New on our website: Elena Manferdini led a studio last semester where students used costume and set design to update, transform, and comment on canonical operas. hgsd.us/3P2eCkD

TODAY at 6:30 PM EDT - Join us in Piper Auditorium, where Xaveer De Geyter, the principal and founder of XDGA, will present the firm's "Selected Works." https://bit.ly/4szFSWm

TOMORROW in Piper Auditorium — Xaveer De Geyter, principal and founder of XDGA, will present recent projects by the firm in his lecture, "Selected Works." https://bit.ly/4szFSWm

this event looks great, from @loebfellowship.bsky.social @gsd.harvard.edu tonight, with leading architectures eyes/critics @ollywainwright.bsky.social, @mlamster.bsky.social, @anjulierao.bsky.social et al. + my eternal wish: can event pages say if, and link to, stream &/or recording? #WebinarGuide

The @harvardsalata.bsky.social highlights Amy Whitesides (design critic in landscape architecture at GSD), Max Piana (visiting lecturer in plant science and forest ecology at GSD), and Eric Kramer (principal at Reed-Hilderbrand) in a conversation about urban forests in Boston and Cambridge.

TODAY at 6:30PM ET – 2022 Wheelwright Prize Winner Marina Otero Verzier will present her Wheelwright research examining new architectural paradigms for storing data, and how reimagining digital infrastructures could meet the unprecedented demands facing the world today. https://bit.ly/47bzdsU

GSD Professor Toshiko Mori is quoted in this recent article, speaking about Kenzo Tange's Kagawa Prefectural Gymnasium. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/a...

A moving tribute by Preston Scott Cohen, Gerald M. McCue Professor in Architecture at @gsd.harvard.edu, honoring Gerry McCue, visionary architect, educator, and former dean. We’re especially grateful for his stewardship as co-director of our center (1996–98). www.gsd.harvard.edu/2026/03/reme...

Next Monday at 6:30PM ET: '22 Wheelwright Prize Winner Marina Otero Verzier will present her Wheelwright research examining new architectural paradigms for storing data, and how reimagining digital infrastructures could meet the unprecedented demands facing the world today. https://bit.ly/47bzdsU

Wrapping up an extraordinary @harvard-jchs.bsky.social Dunlop Lecture @gsd.harvard.edu by Kenzie Bok with comments by Bernardo Zacka. As she noted “if we want to think about housing policy, we have to have a theory of housing justice”

Starting in 30 minutes! Tune into the @gsd.harvard.edu livestream: www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/the-pa...

Today @ 6:30 pm ET: Amid an urgent affordability crisis, the public role in providing and preserving affordable homes in the US is more important than ever. @kenziebok.bsky.social, CEO of @bhaboston.bsky.social delivers the Dunlop Lecture @gsd.harvard.edu. www.jchs.harvard.edu/calendar/pas...

The Harvard Gazette featured the GSD course “Paper or Plastic: Reinventing Shelf Life in the Supermarket Landscape,” taught by Teman and Teran Evans. Over the semester, students evaluate household brands and redesign them from the ground up.

TOMORROW: Zak Kyes will give the Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture. Part memoir, part manifesto, part diagnosis, “Identity Crisis” reframes instability as a generative condition, reminds us that the most vital designs have always emerged because of chaos, not in spite of it. https://bit.ly/4bvT7C5

This Thursday, March 5, join us online or in person at @gsd.harvard.edu for our 25th Annual Dunlop Lecture with @kenziebok.bsky.social, CEO of the @bhaboston.bsky.social and former Boston City Councilor, about the past, present, and future of public housing. www.jchs.harvard.edu/calendar/pas...

Next Thursday, March 5th: Kenzie Bok, CEO of the Boston Housing Authority, will bring together her experiences as a pioneering public housing administrator and intellectual historian to explore the past, present, and future of public housing in the United States. Join us! https://bit.ly/4ruz0c8

What's the history and what are the effects of rent control? And how is it different from rent stabilization? Our historian and @gsd.harvard.edu lecturer Alexander von Hoffman explains on @wgbh.org All Things Considered. www.wgbh.org/news/housing...

