GSD at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale
Harvard GSD students collaborate with Biennale curator Rem Koolhaas on central exhibition; faculty and alumni on exhibit; launch of redesigned Harvard Design Magazine
Harvard GSD students collaborate with Biennale curator Rem Koolhaas on central exhibition; faculty and alumni on exhibit; launch of redesigned Harvard Design Magazine
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.
Two of the 3 winners of the KPF Traveling Fellowships this year are MArch I students Kevin Murray and Joanie Tom. The awardees were selected by a jury that includes Cathleen McGuigan (editor of Architectural Record and LF ’93) and Eric Höweler (assistant professor of architecture).
Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (GSD), is pleased to announce that Jose M. Ahedo, an architect based in Barcelona, Spain, is the winner of the 2014 Wheelwright Prize, a $100,000 traveling fellowship aimed at fostering investigative approaches to contemporary design.
Theaster Gates (LF '11) now has an extra $3.5 million to put toward using the arts and culture to strengthen communities, courtesy of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Read about it in the LOEBlog.
Michael Van Valkenburgh, Eliot professor in practice of landscape architecture, will be the Harvard Graduate School of Design Class Day speaker on May 28.
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.