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Precis Advisory, with Planning and Development Director Faaiza Lalji MDes ’13, Will Contract with Merck to Build New Headquarters in King’s Cross

In Memoriam: Carol Johnson MLA ’57

George Ranalli MArch ’74 & Anne Valentino Interviewed on FLOORNATURE’s All Good Vibes Podcast

Kongjian Yu DDes ’95 Announced as Winner of IFLA 2020 Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award

Catherine Murray MLA ’86 Appointed Principal at Sheehan Nagle Hartray Architects

Derek Ham MArch ’03 Appointed as Head of Art and Design at North Carolina State University College of Design

AGi Architects Directed by Joaquín Pérez-Goicoechea MArch ’02 and Nasser B. Abulhasan MArch ’02, DDes ’07 Awarded Second Prize for Madrid Railway Museum Design

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Jan 25

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Jan 22

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Today's #GSDInstagramTakeover on @gsdadmissions features an inside look at the 2021 J-Term course "Casting an Ideal House" from instructors Arta Perezic @artaperezic (MArch II '21) and Ever Vargas @vargasever (MArch II '20).⁣
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The five-day course aimed to teach students how to utilize the medium of casting as a representative tool by designing and casting their ideal house. Learn more about the projects and the process in @gsdadmissions's stories.⁣
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J-Term workshops are non-credited courses held during the first two weeks in January, taught by the GSD community for the GSD community.⁣ It is an opportunity for students, staff, and faculty to hone skills, learn new ones, or just have fun. ⁣⁣
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#HarvardGSD #GSDJTerm #Repost #Architecture #ArchitectureStudent #ModelMaking

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Jan 21

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#TBT Class of @gsd_2023 group photo in Piper. We are once again asking you to #SwipeRight➡️ for a surprise. Original photo submitted by @jspack with special guest addition by @itskeeleychism and @sonya_fal.
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#HarvardGSD #Repost #GundHall #ThrowbackThursday

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Jan 20

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During his year as an Irving Innovation Fellow (2019-2020), Evan Shieh @ev07 (MAUD ‘19) expanded his thesis research in urban design with a new chapter of "Transitopia," a graphic novel that proposes a paradigm shift toward autonomous public transit to combat the ills of the automobile-centric 20th-century city. Shieh was also invited to share his research in an exhibition he organized and designed for the Seoul Biennale of Architecture & Urbanism and the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture.⁣
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"Transitopia" envisions a speculative future for Los Angeles by illustrating how the commuting patterns and mobility networks of different household archetypes (the suburban nuclear family, the composite household, the extended working household, and the business traveler) are impacted by a public transit plan incorporating autonomous vehicles. Shieh’s research and new chapter looks at the important issues of transit equity and affordability, including accessibility on a neighborhood scale, reversing highway construction that disproportionately impacts neighborhoods of color, building densification around transit stops without displacement, and transforming vehicular streets into human-centric play streets.⁣
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Learn more about the work of our 2019-2020 Irving Innovation Fellows on our website in the article "From an Autosimulacrum to a new Transitopia, 2019-20 Irving Innovation Fellows share their post-graduate research." Text by Luke T. Baker @eyrejordan 🔗hgsd.us/iif20 #LinkInBio⁣⁣
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The Irving Innovation Fellowship provides a full year of post-graduate funding and resources to enable recent Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni the opportunity to further research and discovery in the fields of design.⁣
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Image 1: "Transitopia" exhibited at the Seoul Biennale of Architecture & Urbanism, 2019.⁣
Images 2 and 3: Pages from "Transitopia."⁣
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Jan 18

