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Nader Tehrani MAUD ’91, Meejin Yoon MAUD ’97, and Theaster Gates LF ’11 Newly Elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters

Central park scarf designed by Yen-Ting Cho

YEN TING CHO, founded by Yen-Ting Cho MDes ’09, Wins Gold at the International Design Awards

Dwayne Oyler MArch ’01 and Jenny Wu MArch ’01 won the 2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award

James Lord, FASLA, MLA ’96 Received the 2020 American Architecture Award in Urban Planning/Landscape Architecture

Yujia Wang MLA ’17 Named on Forbes China 30 Under 30 List

Esther Choi MDes ’08 Founded Office Hours

Kathryn Clarke Albright MDes ’94 Published “Exploring the Architecture of Place in America’s Farmers Markets”

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22 April 2021

Buckminster Fuller’s Legacy Honored at Harvard GSD with New Chair

18 March 2021

Talking Practice: Practice in an Uncertain World

18 March 2021

GSD Exhibitions Turn “Inside Out”

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We are pleased to name Germane Barnes @gmane16 the winner of the 2021 #WheelwrightPrize, a grant to support investigative approaches to contemporary architecture, with an emphasis on globally minded research. With his winning proposal "Anatomical Transformations in Classical Architecture," Barnes will examine Roman and Italian architecture through the lens of non-white constructors, studying how spaces have been transformed through the material contributions of the African Diaspora while creating new architectural possibilities that emerge within investigations of Blackness. Barnes is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at @univmiami and Principal at Studio Barnes. As with past Wheelwright winners, the 100,000 USD prize is intended to fund two years of Barnes's research and travel.⁣⁣
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Learn more about Barnes, his work, the Prize, and this year's finalists on our website: 🔗hgsd.us/wheelwright21 #LinkInBio⁣⁣⁣⁣
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Image 2: "Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears a Crown" (Germane Barnes, 2020) is a celebration of Black hair and Black architecture. In the United States there has been a search for a distinctly Black architectural aesthetic. The porch is one instance of this aesthetic, and one of the most important features of the porch are the chairs. Fabricated from metal and wood, these chairs reference braiding techniques often found in the Black community, and are inspired by the crowns donned by Black people across the diaspora; from Sunday Service hats to Bahamian Junkanoo Band cosplay to the legendary Afro-pick, each chair promotes Black identity. Photograph by Blair Reid Jr @avizionary.⁣
Image 3: A scene from Barnes's work in the @themuseumofmodernart exhibition "Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America." Image courtesy MoMA.⁣⁣⁣⁣
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Since March 2020, @gsdkirklandgallery—the GSD’s student art & design gallery—has curated a series of virtual exhibitions. The hiatus from a physical space has pushed students’ imagination and resulted in an unparalleled body of experimental works. Exhibitions took the shape of live-stream performances, public projections, AR, and interactive platforms, among others. The Kirkland Gallery also took on several exciting collaborations with #GSDExhibitions, Digital Media Workshop, and the Innovation Task Force.⁣
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Swipe to see some of Kirkland Gallery’s recent shows. For upcoming exhibitions and further details on past work, please visit @gsdkirklandgallery or gsdkirklandgallery.com. ⁣
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Spring 2021 Kirkland Gallery Team: ⁣
Birdia Zuo @dundun.ni1, Hermano Luz Rodrigues @hermanoluz, Shane Ah-Siong @shaneahsiong, Shiyu Liu @shiyu.poetry, Stephanie Lee Yeung @xs_lyeung.⁣
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ON VIEW NOW: Those in the 📍Cambridge, MA area are invited to view "Gallery 40K: That Is A Wrap," a collection of video works curated by the Kirkland Gallery screening nightly on Gund Hall‘s Cambridge and Quincy Streets facades. Ending May 12, 2021.⁣
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[1] Floating Between Borders: @dianaguoprojects, @mingjchen, @ersatzmoon ⁣
[2] Protest: @aeshnaprasad, alexandra_indira_, @davidezhangdz, @diannetnle, @emilybyang, Gauri Nagpal, @kellie.z, @pininkc, @shaneahsiong, @y_crespo⁣
[3] Version Control: @majors.em, @vers.ctrl, @davidezhangdz⁣
[4] One X-Smart Kitchen: @not_isabelle⁣
[5] Clickbait: @mm_notfunny, @guida.george, @archclojure⁣
