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A sustainable future for the Huerta: Kevin Fu (MArch ’18) documents studio...
Led by Aga Khan Design Critic in Landscape Architecture Arancha Muñoz-Criado (MLA ’92), the Spring 2018 option studio “Ecology, Culture and Identity: Revitalizing the Cultural Landscape of the Huerta...
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What’s in a basket? Students explore industrial weaving in Stephen Burks’...
“I think I have a basket, but is it one?” asks first-year Master in Design Studies student Jimmy Pan as he considers the multi-colored vessel he's fashioned out of interlocking card stock and tape. Pan...
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The Trans-Siberian Railway: A borderless landscape ripe for reimagination
It is hard to avoid superlatives when discussing Siberia: Covering over five million square miles, the region comprises 77% of Russia’s land area yet has a population of only 36 million; the...
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Landscape studio Superbloom mines speculative art for new ways of imagining...
About once every decade, a display of colorful wildflowers erupts across the California desert. Called a “superbloom,” this cornucopia of red, orange and yellow occurs on the rare occasion when...
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Zoom! The Archigram Collection Arrives at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Imagine yourself a couple of months out of architecture school recalling the moments and projects that helped change your view of the world—a powerful exhibition, a design project that got your...
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Making Next to Forest: Toshiko Mori’s studio demonstrates how design...
The argument that forests should remain untouched by human beings poses counterintuitive but considerable risks. At best, it suggests the lingering influence of nineteenth-century romantic views about...
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Silvia Benedito’s new book Atmosphere Anatomies explores weather, climate,...
Much of modern civilization has been shaped by a fundamental need for shelter, and much of design by a fundamental need to provide it. Designers throughout history have taken climate and weather as...
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An Island in Flux: Envisioning a more resilient Nantucket
Nantucket offers a vivid illustration of the principle of flux, the idea that everything is in a constant state of becoming. There is a powerfully optimistic sense to this ancient Greek concept: on one...
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How an urban design studio is proposing a more equitable approach to Boston’s...
Over the past decade, the Boston/Cambridge area has attracted tremendous attention and investment as a global center for technology innovation. Major hospitals and research institutions (so-called...
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Designing Food Security in Rural Mississippi
For nearly a decade, Mississippi has ranked as America’s hungriest state. Nearly 19 percent of its citizens—about 600,000 people—face food insecurity, including one in four children. This catastrophe...
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