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This #MLKDay we're sharing a project from the recent option studio "Washington Common - Martin Luther King, Jr., Upended," fall 2020. The #LandscapeArchitecture course challenged students to reimagine the site of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C. to address climate risk and reorient the landscape towards the underserved and unjustly excluded.⁣
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"The Ellipse" by Xinyi Chen @chenxinyi0 (MLA II '21). Instructor: Gary Hilderbrand @gary.hilderbrand @reedhilderbrand.⁣ #GSDStudentWork⁣ @gsd_mla⁣
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"The National Mall in Washington, D.C. will be affected by sea level rise and high tides into the future. By 2100, the predicted flood level will be 18 feet above the low tide level today. Without any intervention, most of the area will be inundated by water, including the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial. To act upon these conditions over the next 50 years, this project addresses climate change by raising the landform around the MLK Memorial up to 30 feet. The gradually spiraling upwards elliptical landform delivers to visitors a highly varied encounter that moves from monumental to more eye-level contact. Further, 'The Ellipse' opens the relationship of Dr. King's edifice to a commanding presence on the Tidal Basin, enlarging its impact and therefore its narrative potential." 🔗Learn more hgsd.us/projects⁣⁣⁣ #LinkInBio⁣
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[Image 3 Video Description: Animated gif highlighting elements of the site's design.]⁣
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#HarvardGSD #LandscapeArchitecture #LandscapeArchitectureStudent #WashingtonDC #MLKMemorial

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"Rewilding the Urban Block: Constructing Permeability through Artificial Ground" by Kari Roynesdal @kariroy_ (MLA I AP/MUP '21). Completed for option studio "Rewilding Seoul: Lost Nature and New Wilderness," spring 2020. Instructors: Jungyoon Kim and Yoonjin Park @office_parkkim. #GSDStudentWork⁣⁣
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"This project seeks to increase urban permeability in Seoul and Boston through the creation of an anthropogenic concrete subsoil, where over time, new geological layers below the surface transform to raise the water table along the edges of the Gangnam superblock in Seoul and Columbia Road in Boston. Rather than emphasize a pure reduction in impervious surface on these sites, this project investigates a deeper sectional analysis of urban ground, proposing a reuse of concretized infrastructure, processed to form a new permeable material. Over the course of several years, a deep section of Seoul and Boston shows a shifting and dynamic subsoil layer, shaped by runoff and hydrological processes, gradually connecting and raising the water table over time." 🔗Learn more hgsd.us/projects⁣⁣⁣ #LinkInBio⁣
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[Image 3 Video Description: Axon animation showing Hakdong Park Superblock’s permeable area (34149 sq meters), impervious surface (84%), 40+ year old buildings up for redevelopment, potential permeable area (40,319 sq meters), denser development following zoning code, and micro-watersheds populating the superblock edges.]
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Jan 12

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Did you catch Adrian Wong's @adriancwwong (MArch II '20) #GSDInstagramTakeover of the @gsdadmissions stories? He shared an inside look at the 2021 J-Term course "Thinking and Making Models," a three-day workshop exploring the shifting role of architecture models and fabrication in the remote format through various lenses.⁣
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With support from @gsd_fablab's discourse forum, the workshop spent part of their time learning about pâtisserie techniques for model making from Junainah Ahmed @junainahahmed (MArch I '23) and using interactive AR for modeling and pins up from Jonathan Gregurick @jgregurii (MArch I '21) (shown here ⬆️).⁣
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Watch the full takeover in @gsdadmissions's highlights!⁣
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J-Term workshops are non-credited courses held during the first two weeks in January, taught by the GSD community for the GSD community.⁣ It is an opportunity for students, staff, and faculty to hone skills, learn new ones, or just have fun. ⁣
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#HarvardGSD #GSDJTerm #Architecture #ArchitectureStudent #ModelMaking

