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Future Design Leaders Match

Your gift to the Future Design Leaders Match will impact generations of future designers, the design industry, and our alumni community by establishing an endowed Fellowship.

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Student Emergency Fund

Support students who have experienced sudden and unexpected financial hardship due to situations beyond their control.

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One Harvard Alumni Panel: Design for Learning
02 Jun 2023

One Harvard Alumni Panel: Design for Learning

AIA San Francisco: GSD Alumni Reception 2023
08 Jun 2023

AIA San Francisco: GSD Alumni Reception 2023

Alumni Updates

Alumni Spotlight

Jonathan Evans MArch ’10 serves as lead architect for Embrace Boston Memorial

Joaquín Pérez-Goicoechea MArch ’02 publishes book with DOM Publishers

Kristina Yu MArch ’95 and Raimund McClain ’00 firm Awarded Top Prize at 2022 Jeff Harnar Awards

David Rosenwasser MDes ’21, Rarify Co-Founder, Featured in Forbes

Hazel Edwards MAUD ’89 Named Educator of the Year at 2022 Women in Architecture Design Leadership Awards

Michael McGroarty MArch ’01 Promoted to Principal with Kuth Ranieri Architects

Fred Holt MArch ’06 Firm named as Winner of the World Building of the Year 2022 at the fifteenth annual World Architecture Festival (WAF)

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1 June 2023

Student Story: Mojtaba Nabavi MAUD ’24 and Zeinab Maghdouri MLA I AP ’24

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31 May 2023

A New Beginning for Trash: Arthur Huang MArch ’04

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26 April 2023

Alumni Spotlight: Francisco “Pancho” Brown MDes ’20

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The Trays are in commencement mode #HarvardGSD #HarvardGSD23 #Harvard23
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May 23

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🎓 Commencement is almost here, and we're getting ready! We are excited to celebrate the GSD Class of 2023 for Class Day on Wednesday, May 24, and Commencement on Thursday, May 25. Please visit the GSD's Commencement Week page at our #LinkInBio for more information.⁣ ⁣ 📺 Tune into our livestreams by visiting gsd.harvard.edu⁣/events ⁣ 📱 Use #HarvardGSD23 and tag us in your posts for a reshare!⁣⁣ --⁣ #HarvardGSD #HarvardGSD23
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May 22

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Toni Griffin, Professor in Practice of Urban Planning at Harvard GSD, specializes in leading complex, transdisciplinary planning, and urban design projects for multi-sector clients in cities with long histories of spatial and social injustice. Griffin is also the Domain Head for Publics, one of four concentrations (Ecologies, Narratives, Publics, and Mediums) in the Master in Design Studies (MDes) at GSD. The program challenges conventional ways of learning and prepares students to understand how design shapes and influences the underlying processes of contemporary life. Griffin says: "What makes the MDes program so attractive to students, and to me, is that it’s the most entrepreneurial design degree that we offer. Being a part of the program requires students to be comfortable with self-directing their journey through the four semesters. Students’ ability to choose a substantial number of your courses, across the departments at the GSD, across Harvard, and even some at MIT, is just amazing." Read more about Toni Griffin and the MDes program at our #LinkInBio! #HarvardGSD #Design
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May 19

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Studio: Revitalizing Onomichi: Architecture, Community, Territory (Spring 2023) Instructor: Mohsen Mostafavi 📸: Justin Knight This studio's objective was to use architecture as a means for the transformation of Onomichi, a Japanese port city, through a series of multi-scalar interventions. The studio traveled to Onomichi and other Japanese cities to investigate the role of architecture outside the major metropolitan areas of Japan, as well as the relationship between nature and the sea. We'll be featuring more work from #GSDFinalReviews throughout the spring and summer -- stay tuned. See yourself or your work? DM us for a tag! #HarvardGSD #Architecture #Japan
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May 16

