Affirmatively Further: Fair Housing After Ferguson
Daniel D’Oca
When asked to name the most surprising finding of the Ferguson Commission, which was tasked…
Topic Housing
The ongoing conversation about housing speculates on design’s capacity to address a range of disparate agendas and priorities. Investigations imagine housing as a central agent of change, responding to international, generational, cultural, demographic, psychological, and environmental issues in order to develop a more inclusive and sustainable engagement moving forward.
Hutong Metabolism, Beijing
Zhang Ke
Hutongs in Beijing, the traditional courtyard-and-alley system of urban dwelling that is the most…
Retrofitting the (post?) Industrial Metropolis: Housing and Economic Growth in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area and the Bajío Region
Diane Davis, Jose Castillo
Mexico’s national authorities are rethinking their housing policy frameworks, so as to connect questions of…
Living in the Kinetic City: Mapping Housing in a Landscape of Flux, Mumbai
Rahul Mehrotra
Increasing concentrations of global flows have exacerbated the inequalities and spatial divisions of social…
Barcelona-based architect Anna Puigjaner winner of the 2016 Wheelwright Prize
The Harvard University Graduate School of Design is pleased to name Barcelona architect Anna Puigjaner the winner of the 2016 Wheelwright Prize, a $100,000 traveling fellowship aimed at fostering investigative approaches to contemporary design
High-Rise, High-Density
This book is the result of the High-Rise, High-Density studio taught by Jonathan Sergison and…
Habitation in Extreme Environments
The extreme climatic conditions of the North introduce a design paradox for architects. The fragile environmental conditions require incisive designs that respond to irregular loading from strong winds, heavy snowfalls, avalanche risk zones, and extreme cold. These phenomena are often instantaneous, sudden, and unpredictable. Risk…
Living Anatomy: An Exhibition About Housing
Living Anatomy brings together a selection of projects that demonstrate innovative solutions for housing in urban contexts. The exhibition focuses on a 50-year period from 1965 to 2015 that witnessed the waning of Modernism and the ensuing controversy about its legacy. Housing was a central…
Family Planning
As family configurations evolve and atomize, and “exceptions” become the norm—divorced, blended, solo, cooperative, childless,…
Habitation in Extreme Environments
Habitation in Extreme Environments was a studio of the Department of Architecture at the Harvard…