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Jan 8

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Remembering the life of Donald L. Stull, FAIA (MArch ’62), a groundbreaking architect who led noteworthy, award-winning, transformative design projects and who supported and amplified the unique contributions of Black architects and designers. In a remarkable career, Stull founded two firms that were owned and led by Black architects, through which he would shape cityscapes, harmonize architecture and social change, and inspire countless colleagues and mentees. He died on November 28, 2020, at his home in Milton, Massachusetts. He was 83 years old.⁣
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Stull was born in Springfield, Ohio, on May 16, 1937, and took an early interest in architecture while accompanying his uncle, a bricklayer, to construction sites. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Ohio State University in 1961, then received a master’s in architecture from Harvard GSD in 1962. In 1970, he received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Ohio State; Boston Architectural College awarded him an honorary degree in 2011.⁣
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After graduating from the GSD, Stull would go on to work with the Architects Collaborative in Cambridge, co-founded by Walter Gropius, as well as Samuel Glaser Associates in Boston. In 1966, Stull established Stull Associates, at a time when, it is believed, there were only a dozen Black architects in the United States. In 1969, Stull hired M. David Lee, who was a GSD student at the time; the firm became Stull and Lee Incorporated in 1986.⁣
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Read the full obituary on our website in the article “Remembering pioneering Black architect Donald L. Stull (1937–2020),” 🔗hgsd.us/stull21. Text by Travis Dagenais. #LinkInBio⁣
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Jan 5

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Like offices, public restrooms are a cornerstone of urban and civic space, and they, too, have been stress-tested by the COVID-19 pandemic. Kaoru Lovett @kaorulovett (MArch '20) had been researching Hawaii’s so-called comfort stations as a design expression of utilitarianism, one upon which architectural identities have been constructed. The comfort stations, which were conceived during the postwar boom years of the 1950s and 1960s, offered local designers an opportunity to bring regional materials and era-specific aesthetics into what would otherwise be generic, utilitarian public bathrooms.⁣⁣
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"The public comfort stations of Hawaii are an interesting precedent, as the scale and timeline of the public project was immense, nearly 200 pavilions over the span of 30 years" Kaoru says. "These pavilions were affiliated with a larger effort to shed light on the budding island destination, establishing some of the foundational work upon which the architectural identity of Hawaii is built."⁣⁣
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While Kaoru had initially researched the relationship between the identity and the construction of comfort stations, now he’s wondering whether their inherent utilitarianism can satisfy today’s newly charged public-health concerns. "My earlier interest with these public facilities as architectural 'image' models has coincided with the attention brought on by recent events," Kaoru says. "This creates an opportunity to approach these pavilions with a particular interest: construction logic and building imagery as strategies for resolving issues of public health."⁣⁣
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A recipient of the GSD's Student Emergency Fund, learn more about Kaoru's project on our website in the article "Summer Scholarship at the GSD: Student Emergency Fund provides students with opportunities during quarantine." Text by Travis Dagenais. 🔗hgsd.us/sef20
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Image 1: Drawing of a proposed public restroom pavilion.⁣⁣
Image 2: Waialae Beach Park comfort station.⁣
Image 3: Pupukea Beach Park comfort station, and the Liliuokalani Garden comfort station drawn up referencing construction documents provided by the Honolulu Department of Design and Construction.⁣⁣
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Jan 4

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"27 Pillars" by Alejandra Avalos Guerrero @alejandravlos (MArch II '21). Completed for the option studio "Geometry, Order, and Mannerism," spring 2020. Instructors: Oliver Lütjens and Thomas Padmanabhan @luetjenspadmanabhan. #GSDStudentWork⁣⁣⁣
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Students in this #architecture option studio were asked to design an urban apartment building on Broadway in Cambridge, MA. Reference pairs consisting of a work from the Italian Renaissance and an American project from the 20th century formed the cultural context of the studio's investigation.⁣⁣
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"The building is a rectangle protected and organized by a forest of natural and artificial pillars. Each of these twenty-seven pillars has different sizes, shapes, and materials. On the inside, six of these pillars are gently misaligned to the rest. Sometimes, the pillars have walls that don‘t touch the floor, you can always see everyone‘s shoes or the garden."⁣⁣ 🔗Learn more hgsd.us/projects⁣⁣⁣⁣ #LinkInBio⁣
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Happy New Year! This winter scene is from "Snow Bank" by Diana Guo @ersatzmoon @dianaguoprojects (MLA I '21), Runke Luo @ringcoluo (MLA I AP '21), and Yuning Zhang @yu_n_ing (MLA I '21). Completed for the core studio "Landscape Architecture IV," spring 2020. Instructor: Pablo Pérez-Ramos @pabloperezramos. #GSDStudentWork⁣
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"Snow Bank" takes a multi-scalar, community-based approach to transform snow management in East Boston from a public nuisance to a valuable resource. By deploying a network of storage units inserted into the urban landscape, snow is collected in the cold seasons and released as cool air during Boston's increasingly hot summers. Throughout the warmer months, the units provide recreational spaces for the neighborhood. See more project images in our July 31, 2020 post or on the project page #LinkInBio.⁣
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#HarvardGSD #LandscapeArchitecture #HappyNewYear @gsd_mla

