As part of the GSD's commencement exhibitions, thesis and final projects from the Spring 2024 term were on display in the Druker Design Gallery!

Today, Joseph Zeal-Henry (recipient of the ArtLab The Loeb Fellowship) launches SUPA System at the Harvard ArtLab. The installation asks what music and sound can tell us about how we occupy spaces of power, and aims to inspire new ways of thinking about communal gathering spaces.

HOLD, the winner of the Radcliffe Institute Public Art competition created by Curry J. Hackett (MAUD ’24) and Gabriel Jean-Paul Soomar (MArch II ’24, MDes ’24) explores “the complex relationship Black communities have had with enclosure.”

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The Harvard Gazette profiled Priyanka Pillai (MDE '24) and the ways she has used design to tackle problems of accessibility, poverty, and more.

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The Loeb Fellowship at Harvard GSD has announced the ten 2025 Fellows and also shared John Peterson, curator of the Loeb Fellowship, will step down.
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The Loeb Fellowship welcomes the 2025 Loeb Fellows! They are inspired mid-career professionals who come from diverse backgrounds but share passion and purpose—to advance equity and resilience and to harness the power of collective action.

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The Salata Institute and the Vice Provost Office for Advances in Learning present GSD Professors Holly Samuelson and Jonathan Grinham, discussing how green building design is adapting and evolving in the context of renewable energy sources.

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Recap: Pedro Gadanho at Harvard GSD discussing the shift from climate agnosticism to ecological activism. What role can we play in this urgent transformation? #EcologicalActivism #HarvardGSD #SustainabilityInDesign #climateaction #sustainability #harvardurbanplanning

Remembering Barbara Stauffacher Solomon (1928—2024). In 1986, Solomon delivered a lecture at the GSD addressing, among other things, landscape as architecture as art. Harvard Design Magazine published a transcript in the Fall/Winter 2023 issue.

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Mark your calendars from June 10 – 14 for #HarvardClimateActionWeek ! This week will bring together leaders from government, business, civil society, and academia to work together on climate solutions. Explore events and register here: bit.ly/3JaZQll

From our Friends at Radcliffe! Join us in celebrating the opening of a new installation by Harvard Graduate School of Design students Curry J. Hackett and Gabriel Jean-Paul Soomar winners of the biennial Radcliffe Institute Public Art Competition. bit.ly/4dkFoMT

“We’re trying to look at all three of those C’s: how do we be cost effective? How do we reduce the carbon? How do we keep people comfortable?” says Kevin Cahill, the GSD's assistant dean for facilities. Read more in this piece from The Harvard Crimson!

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Congratulations to The LADG, whose House in LA 5 has been nominated for a Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize!

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Have you ever been affected by toxic mold in your home or workplace? Climate change may be making this problem worse. GSD's Holly Samuelson speaks with Women's Health.

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'Aamha//قمحة: Uncovering Beirut’s Phantom Ecologies', a project by Layal Merhi (MDes '23) exhibited at GSD in Fall '23, explores the aftermath of the 2020 explosion in Beirut. The blast claimed 218 lives and as many as 100,000 homes.

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Congrats to Michelle Jaja Chang (Assistant Professor of Architecture, MArch ’09), Dan Spiegel (MArch ’08), and Megumi Aihara (MLA ’07), recipients of the #RomePrize !

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Today at 2:15 Davis Center surl.li/tijgr I’ll speak about our exhibit #CatastrophicInterference Harvard GSD Kirkland Gallery with #MichalMatejko and #ManaswiMishra

Loeb Year in Review—The Loeb Fellowship Class of 2024 reflects on their year at Harvard.

5/3/24
6:30—8:00 PM
GSD, Gund Hall Piper Auditorium and livestream
Free and open to the public

Details: loebfellowship.gsd.harvard.edu/events/

#FacultyTuesday : Affiliate Rachel Meltzer (Rachel Meltzer) of Harvard GSD researches urban economies & how market and policy forces can shape disparate outcomes across neighborhoods. #urbandevelopment #cityresearch #centerforcities #affordablehousing cities.harvard.edu/about/person/r…

Architects Lesley Lokko and Marina Tabassum have been selected in TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2024. Tabassum was selected by GSD's Dean Sarah M. Whiting, while Lesley Lokko (2022's Loeb Scholar) was selected by filmmaker Ava DuVernay.

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