Harvard GSD

Harvard University Graduate School of Design #HarvardGSD ^Header image by Yijia Tracy Tang (MArch I '22). Learn more:

[Harvard GSD @HarvardGSD]

Just a reminder, you can find us on several other social sites (we're particularly active on IG, Bluesky, and LinkedIn) under the same name!

[Harvard GSD @HarvardGSD]

Join us this Thursday 2/20 for a screening of SITTING STILL, a new film that offers an intimate look into the mind of Laurie Olin, a brilliant and irreverent landscape architect dedicated to designing public spaces fostering democracy and equality.

https://t.co/xVa6Wcvcvt

[Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative @BHcityleaders]

#FellowSpotlight: As a 2024 Bloomberg Harvard Summer Fellow, Naomi Mehta of @HarvardGSD identified pathways to enable affordable housing development in Iowa City, Iowa. @Harvard graduate students: want to gain skills and make a difference in cities as a paid fellow this summer? Apply by Feb 10: https://t.co/A5qk2YG0pr. Learn more: https://t.co/lIhonJHdUd.

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

Officials from across the country said that their experience working in local government underscored the importance of design in improving and innovating cities at a talk hosted by the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Nishka N. Patel reports.

https://t.co/sOczH00Yoz

[Archinect @archinect]

A Harvard Design Magazine discussion with Studio Gang’s Gregg Garmisa, Yale’s Phil Bernstein, SHoP’s John Cerone, and Suffolk’s Alexis McGuffin explores why 2D construction documents persist despite 3D BIM.

https://t.co/KIqHyHKvCu

[Harvard GSD @HarvardGSD]

This Thursday, Architect Dorte Mandrup will discuss the importance of context in recent projects engaging the yellow-brown marshes of the Wadden Sea, the vast scale of the Arctic, and the mythical landscape beneath the surface of the Norwegian Sea.

https://t.co/xaenPZdWAB

[The Loeb Fellowship @LoebFellowship]

For “Shana M. griffin on Resisting Reproductive Violence in the Built Environment,” writer Rachel May attended Shana’s J-Term course and visited her ArtLab studio. She found a keen mind, a demanding body of work, and an uncompromising view of history. https://t.co/kvvsGBbLaF

[The Loeb Fellowship @LoebFellowship]

If you missed the kickoff panel to the the fifth annual Mayors’ Institute of City Design Just City Mayoral Fellowship, moderated by Katie Swenson '19 @HarvardGSD, catch up...https://t.co/ucbGL991VQ #GoogleAlerts

[Irish Consulate Boston @IrelandBoston]

A pleasure to welcome Professor Gareth Doherty of @HarvardGSD for our monthly Speaker Series. Professor Doherty’s recent project, Atlas for a City-Region, highlights the lived experiences of those in Ireland’s North-West city region.

[Irish Consulate Boston @IrelandBoston]

Please join us for our February Speaker Series, featuring @HarvardGSD's Professor Gareth Doherty.

The morning programme will include a presentation on living in a cross-border city region in Ireland's North-West. All are welcome. Register here:

https://t.co/4vWLjVxgSw

[Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative @BHcityleaders]

📢 Applications now open for 2025 Bloomberg Harvard Summer Fellowships. Open to all enrolled @Harvard grad students. Explore what it’s like to work in local government as a paid fellow like @kironchandy of the @HarvardGSD. 🔗Apply now: https://t.co/qg223TXNMU. #FellowSpotlight

[Harvard GSD @HarvardGSD]

Join us tomorrow, February 6th, in Gund Hall for the 5th iteration of "Mayors Imagining the Just City", where speakers will discuss strategies for using planning and design interventions to address racial, social, and environmental injustice in our cities.
https://t.co/fxJfW242Kc

[Harvard GSD @HarvardGSD]

Join us for an evening of music to mark the opening of 'Envisioning Cluny: Kenneth Conant and Representations of Medieval Architecture, 1872–2025', an exhibition that celebrates the study of medieval architecture at Harvard University. https://t.co/KNSuFPhZMc

[Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University @CenterforCities]

#CityBookshelf: The Just City, edited by center faculty affiliate Toni L. Griffin of @HarvardGSD, is a collection of responses to the questions: what would a just city look like, and what could be strategies to get there? Architects, mayors, artists, doctors, designers, scholars, and others each offer a distinct perspective rooted in a particular place or practice. Learn about Griffin’s research: https://t.co/IGRgLR0MqP.

#FacultyTuesday #cityresearch #centerforcities

[DRCLAS @ Harvard @HarvardDRCLAS]

Pablo Pérez Ramos, an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the @HarvardGSD, discusses “Oasis of Mezcal," his work in an Oaxacan rural community where agave-growing is changing agricultural production patterns. https://t.co/3Bp2KMQGLp

[Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University @CenterforCities]

#CityBookshelf: Cities and Sovereignty: Identity Politics in Urban Spaces (@iupress) by center faculty affiliate Diane Davis of @HarvardGSD advances the understanding of the origins and nature of urban conflict. The book also explores the role of the built environment in remedying or exacerbating such conflicts. Read about Davis’ research: https://t.co/h0gglIcqib.

[Harvard GSD @HarvardGSD]

📣 The GSD is pleased to announce the 2025 cycle of the Wheelwright Prize, an open international competition that awards $100,000 to a talented early-career architect. Submissions due February 9, 2025.

https://t.co/K8nhio2S9H

[Harvard GSD @HarvardGSD]

Last night, "A Different Man" won Best Feature at the Gotham Awards. Read our interview with Stacey Berman MDes '23, who designed the costumes for the film!

https://t.co/O1uJuhDHUk

[Robin Albrecht @robinyeea]

Happy to have edited Magna Parens Materia: Hybrid Stone and Timber Mid-Rise Building, a studio report from the Spring 2024 option studio Magna Parens Materia jointly taught by Hanif Kara @AKT_II and Amin Taha @Groupwork_arch at @HarvardGSD

https://t.co/fAXRqoe2HP

[Harvard GSD @HarvardGSD]

Acts of Scaling, the 2025 edition of the annual Cambridge Talks PhD conference, will take place at Harvard GSD on April 4–5. The Call for Papers can be found in full at the link!

https://t.co/TAPUh9taff

[Harvard GSD @HarvardGSD]

Stacey Berman (MDes, Narratives '23)'s has designed costumes for film, music videos, experimental theater, and performance art. Her work can be seen onscreen in the recent @A24 film A Different Man, starring Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson.

https://t.co/O1uJuhDHUk