😴 how we're feeling now that final reviews are over (Work by Nick Lesko, MDes '27, for "Embodied Architectures: Data, Signals, Perception", taught by Katarina Richter-Lunn)

We can't wait to visit the new Hudson Valley Shakespeare venue, by Studio Gang, founded by Jeanne Gang, GSD's Kajima Professor in Practice of Architecture!

CryoFab, cofounded by Master in Design Engineering (@harvardseas.bsky.social and GSD) students Hana Khurshid, Morgan Doane and Siddhi Patil, took home an Ingenuity Award at the Harvard President's Innovation Challenge. CryoFab is a 3D ice printer used to create channels for tissue engineering.

Congratulations to our @loebfellowship.bsky.social Class of 2027!

Luke Fiorante (MDE '26, GSD/ @harvardseas.bsky.social) helped build a tool for NASA to plan optimal routes for the Perseverance Rover on Mars; helped develop a start-up to ease communication barriers between doctors and patients; and created a platform to help nations anticipate droughts.

Stop by the Druker Design Gallery before May 15 to see our exhibition "Designers of Mountain and Water"! We interviewed curator Jungyoon Kim along with Nicholas Harkness, director of the Korea Institute, about the exhibition. https://hgsd.us/4duQKQl

We know housing has become hard for many in the US to afford, but why? Ivan Rupnik (PhD ’15 in urban planning) of @northeasternu.bsky.social says outdated regulations make it nearly impossible to build homes more affordably. @gsas.harvard.edu

Featuring Ivan Rupnik PhD '15! Our PhD program is a joint program between GSAS and the GSD.

📢 Announcing our 2026 Wheelwright Prize finalists: Olga Cobușcean, Junho “Sohun” Kang, Mohamad Nahleh, @epeirson.bsky.social, and Brittany Utting! The winner will be announced in June.

Congrats to @mlamster.bsky.social (2017 alum of @loebfellowship.bsky.social) on his @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social win in criticism! www.pulitzer.org/winners/mark...

Sonia Sobrino Ralston (MLA ’23) is the Daniel Urban Kiley Teaching Fellow in Landscape Architecture at the GSD. Through her work on installations at MIT, the Arnold Arboretum, and the Venice Biennale, as well as her teaching, Ralston examines the relationship between technology and the natural world

🎓 Announcing the GSD's 2026 Class Day speaker, Yvonne Farrell! Farrell is co-founder of Grafton Architects, along with Shelley McNamara. Farrell and McNamara shared the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2020, and held the Kenzō Tange Chair at the GSD in 2010.

“A Temporal Exhibition of Temporary Public Spaces” is on view in the Frances Loeb Library through May 17. Curators Yun Fu and Yona Chung (MAUD ’19, DDes ’26) bring together projects by emerging architects from Taiwan, Korea, Thailand, and Hong Kong—a region sometimes called the Milk Tea Alliance.

Social housing isn’t public housing with a new name. It’s a different way to think about land, funding, design, and who our cities and housing are for. Four researchers sat down for a @gsd.harvard.edu roundtable discussion. @magdamaaoui.bsky.social www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/articles/soc...

Final reviews are underway in Gund Hall! As the trays fill with models, students presented projects to instructors and critics for “Second Semester Architecture Core: SITUATE,” taught by Jeffry Burchard, Elle Gerdeman, Elisa Iturbe, Cara Liberatore, Jon Lott, John May, and Khoa Vu.

Tomorrow: Join us for "Surfacing," a two-day (4/24 - 4/25) doctoral symposium organized by PhD students in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning at Harvard GSD. https://bit.ly/4cvCWDw

🌎 Happy #EarthDay! Today we're looking back to our March 26 Open House Lecture with author and environmentalist @billmckibben.bsky.social#EarthDay where he discussed his new book, Here Comes the Sun. If you missed it, catch the recording on our YouTube channel!

Happening this week! Join us for "Surfacing," a two-day (4/24 - 4/25) doctoral symposium organized by PhD students in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning at Harvard GSD. https://bit.ly/4cvCWDw

Tomorrow at 6:30 PM ET: Join us for a lecture by Jacques Herzog, Founding Partner of Herzog & de Meuron, in conversation with Grace La, Chair and Professor of Architecture at the Harvard GSD. Please note: Registration is required for in person attendance! https://bit.ly/3OlydfN

Intergenerational housing isn’t a niche idea anymore—it’s emerging as a powerful response to soaring housing costs, social isolation, and gaps in care. Thanks to Krista Sykes @gsd.harvard.edu for a great article about our recent Living Together by Design event: www.gsd.harvard.edu/2026/04/inte...

Next Tuesday at 6:30 PM ET: Join us for a lecture by Jacques Herzog, Founding Partner of Herzog & de Meuron, in conversation with Grace La, Chair and Professor of Architecture at the Harvard GSD. Please note: Registration is required for in person attendance at this event! https://bit.ly/3OlydfN

Wonderful feature on the Walking Festival of Sound, curated by @loebfellowship.bsky.social recipient Jacek Smolicki! Listen to the sounds of Boston and Cambridge in several events going until May 3.

