Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 12hOver the weekend, the GSD welCOMEBACK'd over 370 alumni and friends amid a nor'easter and connected them with nearly 500 students over hot dogs, treats, and conversation. hgsd.us/4xTGcRM 000
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 29/09/2026Farshid Moussavi, GSD professor in practice of architecture, has received the 2026 Soane Medal, awarded yearly by @soanemuseum.bsky.social to encourage a better understanding of the importance of architecture in people’s lives. Moussavi will receive the medal on November 24. hgsd.us/3Tp4WmV 021
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 28/09/2026TODAY! Dhaka-based Kashef Chowdhury presents projects from “Meditations in Entropy,” the first full monograph of his practice. Drawing on work across Bangladesh, Chowdhury reflects on culture, history, climate change, and architecture’s response to fragile ecological conditions. hgsd.us/4yvn79a 081
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 24/09/2026🗣️ TODAY! Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu of Neri&Hu present “Liminal Ground,” drawing on past and ongoing works to explore liminality and Homi Bhabha’s “third space”—remapping cultural boundaries as sites of translation, negotiation, tension, and emergent possibility. 🆓 hgsd.us/4yrwKG1 010
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 23/09/2026Remy (and all of us) are excited to welcome GSD alumni and friends for the GSD comeback this weekend, September 25–26, 2026. hgsd.us/4yUaTaC 021
Reposted by Harvard Graduate School of DesignHarvard Joint Center for Housing Studies @harvard-jchs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026@harvard.edu students, there's still time to register for this weekend's Hack-a-House, a 24 hr hackathon to pitch ideas to improve housing affordability. $12,000 in prizes, kickoff 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟱 @ 𝟮𝗽𝗺 𝗘𝗧. @gsd.harvard.edu @ivoryinnovations.bsky.social www.jchs.harvard.edu/calendar/hac... 022
Reposted by Harvard Graduate School of DesignHarvard Joint Center for Housing Studies @harvard-jchs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026We are pleased to announce that Dr. Vincent Reina has been named the inaugural Nicolas P. and Joan B. Retsinas Faculty Director of JCHS and Professor in Practice at @gsd.harvard.edu. The appointment will take effect January 1, 2027. @harvardkennedy.bsky.social www.jchs.harvard.edu/press-releas... 094
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 22/09/2026🗣️ TODAY! Professor Gary Hilderbrand presents “Writing on the Surface of the Earth,” exploring how the design work of @reedhilderbrand.bsky.social grows from close readings of site and narratives, while also reflecting on the reciprocal relationship between pedagogy and practice. 🆓 hgsd.us/4ywcmUl 021
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 15/09/2026Brian D. Goldstein (PhD ’13) is the author of Max Bond: The Life and Work of the People’s Architect, published today! Bond (MArch ’58) designed buildings from northern Ghana to rural Mississippi to Harlem to the National Mall. www.harvardmagazine.com/alumni/arch…harvardmagazine.comHow J. Max Bond Jr. Honored Black History Through Architecture | Harvard MagazineA new book explores the Harvard-trained architect’s vision and impact, from Ground Zero to the Smithsonian. 0112
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 11/09/2026TODAY! The 2026 DDes Conference, “Carrots and Sticks: Incentives Shaping the ‘Rurban’ Interface,” explores the shifting boundaries between city and countryside across the Global South—and how development and sustainability are reshaping land, livelihoods, and governance. 🥕🫏 bit.ly/3UlznKY 020
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 10/09/2026TODAY! Celebrate the opening of “Infrastructure in a Time of Flux: Actions in Public,” beginning with a walk-through led by the exhibition curators. The evening continues with a short screening of Running Fence (1977), a discussion on the film and its legacy, and a reception. bit.ly/4wQD1tu 021
Reposted by Harvard Graduate School of DesignHarvard Joint Center for Housing Studies @harvard-jchs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026TOMORROW (Sept 10) @ 3:30 pm ET: Students from across @harvard.edu are invited to our Open House to learn more about fellowships, research grants, and other student funding. @gsd.harvard.edu @harvardkennedy.bsky.social @hsph.harvard.edu @hls.harvard.edu www.jchs.harvard.edu/calendar/ope...jchs.harvard.eduOpen House for Harvard StudentsGraduate students from GSD, HKS, and other schools at Harvard, as well as Harvard undergraduates, are invited to learn about the Center, which strives to improve equitable access to decent, affordable... 001
