Urban Theory Lab profiled by Harvard Weatherhead Center
The work of the Urban Theory Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Design was recently profiled in Epicenter, the web newsletter of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
The work of the Urban Theory Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Design was recently profiled in Epicenter, the web newsletter of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
Martin Bechthold (professor of architectural technology, co-director of the DDes Program and director of the GSD Technology Platform) and a group of GSD students joined hundreds of artists, designers, fabricators and industry leaders at Rob|Arch 2014, a biannual conference created by the Association for Robots in Architecture.
Dean Mohsen Mostafavi of the Graduate School of Design and Dean Cherry Murray of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences announced the winner of the Deans' Design Challenge during Demo Day at the Harvard Innovation Lab.
In March, the deans announced 18 finalists in the deans innovation challenges, including four from the GSD. We sat down with the Design Challenge finalists to find out more about their propsals and what winning the challenge—and its $50,000 prize—would mean to them.
Wendy Fok's Resilient Modular Systems project is a finalist in the 2014 Deans' Design Challenge.
Matan Mayer’s MateriaLEASE project is a finalist in the 2014 Deans’ Design Challenge.
Dimitris Papanikolaou's (PhD candidate) project Cloudcommuting is a finalist in the 2014 Deans’ Design Challenge.
Eve Blau (adjunct professor of the history of urban form) spoke in Berlin at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt symposium City, Religion, Capitalism: Turning Points of Civilization, which featured the world premier of three films directed by Alexander Kluge.
First year DDes student Somayeh Chitchian has won the ESRI Development Center Student of the Year Award for her work “Middle Eastern Immigration Landscape in America.”
Oficinaa, the firm of Silvia Benedito (assistant professor in landscape architecture) and Alexander Häusler (MArch II '04) is featured in Landscape Architecture Frontiers with the project “Lichtung.”