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20 Nov 2024

2024 Druker Traveling Fellowship Presentation

Alumni Updates

Alumni Spotlight

Four Alumni Elevated to ASLA Council of Fellows – Class of 2024

Hazel Ruth Edwards MAUD ’89 Named LAI 2024 Richard T. Ely Distinguished Educator

Christine Mueller MArch ’00 Inagurated Humayun’s Tomb Site Museum

Peitong Chen MDes ’21, MArch ’21 Presented at Adobe MAX

Jeanne Gang MArch ’93 Named ULI 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree

In Memoriam: Fumihiko Maki MArch ’54

Jill Neubauer MArch ’88 Featured in Boston Magazine

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22 October 2024

MDE Fall 2024 Update

22 October 2024

Daniel Urban Kiley Teaching Fellowship in Landscape Architecture

12 August 2024

Honoring the 2024 GSD Alumni Council Award Winners

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Nov 5

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🗳️ Once a year, Gund Hall becomes a polling place as Cambridge residents come to cast their votes on Election Day!

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🗳️ These 27-foot-tall flamingos in voting booths are now a permanent fixture outside the Palm Beach (Florida) County Supervisor of Elections building thanks to 2018 Loeb Fellow @matthewmazzotta. This installation, titled VOTE!, is meant to be a lighthearted illustration of what goes on inside the building to make the voting process more relatable to people of all ages.

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Oct 31

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Student Project Spotlight: bubbleBUM™ - an inflatable stool exploring the playful extremes of plasticity.

Designed by @ppkkuuuu, @leah.n.lock, @wendyw0124, and @sihan18215 (all MArch I ’26) for the course "Materials" with Professor Jonathan Grinham, bubbleBUM™ is a playful exploration of plasticity and versatility. The stool consists of a TPU membrane filled with 270 Ziploc baggies containing CNC waste foam and glitter, highlighting the contrasting qualities of plastic—elasticity vs. rigidity, transparency vs. opacity.

With an air pump attached, bubbleBUM inflates and deflates to create endless seating formats, inviting users to deflate, relax, inflate, and repeat. The result? A multifunctional, adaptable stool designed for to be used in a variety of configurations.

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Oct 29

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Happy #NationalCatDay to @remytheharvardcat!

📸: @pienakakamol

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Oct 29

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A–Z: Harvard University Graduate School of Design 2022 will be available for sale later this week at the Frances Loeb Library and through Harvard University Press @harvardpress. Every graduate from the Class of 2022 will receive a copy by mail.

Reminder: The submission deadline for editions for the Classes of 2023 and 2024 is TOMORROW Wednesday, October 30. For questions about submissions or to update your mailing address please contact a-z@gsd.harvard.edu!

#HarvardGSD #Architecture #LandscapeArchitecture #UrbanDesign #UrbanPlanning #RealEstate #Design #DesignEngineering #GSDAlumni

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Oct 29

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This year, housing has not only made an appearance on the political stage, it has taken a leading role. In this election, housing affordability has emerged as a critical issue not just for the country’s poorest households or those on the expensive coasts but for those solidly in the middle class and in the heartland. Chris Herbert, managing director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, looks at the proposals of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump to address housing shortages and affordability.

Read at our link in bio!

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Oct 28

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Oct 24

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Repost @harvardurbandesign

Reclaiming the Northern Avenue Bridge by Graham Gewirz (MAUD ‘26)
Pre Term 2024 | Future Assemblages

The Northern Avenue Bridge once connected downtown Boston with the Seaport. Its novel design allowed it to rotate 360 degrees to let ships into the harbor. Today, it sits in disrepair, left open, despite the disappearance of cargo ship traffic.

This collage envisions the revitalization of the bridge into a wide urban garden, able to connect the two neighborhoods once more with a new neutral zone on artificial land. The park can also rotate to make itself an island- becoming a new form of public space with the ability to control its own bounds.

➡️ Follow @harvardurbandesign to learn more about what's going on in the Master of Architecture in Urban Design (MAUD) and Master of Landscape Architecture in Urban Design (MLAUD) degree programs!

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Oct 23

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Oct 22

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✨ just another beautiful fall day at GSD

📸: Katarina Richter-Lunn @kate.n.rl

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Congratulations to Robin Albrecht (MArch I '25) for being chosen for the 2024 British Architectural Library Trust @thebaltrust Fellowship Grant!

Robin will be traveling to London to pursue research exploring the beginnings and institutionalization of post-colonial urban planning in Southeast Asia. Among Robin’s areas of interest are the collections of town planner Jacqueline Tyrwhitt, particularly Tyrwhitt’s papers relating to her position as a U.N. advisor to the Bandung Institute of Technology to establish a program in city and regional planning in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as the creation of an urban planning program in Singapore. As part of his earlier research relating to the architecture of post-independence in Southeast Asia, Robin traveled to Indonesia to study housing patterns as a Fung Scholar through the support of the Harvard Asia Center @harvardasiacenter, and, more recently, has continued his research with a grant from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.

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Oct 18

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Exhibition Highlight: SURVEY: Multi-Modal Readings of Bandelier National Monument's @bandeliernps Geologic and Spatial Relations. This exhibition explores the intricate connection between human habitation and the unique geological features of Bandelier National Monument, where Ancestral Puebloans carved their homes into the volcanic tuff cliffs of Frijoles Canyon, New Mexico.

Supported by Harvard GSD's Penny White Project Fund and Cornell AAP's Robert James Eidlitz Travel Fellowship, the exhibition showcases a first-of-its-kind digital model paired with experimental photography. The project preserves these ancient marvels and raises awareness about the urgent need to document fragile sites like Bandelier in the face of climate change.

Utilizing LiDAR scanning, analog photography, and cartography, the exhibition captures the site's quantitative and qualitative characteristics, offering insights into its past and vulnerabilities for future conservation efforts.

On view from September 3 to October 20 in the Dean's Office.
By Jialei Tang @strctre and Gracie Meek @gracie_meek

To read more, go to our link in bio and choose "Exhibitions"!

#HarvardGSD #GSDExhibitions #ClimateChange #Cartography #BandelierNationalMonument #NewMexico #LiDAR #Leica #Photography

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Oct 17

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⚠️ caution: @remytheharvardcat

(he’s helping set up for our new exhibition…stay tuned)

📸: Anita Kan

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Oct 16

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Peak New England fall experience in the GSD backyard

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Oct 11

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A beautiful moment on campus last night captured by @ashleigh.mxrie!

#HarvardGSD #NorthernLights #AuroraBorealis #HarvardInAutumn

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Upcoming Events

2024 Druker Traveling Fellowship Presentation

Alumni Updates

Four Alumni Elevated to ASLA Council of Fellows – Class of 2024

Hazel Ruth Edwards MAUD ’89 Named LAI 2024 Richard T. Ely Distinguished Educator

Christine Mueller MArch ’00 Inagurated Humayun’s Tomb Site Museum

Peitong Chen MDes ’21, MArch ’21 Presented at Adobe MAX

Jeanne Gang MArch ’93 Named ULI 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree

In Memoriam: Fumihiko Maki MArch ’54

Jill Neubauer MArch ’88 Featured in Boston Magazine

News

MDE Fall 2024 Update

Daniel Urban Kiley Teaching Fellowship in Landscape Architecture

Honoring the 2024 GSD Alumni Council Award Winners

Support the GSD

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