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 07/09/2026THIS WEEK! Join us at the GSD for two public programs exploring liminality across architecture, infrastructure, and the built environment: ➡️ 9/10: “Infrastructure in a Time of Flux: Actions in Public” bit.ly/4wQD1tu ➡️ 9/11: “Carrots and Sticks” DDes Conference bit.ly/3UlznKY 000
Reposted by Harvard Graduate School of DesignHarvard Joint Center for Housing Studies @harvard-jchs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Welcome to fall! We're kicking off the semester with an Open House for @harvard.edu students next week, followed by a hybrid conference at @gsd.harvard.edu. We'll also host events on older adult homelessness, renter protections, energy-related remodeling, and more: www.jchs.harvard.edu/calendar 031
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 02/09/2026📚 Happy first day of classes for the Fall 2026 semester! 010
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 31/08/2026We've had a great time over the last few days welcoming our new students to Harvard and to the GSD community. One more day of orientation, then classes begin on Wednesday September 2! 010
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 27/08/2026The GSD announces its fall 2026 public programs and exhibitions, a series of events that explore resilience and adaptability through design. All events will be livestreamed on the GSD website unless otherwise noted! hgsd.us/4gnZbP7 031
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 26/08/2026Andreina Seijas '20 is interviewed in the @newyorker.com's recent piece about how extreme heat is affecting European cities, including Madrid, Barcelona and Paris. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comThe End of the European SummerAs extreme heat overwhelms the Continent’s great cities, they are racing to adapt to a climate that they were never built to withstand. 021
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 26/08/2026🐕 Happy National Dog Day from Papaya, one of our favorite buddies here in the GSD's Communications Office. Say hi if you see him on campus this year! 000
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 21/08/2026Infrastructure in a Time of Flux: Methods, Conditions, and Situations explores how designers can respond to a world increasingly defined by environmental disruption, political instability, technological transformation, migration, and rapidly changing patterns of habitation. hgsd.us/4gazyRE 100
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 14/08/2026basically!! www.gsd.harvard.edu/video/how-la...gsd.harvard.eduHow Landscape Architects Work with Nature's Furriest EngineersAt the GSD, faculty and students are rethinking how to address climate change by designing interventions that work with natural processes. 000
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 11/08/2026Mitul Iyengar and Luke Fiorante (both Master in Design Engineering '26) traveled to Mozambique to research drought preparedness for their thesis. seas.harvard.edu/news/forecast-not-…seas.harvard.eduA Forecast Is Not a Decision: Design Engineering for Drought PreparednessDesign Engineering graduates explore one of the world's most effective drought response systems 000
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 09/08/2026📚 It's Book Lovers' Day! Check out our summer reading roundup of recently published books from GSD affiliates, highlighting topics that range from world expos to immigrant life in the United States to the ways that product design centers men at the expense of women. hgsd.us/4vPEO2ihgsd.usSummer Reading 2026: Design Books by GSD Faculty and AlumniNeed a good book this summer? Check out this list of design books by Harvard Graduate School of Design faculty and alumni. 010
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 08/08/2026🐈 Happy International Cat Day from Remy, shown here recently in one of his favorite places in the Loeb Library! Remy is enjoying a restful summer, but is looking forward to when the students are back on campus. 020
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 06/08/2026love this thread! btw almost all of our public programs are available on our YouTube channel. From architects, landscape architects, and urban planners to musicians, climate experts, and more--it's a great resource for anyone interested in design www.youtube.com/@TheHarvardGSDyoutube.comHarvard GSDThe Harvard Graduate School of Design educates leaders in design, research, and scholarship to make a resilient, just, and beautiful world. 240
