The World Was Their Garden: Plant Introductions at the US Department of Agriculture, 1898–1984 In 1898, the US Department of Agriculture established the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction (SPI) to systematically collect and introduce plants of economic interest to US soil. Employing a…
Text by Yueyan Li (MArch ’21) and Son Vu (MArch ’21), winners of the 2019 Clifford Wong Prize in Housing It is hard to get in and out of Somerville, and true public spaces are few and far between. Though several nodes do exist,…
“Grayscale” is based on an architecture thesis by Khoa Vu (MArch ’19) of the same title. Thesis advisor: Preston Scott Cohen Grayscale is a term used in computation to describe the range of gray shades from white to black. As a framework for design,…
By Kenner N. Carmody (Master in Design Studies/Energy & Environment, Class of 2019), through the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture Research Fellowship 2019 This exhibition is designed to provide a small insight and broad introduction to the climate, culture, and context…
“Now Arriving: A Transit Landscape for Manhattan” presents the work of the eponymous Fall 2018 option studio, led by Gary Hilderbrand—the third in a series examining technological, operational, and spatial changes to mobility and public realm patterns in Manhattan. This studio and exhibition…
Thesis project “Death, Divorce, Down-sizing, Dislocation, and (Now) Display: A Self-Storage Center for a More Exhibitionist Future” by Hyojin Kwon (MArch ’18) won the 2018 James Templeton Kelley Prize, offered by the Boston Society of Architects and awarded annually for the best final design project…
Through the Grounded Visionaries campaign, the GSD endowed 25 new fellowships—an increase of 60 percent. We are very grateful to the many individuals, corporations, and foundations that have stepped up to support financial aid for students. These fellowships help broaden the diversity of the…
Organized by artist Luisa Lambri, with Mark Lee, Chair of the Department of Architecture and Professor in Practice of Architecture. Based on a workshop conducted by artist Luisa Lambri in January 2018, this exhibition features students’ photographs of the interior of Harvard University’s Carpenter Center designed by Le Corbusier. The project…
By Zahra Safaverdi (MArch ’17), Irving Innovation Fellow. In recent history, the distinction between the product of imagination, the physical manifestation of the image, and that which belongs to the reality of quotidian life is clear. This clarity and emphasis on keeping the realm of the…
By Stefano Romagnoli, Master of Landscape Architecture Candidate, 2019 Infrastructures are an intrinsically human and cultural phenomenon, which have occurred for millennia to sustain civilizations of many scales and levels of technology. “Global Energy Landscapes” is an essay on the new capabilities and responsibilities of…