[6] Dear Grandmother: @ayamashita24⁣
[7] Fluid Expressions: @sharma.sas⁣
[8] Druker Projection - Floating Between Borders @danborelli, @dianaguoprojects, @mingjchen, @ersatzmoon ⁣
[9] Kirkland Gallery Team members⁣
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Jocelyn Chiou @jocechiou (MArch I '22) fashioned her final project model for the #architecture option studio "Porches, Portals and Passageways" in part out of the spring 2021 #GSDEvents poster 💚 "The poster provided a great backdrop to bounce color for my model shots!" said Chiou. Instructor: Sharon Johnston @johnstonmarklee. #GSDFinalReviews⁣⁣
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The studio was the second in a series exploring the potential of a small scale municipal building to engage the urban and social fabric of the city. With a focus on health equity and sustainability, students designed a 50,000 square foot community wellness center in 📍South Central Los Angeles.⁣⁣
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Final review critics: Milton Curry @curry.milton, Yolande Daniels @yolande_daniels, Camilo Restrepo-Ochoa @agendaarq, Sean Canty @studioseancanty, Michelle Chang @ja_ja_co, Tom dePaor, Jeanette Kuo @karamukkuo, Alfredo Thiermann @athiermann, Yasmin Vobis @2yvobis. ⁣
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We are excited to announce the establishment of the R. Buckminster Fuller Professorship of Design Science, a new endowed chair honoring the 20th century designer's commitment to innovation and sustainability.⁣
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The Fuller Professorship is made possible by the generosity of Amy C. Edmondson (AB '81, AM '95, PhD '96) @harvardhbs and George Q. Daley (AB '82, MD '91) @harvardmed, a couple with long-standing ties to @harvard and a personal connection to the 20th century designer.⁣
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Edmondson came to know Fuller's work through the Harvard course "Synergetics: The Structure of Ordered Space" along with a lecture Fuller presented @mitpics. Upon corresponding with him, he offered her a job as his Chief Engineer. This pivotal experience shaped Edmondson's career and ultimately led her to her work at HBS, studying people and teams who seek to make a positive difference through the work they do.⁣
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"Buckminster Fuller was interested in making a better world through the power of design. There is no more fitting place to honor his legacy than at the GSD by creating the R. Buckminster Fuller Professorship of Design Science," said Edmondson and Daley. "Bucky’s spirit of innovation and invention lives on to inspire others to forge new discoveries and to take better care of each other and our planet for future generations."⁣
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Harvard GSD will begin a search for a visionary scholar to serve as the inaugural R. Buckminster Fuller Professor of Design Science. Learn more on our website 🔗http://hgsd.us/fuller21 #LinkInBio⁣
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Image: (Left to right) Amy C. Edmondson, John Katzenberger, Buckminster Fuller, and Thomas Crum (1982). Photo courtesy of Edmondson.⁣
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Can #Parkitecture heal? 🏔 In challenging students to bring the core goals of the #GreenNewDeal into a new park architecture for @greatsmokynps (the most visited national park in the US), a fall 2020 studio led by Jeanne Gang and Claire Cahan @studiogang sought design solutions that would "expand the use of the park for everyone and build on its capacity for healing that is so needed today."⁣
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For their design (featured here), Stephanie Lloyd @s.rae.lloyd (MArch ’22) and Ada Thomas (MLA ’21) proposed a distributed system of gathering centers carefully integrated into the park’s ecological systems. Their construction would use selectively removed trees as the formwork for labor-intensive, low-carbon rammed-earth walls. “While a single building cannot heal racial and climatic crises,” they explain, “architectural processes—construction methods, material ethics, and project phasing—can effect institutional change and promote justice.”⁣⁣
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Learn more on our website in the article "Can Parkitecture Heal? Jeanne Gang on making American National Parks 'more accessible, more inviting, and more welcoming'" #LinkInBio. Text by Alex Anderson.⁣⁣
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#HavardGSD #EarthDay #EarthDay2021 #Architecture #LandscapeArchitecture #NationalParks⁣ #GSDDesignNews #AdaThomas