📆 Next Wednesday, Mar 4: Zak Kyes gives the Rouse Visiting Lecture. Part memoir, part manifesto, part diagnosis, “Identity Crisis” reframes instability as a generative condition, reminds us that the most vital designs have always emerged because of chaos, not in spite of it. https://bit.ly/4bvT7C5

In fall 2025, GSD design critic in architecture Angelo Lunati led the studio “Transformations: Six Schools in Detroit,” in which students studied vacant school buildings, with the task of reimagining them as spaces that serve the current communities’ needs.

Join us on Thurs, March 5 @gsd.harvard.edu for the 25th Annual Dunlop Lecture with Administrator and CEO of the Boston Housing Authority and former Boston City Councilor @kenziebok.bsky.social on the Past, Present, and Future of Public Housing. www.jchs.harvard.edu/calendar/pas...

Today in the Loeb Library, the GSD celebrated the arrival of Town Ecology: Concord, Thoreau, and Onward, a collection of Professor Richard Forman (Emeritus Professor of Advanced Environmental Studies in the Field of Landscape Ecology)'s definitive works on ecology in print form.

Live now: What happened to home prices in rural areas (especially vacation areas) in the post-pandemic period? @aherm.bsky.social @pjwhit.bsky.social www.jchs.harvard.edu/calendar/und...

TODAY! | Join us in Piper Auditorium for a lecture by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby. Partners in the design studio Dunne & Raby, they will explore how speculative thought from science, philosophy, and literature can inform and expand design practice. https://bit.ly/3ZKpJki

Join us on Tuesday for "Unreal by Design" – Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby are partners in the design studio Dunne & Raby. Through design projects and writing, they explore how speculative thought from science, philosophy, and literature can inform and expand design practice. https://bit.ly/3ZKpJki

We are sad to learn of the passing of our former co-director and former Dean of @gsd.harvard.edu, Gerald McCue. A visionary leader, generous mentor, and advocate for design excellence, Jerry shaped the fields of urban design & architecture. (Photo: Gayle Alstrom) www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...

This Friday @ 2pm: @harvard.edu students are invited to join us for an overview of fellowships and research grants available to students, including several community service summer fellowships. @gsd.harvard.edu @harvardkennedy.bsky.social @hsph.harvard.edu www.jchs.harvard.edu/calendar/inf...

We're pretty active on IG Reels and TikTok, but we're going to try to post our short video over here more too! Here's a look at our current exhibit, Designers of Mountain and Water, featuring curator Jungyoon Kim among others

TOMORROW | Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga, founders of Barcelona-based practice Barozzi Veiga, delve into the delicate interplay between permanence and transformation, showing how the reading of a place can become the starting point for a new architectural narrative. https://bit.ly/4c7Oe28

Join us for this semester's At Home and Abroad speaker series, co-organized by the GSD Healthy Places Design Lab, and Healthy places GSD! @amydain.bsky.social @gsd.harvard.edu

Join us for this semester's Planning for Health speaker series, co-organized by the Harvard GSD Healthy Places Design Lab, and Healthy places GSD! @joeallenjoe.bsky.social @gsd.harvard.edu @biobotanalytics.bsky.social

This Thursday: Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga, founders of Barcelona-based practice Barozzi Veiga, delve into the delicate interplay between permanence and transformation, showing how the reading of a place can become the starting point for a new architectural narrative. https://bit.ly/4c7Oe28

GSD students Yuanyuan (Yuki) Cao (MRE ’26), Joe Russell (MArch ’27), and Emma Sheffer (MArch ’27) recently won a combined €50,000 in the Buildner’s Unbuilt Award 2025, an international competition recognizing architectural ideas not yet realized. Congrats 👏 hgsd.us/4rCfL0l

