Instruments of Service
At a moment when “design” has become everything—and hence nothing—Harvard Design Magazine, no. 52, “Instruments…
Publications
Democracy and Urban Form
Democracy and Urban Form Richard Sennett with introduction by Moshe Safdie “Never have the…
A–Z: Harvard University Graduate School of Design 2022
In A–Z: Harvard University Graduate School of Design, graduates from the Class of 2022 share…
Tunisian Nightscapes: Nocturnal Landscapes in the Medina of Tunis
Tunisian Nightscapes: Nocturnal Landscapes in the Medina of Tunis is a studio report from the…
Wild Ways 3.0: California Connectivity
WildWays 3.0: California Connectivity is a Studio Report from the Spring 2024 semester at the…
Nexus of Ecology, Education, and Design
Nexus of Ecology, Education, and Design—A New School of Design on an Island at Yangtze…
Forgotten Fort Kongestein
Forgotten Fort Kongestein is a Studio Report from the Fall of 2023 based…
Revisiting Field Conditions
Revisiting Field Conditions is an Open Project report from the Spring 2023 semester…
Sustainable Commons: Housing and Urban Mining
Housing has become unaffordable and increasingly disconnected from contemporary lifestyles. Changing household compositions and habits…
Aqua Incognita I, II: Deciphering and Reimagining Liquidity in the Mexican Altiplano
Aqua Incognita I, II: Deciphering and Reimagining Liquidity in the Mexican Altiplano is a Studio…
Buildings and Urban Intellegence
Buildings and Urban Intelligence is a course report from the Fall 2023 semester at the…
A Rage in Harlem: June Jordan and Architecture
A Rage in Harlem: June Jordan and Architecture Nikil Saval with introduction by…
Pairs 04
Pairs is a journal of conversations edited by students at the Harvard…
Below, Above, and Beyond: Future of Antwerp’s Mobility and Public Space
Below, Above, and Beyond: Future of Antwerp’s Mobility and Public Space is a Studio Report…
Multihyphenate
Multihyphenation is a compound term referring to alternate modes of creative production: “Collab”…
Technology, Trust, & Governance
Technology, Trust, & Governance is an Open Project Studio Report from the Spring…
Houston: Extreme Weather, Environmental Justice, and the Energy Transition
Houston, Texas, has been called the “prophetic city.” It is a city that is reflective…
John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense
John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense Paul Walker With contributions by Mary Lou Lobsinger, Peter…
Pairs 03
Pairs is a journal of conversations edited by students at the Harvard…
Below, Above, and Beyond: Revealing the abandoned underground subway infrastructures as urban form and experience
Boston’s subway system is the oldest in the United States and the second oldest…
Wild Ways: A Fifth Ecology for Metropolitan Los Angeles
Wild Ways: A Fifth Ecology for Metropolitan Los Angeles explores themes of connectivity,…
The Canary in the Mine: Wildfires and Rural Communities in the Mediterranean Hinterland
Once a necessary disturbance for landscape management and economic growth, fire has become an…
A–Z: Harvard University Graduate School of Design 2020
In A–Z: Harvard University Graduate School of Design, graduates from the Class of 2020 share…
A–Z: Harvard University Graduate School of Design 2021
In A–Z: Harvard University Graduate School of Design, graduates from the Class of 2021 share…
Today’s Global
The hyperconnected world of the late 20th and early 21st centuries has revealed that effortless…
Publics
Harvard Design Magazine 49: Publics questions how public spaces—the physical, the cultural, and the theoretical—operate…
Pairs 02
The second issue of Pairs is an opportunity to…
Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech
Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech Edited by K. Michael Hays and Andrew Holder Inscriptions: Architecture…
Kazuo Shinohara: Traversing the House and the City
Edited by Seng Kuan Kazuo Shinohara (1925–2006) was one of the greatest and most influential…
New Geographies 12: Commons
Edited by Mojdeh Mahdavi and Liang Wang New Geographies 12: Commons seeks to open…
America
“A terrible mechanism [is] on the march, its gears multiplying.” So begins the first essay…
Pairs 01
Pairs is a student-led journal at the Harvard GSD dedicated to…
Fallowscapes: Territorial Reconfiguration Strategies for Arles
On a promontory on the left bank of the lower Rhone River, just before it…
Inhabiting the Negative Space
Inhabiting the Negative Space Jenny Odell with foreword by Sarah…
Design in a Frame of Emotion
Design in a Frame of Emotion Hannah Beachler with Jacqueline Stewart and…
New Geographies 11: Extraterrestrial
Edited by Jeffrey S. Nesbit and Guy Trangoš New Geographies 11: Extraterrestrial explores the…
Platform 12: How About Now?
