Stoss Landscape Urbanism, the firm co-led by Chris Reed (adjunct associate professor of landscape architecture), has taken a slew of recent honors, including the Syracuse competition for Movement on Main and two 2013 Boston Society of Landscape Architecture Awards.
Keojin Jin and Juhun Lee (both MDesS ‘14) are the winners of the 1st Radcliff Public Art Competition for their design Saturate the Moment, selected from submissions by graduate and undergraduate students from all over Harvard. The work will be installed this summer and will be on view from September 2013 to June 2014.
Matthew Gin (PhD student) recently was awarded the Philip Hofer Prize for Collecting Books or Art.
On 5/9 at 6:30 p.m., the Van Alen Institute in N.Y. will present a lecture by Peter Rowe (professor of architecture and urban design) and conversation with John Hong (adjunct associate professor of architecture and MArch ‘96) and Jinhee Park (design critic in architecture and MArch '02) as part of the exhibit Deconstruction/Construction: The Cheonggyecheon River Project in Seoul.
Six former chairs of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design gathered on Tuesday to honor Preston Scott Cohen, the outgoing chair of the department.
Antoine Picon’s recent book Ornament: The Politics of Architecture and Subjectivity highlights the return of ornament in contemporary architecture and argues the subjective and political implications of ornament throughout history.
The Horizon House project created by a team of GSD students is selected to receive top prize in the Retreat in Nature competition and will be built this fall.
The Harvard Graduate School of Design has announced the appointment of Iñaki Ábalos as Chair of the Department of Architecture.
Farshid Moussavi’s (professor of architecture) firm FMA has won a competition to design a residential complex at Jardins de la Lironde in Montpellier, France.
The inaugural issue of Landscape Architecture Frontiers, guest edited by Xiaoxan Lu (MLA '12), features an introductory essay by Pierre Bélanger (associate professor of landscape architecture) and writing by Emily Schlickman (MLA '12), Sara Jacobs (MLA '12), and Cathy De Almeida (MLA '11). Chief editor is visiting professor of landscape architecture Kongjian Yu (DDes '95).