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 03/08/2026Andrew M. Schwartz (MLA II ’26)'s 2026 Landscape Architecture Thesis Prize project, "Reclaiming Oblivion: Sacral Assemblies in Poletown, Detroit," imagines the future post-industrial landscape of Detroit’s General Motors Assembly Plant. hgsd.us/4w4kcmP 010
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 31/07/2026Design Discovery has been off to a great start! Every summer, the program welcomes 150+ students from across the country and the world, students from all backgrounds engage with their chosen discipline: Architecture, Landscape Architecture, or Urban Planning + Design. hgsd.us/4vU6C4Y 020
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 29/07/2026Congratulations to Montréale Jones @montreale_13, who won the 2026 Clifford Wong Prize in Housing Design for the project "Rows and Bows: An Intergenerational Housing Framework Organized Through Shared Environmental Rhythms"! hgsd.us/4w9mtNS 020
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 22/07/2026Excited for this event featuring GSD's Karen Korellis Reuther! 011
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 22/07/2026This spring, 20 GSD students were gifted pairs of the new Air Jordan 1 High OG x V.A.A. and copies of The Virgil Reader, Volume 001 from the Virgil Abloh Archive! (First photo is Abloh at the GSD from his 2017 lecture "Insert Complicated Title Here.") hgsd.us/4wOBTqW 010
Reposted by Harvard Graduate School of DesignDezeen @dezeen.com · 21/07/2026Product design desperately needs to drop the notion that things can be made based on an "average-sized" human being, writes Karen Korellis Reuther. www.dezeen.com/2026/07/21/man-made-…dezeen.com"Women are living in a physical world that is too often designed without them in mind"Product design needs to drop the notion that things can be made based on an "average-sized" human being, writes Karen Korellis Reuther. 011
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 20/07/2026"Mindful Urbanism: Buddhist Frameworks and Bhutan’s Model of City-Building" by Adin Becker (MUP ’26) won the GSD's 2026 Thesis Prize in Urban Planning and Design! hgsd.us/4w9BHlR 000
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 17/07/2026Congrats to Maggie Martin (MArch I '26), the winner of the 2026 James Templeton Kelley Prize for her Master of Architecture I thesis, "Building Resilience Out of Air: Reimagining a Typology of Thin Shell Air-Formed Shelters"! hgsd.us/4uWSLu1 010
Reposted by Harvard Graduate School of DesignHarvard Joint Center for Housing Studies @harvard-jchs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Property insurance costs are a threat to multifamily affordable housing. Recent @gsd.harvard.edu graduate Ariella Amit shares what multifamily affordable housing owners and developers can do to manage high property insurance costs. @neighborworks.bsky.social www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/managin...jchs.harvard.eduManaging Property Insurance Costs in Multifamily Affordable Housing Organizations 133
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 13/07/2026José Antonio “Tony” Gómez-Ibáñez, Derek C. Bok Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, Emeritus, died on June 10, 2026. On the GSD website, we've gathered several remembrances of Tony from colleagues and former students. hgsd.us/4aR1WoZ 010
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 09/07/2026Congratulations to Ellen Peirson @epeirson.bsky.social, the winner of the 2026 Wheelwright Prize for “Ultra-Processed Kitchens: Infrastructures of Extraction in the Home”! The $100,000 prize supports investigative approaches to contemporary architecture. hgsd.us/4yhZzpi 000
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 08/07/2026📚 Need some ideas for summer reading? Check out our roundup of recently published books from GSD affiliates, highlighting topics that range from world expos to immigrant life in the United States to the ways that product design centers men at the expense of women. hgsd.us/4vPEO2i 010
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 08/07/2026Joseph Henry (@loebfellowship.bsky.social '24) chats with @archpaper.com about his position with the City of Boston as the chief of arts and culture: "There’s a tradition in Boston of people coming here to figure things out, and trying to solve problems, both politically and creatively."archpaper.comAN talks with Joseph Henry, Boston's new chief of arts and cultureBoston Mayor Michelle Wu named Joseph Henry as the city's new chief of arts in culture in May. Today, Henry is working on a project that promises long-term, affordable music rehearsal space combined with public housing in Brighton. 000