Edited by Carrie Bly (MDes History and Philosophy of Design and Media ’19), Isabella Caterina…
Inside Scoop
The 47th issue of Harvard Design Magazine is a renewed call to…
New Geographies 10: Fallow
Edited by Michael Chieffalo and Julia Smachylo New Geographies 10 borrows the term fallow as a…
The House: The Waken Desire
The House: The Waken Desire critically examines the latent assumptions or incentives driving the contemporary…
SHIBUYA! The Graduate Students of Harvard Think about Shibuya in Ten Years
Kayoko Ota and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design In 2016, the GSD…
Regenerative Empathy: Complex Assemblages in a Shared Environment
Regenerative Empathy: Complex Assemblages in a Shared Environment explores the relationship between humans and…
Computation as Design: Ron Resch and the New Media of Geometry
By Andrew Witt and Eliza Pertigkiozoglou The second in the Studies in the…
Transforming Omishima
Omishima, an island in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan, has forested mountains…
$2000 Home: Cocreating in the Bengal Delta
The Bengal Delta is defined by the fluidity and chemistry of land and…
No Sweat
This issue of Harvard Design Magazine is about the design of work and the work of design. “No Sweat” challenges designers…
Beyond the Collaboration
Beyond the Collaboration Sterling Ruby and Raf Simons How do you tell the story…
The Natural Forces Laboratory: Ralph Knowles and the Instrumentalized Studio
By Andrew Witt and Christopher Reznich The first in the Studies in the…
Platform 11: Setting the Table
Edited by Esther Mira Bang (MArch I ’18), Lane Raffaldini Rubin (MArch I, MLA I…
Manila: Future Habitations
Manila’s extraordinary history—written, erased, and rewritten—has rendered a current condition that is one of extremes…
“Insert Complicated Title Here”
“Insert Complicated Title Here” Virgil Abloh with Oana Stanescu “What’s my DNA?” Virgil Abloh…
Frontier City: Strategies for Boston Harbor
Frontier City documents a landscape architecture studio that envisioned a new urban landscape on…
Into the Woods
To go “into the woods” is to enter both nightmare and wonderment, chaos…
New Geographies 09: Posthuman
Edited by Mariano Gomez Luque and Ghazal Jafari “Posthuman” signals a historical condition in which…
Design Thinking in the Digital Age
Design Thinking in the Digital Age Peter G. Rowe In 1987, Peter G. Rowe…
Platform 10: Live Feed
Platform is the Harvard University Graduate School of Design’s annual compendium of select student work,…
Work Environments: Space Work
This design studio at Harvard University Graduate School of Design is the last of three…
Kuala Lumpur: Designing the Public Realm
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s capital, is an extraordinary city informed by multiple cultures. Largely comprised of…
Seventeen
It’s 2017. The millennium is in its teenage years—and it shows. The world is acting…
Retooling Metropolis: Working Landscapes, Emergent Urbanism
What is the status of the 20th-century metropolis? How do we rethink it (and retool…
Architectural Ethnography
Architectural Ethnography Atelier Bow-Wow with K. Michael Hays When Yoshi Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima…
Architecture and Waste: A (Re)planned Obsolescence
Often considered utilitarian and unsightly, power plants and other industrial buildings seldom involve architects in…
Portman’s America & Other Speculations
Portman’s America & Other Speculations takes an unconventional and speculative approach towards the understanding…
Brick: Thick/Thin
This studio explores a material paradox that the discipline of architecture has constructed the idea…
The Art Space
The studio addresses the relationship between art and architecture. The students developed monographic museums dedicated…
Paths, Sounds, Ruins: Imagining Architecture in Candelaria
This publication showcases designs and writings inspired by a vast aquatic territory in Argentina,…
Ethics of the Urban
Is democracy spatial? How are the physical aspects of our cities bearers of our values?…
Jakarta: Models of Collective Space for the Extended Metropolis
In a manner similar to other megacities in Southeast Asia, Jakarta has witnessed unprecedented metropolitan…
Shelf Life
The more stuff we accumulate, the more space we need to store it all. Vast portions…
The Generic Sublime
The Generic Sublime: Organizational Models for Global Architecture recognizes the normative consistency across prevailing developmental forms…
New Geographies 08: Island
Edited by Daniel Daou and Pablo Pérez-Ramos “Everything is connected to everything else” is the…
Platform 9: Still Life
Platform is the Harvard University Graduate School of Design’s annual compendium of select student work,…
Ecological Urbanism
While climate change, sustainable architecture and green technologies have become increasingly topical issues, concerns regarding…
Abstract from the Concrete
Marxist geographer David Harvey opened his lecture with a fact: between 2011 and 2013 China…
Work Environments: Glass Works
This design studio at Harvard University Graduate School of Design is the second of three…
The Storm, the Strife and Everyday Life: Sea Change in the Suburbs
This studio took stock of how Long Island is changing, and worked with community-based organizations…
The Architectural Double in the Museum City
Designed by Josef Paul Kleihues and completed in 1996, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago…
Material Performance: Fibrous Tectonics & Architectural Morphology
In biology, most load-bearing structures are fibrous systems. These natural composites share their fundamental characteristics…
Poor but Sexy: Berlin, the New Communal
What new forms for communal dwelling challenge the status quo in a growing city that…
Common Frameworks: Rethinking the Developmental City in China
The dazzling scale and mesmerizing speed of China’s development in the early 21st century have…
Run for Cover!