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We are pleased to announce the four shortlisted architects for the 2023 #WheelwrightPrize and their proposals:⁣⁣ Jingru (Cyan) Cheng @cyanjingrucheng (top left) works across architecture, anthropology, and filmmaking. With her project “Tracing Sand: Phantom Territories, Bodies Adrift,” Cheng dissects iconic sand sites that give form to spatio-cultural territories that have been fueled by colonial globalization and high consumption. Maya Bird-Murphy @mayabirdmurphy (top right) is a designer, educator, and founder of Mobile Makers, a nonprofit bringing design and skill-building workshops to underrepresented communities. In Bird-Murphy's project, “Examining Architectural Practice Through Alternative Methodology and Pedagogy,” she aims to investigate the friction that exists between the traditional and alternative design practices, to document the nuances of individual practices, and to gather and share knowledge through architectural storytelling. Isabel Abascal @lanzaatelier (bottom left) is a Mexico City–based architect and writer. In her project “Mother Architecture: Shaping Birth,” Abascal examines how rethinking architecture and spatial design can impact maternal mortality. DK Osseo-Asare (@yosseo @lowdesignoffice) (bottom right) is a Ghanaian American designer. Osseo-Asare's project “Bucky in Africa: Remembering the Chemistry of Architecture” seeks to use a mixed methods approach of action research to investigate the African roots of “design science” from an architectural perspective. The Wheelwright Prize supports innovative design research, crossing both cultural and architectural boundaries, with a $100,000 grant intended to support two years of study. Learn more about the Prize and this year's finalists at our #LinkInBio! ⁣⁣ #HarvardGSD #Architecture #WheelwrightPrize23
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May 12

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Gund Hall on a warm spring evening this week captured by @zeinabmaghdouri! #HarvardGSD #HarvardInSpring
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May 11

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It's #HarvardClimateActionWeek, and we're celebrating the wide variety of climate research, education, and engagement across Harvard University. GSD's Diane Davis and Gareth Doherty (@garethgerarddoherty) recently received grants as part of the Salata Institute (@harvardsalata)'s new Climate Research Clusters program, which supports endeavors that produce useful and practical solutions to pressing climate problems. Diane Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism, is part of a team focusing on two challenges: How can new technologies and new energy industries be deployed; and how can the US navigate a transition toward faster electrification and more intensive use of renewable energy? Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Gareth Doherty's cluster is investigating climate adaptation strategies to coastal erosion in Abidjan, Accra, and Lagos. Read more about Climate Action Week at our #LinkInBio. Events continue throughout the week, and keep an eye out for posts from around the university that highlight the ways the Harvard community is engaging with climate research! #Harvard #HarvardUniversity #Climate #Sustainability
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May 8

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Congrats to everyone who has presented during #GSDFinalReviews! Pictured: #Architecture Core II students gathering for final comments. See yourself or your work? DM us for a tag! Instructors: Jeffry Burchard Michelle Chang Elle Gerdeman Oana Stanescu Liang Wang Emmett Zeifman 📸: Anita Kan #HarvardGSD #Architecture #ArchitectureStudent
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May 3

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The American Museum of Natural History (@amnh) in New York City has revealed its Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation, scheduled to open May 4. The center is designed by Studio Gang @studiogang, led by Jeanne Gang, Professor in Practice of Architecture at GSD. It houses more than 4 million scientific specimens representing the Museum’s collections in vertebrate and invertebrate zoology, paleontology, geology, anthropology, and archaeology. In addition to the Gilder Center project, NYC Parks has worked alongside the Museum to make significant improvements to sections of Theodore Roosevelt Park. The design of the renovated portions of the park was developed by landscape architecture firm Reed Hilderbrand @reedhilderbrand. Gary Hilderbrand is the founding principal of Reed Hilderbrand and the Peter Louis Hornbeck Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture at GSD. In a review of the Center for the New York Times, architecture critic Michael Kimmelman writes, “…Gilder is spectacular: a poetic, joyful, theatrical work of public architecture and a highly sophisticated flight of sculptural fantasy.” Read more at #LinkInBio! #HarvardGSD #AMNH #NYC #Architecture #LandscapeArchitecture
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