#GSDNews
—We are excited to welcome Sarah Whiting as our next dean! 🎉 Whiting will assume deanship on July 1, 2019, succeeding Mohsen Mostafavi, who is stepping down after more than 11 years of distinguished service.
Happy birthday Josep Lluís Sert (1902–1983)! Sert served as dean of the GSD from 1953 to 1969 and established the first degree program in urban design.
📸: Sert Collection at the Frances Loeb Library
.
@UncleRemusChkn
has been selected as the winner of the 2021
#WheelwrightPrize
! Barnes's proposal "Anatomical Transformations in Classical Architecture" will examine classical Roman and Italian architecture through contributions of the African Diaspora.
We are pleased to announce three appointments to the position of Professor in Practice of Architecture: Jeanne Gang (MArch ’93), Sharon Johnston (MArch ’95), and Mark Lee (MArch ’95), effective July 1, 2018.
The GSD is happy to announce the appointments of Ana Maria León Crespo
@anamarialeon
as Associate Professor of Architecture, Hannah Teicher as Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, and Jonathan Grinham as Assistant Professor of Architecture.
Members of the GSD Class of 2022 gathered at
#GundHall
this morning for the academic procession into
@Harvard
Yard 🎓🎉
Join our livestreams:
9:30a ET University Exercises
~12:15p ET GSD Diploma Ceremony
#HarvardGSD22
#Harvard22
We are excited to introduce The Future of the American City initiative—a multi-year, multi-city urban study project aimed at helping cities tackle urgent challenges. First phase will focus on
#Miami
with support from the
@knightfdn
. Learn more:
We are pleased to reveal our Fall 2019 public program of lectures, conferences, and symposia, all free and open to the public 🙌
#GSDEvents
📷:
@fridaescobedo
, La Tallera, pc: Rafael Gamo. Escobedo presents our Open House Lecture on Oct 31.
CALL FOR APPLICANTS: The Daniel Urban Kiley Teaching Fellowship is awarded annually to an emerging designer whose work articulates the potential for landscape as a medium of design in the public realm. Deadline: Feb 1, 2018.
"I relish being part of our collective future and, most importantly, I’m provoked and inspired as I anticipate working with all of you to make it happen."
A big welcome to
#SarahWhiting
on her first day as dean! Read her full message to the GSD community:
MArch II candidate Alejandro Saldarriaga () helped to develop an outdoor dining concept made with scaffolding. Working with chefs and gov officials, a prototype was built this fall in Bogotá's Plaza de la Perseverancia.
@ArchDaily
:
Happy
#EarthDay
!
Drone footage of Ireland's Grianan of Aileach by Eduardo Zizumbo Colunga (MAUD '19) from the studio trip for Field Work: Brexit, Borders, and Imagining a New City-Region for the Irish Northwest.
Get ready for
#TokyoOlympics
by looking back at the national gymnasiums built for the Tokyo Olympic Games of 1964.
The Kenzo Tange Archive [丹下健三アーカイブ], Gift of Mrs. Takako Tange, 2011. Yoyogi Gymnasium (Tokyo). Frances Loeb Library, Harvard GSD.
For their first assignment, students in the interdisciplinary option studio Affordability Now! created board games that explore aspects of affordable housing production in Los Angeles.
📸 Instructor Dan D’Oca
This year "Structural Design II" adapted its final design-build project to use spaghetti, so all students could model at home 🍝 Instructors: Martin Bechthold and
@garciadelcast
. Browse spaghetti bridge designs and watch students test their models:
Welcome packages organized by Design Critic in
#LandscapeArchitecture
Emily Wettstein were recently mailed to incoming MLA I students across the world 💌
"[Frederick Law] Olmsted is considered the father of landscape architecture, but this body of work is rarely talked about," says Prof. Sara Zewde of Olmsted's 1861 book "Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom."
The student-led initiative Transforming the Timeline features a diverse set of women who have shaped the world through their leadership in design, activism, and art.
