Next Monday at 6:30PM ET: '22 Wheelwright Prize Winner Marina Otero Verzier will present her Wheelwright research examining new architectural paradigms for storing data, and how reimagining digital infrastructures could meet the unprecedented demands facing the world today.
https://bit.ly/47bzdsU
Wrapping up an extraordinary @harvard-jchs.bsky.social Dunlop Lecture @gsd.harvard.edu
by Kenzie Bok with comments by Bernardo Zacka. As she noted “if we want to think about housing policy, we have to have a theory of housing justice”
Starting in 30 minutes! Tune into the @gsd.harvard.edu livestream:
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Today @ 6:30 pm ET: Amid an urgent affordability crisis, the public role in providing and preserving affordable homes in the US is more important than ever.
@kenziebok.bsky.social, CEO of @bhaboston.bsky.social delivers the Dunlop Lecture @gsd.harvard.edu.
www.jchs.harvard.edu/calendar/pas...
The Harvard Gazette featured the GSD course “Paper or Plastic: Reinventing Shelf Life in the Supermarket Landscape,” taught by Teman and Teran Evans. Over the semester, students evaluate household brands and redesign them from the ground up.
TOMORROW: Zak Kyes will give the Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture.
Part memoir, part manifesto, part diagnosis, “Identity Crisis” reframes instability as a generative condition, reminds us that the most vital designs have always emerged because of chaos, not in spite of it.
https://bit.ly/4bvT7C5
This Thursday, March 5, join us online or in person at @gsd.harvard.edu for our 25th Annual Dunlop Lecture with @kenziebok.bsky.social, CEO of the @bhaboston.bsky.social and former Boston City Councilor, about the past, present, and future of public housing.
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Next Thursday, March 5th: Kenzie Bok, CEO of the Boston Housing Authority, will bring together her experiences as a pioneering public housing administrator and intellectual historian to explore the past, present, and future of public housing in the United States.
Join us!
https://bit.ly/4ruz0c8
What's the history and what are the effects of rent control? And how is it different from rent stabilization? Our historian and @gsd.harvard.edu lecturer Alexander von Hoffman explains on @wgbh.org All Things Considered.
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📆 Next Wednesday, Mar 4: Zak Kyes gives the Rouse Visiting Lecture.
Part memoir, part manifesto, part diagnosis, “Identity Crisis” reframes instability as a generative condition, reminds us that the most vital designs have always emerged because of chaos, not in spite of it.
https://bit.ly/4bvT7C5
In fall 2025, GSD design critic in architecture Angelo Lunati led the studio “Transformations: Six Schools in Detroit,” in which students studied vacant school buildings, with the task of reimagining them as spaces that serve the current communities’ needs.
Join us on Thurs, March 5 @gsd.harvard.edu for the 25th Annual Dunlop Lecture with Administrator and CEO of the Boston Housing Authority and former Boston City Councilor @kenziebok.bsky.social on the Past, Present, and Future of Public Housing.
www.jchs.harvard.edu/calendar/pas...
A group of people sit in a room, listening to two individuals at the front, one speaking into a microphone. Wall displays feature framed pictures and books.
A large group of people seated in rows inside the Loeb Library, engaged in a discussion. The room has large windows and various displays on the walls.
Two people are sitting in chairs at an indoor event. One is holding a microphone and speaking, while the other is taking notes. There is an audience in front of them. The backdrop features environmental-themed books and aerial landscape photographs.
Today in the Loeb Library, the GSD celebrated the arrival of Town Ecology: Concord, Thoreau, and Onward, a collection of Professor Richard Forman (Emeritus Professor of Advanced Environmental Studies in the Field of Landscape Ecology)'s definitive works on ecology in print form.
Live now: What happened to home prices in rural areas (especially vacation areas) in the post-pandemic period? @aherm.bsky.social @pjwhit.bsky.social
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TODAY! | Join us in Piper Auditorium for a lecture by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby. Partners in the design studio Dunne & Raby, they will explore how speculative thought from science, philosophy, and literature can inform and expand design practice.
https://bit.ly/3ZKpJki
Join us on Tuesday for "Unreal by Design" – Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby are partners in the design studio Dunne & Raby. Through design projects and writing, they explore how speculative thought from science, philosophy, and literature can inform and expand design practice.
https://bit.ly/3ZKpJki
We are sad to learn of the passing of our former co-director and former Dean of @gsd.harvard.edu, Gerald McCue.
A visionary leader, generous mentor, and advocate for design excellence, Jerry shaped the fields of urban design & architecture.
(Photo: Gayle Alstrom)
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This Friday @ 2pm: @harvard.edu students are invited to join us for an overview of fellowships and research grants available to students, including several community service summer fellowships. @gsd.harvard.edu @harvardkennedy.bsky.social @hsph.harvard.edu
www.jchs.harvard.edu/calendar/inf...
We're pretty active on IG Reels and TikTok, but we're going to try to post our short video over here more too! Here's a look at our current exhibit, Designers of Mountain and Water, featuring curator Jungyoon Kim among others
TOMORROW | Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga, founders of Barcelona-based practice Barozzi Veiga, delve into the delicate interplay between permanence and transformation, showing how the reading of a place can become the starting point for a new architectural narrative.
https://bit.ly/4c7Oe28
Join us for this semester's At Home and Abroad speaker series, co-organized by the GSD Healthy Places Design Lab, and Healthy places GSD!
@amydain.bsky.social
@gsd.harvard.edu
Join us for this semester's Planning for Health speaker series, co-organized by the Harvard GSD Healthy Places Design Lab, and Healthy places GSD!
@joeallenjoe.bsky.social
@gsd.harvard.edu
@biobotanalytics.bsky.social
This Thursday: Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga, founders of Barcelona-based practice Barozzi Veiga, delve into the delicate interplay between permanence and transformation, showing how the reading of a place can become the starting point for a new architectural narrative.
https://bit.ly/4c7Oe28
GSD students Yuanyuan (Yuki) Cao (MRE ’26), Joe Russell (MArch ’27), and Emma Sheffer (MArch ’27) recently won a combined €50,000 in the Buildner’s Unbuilt Award 2025, an international competition recognizing architectural ideas not yet realized. Congrats 👏
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Join us today for Day 2 of the Designers of Mountain and Water Conference! This event brings together leading landscape architects and scholars to discuss the perspectives, histories, politics, and most compelling projects of sustainable design in the Asian context.
https://bit.ly/3NTXMns
TODAY at 6:30p.m.! Join us for Day 1 of the Designers of Mountain and Water Conference, featuring leading landscape architects and scholars who will discuss the perspectives, histories, politics, and most compelling projects of sustainable design in the Asian context.
https://bit.ly/3NTXMns
“If I had one lesson to share, it would be to always remember there are other ways to live,” says industrial designer Stephen Burks (LF '19). “It’s a big world and we’re connected in many more ways than we know.” @loebfellowship.bsky.social
The GSD's Roderick Wyllie and James A. Lord write about their Fall 2025 studio "Fireworks," which centered the idea of fire as both creator and destroyer. Students suggested solutions for reconceiving the landscape for the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art to better protect it from wildfires.
Professor Fraser will be on campus from April 13–17, 2026. She will deliver her Senior Loeb Scholar public lecture on the evening of Wednesday, April 15, titled “Against the Environmentalism of the Rich: Why We Can’t Protect Nature without Emancipating Labor.”
