Lecture

Aerial view of a few buildings and green space.

Public Lecture Series

Lecture

Mar 23, 2023

06:30PM – 08:00PM

GSD, Gund Hall Piper Auditorium

Lecture

Department of Landscape Architecture

Free and open to the public

Photo Essay

Aerial View of Dorchester Bay with empty parking lot on the left and ocean on the right. Beach and a skyline of Boston in a distance.

How an urban design studio is proposing a more equitable approach to Boston’s building boom

Over the past decade, the Boston/Cambridge area has attracted tremendous attention…

Oct 19, 2022

Lecture

A walkway leads to a building complex with many windows and some trees in a plaza.

Public Lecture Series

Lecture

Oct 3, 2022

12:30PM – 02:00PM

GSD, Gund Hall Gund 112 Stubbins

Lecture

Department of Urban Planning and Design

Free and open to the public

Lecture

Three images of a lush forest near a city and a construction site, from above.

Public Lecture Series

Lecture

Feb 9, 2023

06:30PM – 08:00PM

GSD, Gund Hall Piper Auditorium

Lecture

Department of Urban Planning and Design

Free and open to the public

Studio Reports

Orange cover text on top of a faded skyline of Los Angeles with trees in the foreground.

By Chris Reed

August 2022

Features

A concrete floor patched by pieces of metal

Environmental Justice, Energy Infrastructure, Migration and War: What Role Does Design Play in Mitigating a Crisis?

At their speculative edge, the design professions flourish in envisioning future scenarios, and we usually…

Jul 12, 2022

Program

Poster with small images from New York City in circles, and blue text advertising the Practice Plenary event.

Program

Nov 13, 2021

09:00AM – 12:00PM

GUND Gund 510

Program

Free and open to the public

Thesis

Drawing of a boulevard with grocery store, ice cream stall and people strolling around

Thesis

Stephen Gray, Faculty Advisor

Spring 2022

Thesis

Rendering split in two parts horizontally. The upper parts shows buildings in the city context and below part shows the underground part in black and white colors

Thesis

Mohsen Mostafavi, Faculty Advisor

Spring 2022

Student Work

Outdoor space with four palm trees, colorful advertisements and people sitting on benches

Student Work

Elizabeth Whittaker and Corey Zehngebot, Instructors

Fall 2021

Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Topic Urbanism

Daniel Urban Kiley Lecture: Bas Smets, “Biospheric Urbanism”

How an urban design studio is proposing a more equitable approach to Boston’s building boom

Sascha Delz, “Co-op Urbanism – A Co-operative Response to Common Myths of Housing Production”

Ana María Durán Calisto, “The Deep History of Amazonian Agroecological Urban Forests: Why Do They Matter Today?”

Wild Ways: A Fifth Ecology for Metropolitan Los Angeles

Environmental Justice, Energy Infrastructure, Migration and War: What Role Does Design Play in Mitigating a Crisis?

2021 Practice Plenary – Practice, Public Space, and the Crisis of COVID-19: Learning from NYC’s Open Restaurants and Open Streets Programs

2022 Urban Design Thesis Prize: Rogelio Cadena’s “How Are ‘We’ Living? Reevaluating the Chicago Boulevard System”

2022 James Templeton Kelley Prize: Qin Ye Chen’s “Fluid Permanence – A Shotengai-Archive in Tokyo”

2022 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, Third Prize: “Urban Health Catalyst”

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