Aqua Incognita I, II: Deciphering and Reimagining Liquidity in the Mexican Altiplano
Aqua Incognita I, II: Deciphering and Reimagining Liquidity in the Mexican Altiplano is a Studio…
Publications
Buildings and Urban Intellegence
Buildings and Urban Intelligence is a course report from the Fall 2023 semester at the…
Below, Above, and Beyond: Future of Antwerp’s Mobility and Public Space
Below, Above, and Beyond: Future of Antwerp’s Mobility and Public Space is a Studio Report…
Technology, Trust, & Governance
Technology, Trust, & Governance is an Open Project Studio Report from the Spring…
Houston: Extreme Weather, Environmental Justice, and the Energy Transition
Houston, Texas, has been called the “prophetic city.” It is a city that is reflective…
Below, Above, and Beyond: Revealing the abandoned underground subway infrastructures as urban form and experience
Boston’s subway system is the oldest in the United States and the second oldest…
Wild Ways: A Fifth Ecology for Metropolitan Los Angeles
Wild Ways: A Fifth Ecology for Metropolitan Los Angeles explores themes of connectivity,…
The Canary in the Mine: Wildfires and Rural Communities in the Mediterranean Hinterland
Once a necessary disturbance for landscape management and economic growth, fire has become an…
Fallowscapes: Territorial Reconfiguration Strategies for Arles
On a promontory on the left bank of the lower Rhone River, just before it…
The House: The Waken Desire
The House: The Waken Desire critically examines the latent assumptions or incentives driving the contemporary…
Regenerative Empathy: Complex Assemblages in a Shared Environment
Regenerative Empathy: Complex Assemblages in a Shared Environment explores the relationship between humans and…
Transforming Omishima
Omishima, an island in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan, has forested mountains…
$2000 Home: Cocreating in the Bengal Delta
The Bengal Delta is defined by the fluidity and chemistry of land and…
Manila: Future Habitations
Manila’s extraordinary history—written, erased, and rewritten—has rendered a current condition that is one of extremes…
Frontier City: Strategies for Boston Harbor
Frontier City documents a landscape architecture studio that envisioned a new urban landscape on…
Work Environments: Space Work
This design studio at Harvard University Graduate School of Design is the last of three…
Kuala Lumpur: Designing the Public Realm
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s capital, is an extraordinary city informed by multiple cultures. Largely comprised of…
Retooling Metropolis: Working Landscapes, Emergent Urbanism
What is the status of the 20th-century metropolis? How do we rethink it (and retool…
The Art Space
The studio addresses the relationship between art and architecture. The students developed monographic museums dedicated…
Paths, Sounds, Ruins: Imagining Architecture in Candelaria
This publication showcases designs and writings inspired by a vast aquatic territory in Argentina,…
Brick: Thick/Thin
This studio explores a material paradox that the discipline of architecture has constructed the idea…
Jakarta: Models of Collective Space for the Extended Metropolis
In a manner similar to other megacities in Southeast Asia, Jakarta has witnessed unprecedented metropolitan…
Work Environments: Glass Works
This design studio at Harvard University Graduate School of Design is the second of three…
Material Performance: Fibrous Tectonics & Architectural Morphology
In biology, most load-bearing structures are fibrous systems. These natural composites share their fundamental characteristics…
The Architectural Double in the Museum City
Designed by Josef Paul Kleihues and completed in 1996, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago…
The Storm, the Strife and Everyday Life: Sea Change in the Suburbs
This studio took stock of how Long Island is changing, and worked with community-based organizations…
Poor but Sexy: Berlin, the New Communal
What new forms for communal dwelling challenge the status quo in a growing city that…
The Barracks of Pion: Developing the Edge of the Park of Versailles
Versailles is often considered the site of invention of the classical city. Strikingly, the shapes…
Work Environments: Campus and Event
This design studio at Harvard University Graduate School of Design is the first of three sponsored…
Global Leadership in Real Estate and Design
Within the global constellation of increasingly connected urban centers, shifts in cultural preferences, design thinking,…
Common Frameworks: Rethinking the Developmental City in China, Part 3
Taiqian: The Countryside as a City is premised upon two fundamental ambitions: the recuperation of…
Habitation in Extreme Environments
Habitation in Extreme Environments was a studio of the Department of Architecture at the Harvard…
Design and Politics: Managing Risks and Vulnerabilities
Design and Politics was a studio of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at…
Another Nature
When considering the “nature” of architecture today, isn’t it problematic to simply define it as…
Territorialism
This book is the result of the studio, Territorialism, held in fall 2012 and fall…
High-Rise, High-Density
This book is the result of the High-Rise, High-Density studio taught by Jonathan Sergison and…
Common Frameworks: Rethinking the Developmental City in China, Part 2
Macau: Cross-Border City documents the second year of a three-year research and…
Networked Urbanism: Design Thinking Initiatives for a Better Urban Life
Networked Urbanism was a series of studios in the Urban Planning and Design Department at…
Common Frameworks: Rethinking the Developmental City in China, Part 1
Common Frameworks: Rethinking the Developmental City in China documents the first year of a three-year research and…