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 07/07/2026The GSD's Karen Korellis Reuther has worked in the design industry for more than 40 years for companies including Reebok and Nike. Her new book is “MAN-MADE: How We Designed a World That Leaves Women Out, and How We Can Make It Right.” 144
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 06/07/2026Hana Khurshid (MDE '26) and Steffek Rainey (MDE ’26) won this year's Master in Design Engineering Thesis Prize for their project Preta--a series of carbon-negative products, including a bathroom sink, composed of a material derived from organic waste. hgsd.us/4uTyaa7 020
Reposted by Harvard Graduate School of DesignHarvard Joint Center for Housing Studies @harvard-jchs.bsky.social · 02/07/2026In a new @gsd.harvard.edu magazine essay, @magdamaaoui.bsky.social & @airbrycki.bsky.social unpack how the Massachusetts’ MBTA Communities Act is playing out across the state. While compliance with the law looks high, their research shows more nuance. www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/articles/mbt...harvarddesignmagazine.orgWhy Assessing the MBTA Communities Act Is More Complicated Than You ThinkNew Harvard GSD research shows that compliance with the Massachusetts transit-linked zoning law is more widespread than the media depicts. 072
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 02/07/2026What makes a neighborhood "authentic"? The GSD's Stephen F. Gray says: "You can’t theme your way into it. Authenticity describes both the buildings and the people inside them, which means giving the people who live there, or will live there, the standing to shape what gets built."news.harvard.eduWhat makes a neighborhood ‘authentic’ — Harvard GazetteUrban designer explains why developers who try to manufacture cool spaces are bound to fail. 002
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 01/07/2026Registration is now open for the GSD Comeback! Alumni and friends are invited to return to campus and experience the collective energy of the GSD community on September 25–26, 2026. Register by Sunday, July 19, to receive the early-bird rate. hgsd.us/4ao7Uxo 000
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 01/07/2026GSD's Diane E. Davis, who taught Raman at MIT: “I teach that to my students in planning at Harvard that you can’t be a good planner unless you know politics. What I’ll also say is you can’t be a good politician, can’t be a good mayor unless you know seriously the planning profession is.” 021
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 25/06/2026Timeline cleanse: peaceful night view of Gund from photographer Anita Kan 030
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 22/06/2026The @nytimes.com writes about a new theater for Hudson Valley Shakespeare designed by Studio Gang, led by Jeanne Gang, Kajima Professor in Practice of Architecture at the GSD! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/theater/… 000
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 22/06/2026Congrats to Ella Claire Larkin (MArch II ’26), whose project "Revisiting the Seokbinggo" won the 2026 James Templeton Kelley Prize for the Master of Architecture II program! The project reflects the transformation of Seoul's Han River since the 1988 Summer Olympics. 000
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 22/06/2026The GSD is pleased to announced the promotions of Jenny French and Elizabeth Christoforetti to Associate Professors in Practice of Architecture. In addition, Amy Whitesides has been appointed Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture. Congrats! hgsd.us/4aKJGNK 010
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 21/06/2026🌞 Happy solstice! Drop by the peaceful Gund backyard if you're around campus. We're missing all the students but enjoying some beautiful summer vibes. 010
Reposted by Harvard Graduate School of DesignRice Sustainability Institute @ricesustainability.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Congratulations Brittany Utting, @gsd.harvard.edu Wheelwright Prize finalist 👏✨ Utting’s work focuses on architecture and environmental care, exploring spatial and technical practices of climate research. Read more: bit.ly/43qc43R #WheelwrightPrize #SustainableArchitecture 031