Transformation of Nature and the Nature of Transformation
John Dixon Hunt
The topic of this seminar is how do landscape architects ‘transform” the materials they invoke. …
John Dixon Hunt
The topic of this seminar is how do landscape architects ‘transform” the materials they invoke. …
Doug Reed
This course explores the expressive potential of plants as a central medium…
Rosetta S. Elkin
Confronting the reality of environmental degradation requires more than remote sensing, statistical…
by Jane Philbrick (MDes CC ’16) Phytoremediation, a remedial technique using living plant…
Platform 8: An Index of Design & Research is a winner in Design Observer/AIGA’s annual 50 Books | 50 Covers competition, honored in this year's Books category.
March 19, 2012–May 17, 2012 Eric Howeler, Curator On March 11, 2011, an 8.9 magnitude earthquake off the eastern coast of Japan sent 40 foot high waves crashing into the coastal city of Miyako, overwhelming the tsunami barriers and damaging the Fukushima Nuclear…
Erratics proposed a speculative genealogy of rock-based landscape architecture, featuring work associated with Harvard University, the Graduate School of Design, and the Department of Landscape Architecture. This array of sites, scales, and approaches was paired with a presentation of projects by Montreal-based Claude Cormier (MDes…
This exhibition of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates’ (MVVA) five recent projects explores a rarely discussed aspect of the firm’s work: the varied fields of research that inform their projects. Although technical research was often fundamental to earlier work, such as the series of experiments with ice-water walls…
November 01, 2010–December 19, 2010 Emily Waugh, curator Platform 3 considers the expanded boundaries of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. It features not only selections of work produced at the GSD during the 2009–2010 academic year, but also the potential of that…
Nazneen Cooper, curator Niall Kirkwood, curator…