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Alumni Spotlight

In Memoriam: Cornelia Hahn Oberlander BLA ’47

Michael Lehrer MArch ’78 Leading work with City of Los Angeles on Tiny Homes Transitional Housing Project

Nashid Nabian DDes ’06 and [Shift] Process Practice named in the Architectural Digest for Iran’s Pavilion in Dubai Expo 2020

Sofia Koutsenko MArch ’15 and DROM Selected by Wallpaper* for the Architects’ Directory 2021

IN CHONGQING, CHINA, THE 2019 HOT POT MASTER GARDEN AT THE UPPER YANGTZE RIVER CITY FLOWER ART EXPO WAS DESIGNED BY MARTHA SCHWARTZ PARTNERS.

Kate Orff MLA ’97 and Martha Schwartz GSD ’77 Named Landscape Living Legends By Cultured Magazine

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David De Celis MArch ’98 Receives 2021 Housing Innovation Award

Architect Wendy W Fok DDes ’17 Recognized With City Artists Corps Grant From New York Foundation for The Arts and The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs

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14 October 2021

Julie Bargmann MLA’ 87 Wins Inaugural Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize

23 September 2021

Opening of the 2021-2022 Academic Year

31 August 2021

Honoring the GSD’s 2021 Unsung Heroes

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"It was probably the first time a @Harvard lecture ended with audience members tossing their sneakers toward the podium," wrote the Harvard Gazette after a 2017 lecture by designer Virgil Abloh @virgilabloh, who died on Sunday.⁣⁣
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In his lecture "Insert Complicated Title Here," Abloh encouraged a packed crowd (some of whom had traveled for hours to attend) to find their creative voice and direction. "I have mentors who are dead. I have mentors 30 years older than me. I have mentors 10 years younger," Abloh said, before ending the lecture with a new title, "Insert Yourself Here." Watch the full event on our YouTube channel: hgsd.us/abloh2017 #LinkInBio⁣⁣
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The lecture inspired the publication "Insert Complicated Title Here," the sixth title in the GSD's The Incidents book series. The book was launched at @grafiche_veneziane during the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, where Abloh created a limited edition of unique "Insert Complicated Title Here" covers (Image 3). Learn more on our website: hgsd.us/abloh-book #LinkInBio⁣
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During the Fall 2020 semester, Abloh co-led "New Spaces of Justice" with the GSD's Oana Stanescu and Nóra Al Haider @noraalhaider of @stanford's Legal Design Lab. The workshop looked to address real-time challenges faced by the courts and its users and rethink analog and virtual court infrastructures, buildings, symbols and artifacts through a human-centered lens. Watch a presentation from the workshop, which includes a conversation between Abloh and Judge Clemens Landau of the Utah Supreme Court, on our website: hgsd.us/newspaces-20 #LinkInBio⁣
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#HarvardGSD Photos 1-2 by Anita Kan. Photo 3 by Giorgio De Vecchi.

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Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 Cambridge turkeys seeking refuge with friendly GSD vegans were photographed earlier this week by Sarah Pumphrey @pumph_it_up (MArch I '23) outside #GundHall.
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The seminar "Representation First (!!!), Then Architecture" explores techniques and methodologies around a series of representational experiments framed by contemporary design debates. Through lectures and exercises, students engage in directed studies on materiality, color, digital tooling, animations, scale figures, and media. Assignment #04: "Play with Your Food," a selection of work from which is shown here, asks students to design their own representational take on food photography, color gel, and composition 🥕🍊🥔🥚🥝⁣
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Instructor: Jennifer Bonner @jbonn90057. TA: Taylor Smith @tayrach_.⁣
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Student work by⁣
[1] Christopher Ball @cb_ll (MAUD '23), Parsnips⁣
[2] Rayshad Dorsey @Rayshad_Dorsey (MArch I '23), Dutch Still Life⁣
[3] Lafina Eptaminitaki @lafinnnn (MDes '23), Sculpture⁣
[4] Jeffery Cheung @jefferycheung_ (MArch II '23), Color Block Noodles⁣
[5] Meredith Hutto @mer.arch and Oonagh Davis @oonagh290 (both MArch II '23), Fast Snacks⁣
[6] Jianli Shi @jian.li_shi (MArch II '23), Noodle Stack⁣
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"The Kinetic City & Other Essays" is the latest book from Rahul Mehrotra @architectmehrotra @rma_architects, Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design and John T. Dunlop Professor in Housing and Urbanization at the GSD. Published by @architangle, the book presents a selection of Mehrotra's writings from the last three decades and illustrates his long-term engagement with urbanism in #India. Through the essays, Mehrotra describes how the emerging urban condition in India represents the "Kinetic City"—opposing the "Static City" of conventional city maps—by being "perceived, read, and mapped in terms of patterns of occupation and associative values attributed to space." Read an excerpt on our website now #LinkInBio⁣⁣
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🔜Monday, November 29 at 12:30pm ET, join Mehrotra on Zoom for a discussion of "The Kinetic City & Other Essays" as part of the Frances Loeb Library's faculty colloquium series. Dean Sarah M. Whiting will moderate the event. Register for the online talk at hgsd.us/mehrotra-event21 #LinkInBio⁣⁣
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[Video Description: Two hands open and flip through the book "The Kinetic City & Other Essays" by Rahul Mehrotra. The publication contains essays punctuated by colorful photos of urban scenes.]⁣⁣
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The Game is this Saturday! Test your knowledge of the architectural history of the @harvard and @yale stadiums with the quiz in our stories⤴️⁣
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Image: Detail from "Yale - Harvard Football Game," ca. 1905. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, loc.gov/item/2007663686.⁣
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Hanging out in the backyard 🍂
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#HarvardGSD #HarvardInFall Photo: Justin Knight @jakphotojustin