#GSDNews
—“I am proud of what we have accomplished together over the past 11 years, and I look forward to witnessing the School continue its collaborative ethos and engagement with Harvard and the world in the years to come.” Mohsen Mostafavi
Happy birthday to
#WalterGropius
! The first chair of the department of architecture (1937) within the newly established GSD would have turned 135 today. [Photo by Louis Held; courtesy of the Frances Loeb Library.]
This
#VeteransDay
take a look inside Fall 2018
#LandscapeArchitecture
option studio Arlington National Cemetery: Engaging Hallowed Ground, led by Marty Poirier
@PWPLA
. Sketches by Anson Wong (MLA ’19); desk crit with Jiyun Jeong (MLA ’19).
.
@RealRemyTheCat
🐈 stopped by the GSD yesterday to offer purrs of encouragement during
#gsdfinalreviews
and to take a cat nap in the trays. 📸: sam.h.sheffer via Instagram.
Considered one of the most influential architectural publications of the 20th century, all nine full editions of "Archigram" are now part of
#GSDSpecialCollections
at the Frances Loeb Library.
"Displacement traumatizes people and destroys wealth of all kinds. Repeated displacement takes even more of the wealth and integrity of the weakened population," writes Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove in her contribution to "The Just City Essays" (2015).
Design Critic
@julia_watson_
’s lush and meticulous new book, "Lo—TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism" (
@TASCHEN
), provides a blueprint for sustainable architecture in the 21st century.
Congratulations to Senior Research Fellow Susan Fainstein
@HarvardUP
on being awarded the 2020 Sir Peter Hall Award for Lifetime Contribution to the Field by
@regstud
🎉
"Le Corbusier designed the Unité d’Habitation following the Modulor, a mathematical ratio he inferred from dimensions of the human body. Seems like my tiny legs had not been part of the equation."
—Jacobé Huet (PhD Year 4)
#HGSDLoveStories
❤️
Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 Cambridge turkeys seeking refuge with friendly GSD vegans were photographed earlier this week by Sarah Pumphrey (MArch I '23) outside Gund Hall.
The High Line in New York has won the 2017 Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design, the foremost award recognizing achievement in this field. Big congrats
@highlinenyc
@fieldoperations
@dsrny
#PietOudolf
!
Photo by Timothy Schenck.
Your
#momentofzen
before classes officially start tomorrow. Welcome back!
MLA students in Landscape Representation III use the geomorphology table to simulate erosion and deposition based on different landform manipulation. Video thanks to harvardlandscapearchitecture on IG.
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Lee (MArch '95) as Chair of the Department of Architecture, effective July 1, 2018. (pc:
@ericstaud
)
"The opportunity, though, is for much more trans-disciplinary collaboration, where design is a part of problem setting and policy making—not just designing for the outcome."
Prof
@tonilgriffin
- via
@MetropolisMag
"As I’ve continued to study nests, I’ve come to understand nesting as less about establishing a permanent home and more about the art of living lightly on the planet."
—Prof Jeanne Gang
@studiogang
on the inspiration she finds from birds nests - via
@dwell
There was so much enthusiasm about the spaghetti bridges we shared from "Structural Design II," we decided to spotlight a few more designs 🍝 Instructors: Martin Bechthold and
@garciadelcast
. Browse projects and watch students test their models:
"COVID-19 makes the politics of space and the quality of the built environment incredibly visible," says the GSD's
@Malkits
. "Building for health is not just about the healthcare system but the entire city and built environment."
#GSDNews
—We are pleased to announce that the GSD has selected
@HerzogdeMeuron
, design consultant, and
@BBBarch
, architect of record, to design a significant transformation of the School’s primary campus building,
#GundHall
.
We are excited to announce that
@tejucole
, photography critic
@NYTmag
and the Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing
@Harvard
, will be the keynote speaker at the GSD's 2019 Class Day exercises.