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"Running the Course: Unifying Franklin Park One Step at a Time" by Lucy Humphreys @lucy.h.humphreys (MLA '22) 🏃‍♀️ Completed for "#LandscapeArchitecture II: Second Semester Core Studio," spring 2020. Instructor: Craig Douglas. @gsd_mla #GSDStudentWork⁣⁣⁣⁣
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"My goal in this project is to revitalize #FranklinParkBoston by augmenting the unique and world-renowned cross-country course that brings athletes from all over the world and unifies the park for a few days of the year. The path of the course is the catalyst for a new range and scale of social spaces, vegetation revitalizing strategies, and land forming interventions designed to stitch the park together. It will create a new rhythm for the park." Learn more 🔗hgsd.us/projects #LinkInBio⁣
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#HarvardGSD #LandscapeArchitectureStudent #FrederickLawOlmsted @franklinparkbos

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Late last year, a scaffolding structure rose to abut the facade of the popular La Concordia market plaza in Bogotá—but the building wasn’t under construction. The three-story framework—a temporary intervention developed by architecture studio @colab19_arq with @sca_presidencia and @taller.architects—was part of a city-sponsored campaign to support COVID-safe civic life during lockdown. As colab-19, architect Alejandro Saldarriaga @saldarriagaalejandro (MArch II ’21) and urban designer German Bahamon @german_bahamon designed the U-shaped La Concordia: Amphitheater to host a flexible program of outdoor dining, retail, and entertainment, all open to the public. While designers worldwide grappled with shortages of plexiglass and plywood as they scrambled to design for our new everyday life, colab-19’s multi-use installation was constructed with materials that are purposefully easy to source, assemble, and reuse—like the scaffolding, which was donated for the project by manufacturer Layher @layhergermany.⁣
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Saldarriaga, currently based in his native Bogotá, and Bahamon, a Bogotano living in London, launched their remote practice in the summer of 2020 over Zoom, and the two have yet to meet in person. The same pandemic constraints that have dictated the terms of their virtual collaboration also inspire their approach to design. “It’s very special that we were born mid-pandemic, because we were asked to question all of the traditional models about practicing architecture,” says Saldarriaga.⁣
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Learn more about colab-19 and their projects and speculations on our website in the article "Design collaborative colab-19 is changing how we think about post-pandemic architecture" #LinkInBio. Text by Luke T. Baker @eyrejordan.⁣
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Images of Amphitheater La Concordia. Initiative: @alcaldiabogota @ipesbogota @plazasdemercadodistritales. Project Development: @colab19_arq @sca_presidencia @taller.architects + @hgualdron1. Community Engagement: Diseño Publico. Scaffolding: @layhergermany. Photo: @albertoroaphoto.⁣
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[Image 3 Video Description: Animated gif of amphitheater model with dining, performance, and movie theater options.]⁣
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Alumni Updates

Nader Tehrani MAUD ’91, Meejin Yoon MAUD ’97, and Theaster Gates LF ’11 Newly Elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters

YEN TING CHO, founded by Yen-Ting Cho MDes ’09, Wins Gold at the International Design Awards

Dwayne Oyler MArch ’01 and Jenny Wu MArch ’01 won the 2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award

James Lord, FASLA, MLA ’96 Received the 2020 American Architecture Award in Urban Planning/Landscape Architecture

Yujia Wang MLA ’17 Named on Forbes China 30 Under 30 List

Esther Choi MDes ’08 Founded Office Hours

Kathryn Clarke Albright MDes ’94 Published “Exploring the Architecture of Place in America’s Farmers Markets”

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Buckminster Fuller’s Legacy Honored at Harvard GSD with New Chair

Talking Practice: Practice in an Uncertain World

GSD Exhibitions Turn “Inside Out”

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