Commencement 2023
“Seeing Ukraine Then and Now,” by Jerold S. Kayden—Excerpt from Harvard Design Magazine
At the time of this writing, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is front and center in…
A Moratorium on New Construction? Beyond the Provocation: A Call for Systemic Change from Access to Housing to Construction Protocols
“Yet what we need is a voluntary cessation, a conscious and fully consensual interruption. Without…
Announcing the Harvard GSD Spring 2023 Public Program
The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) launches its spring 2023 public program…
Grand Paris Express Wins 2023 Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design
The Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) is pleased to announce that the 14th…
How an urban design studio is proposing a more equitable approach to Boston’s building boom
Over the past decade, the Boston/Cambridge area has attracted tremendous attention…
Danielle Allen on Government Design, the Constitution, and the Crisis of Representation
The following is Danielle Allen’s 2022 Class Day Lecture at the Harvard University Graduate School…
John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense
John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense Paul Walker With contributions by Mary Lou Lobsinger, Peter…
“Plains and Pampa: Decolonizing ‘America,’” by Ana María León Crespo—Excerpt from Harvard Design Magazine
It is a common trope for scholars from South America, Central America, and the Caribbean…
Today’s Global
Available for purchase soon. The hyperconnected world of the late 20th and early 21st centuries…
Design Now Podcast, Episode 4: Designing a way out of the housing crisis
Does America need a new vision of the ideal home? In episode four of…
Talking Practice: Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam
In this episode of Talking Practice, host Grace La interviews Mack Scogin and…
Nexus Podcast: Sean Canty
Season 2, Episode 10: Sean Canty expresses the value of looking outside the profession, especially…
Work in Progress: Rayshad Dorsey’s Domestic Grounds
Rayshad Dorsey (MArch I ’23) describes his final project for the option…
Environmental Justice, Energy Infrastructure, Migration and War: What Role Does Design Play in Mitigating a Crisis?
At their speculative edge, the design professions flourish in envisioning future scenarios, and we usually…
Work in Progress: Sijia Zhong’s heritage site in Lima, Peru
Sijia Zhong (MLA I AP ’23) describes her final project for the…
Work in Progress: Justin Hailey’s Tar Creek Superfund Site
Justin Hailey (MLA II ’23) describes his final project for the option…
The Queer Home: Combining Architecture with Movement to Speculate on the Future of Housing
As early as the 1960s, movement artist Simone Forti began interrogating what dance is. In…
Allowing for mutual aid, friendships, and families of choice, and the pooling of certain resources while maintaining individual household ownership and separation of finances is in many ways a subtly subversive counter to normative multifamily housing.
Jenny French on re-centering collective housing in pedagogy and practice
Redefining Wilderness: How Designers are Grappling with the Radical Interconnectedness of Nature and Culture
Two decades ago, the United Nations Convention on Biodiversity set a goal of designating 17…
Designing Sustainable Solutions for a Better Built Environment: A Meeting of Ideas at Harvard’s Center for Green Buildings and Cities
Commemorating Earth Day, the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) hosted its…
Omotara Oluwafemi (MArch ’22): Fostering Black Community and Afrofuturist Architectural Practice
A curious stranger at an airport recently asked Omotara Oluwafemi (MArch I ’22) what she…
A Call to Action: Just City Mayoral Fellows Discuss Design Interventions to Address Racial Injustice in America
“Everything we do at the GSD,” Dean Sarah Whiting said, “is affected by or affects…
The world is, and will continue to be, unavoidably unstable—environmentally, politically, and socially. Our Early Design Education programs claim that instability as a material of design. We use design to continuously question the world as we’ve come to know it.
Megan Panzano on the GSD's Early Design Education Programs
Dianne Lê (MLA ’22): A First-Generation Student Designs Spaces for Recovery, Resilience, and Community-Building
For Dianne Lê (MLA II ’22), design and research is deeply informed by her background.
Heat Magnets: Jeannette Kuo on Mitigating the Harmful Effects of Glass Building Facades
Lever House, Gordon Bunshaft and Natalie de Blois (SOM), New York City, 1952. Photo…
Climate Migration: Latin America Prepares for an Increase in Environmental Refugees
Infrastructure, in conventional imaginations, exists as a tool of permanence: bridges, roads, sidewalks, and utilities…
Sara Arman (MUP ’22): Promoting Health Equity through Community Organizing and Urban Planning
For Sara Arman (MUP ’22), community organizing is essential. When Arman graduated from Tufts with…