GSD begins patient isolation hood (PIH) design and fabrication alongside ongoing PPE efforts
Amid ongoing fabrication and delivery of face masks and shields, Harvard Graduate School of…
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Material Processes and Systems Group debuts ceramic installation at Cevisama 2018
The structural limits of ceramic tiles are being put to the test in…
Material Processes and Systems Group installs pavilion at 2017 Cevisama
The annual Cevisama fair is the largest exhibition of ceramics and terracotta in the world,…
Martin Bechthold
Kumagai Professor of Architectural Technology & Co-Director of the Doctor in Design Studies Program
Material Processes and Systems Group students exhibit at 2016 Cevisama
The annual Cevisama fair is the largest exhibition of ceramics and terracotta in the world, and this year a team of students from the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Material Processes and Systems Group (MaP+S) are presenting what Architect’s Newspaper called “one of the most advanced and exciting projects in the entire fair.”
Experiments in ceramics research on display in Valencia
The Material Processes and Systems (MaPS) group at Harvard University has been experimenting. Protoceramics is an ongoing project geared toward producing novel material formations with a special interest in tectonic performance.
Bending light: the GSD/Wyss Institute collaboration
The GSD and the Wyss Institute Adaptive Material Technologies platform have unveiled their first jointly developed patent pending system: the Dynamic Daylight Control System. The new prototypes have the potential to revolutionize building lighting systems with dramatic environmental and economic impacts.
Weaving buildings: MDes students push the limits of ceramic materials
MDes students Jared Friedman, Olga Mesa and Hea Min Kim (all MDes in Technology ’15) have married age-old ceramic materials with modern processes to create beautiful, innovative building surfaces. Their work caught the attention of Wired.
Terracotta Bricks
Unfamiliar with many of the properties and methods of working with ceramics—armed only with a…
Life Cycle Design
The built environment is not only the culprit of major energy consumption and CO2 emissions worldwide, its construction also uses up the majority of material resources of our planet. Yet we continue to evaluate building efficiency largely based on energy consumption, ignoring embodied energy, CO2…
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