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08 Feb 2023

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

Tricia Ebner MArch ’11 Promoted to Director at MdeAS in New York, NY

Jane Wolff MLA ’92 Selected as 2022 Winner of Margolese Prize

Natalia Escobar Castrillón MDes ’13 and co-editor Rayshad Dorsey MArch ’23 release issue no. 4 of academic journal OBL/QUE

“Beyond Sustainable: Architecture’s Evolving Environments of Habitation” by Ryan Ludwig MArch ’09 published by Routledge

Daniel Toole MAUD ’16 begins own practice, Daniel Toole Architecture and featured in the New York Times

Leif Estrada MDesS ’16 & MLA ’16 Promoted to Associate at Kuth Ranieri Architects

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8 November 2022

Fall Update—Department of Landscape Architecture

7 September 2022

Toward a New GSD

4 August 2022

GSD Alumni Council Award Recipients

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Work by @mer.arch and @oonagh290
STU 1315: The Order of Play: The Playground, Fall 2022
Instructor: Camilo Restrepo Ochoa

“All Together Now” uses the playground as a new public space for the City of El Retiro, in the region of Antioquia, Columbia. Within this new public space, an alphabet of elements are placed. These elements are attractors within the landscape. The tower, hole, cube, roof, and sandpit encourage open-ended multigenerational play, promoting action as much as they encourage rest. By learning how an element can be used and misused, a child enters into the shared practices of society such as conversing, problem solving, and collaborating.

Each of the elements in the playground provides unique opportunities for interaction, rejecting the prescribed nature of the standard playground. This prevents canonical affordances being forced upon children from their parents. Instead, the child's individual optics will guide the way they perceive the affordance that an object provides within the play environment. At the heart of the space is its democratic nature. A space, for all ages, manifested in a playground landscape.

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South by Southwest (@sxsw) recently announced that @mix.anthropy will present an exhibition in Austin, Texas, starting this March. The art-tech studio, co-founded by Yiou Wang @yiou_wang_ (MArch '23) and Meichun Cai @meichuncai_ (MDes '22), aims to create ancient future myths in novel artistic expressions using emergent technologies and explore complex social and natural themes of metamorphosis, biomorphism, environment ephemerality, identity, and plurality in the interconnected world.

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”Character And“ by Maggie Martin @maggiemartinarch (MArch I’ 26). Completed for Architecture Core I studio, Fall 2022, with instructor @sean_canty_.

The figural motivator for this project, the ampersand, originated as the Latin ligature ‘et.’ A ligature, according to @merriamwebster, is: (1) a printed or written character consisting of two or more letters or characters joined together, (2) something that unites or connects.

In the project brief, students were given two sections: vertically stratified and horizontally stratified. These two sections were then organized into a ‘roll-up,’ transforming how they impacted form. Like a ligature, these two sections are united by the figure of the ampersand. Martin started by establishing tangent lines, which determined the shape and placement of the given sections. In thinking about the disposition of the area, they are separated and not parallel; their overlap inspires a space of transition around the form derived from the ampersand. Sections are wrapped and doubled around the inscribed type form; this produces an interior void that plays out as a sequential stair stitching the two sides together.

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Swipe for some behind-the-scenes video and images showing how our Spring 2023 public program poster, by Ryan Gerald Nelson of @studioxee, came together. To learn more about individual events, head to our #LinkInBio! #GSDEvents

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📣 Announcing our Spring 2023 public program featuring designers, artists, theorists, policy makers, and others from across the design disciplines. All programs take place in Piper Auditorium, are open to the public, and will be simultaneously streamed to the GSD’s website, unless otherwise noted. Registration is not required. More details at #LinkInBio!

Grand Paris Express @grand_paris_express: Reconfiguring the City through Radical Infrastructure
Exhibition for the 14th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design
Druker Design Gallery
January 23 – March 31

Kotchakorn Voraakhom @kotch_voraakhom, “LANDPROCESS: The Global and Local Climate Adaptation Design”
January 31, 6:30pm
Yung Ho Chang, “Form, Content, and Total Design”
February 2, 6:30pm

Stan Allen @studiostanallen, “Situated Objects”
John Hejduk Soundings Lecture
February 7, 6:30pm

Ana María Durán Calisto, “The Deep History of Amazonian Agroecological Urban Forests: Why Do They Matter Today?”
February 9, 6:30pm

Adèle Naudé Santos, “Narrative Maps: A Design Process”
Jaqueline Tyrwhitt Urban Design Lecture
February 14, 6:30pm

Kofi Boone @kofiboone, “Recognition, Reconciliation, Reparation”
Sylvester Baxter Lecture
February 16, 6:30pm

