Horizon House was developed by a team of eight students at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and was selected First Place in the 3rd LIXIL International University Architectural Competition, held on April 20, 2013 in Tokyo. The competition focused on the concept of…
Frano Violich
Brick: Thick/Thin aims to challenge perceived notions of brick and its use in architecture…
Chuck Hoberman, lecturer in architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, is part of…
Jane Hutton, Kiel Moe, Daniel Ibanez
Ironically, architects and landscape architects are their most vague in the act of specification. Designers…
Martin Bechthold (DDes '01), professor of architectural technology at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, recently published the book Ceramic Material Systems in Architecture and Interior Design
The annual Cevisama fair is the largest exhibition of ceramics and terracotta in the world, and this year a team of students from the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Material Processes and Systems Group (MaP+S) are presenting what Architect’s Newspaper called “one of the most advanced and exciting projects in the entire fair.”
Cold Spot: Evaporative Cooling through Ceramics, a research-build project that investigates passive cooling strategies developed by the…
by Kritika Dhanda, Alkistis Mavroeidi, and Jake Rudin (all MDes ‘16) How can we create…
Students at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design teamed up with the Harvard Ceramics Program to design innovative techniques for ceramic materials. Led by Leire Asensio-Villoria, lecturer in architecture and landscape architecture, and DDes candidate Felix Raspall, the “Ceramic Materials Formations” exhibition at Gallery 224 in Allston showcased the students' exploration of fabrication techniques and the behavior of different ceramic materials.
Innovation fosters collaboration, and at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design important and exciting cross-university dialogues are always taking place. Leire Asensio-Villoria’s “Ceramic Materials Formations” exhibition is a case in point.