Join us today for Day 2 of the Designers of Mountain and Water Conference! This event brings together leading landscape architects and scholars to discuss the perspectives, histories, politics, and most compelling projects of sustainable design in the Asian context. https://bit.ly/3NTXMns

TODAY at 6:30p.m.! Join us for Day 1 of the Designers of Mountain and Water Conference, featuring leading landscape architects and scholars who will discuss the perspectives, histories, politics, and most compelling projects of sustainable design in the Asian context. https://bit.ly/3NTXMns

“If I had one lesson to share, it would be to always remember there are other ways to live,” says industrial designer Stephen Burks (LF '19). “It’s a big world and we’re connected in many more ways than we know.” @loebfellowship.bsky.social

The GSD's Roderick Wyllie and James A. Lord write about their Fall 2025 studio "Fireworks," which centered the idea of fire as both creator and destroyer. Students suggested solutions for reconceiving the landscape for the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art to better protect it from wildfires.

👏 Congratulations to political philosopher Nancy Fraser, the Spring 2026 Senior Loeb Scholar! Senior Loeb Scholars spend time on campus, during which time they present a public lecture and engage directly with GSD students, faculty, staff, researchers, and Loeb Fellows. https://hgsd.us/4a0NN7g

Read our profile of Wannaporn Pui Phornprapha (MLA ’95)! She is the founder of P Landscape (PLA), a landscape and design studio. Several of PLA's projects are featured in the GSD’s exhibition Designers of Mountain and Water: Alternative Landscapes for a Changing Climates. https://hgsd.us/49KZi3R

📢 Announcing the GSD's spring 2026 public programs and exhibitions, a series that challenges the politics of environmentalism, computation, and urban infrastructure. All events will be livestreamed unless otherwise noted. https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/public-programs/

In an episode of the podcast Housing After Dark, @alexschafran.bsky.social sits down with our former postdoc @magdamaaoui.bsky.social to unpack what the U.S. can learn from France’s approach to housing. @gsd.harvard.edu open.spotify.com/episode/1gY0...

We're excited to welcome Mayor Pangallo and the rest of the Just City Fellows: Broadview, IL: Katrina Thompson Columbia, MO: Barbara Buffaloe Durham, NC: Leonardo Williams Fairbanks, AK: Mindy O’Neall Gresham, OR: Travis Stovall Moline, IL: Sangeetha Rayapati Santa Monica, CA: Caroline Torosis

🚨 New exhibition opening 1/20: Designers of Mountain and Water! This exhibition gathers leading designers to present their visions of alternative landscapes for a changing climate. The exhibition features more than 55 works of landscape architecture by 23 practices in Asia. https://hgsd.us/49Vbqza

Where did the rule that people shouldn't spend more than 30% of their income on housing come from, and is it still relevant? @hannahgrabenstein.bsky.social @pbsnews.org talks to our managing director Chris Herbert & @hatethegamebook.com. youtu.be/QI8PUjxs0lo?...

Looking for a design-related book this winter? Our Winter 2026 reading list is out! These recent publications by GSD faculty, staff, and alumni capture a field in flux—grappling with AI, climate repair, and the politics of land and infrastructure. hgsd.us/4qJpAcc

1/13 Insights on rebuilding from Steve Lewis '07 nextcity.org/events/detai...

ours is the Charles! (Photo from the below article, about @loebfellowship.bsky.social's Jacek Smolicki's soundwalks along the Charles and elsewhere) hgsd.us/3Z3cJG5

Apply by April 20 for our Summer 2026 Early Design Education programs: an introduction to design and its potential to change the world. We invite college students through mid-career professionals to join us for Design Discovery Virtual (online, June 8–26) or Design Discovery (in-person, July 13–31)

Deadline EXTENDED to January 9! Submit your abstracts!

🎆 Happy 2026 from GSD! Starting off the year with an accurate, edible gingerbread scale model of Gund that students Miu Kondo, Kiyomi Langenhagen, and Sun Woo Byun built for fun before winter break!