diversity
Many colleges are working to be more inclusive, but these architecture and design schools are going above and beyond.
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Interested in Public Interest Design? Here’s How to Engage
Advancing the conversation on the architecture and planning community’s involvement with communities everywhere