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23 Sep 2021

Design Impact Series: Following the Sun: Design Futures at the Intersection of Health, Equity and Climate Change

08 Oct 2021

GSD Public Program: Black in Design 2021: “Black Matter”

28 Oct 2021

GSD Public Program: Harvard Design Magazine #49: “Publics” Issue Launch and Conversation

12 Nov 2021

GSD Public Program: “Interrogative Designs: Conversations with Krzysztof Wodiczko”

Alumni Updates

Photo of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander BLA ’47 in a small group

Alumni Spotlight

In Memoriam: Cornelia Hahn Oberlander BLA ’47

The Climate Boot Camp for Harvard Alumni

Vardhan Mehta’s MAUD ’21 Start-up Acelab Raises $3.5M in Seed Funding

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Yoni Angelo Carnice MLA ’20 Researches the Work and Legacy of Demetrio Braceros at San Francisco’s Cayuga Playground

Arielle Assouline-Lichten. Photography by Cody Guilfoyle

Arielle Assouline-Lichten MArch ’13 Featured on Ellen’s Next Great Designer

Seven Alumni Elevated to ASLA Council of Fellows – Class of 2021

Hou de Sousa, Headed by Nancy Hou MArch ’08 and Josh de Sousa MArch ’08, Named a 2021 Design Vanguard by Architectural Record

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31 August 2021

Honoring the GSD’s 2021 Unsung Heroes

19 August 2021

GSD’s Inaugural Alumni Council Award Recipients Announced

7 June 2021

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Sep 22

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Happy first day of fall 🍂 Image from "Transmission Right of Way" by Fabiana Casale @fabianacasale (MLA I AP '22), Yvonne Fang @yifanyvonnefang (MLA I '21), and Maria Ulloa @mariaulloa.pdf (MLA I AP '21). Completed for the core studio "Landscape Architecture IV: The Near-Future City," spring 2020. Instructor: Rosalea Monacella @rosalea_monacella. #GSDStudentWork⁣
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"Situated in South Boston, 'Transmission Right of Way' establishes a waste-to-resource conversion network that is facilitated by the ground and living systems. Our redefinition of 'transmission right of way' as an ecological easement network first emerged through synthesizing hinterland reform policy and electric grid guidelines. This project establishes a new commons through an intra-urban network of collective land ownership that gives residents the agency to choose their level of investment." Learn more at hgsd.us/projects⁣⁣⁣ #LinkInBio⁣
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#HarvardGSD #LandscapeArchitecture #LandscapeArchitectureStudent @gsd_mla #FirstDayOfFall #AutumnEquinox

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Students in #SCI6229 "Structural Design II" were given five minutes to sketch the structure of #GundHall via a shared @mirohq board on the first day of class. "The idea was to reflect on what characteristics are more salient, and discuss structural perception through sketching," notes instructor Jose Luis García del Castillo @garciadelcastillo who is leading the course with Prof. Martin Bechthold.
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[Video Description: A time lapse shows about 30 multicolored cursors moving quickly around a shared Miro board to draw sketches of Gund Hall in a variety of colors.]
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#HarvardGSD #Architecture #ArchitectureStudent #Tectonics #StructuralDesign #MartinBechthold

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Sep 16

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Sep 15

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It is still summer ✨⁣ Located at Harvard's Science Center, the 60-foot diameter Tanner Fountain was designed by Peter Walker @pwpla (MLA '57) in collaboration with sculptor Joan Brigham and fountain expert Richard Chaix.⁣
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[Video Description: A handheld camera captures children playing on the low boulders of Tanner Fountain as a mist of water sprays around them on a sunny, summer day.]⁣
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Sep 14

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"From Humboldt to Caldas: Environmental Liberations through Tropical Altitudes" by Juan David Grisales @juan.david.grisales (MLA I AP/ MDes ULE '21) — Recipient of the 2021 Design Studies Thesis Prize. Faculty Advisor: Pablo Pérez-Ramos @pabloperezramos.⁣ #GSDStudentWork #HarvardGSD21⁣
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"When we stand on earth and think of the world in latitudinal terms, we are minimal, yet this is the world we attempt to conquer and pretend to comprehend. When we stand at low altitudes in the tropics, in front of tropical glaciers, we can see the world—through altitude—without the need to go out in space to synthesize an image of this planet.⁣
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This thesis proposes a deviation from reading the world in latitudinal terms, to see beyond north-south dichotomies, and to transcend binary norms that have largely defined and misinterpreted tropical environments. While many of these territories have achieved political independence, the colonial structures of power and imperial views remain, and they continue to govern us." Learn more about this and other prize-winning theses by visiting our 2021 Virtual Commencement Exhibition #LinkInBio⁣⁣
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[Video Description: Animation quickly shows pages of the thesis, which include columns of text, photos of tropical landscapes, graphs, and maps.]⁣⁣
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Sep 10