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Announcing the 2022 cycle of the #WheelwrightPrize, an international competition for early-career architects. Winners receive a $100,000 (USD) fellowship to foster intensive, innovative architectural research that is informed by cross-cultural engagement and can make a significant impact on architectural discourse.⁣
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Deadline for submissions is January 30, 2022. Learn more and apply at wheelwrightprize.org⁣ #LinkInBio⁣
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Image: 2021 Wheelwright Prizewinner Germane Barnes's @gmane16 "Pop-Up Porch," 2019. Converted 8 x 20' container with motor operated panels that allow spatial occupation.⁣
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Students in "Proseminar in PUBLICS: Of the Public. In the Public. By the Public" take part in a group activity during a student-led teaching session from Jenny Yi @jeannyyyi and Jessica Walker @jessi_walk (both MDes '23). The discussion based seminar seeks to define what constitutes the Public—both spatially and socially—how it becomes legible and desirable, who gets the right to create it, and for whom. Instructor: Toni L. Griffin @tonilgriffin. Photo thanks to Laureen Andalib @laurandali.
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Chong Ho Park @ch_park25 (MAUD '23) shares a look at his desk with work from the first half of the core studio Elements of Urban Design's Exercise 1 (@HarvardUrbanDesign). Students are tasked with making design proposals for an underutilized industrial area in South Boston adjacent to the waterfront, a working container port, and a historic neighborhood.
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Happy National First-Generation Celebration Day 🎉 Tune into @GSDAdmissions stories today as our First-Generation Initiative student team takes over the account to share an inside look at the @nextgeninitiative and how @Harvard is honoring the journeys and voices of our First-Gen/Next-Gen community all month!⁣⁣
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Pictured here are members of the GSD's First-Generation Initiative team with Dean of Students Laura Snowdon. Photo: @jeffreyblackwellmedia/ Harvard University.⁣⁣
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Collages by first-year #UrbanPlanning students produced for the couse "Representation for Planners" led by David Gamble. The exercise called for creating a #collage that communicates—radically and affectively—the future iteration as a human-scale experience of what a public space should feel like.⁣
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Visit and follow @HarvardUrbanPlanning to see more #GSDMUP student work from this project!⁣
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Student work by Anika Richter @anikamurasaki, Marina Freitas @mcmaa, Shrinkhala Khatiwada @shrinkhala_, Rania Karamallah @ran.krkasawi, and Arielle Rawlings @ariellerawlings.⁣
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Alumni Updates

In Memoriam: Cornelia Hahn Oberlander BLA ’47

Michael Lehrer MArch ’78 Leading work with City of Los Angeles on Tiny Homes Transitional Housing Project

Nashid Nabian DDes ’06 and [Shift] Process Practice named in the Architectural Digest for Iran’s Pavilion in Dubai Expo 2020

Sofia Koutsenko MArch ’15 and DROM Selected by Wallpaper* for the Architects’ Directory 2021

Kate Orff MLA ’97 and Martha Schwartz GSD ’77 Named Landscape Living Legends By Cultured Magazine

David De Celis MArch ’98 Receives 2021 Housing Innovation Award

Architect Wendy W Fok DDes ’17 Recognized With City Artists Corps Grant From New York Foundation for The Arts and The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs

News

Julie Bargmann MLA’ 87 Wins Inaugural Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize

Opening of the 2021-2022 Academic Year

Honoring the GSD’s 2021 Unsung Heroes

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