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While this year looked different, seeing your visions for the future continued to inspire. Here are images from a few of our top #GSDStudentWork posts of 2020...⁣
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📸: "Shuiheli Art Institute" by Sam Naylor @F2D622 (MAUD '21)⁣
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📸: Jump Cut by Min Sung Kim @m.i.n.s.u.n.g.k.i.m (MArch I '23).⁣
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📸: "Hidden Landscape" by Xijia Zhang @xijia.zhang (MLA I AP '20)⁣
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📸: Collage by Emily Klein @eeek8 (MUP '20) and Jose Esparza @esparza_jose (MAUD '20) created for the seminar "Urban Design and Color-Line"⁣
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📸: "downlifting" by Erik Fichter @erik.fichter (MArch I AP '22)⁣
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📸: "Afterlives of Orbital Infrastructures: From the Earth’s High Orbits to its High Seas" by Rajji Sanjay Desai @rajjidesai (MDes ULE '19)⁣
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📸: "Extrametropolis: Urban Design Across the Scales of the Paulista Metropolis" by Rafael Marengoni @rafamarengoni (MAUD '20)⁣
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Dec 19

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Pop Quiz! Students in First Semester #Architecture Core produced a series of drawings for their final project "Ordinary, Except." Can you name the architectural views shown here? Head to our stories⤴️ to test your knowledge or send the quiz to an aspiring architect!⁣
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Drawings by Studio Alfredo Thiermann @athiermann, TA: Kyle Winston. For their final project of the semester, students analyzed two houses and their site(s), asking "how can a close reading of reciprocity and in-between spaces act as a catalyst for imagining a new type?"⁣
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[1] Ava Violich Kennedy @avaviolich and Chang Liu @instranger⁣
[2] Inmo Kang @_inmo_omni_ and Vincent Dassault⁣
[3] Kevin Ledee @ledee_official and Eddie G. Melendez Merced @_____eddieg⁣
[4] Rikki Tan and Kian Hosseinnia @kianhosseinnia⁣
[5] Mengfei Wang @wmwmwmwmf, Rio Kobayashi @rio_kobayashi_, and Joyce Chang @joyceepnla⁣
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Precis Advisory, with Planning and Development Director Faaiza Lalji MDes ’13, Will Contract with Merck to Build New Headquarters in King’s Cross

In Memoriam: Carol Johnson MLA ’57

George Ranalli MArch ’74 & Anne Valentino Interviewed on FLOORNATURE’s All Good Vibes Podcast

Kongjian Yu DDes ’95 Announced as Winner of IFLA 2020 Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award

Catherine Murray MLA ’86 Appointed Principal at Sheehan Nagle Hartray Architects

Derek Ham MArch ’03 Appointed as Head of Art and Design at North Carolina State University College of Design

AGi Architects Directed by Joaquín Pérez-Goicoechea MArch ’02 and Nasser B. Abulhasan MArch ’02, DDes ’07 Awarded Second Prize for Madrid Railway Museum Design

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