#Harvard19
"At Harvard, because of Gropius and Bauhaus, we learned to look at landscape differently – from conception to realisation – as something abstract rather than decorative," Cornelia Hahn Oberlander (BLA ’47) via
@wallpapermag
Extended pedestrian sidewalks, narrow lanes for
#autonomousvehicles
, new trees and street vegetation, and two-way biking on Boston’s Newbury Street? The GSD's
@andres_sevtsuk
presented hypothetical post-AV urban landscapes during a recent keynote:
TODAY at 6:30p ET—Join Daniela Bleichmar, Professor of Art History and History at
@USC
, for a lecture titled “The history of cochineal and the changing value of Mexican indigenous environmental knowledge, ca. 1500–1800.”
#GSDEvents
Register:
Our thoughts are with Dean Sarah M. Whiting who announced today that she has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and will be taking a "partial step back" from daily leadership responsibilities as she pursues treatment.
"Designers play an essential role in the prevention, control, and response of many of these diseases, so getting involved is not a matter of a choice anymore, but a duty."
—Elvis Garcia, lecturer in architecture and graduate of
@HarvardChanSPH
Congratulations to Toshiko Mori on being one of this year's 13 American Academy of Arts and Letters inductees! At the GSD, Mori was the first woman to earn tenure and the first to chair the department of architecture.
2018 Rouse Visiting Artist
@chinchilla1970
talks about her history-making
#Oscars
nomination for the production design of
#BlackPanther
and more in a new story by Sala Elise Patterson on our website. Read it ahead of tonight's
#AcademyAwards
:
"Pink is this color that doesn’t seem like it is going away anytime soon after gaining traction in the mid-2010s."
—The GSD's Jennifer Bonner talks current color trends with
@InteriorDesign
@colsen22
"Social Justice today is not only about the redistribution of resources; it should also promote the redistribution of knowledges," write Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman in "The Just City Essays" (2015).
We are republishing one essay a week from the volume.
#GSDNews
—We are pleased to announce the appointment of Rahul Mehrotra (MAUD ’87) as the Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design and the John T. Dunlop Professor in Housing and Urbanization, effective July 1, 2020.
@HarvardUP
@HarvardUD
"We need to slow down a little bit and look more closely at what insects are telling us, at what their presence is telling us, at what their chemical composition is telling us."
—
@genevawirth
@scape_studio
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Yasmin Vobis, and Sara Zewde are joining the GSD’s Faculty of Design effective July 1, 2020. See all our faculty appointments and promotions:
Option studio "Mass Timber and the Scandinavian Effect" is participating in
@ArchFoundation
's 100 Day Studio with live presentations from students on April 15 and 16 at noon EDT (5p GMT+1). Instructors: Jennifer Bonner and Hanif Kara
@AKT_II
.
Zoom link:
The GSD Class of 2021 completed 145 theses! Here, Mena Ahmed (MArch I/MLA I AP '21) shares a look at how she captured her thesis, "Hyper-Real Estate: 501(c)(3) Park," which was advised by Iman Fayyad.
#HarvardGSD21
#Harvard21
TODAY at 7:30p ET—Bryan C. Lee, Jr
@colloqate
and the founders of The Black School discuss Black radical pedagogical experiments, past, present, and future. They will be joined by the GSD's Toshiko Mori and Tara Oluwafemi.
#GSDEvents
Register:
Third Semester
#Architecture
Core coordinator Jeannette Kuo leads a discussion with students surrounded by their final exhibition. The studio was tasked with designing a multiprogram urban building for a new
@NSF
outpost in Boston's West End.
📸: Christopher Ball (MAUD '23)
TODAY at 6:00p ET—Join
@KosherSoul
for the keynote address of the "Landscapes of Slavery, Landscapes of Freedom" conference, titled “Beyond ‘Slave Food’: Re-Organizing the Perceptions and Potential of African American Foodways.”
#GSDEvents
Register: