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The ReefLine: An Unprecedented Underwater Sculpture Park Brings Art, Marine Habitats, and Public Education to Miami Beach

Render of Carlos Betancourt and Alberto Latorre’s Miami Reef Star. Courtesy of the ReefLine.

May 2, 2025

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A photograph of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Atlanta, Georgia.

Harvard Graduate School of Design Honors Alumnus J. Max Bond Jr. and Reckons with the University’s History of Racial Discrimination

Widely known during his life as the “dean of African American architects,”…

Apr 28, 2025

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Yen-Ting Cho on Transdisciplinary Practice: Interweaving the Human and the Digital

Yen-Ting Cho. Photographer: Han Yueh Liang. “Video installation, sculpture, ceramic, printmaking, textile—our work…

Apr 28, 2025

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Kengo Kuma Urges a Return to Nature

Kengo Kuma & Associates, National Stadium, Tokyo, Japan, 2019. The wood planks are the same…

Apr 17, 2025

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The Final Experience is Beyond Our Control: An-My Lê Speaks About Landscape, Photography, and the Construction of Memory

This month marks the fiftieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon, a time…

Apr 16, 2025

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Rest Stops at the Top of the World

For the last 30 years, motorists in Norway have driven winding roads into…

Apr 16, 2025

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A photography of the The Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund in Rwanda showing low modernist buildings in a verdant, mountainous landscape.

The Plural Forms of African Landscape Architecture

“Landscape is a way of beholding that is inclusive of nature and culture, of people…

Apr 2, 2025

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Jeremy Ficca on Biogenic Materials: Where High Tech and Low Tech Meet

Students in the “Material Embodiment” studio, taught by Jeremy Ficca, fabricating hempcrete blocks.*…

Apr 8, 2025

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Paperwork: An Interview with Karel Martens and the Martens and Martens Studio

A pair of colorful calendars appeared around Gund Hall during the 2024–2025 academic year to…

Apr 17, 2025

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Peter Chermayeff on Taking Risks and Embracing Collaboration

Cambridge Seven Associates and Buckminster Fuller, US Pavilion at Expo ’67, Montreal. Photo: Guilhermeduartegarcia,…

Mar 20, 2025

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When the Client is a Nation: Eric Henson’s GSD Students Collaborate with Indigenous Tribes

Inside the Peabody Museum on a windy October day, leaders of the…

Feb 28, 2025

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Landscape Architecture Students Explore Pioneering Climate Visualization Techniques to Inform Design

Stephen Guerin of Harvard’s Visualization Research and Teaching Laboratory explains the Simtable to GSD master…

Feb 25, 2025

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Five Lessons from the Gund Hall Renovation

In late May 2024, following commencement at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD),…

Feb 10, 2025

Photo Essay

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Life on Earth: Zhang Ke’s Studio Melds Contemporary Architecture with an Ancient Landscape

The terraced rice fields of Yuanyang, in Yunnan Province, China, have been maintained and…

Feb 5, 2025

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Neeraj Bhatia’s Studio Envisions California’s High-Speed Rail as an Armature for Care

The studio walks the San Joaquin River viaduct during their October visit.

Feb 3, 2025

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Shana M. griffin on Resisting Reproductive Violence in the Built Environment

For the last three years, Shana M. griffin has been collecting soil,…

Jan 29, 2025

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What Musicals Teach Us About Cities

Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story (2021), still of Anita, Bernardo, and friends dancing on an…

Jan 22, 2025

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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

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Igniting Radical Imagination: Deanna Van Buren on the Role of Design in Abolition and Restorative Justice

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