Like all animals, humans are programmed for survival. Fight or flight? Duck! Run for cover!…
The Barracks of Pion: Developing the Edge of the Park of Versailles
Versailles is often considered the site of invention of the classical city. Strikingly, the shapes…
Kiyonori Kikutake: Between Land and Sea
Edited by Ken Tadashi Oshima For more than half a century, visionary architect Kiyonori Kikutake…
Airport Landscape: Urban Ecologies in the Aerial Age
Airports have never been more central to the life of cities, yet they remain peripheral…
Platform 8
Edited by Zaneta Hong Platform 8 catalogs a curated selection of work generated in the…
Family Planning
As family configurations evolve and atomize, and “exceptions” become the norm—divorced, blended, solo, cooperative, childless,…
Spatializing Politics: Essays on Power and Place
Spatializing Politics is an anthology of emerging scholarship that treats built and imagined spaces as…
Work Environments: Campus and Event
This design studio at Harvard University Graduate School of Design is the first of three sponsored…
New Geographies 07: Geographies of Information
Edited by Ali Fard and Taraneh Meshkani Digital information and data flows permeate every aspect of…
Global Leadership in Real Estate and Design
Within the global constellation of increasingly connected urban centers, shifts in cultural preferences, design thinking,…
Common Frameworks: Rethinking the Developmental City in China, Part 3
Taiqian: The Countryside as a City is premised upon two fundamental ambitions: the recuperation of…
Freedom of Use
Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal are known for an architecture that privileges inhabitants’ freedom and…
Well, Well, Well
Health, and the information around it, is messy. As are our bodies and the systems…
Habitation in Extreme Environments
Habitation in Extreme Environments was a studio of the Department of Architecture at the Harvard…
The Architecture of Taste
On November 27, 2012, world-renowned pastry chef Pierre Hermé arrived at Harvard University from Paris.
Design and Politics: Managing Risks and Vulnerabilities
Design and Politics was a studio of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at…
The Function of Style
What is the function of style today? If the 1970s were defined by Postmodernism and…
The Writings of Josep Lluís Sert
Josep Lluís Sert (1902–1983) was the last president of CIAM (International Congresses of Modern Architecture)…
Another Nature
When considering the “nature” of architecture today, isn’t it problematic to simply define it as…
Territorialism
This book is the result of the studio, Territorialism, held in fall 2012 and fall…
New Geographies 06: Grounding Metabolism
Edited by Daniel Ibañez and Nikos Katsikis New Geographies 06: Grounding Metabolism aims to trace…
Platform 7
This volume documents a selection of activities and events at the Harvard Graduate School of…
High-Rise, High-Density
This book is the result of the High-Rise, High-Density studio taught by Jonathan Sergison and…
Common Frameworks: Rethinking the Developmental City in China, Part 2
Macau: Cross-Border City documents the second year of a three-year research and…
Networked Urbanism: Design Thinking Initiatives for a Better Urban Life
Networked Urbanism was a series of studios in the Urban Planning and Design Department at…
Wet Matter
The ocean remains a glaring blind spot in the Western imagination. Catastrophic events remind us…
Do You Read Me?
“Do You Read Me?” marks a new direction for Harvard Design Magazine—one that invites “reading”…
Projective Ecologies
Projective Ecologies takes stock of contemporary ecological research and speculates on potential paths forward for design.
