Flood Control as a Social Movement: Coastal Communities Adapt to a Wetter Reality
Students in the project-based seminar “Rockaway’s Housing Superstorm: Between Rising Waters and Climate Gentrification,” led…
An Advocate for Architecture: Jhaelen Hernandez-Eli
Jhaelen Hernandez-Eli speaking at The Met. Nearly twenty years after his graduation, Jhaelen…
Forests Are Cultural Constructs: Uncovering an Ancient Harvesting Technique in the Blue Hills
One hundred thirty years ago, environmentalist and landscape architect Charles Eliot walked the…
Nexus Podcast: Silas Munro + Tobi Ashiru
Season 4, Episode 3: The work of Polymode and Poche Design both give reference…
Remembering Joseph Edward Brown (1947–2024)
Joseph E. Brown, c. 2000. Photo courtesy of Jacinta McCann. Joseph Edward Brown…
The Renovated Gund Hall: A Paradigm for the Revitalization of Mid-Twentieth-Century Architecture
Harvard Graduate School of Design students returned for the fall 2024 semester to…
The GSD Community Feels at Home in the Smithsonian Design Triennial
Challenging and wide-ranging conceptions of “home” underpin the design projects on view at the Cooper…
The Body in Intimate Spaces: Designing Toilets and Sewage Systems in Laila Seewang and Chris Reed’s FLUSH Studio
The bathroom is inevitably a space where we find ourselves spending time each…
A New Way of Seeing: The Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis
In 1965, as students protested the escalating war in Vietnam, President Lyndon B.
Can a National Housing Policy Solve the Affordability Crisis in Cities?
In the United States, where over 80 percent of the population lives in cities, a…
An Interview with Jay Wickersham: The Architecture and Legacy of H. H. Richardson
Foremost among nineteenth-century American architects stands H. H. Richardson. While most frequently associated with his…
An Interview with Richard Sennett: Democracy and Urban Form
Sociologist and urban theorist Richard Sennett. Photo by Thomas Struth. In fall 1981,…
Ask Me How: Germane Barnes on Establishing a Black Columnar Order from a Place of Joy
If you want to reach Germane Barnes, ask a young person for help. “All my…