Harvard GSD Archives

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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.
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.
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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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.
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.
Projects

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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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.
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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“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.
Projects

Interested in Public Interest Design? Here’s How to Engage

Advancing the conversation on the architecture and planning community’s involvement with communities everywhere
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Oscar Niemeyer Was Once Considered to Head the GSD

What could have been built if Niemeyer's carreer had been different? Two architects imagine the possibilities.
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Harvard GSD Releases App on Ecological Urbanism

Tablets are revolutionizing how people interact with information. We can now walk around with libraries in our knapsacks and the touch screen interface has enabled us to bridge the physical-abstract divide. The universe