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Bas Smets Teaches How to Hack Urban Landscapes for a Changing Climate

In the Attica region of Greece this August, says Bas Smets, wildfires ripped through forests…

Dec 18, 2024

Features

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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…

Dec 16, 2024

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An Advocate for Architecture: Jhaelen Hernandez-Eli

Jhaelen Hernandez-Eli speaking at The Met. Nearly twenty years after his graduation, Jhaelen…

Dec 16, 2024

Features

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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…

Dec 4, 2024

Podcasts

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Nexus Podcast: Silas Munro + Tobi Ashiru

Season 4, Episode 3: The work of Polymode and Poche Design both give reference…

Dec 9, 2024

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Remembering Joseph Edward Brown (1947–2024)

Joseph E. Brown, c. 2000. Photo courtesy of Jacinta McCann. Joseph Edward Brown…

Dec 6, 2024

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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…

Nov 20, 2024

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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…

Nov 20, 2024

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CHANGING CLIMATES: Projects and Research by Bas Smets

exhibition dates: OCT 28 – DEC 20, 2024

Bas Smets, Curator

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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…

Nov 15, 2024

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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.

Nov 13, 2024

OP-ED

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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…

Oct 31, 2024

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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…

Oct 28, 2024

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An Interview with Richard Sennett: Democracy and Urban Form

Sociologist and urban theorist Richard Sennett. Photo by Thomas Struth. In fall 1981,…

Oct 24, 2024

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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…

Oct 23, 2024

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