Dear UPD Alumni, I hope this note finds you well and enjoying the winter. As the 2024–2025 academic year progresses, Gund Hall is once again bustling with students after the winter break. With phase one of the Gund Hall façade renewal project now complete, we are already enjoying a more energy-efficient, comfortable, and accessible learning…
Dear Alumni and Friends of Landscape Architecture, Greetings from Cambridge, where we have embarked upon the 125th year of the Landscape Architecture department and the third week of the spring semester. I recently traveled to Bangkok, Thailand, where Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture Sarah M. Whiting, Professor Anita Berrizbeitia MLA ’87, Charles…
Dear Alumni and Friends of Landscape Architecture, I bring you greetings from Cambridge during this eventful time in the fall semester. I understand that global events might be impacting you or your families, just as they’ve touched campus life, and I send my heartfelt support to each of you. There is much to report about…
Dear Alumni and Friends, With the GSD community together on campus again, we return to a world that needs thoughtful, caring designers more than ever. I recently listened to an interview with George Saunders, one of my favorite writers, and a phrase he said truly resonated with me: “Kindness is the only non-delusional response to…
Dear Alumni of the GSD, When I began my position as dean of the GSD this July, I shared with you how thrilled I was to be joining the School in this role. That sense of adventure, coupled with responsibility, has only grown with time. Thank you for your support and engagement in my first months…
Sarah Whiting, dean of architecture at Rice University, will return to Harvard, where she taught early in her career, as the next dean of the Graduate School of Design.