Grand Paris Express @grand_paris_express: Reconfiguring the City through Radical Infrastructure
Celebration for the 14th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design
March 2, 6:30pm

High Performance Public Transportation: Models and Strategies
Green Prize Workshop, Gund 112 (Stubbins)
March 3, 12:30pm

New Stations as Urban Projects: Multiple Dimensions
Green Prize Workshop, Gund 112 (Stubbins)
March 3, 3:00pm

International Womxn’s Week Keynote Address
March 7, 6:30pm

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Image: Casa de Mont interior, Pacific Palisades, CA, 2019. Photo by Eric Staudenmaier @ericstaudenmaier. Courtesy of Johnston Marklee. Mark Lee, co-founder of Johnston Marklee @johnstonmarklee and Chair of the Department of Architecture at GSD, will deliver the Walter Gropius Lecture on April 4.

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Snowy first day of classes made for some good photo opportunities at Gund!

📸 Image 1: @tanushridalmiya
Image 2: @dobbin_lucas
Image 3: @s1kim
Image 4: @gibernotsky (featuring @r1tawang)
Video: @davit.asanidze

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Happy start of spring semester 2023!

📸: Justin Knight

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Waiting…almost time for spring semester to start

📸: @lucas_almasy

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#repost from @gsd_fablab
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Structural Design II, a required class for M.Arch I students, introduces students to the annual “10-foot + bridge challenge,” in which the making of a small structure as a microcosm serves as the fundamental process of conceiving and realizing architectural structures. The challenge is to design a small structure to span a distance of at least 10 feet and carry 200 lbs, using five 2x4 softwood lumber of a length of 8 feet. Swipe to see behind-the-scenes snaps of bridge babies being born in the FabLab Woodshop!

Photos courtesy of Yvonne Gu, Robin Albrecht, and Paola Ovando Peraza. See yourself or your work? DM us for a tag!
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#gsdfablab #modelmaking #harvardgsd #design #architecture #fabrication #construction #bridge #structures

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"Creating a Simple Book" was a two-day workshop on bookmaking for the GSD J-Term taught by Irina Gorstein (Conservator at Frances Loeb Library). Irina graciously agreed to share some thoughts and photos from the workshop this year!

"I was first asked to develop a bookbinding workshop 15 years ago. It is designed for 6 participants and includes a short lecture on the historical evolution of a book structure and bookbinding materials, fundamentals of typographical layout, text-block preparation and creating four non-adhesive books structures based on historic bindings. In order to streamline the practical aspect of the workshop, I prepare all text–blocks ahead of time but students also are given a chance to practice folding, trimming and pressing sections in the course of the seminar. During the two–day workshop we create a simple Pamphlet Binding, a Chinese Butterfly Binding, an Ethiopian Binding and a model of Italian Long-Stitch Binding."

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January light snow at Gund!

📸: @zeinabmaghdouri

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GSD alum @ryanrludwig (MArch II ‘09) recently published Beyond Sustainable: Architecture’s Evolving Environments of Habitation (Routledge, 2021). The book discusses the relationship between human beings and the constructed environments of habitation we create living in the Anthropocene, an increasingly volatile and unpredictable landscape of certain change.

This volume accepts that human beings have reached a moment beyond climatological and ecological crisis. It asks not how we resolve the crisis but, rather, how we can cope with, or adapt to, the irreversible changes in the earth-system by rethinking how we choose to inhabit the world-ecology. Through an examination of numerous historical and contemporary projects of architecture and art, as well as observations in philosophy, ecology, and the social sciences, the book critically questions narratives of “green” or “sustainable” design, the dominant professional and disciplinary responses to climate breakdown. Instead, the book reimagines architecture capable of influencing and impacting who we are, how we live, what we feel and even how we evolve.

#HarvardGSD #Architecture #sustainability

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Lava Fields, Lichen & Silica. Large scale photographs taken from the Icelandic landscape collaged and blown up.

STU 1408: Dreamscapes of Aurora Geothermal Landscapes of Energy and Rejuvenation

Instructors: @sdisf @jamesalord1 @rwyllie

📸: @lv___d

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

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Jane Wolff MLA ’92 Selected as 2022 Winner of Margolese Prize

Natalia Escobar Castrillón MDes ’13 and co-editor Rayshad Dorsey MArch ’23 release issue no. 4 of academic journal OBL/QUE

“Beyond Sustainable: Architecture’s Evolving Environments of Habitation” by Ryan Ludwig MArch ’09 published by Routledge

Daniel Toole MAUD ’16 begins own practice, Daniel Toole Architecture and featured in the New York Times

Leif Estrada MDesS ’16 & MLA ’16 Promoted to Associate at Kuth Ranieri Architects

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Toward a New GSD

GSD Alumni Council Award Recipients

Support the GSD

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