Platform 6
The Harvard Graduate School of Design prides itself on the wide scope of its global…
Common Frameworks: Rethinking the Developmental City in China, Part 1
Common Frameworks: Rethinking the Developmental City in China documents the first year of a three-year research and…
Landscapes of Development: The Impact of Modernization Discourses on the Physical Environment of the Eastern Mediterranean
This book examines the impact of development policies and politics on the physical environment of…
The Superlative City: Dubai and the Urban Condition in the Early Twenty-First Century
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the Persian Gulf city of Dubai has…
New Geographies 05: The Mediterranean
Edited by Antonio Petrov Most literature on the Mediterranean in relation to architecture and urbanism…
Instigations: Engaging Architecture Landscape and the City
Edited by Moshen Mostafavi and Peter Christensen The creative imagination is not solely based on…
Interdisciplinary Design: New Lessons from Architecture and Engineering
Architects and engineers both claim to be designers, though how they define design and the…
Convergent Flux: Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism in Korea
Edited by Jinhee Park and John Hong A remarkable synthesis of history, culture, and innovative design,…
Platform 5
The Harvard Graduate School of Design has always recognized the indispensable importance and values of…
In the Life of Cities
What is it that gives places their individual qualities and defines the life of a…
Kenzō Tange: Architecture for the World
Kenzō Tange (1913–2005) is a peerless figure among twentieth-century Japanese architects, unmatched in his talent,…
Detroit Interrupted: Tracing the Fragile Edges of Development
From Introduction: “…what is to become of a regional urban center that currently is too…
New Geographies 04: Scales of the Earth
Edited by El Hadi Jazairy The first Apollo images of the Earth produced a perspective…
Platform 4
The fourth volume of a series, Platform 4 is more than a catalog of courses.
Desert Tourism: Tracing the Fragile Edges of Development
Deserts are becoming increasingly popular tourist destinations. However, the growth of this tourism niche raises…
New Geographies 03: Urbanisms of Color
Edited by Gareth Doherty Color is a ubiquitous yet essential part of the city, creating…
Deconstruction/Construction: The Cheonggyecheon Restoration Project in Seoul
The restoration of the Cheonggyecheon River that runs through Seoul, Korea, in a mere twenty-nine…
Platform 3
Platform 3 considers the expanded boundaries of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. It…
New Geographies 02: Landscapes of Energy
Edited by Rania Ghosn Energy infrastructures deploy space at a large scale, yet they remain…
A City and Its Stream: The Cheonggyecheon Restoration Project
This book is about a stream called Cheonggyecheon that runs through the center of Seoul,…
The Function of Form
Farshid Moussavi, edited with Michael Kubo, Garrick Ambrose, Ben Fortunato, Ryan R. Ludwig, Ahmadreza Schricker Following…
New Geographies 01: After Zero
Edited by Neyran Turan and Stephen Ramos Design disciplines are challenged by the condition of…
Platform 2
Platform 02 provides a sampling of the most salient research and design explorations undertaken at…
New Geographies 0: Design, Agency, Territory
Edited by Neyran Turan New Geographies…
Olympic Sculpture Park for the Seattle Art Museum: Weiss/Manfredi
The Ninth Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design The Harvard University Graduate School of…
Catalunya Continental: Rail Infrastructure as the Backbone for Development
The central theme of the Studio was to gauge the impact of new 21st-century infrastructures…
Territories: Contemporary European Landscape Design
Edited by Joseph Disponzio Contemporary European Landscape Design is based on an exhibition and conference of…
Barcelona: The Urban Evolution of a Compact City
Barcelona can be regarded as a prototype of a European Mediterranean city with a long…
Aleppo — Rehabilitation of the Old City: The Eighth Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design
From the Introduction: “The Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design has been awarded every…
Residential Waterfront Borneo Sporenburg, Amsterdam
The Seventh Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design: Adriaan Geuze, West 8 Urban Design &…
The Function of Ornament
Farshid Moussavi, edited with Michael Kubo Architecture needs mechanisms that allow it to become connected to…
Introductions: Jorge Silvetti
A collection of lecture introductions given by Jorge Silvetti during his tenure as Chair of…
Bringing the Harvard Yards to the River
The work collected in this book captures spaces and buildings, domains and landscapes, university and…
The Favela-Bairro Project — Jorge Mario Jauregui Architects: The Sixth Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design
The favelas of Rio de Janeiro are shantytowns that lack even the most basic infrastructure…
CASE: Downsview Park Toronto
In 1999, an international competition was held to select an urban park design for a…
Jerzy Soltan–A Monograph
Edited by: Jola Gola Publisher: Warszawa & Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 1995