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Our fall 2021 Public Program kicks off this Monday, September 13 with a noontime ET lecture from Robin Winogrond @robin_winogrond in which the landscape architect will share some of her recent projects in Switzerland and Germany, most often on the urban periphery, which increasingly focus on sussing out the poetic potential of the banality of our contemporary urban landscape.⁣
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Join us the following evening for a lecture from Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani @baukontor that will ask: "How can we really see our built environment and understand its intertwinings that reveal and create genealogies? How can we organize its solutions in compendiums that preserve the theoretical principles and the tools used to design cities? And, finally, how do we extend this knowledge to contemporary urban projects, while avoiding imitation or replication?"⁣
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All events in the series are virtual, free, and open to the public. Register on our website gsd.harvard.edu/events #LinkInBio⁣
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Fall 2021 poster design by Harsh Patel @1972.agency.⁣
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[Video Description: An industrial printer works on the fall 2021 Harvard GSD public programs poster which shows black text in a variety of fonts on a white background.]⁣
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Sep 10

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Happy Friday! These beautiful sketches of #GundHall are by MArch I student Juan Fernández González @juanfg_sketches ✍️
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Sep 9

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#Repost @gsd_mla This speculative section stitches together design sections from all 49 first-year MLA I students, either final or in process, initiating students' collective journey through their design education.⁣
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In this year's one-week Preterm Workshop for incoming MLA Is, students observed, measured, documented, and transformed a most familiar space: the streets on which they live.⁣
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They began by producing a fantastic catalog of drawings that interrogate the existing conditions of 49 different streets, allowing the group to begin engaging in collective conversation about the potentials of public space.⁣
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Using drawing as a tool to think through, they then engaged in a quick design process of only two (2) days, abstracting what exists and transforming it, to project an alternate future of their street. Through the iterative process, we emphasized the importance of testing and evaluating quick design moves while learning the basics of the various softwares that students will utilize in their design education.⁣
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This Preterm Workshop introduced the topic of the public and to the capacity of landscape architecture to enable and inhibit different relationships among people, living systems, and the spaces we share, in preparation for the Landscape Architecture Core I studio.⁣
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Congratulations to the class on a great start to their first year!⁣
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Instructors⁣
Emily Wettstein @eewettstein⁣
Pablo Pérez-Ramos @pabloperezramos⁣
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Rachel Deschner @racheldeschner⁣
Isaiah Krieger @isaiahkrieger⁣
G Laster @no_captions_no_faces⁣
Jessica Love @jessnlove⁣
Jiaying Qin @qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqin ⁣
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Sep 7

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The incoming cohort of Master of Architecture/ Landscape Architecture in Urban Design students participated in a virtual Preterm Workshop this August designed to hone their skills prior to the start of fall 2021 courses. Featured here are a series of cartographic maps created for Exercise 1: "Topographic Uncanny." Learn more about these projects and see additional preterm student work @harvardurbandesign.⁣
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The workshop was led by Mark Heller (MUP/ MLA ‘19), lecturer in urban planning and design, with Teaching Assistants Bruno Rodriguez Escobedo @bruneiro9 (MAUD '22), Elyjana Roach @elyjanaroach (MAUD '22), Natasha Harkison @lady_harks (MLAUD '22), and Sai Joshi @saijoshi__ (MAUD ‘22).⁣
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Featured work by incoming MAUD '23 students: [1] Liene Asahi Baptists @lienebaptista [2] Oyuela-Bonzani @isabel_oyuela [3] Enrique Mutis @mutisenrique.⁣
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Sep 6

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Global climate change will affect the current version of #Nantucket, but the crucial question is whether sea level rise, altered ocean currents, and unfamiliar weather patterns will bring catastrophe or a new becoming for the island. The spring studio, "Away. . . Offshore. . . Adrift. . . Shifting Landscapes, Unstable Futures" led by Prof. Chris Reed @chrisreedstoss, delved deeply into this question. Part of the @envisionresiliencenantucket Challenge, Reed and his 10 students examined the natural and human drivers of change, in order to understand their entanglements and their mutually reinforcing influences on the island.⁣⁣
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Continue reading and view the full photo essay on our website in the article "An Island in Flux: Envisioning a more resilient Nantucket" #LinkInBio Essay by Alex Anderson. Photography by Maggie Janik.⁣⁣
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[1] Madequecham Beach on the island's south coast. Most of Nantucket's shore line is rapidly eroding.⁣⁣
[2] Coatue Point is part of the Coskata-Coatue Wildlife Refuge. This five mile long barrier beach is one of only a few cuspidate spit formations in the world, and it's one of the most exposed beaches to sea level rise, flooding, and erosion on Nantucket and throughout the state.⁣⁣
[3] Lagoon vegetation at Great Point in Coskata-Coatue Wildlife Refuge.⁣⁣
[4] West jetty was recently raised in anticipation of sea level rise. These jetties provide protection not only for vessels entering and exiting the harbor but as a "harbor of refuge" for transiting ships looking to safely weather significant storm events throughout the year.⁣⁣
[5] Between 1894 and 1999, storms and erosion claimed 195 feet of the bluff near the Sankaty Head lighthouse. The lighthouse was 72 ft from the bluff’s edge by 2006. In 2007 the lighthouse was moved 405 feet to the northwest of its original site and presently stands 267 feet away from the bluff’s edge.⁣⁣
[6] Old North Wharf in early morning mist.⁣⁣
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Sep 3

