The Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Kate Kennen (MLA ’05) and Niall Kirkwood recently coauthored Phyto: Principles and Resources for Site Remediation and Landscape Design, published in May by Routledge.
Along with a new name, architecture and urban design firm Machado Silvetti has four new principals, including three Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni.
Rick Lowe—public-art pioneer, 2002 Loeb Fellow, 2014 MacArthur Fellow, and founder of Houston-based initiative Project Row Houses—addressed the Class of 2015 and their families at the GSD's Class Day on Wednesday, May 27.
The Urban Land Institute (ULI) awarded its 2015 ULI Apgar Urban Land Award to Dan Malone (MDes ’14) and Richard Peiser, Michael D. Spear Professor of Real Estate Development at the GSD, for their article “The Making of Miami Beach’s Mixed-Use Garage” on the famed 1111 Lincoln Road parking garage project.
April’s InFORMing Justice: A Conversation about the Role of Design in Building Equitable Communities event was the subject of a recent Al Jazeera America article.
Stephanie Hsia and Lara Mehling (both MLA ’15) have been announced as first-prize winners in the Keney Park Design Contest, a joint project of the City of Hartford and the Garden Club of Hartford.
Rosetta Elkin, assistant professor of landscape architecture, opens her new exhibition Live Matter on Tuesday, May 5, offering a meditation on plant life from the perspective that is the most concealed: through the roots
Eve Blau, adjunct professor of the history of urban form, spoke at the Japan Society in New York on April 1, 2015.
Team Better Block recently received a $155,000 grant from the Knight Foundation to pursue an innovative project in Akron, Ohio. They’ll be converting excess housing stock in a Bhutanese neighborhood into boutique hostels and cultural hubs utilizing the Airbnb platform. Loeb Andrew Howard, co-founder of Team Better Block, describes the project in the LOEBlog.
The surprise guest at the TED2015 conference in Vancouver this month was Theaster Gates (LF '11), whose talk will inspire both skeptics and believers in the power of design and culture to transform communities. Watch it now, or explore the entire conference schedule.