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✅First week of classes. Have a safe holiday weekend!⁣
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📸: @saadboujane⁣
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Sep 3

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Designed for incoming MArch I students without an undergraduate degree in #architecture, Architecture Core Prep is a summer workshop offering an introduction to the intellectual framework of design as it is taught at the GSD. Participants engaged in lectures and tutorials, and were exposed to a range of tools including common design software, drawing techniques, rendering, mixed-method drawing, and model-making. ⁣
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The workshop was led by Elle Gerdeman @ellegerdemann @co_g.co, design critic in architecture, with Teaching Assistants Emily Majors @majors.em, Julia Spackman @jspack, and Renee Yuen @r.wingyuen.⁣⁣
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Featured work by incoming MArch I '25 students: [1] Zoe Chrissos @zchrissos [2] Ashley Dotson @ashleyerindotson [3] Madison Kim [4] Kai Blatt @kaiblatt [5] Olivia Harden @olivia.harden [6] Olivia Champ @olivchamp [7] Eric Lee [8] Michael Chang @mdchang99 [9] Sophie Gfoehler [10] Sabrina Madera @maderagrams. ⁣
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Sep 2

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Fifty-eight incoming Master of Urban Planning @harvardurbanplanning students participated in this year's GSD Preterm Workshop. The week-long immersion acclimates participants to the culture, ways of thinking, technical workflows, and modes of representation they will encounter in their first semester.⁣
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Held virtually, students were asked to walk a path near them and represent their experience using a variety of graphic techniques, including plan diagrams and collages.⁣
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The workshop was led by David Gamble (MAUD '97), lecturer and design critic in the Department of Urban Planning and Design, with Teaching Assistant Aeshna Prasad @aeshnaprasad (MAUD '21/MDes '22).⁣
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Featured work by incoming MUP '23 students [1] Jialei Tang @strctre [2] Gabriel Barrett-Jackson @humbabe_gabe [3] Jaida Nabayan @jaidanabayan [4] Marina Freitas @mcmaa [5] Sam Lewis @samilewi [6] Raveena John [7] Matt Khinda @mpkhinda [8] Sue Chen.⁣
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Sep 1

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"Hone your own opinions so that you can constantly revise and improve your lines, whether drawn or written. That cultivation happens here, and it will continue throughout your lives."⁣
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Dean Sarah M. Whiting offered words of advice to new and returning students in a virtual welcome address to the GSD community before the start of in-person classes. Read the full address on our website: hgsd.us/deanswelcome-fall21⁣
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Upcoming Events

Design Impact Series: Following the Sun: Design Futures at the Intersection of Health, Equity and Climate Change

GSD Public Program: Black in Design 2021: “Black Matter”

GSD Public Program: Harvard Design Magazine #49: “Publics” Issue Launch and Conversation

GSD Public Program: “Interrogative Designs: Conversations with Krzysztof Wodiczko”

Alumni Updates

In Memoriam: Cornelia Hahn Oberlander BLA ’47

The Climate Boot Camp for Harvard Alumni

Vardhan Mehta’s MAUD ’21 Start-up Acelab Raises $3.5M in Seed Funding

Yoni Angelo Carnice MLA ’20 Researches the Work and Legacy of Demetrio Braceros at San Francisco’s Cayuga Playground

Arielle Assouline-Lichten MArch ’13 Featured on Ellen’s Next Great Designer

Seven Alumni Elevated to ASLA Council of Fellows – Class of 2021

Hou de Sousa, Headed by Nancy Hou MArch ’08 and Josh de Sousa MArch ’08, Named a 2021 Design Vanguard by Architectural Record

News

Honoring the GSD’s 2021 Unsung Heroes

GSD’s Inaugural Alumni Council Award Recipients Announced

Visit the GSD Through Virtual Gund Hall

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