Congratulations to Betty Chen (MArch '27), whose film Pagoda won Best Documentary at the 2026 Design Student Film Festival! The film was created in Fall 2024 for the class Architecture of Time, taught by Clara Kraft Isono. Chen worked with Sun Woo Byun (MAUD '26) and Emanuel Cardenas (MArch '26).

TOMORROW at 6:30 PM ET: Join us for a lecture by Michael Wang, whose work explores the intersection of nature and technology, asking: Can a river become a machine, a species a cultural product, or a swamp a sculpture? https://bit.ly/4cbaHtD

Ana Maria Durán Calisto invites you to a two-panel series and the launch of her book "The Future of Oil Boom Towns in Amazonia,” which she began working on during her Loeb Fellowship in 2010-11. When: April 20, 6:30 pm Where: Room 109, Harvard GSD

This article from @newyorker.com features the work of Kongjian Yu (DDes '95), who pioneered the concept of "sponge cities."

TOMORROW at 6:30 PM ET: Join us for a lecture by Nancy Fraser titled “Against the Environmentalism of the Rich” https://bit.ly/4vkXAyM

TOMORROW at 6:30 PM ET: Join us for a lecture by Deborah Archer on her recent book, Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality, and its relevance to designers and planners. https://bit.ly/41kivV5

Next Thursday at 6:30 PM ET: Join us for a lecture by Michael Wang, whose work explores the intersection of nature and technology, asking: Can a river become a machine, a species a cultural product, or a swamp a sculpture? https://bit.ly/4cbaHtD

Next Wednesday at 6:30 PM ET: Join us for a lecture by Nancy Fraser titled “Against the Environmentalism of the Rich” https://bit.ly/4vkXAyM

It's National Pet Day, which is a good excuse to post some photos of Remy being a kaiju in Elizabeth Whittaker's section of the Architecture Core IV: Relate studio 📸: Autumn Chu

Next Tuesday at 6:30 PM ET: Join us for a lecture by Deborah Archer on her recent book, Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality, and its relevance to designers and planners. https://bit.ly/41kivV5

📍 The call for papers is out for the @cga-harvard.bsky.social 20th Anniversary Annual Conference and we'd love to see you here! Harvard's pretty nice in autumn and we expect a fabulous lineup of keynotes, panels, talks, and workshops...plus lots of time to catch up and network! #CGA20

The late Kongjian Yu (DDes ’95)'s work on "sponge cities" mentioned in the @newyorker.com: "For centuries, he said, engineers had tried to turn cities into funnels. By contrast, the 'sponge city' concept was, he said, a way of 'doing Tai Chi with water.'"

Live now: @jenmolinsky.bsky.social, director of our Housing an Aging Society Program, moderates the first panel of our intergenerational housing event @gsd.harvard.edu. Tune in: www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/living...

Today @ 1pm ET, still time to register and join us online as we discuss innovative models of intergenerational housing @gsd.harvard.edu!

Join us TOMORROW at 1 PM ET for the symposium "Living Together by Design: Housing to Connect Generations," exploring intergenerational housing, social isolation, and community resilience through design & policy. https://bit.ly/47F9fhX

TOMORROW: Our afternoon event @gsd.harvard.edu will bring together leaders from architecture, planning, homebuilding, environmental gerontology, public health, and related fields to explore innovative models of intergenerational housing. mailchi.mp/harvard/tomo...

Hanif Kara in an excerpt from MASS's new book, Seeking Abundance, in The Architect's Newspaper: "Architects and related professionals must diversify their approaches, remain adaptable, and take responsibility for the damage we have historically caused."

Join us on April 24-25 for “Surfacing,” the 2026 symposium organized by students in the PhD program in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning. This year, scholars were invited to reflect on histories of surface-making and surface-breaking. https://hgsd.us/4tBPws1

Join us TODAY for Kate Orff's lecture, where she draws "Throughlines" across 30 years of work since her time at the GSD, linking research, publications, and landscape projects along a trajectory of thought and action. https://bit.ly/4tteB8s

Happy International Beaver Day! Here's our recent video about how GSD faculty and students are working with beavers to improve wetland health and biodiversity.

I made a short thread 🧵 for international beaver day 🦫 Enjoy!

Social housing shouldn’t just be about unit counts—it should be about the pleasure of living. In a new blog, @magdamaaoui.bsky.social argues for renovation over demolition, designing for difference and everyday life, and for resident-led design. @gsd.harvard.edu www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/pleasur...

This Fri, Apr 3: 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 offer powerful ways to reduce social isolation, improve affordability, and strengthen supports. Join us in person @gsd.harvard.edu or online for 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝘆 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻: 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻s. www.jchs.harvard.edu/calendar/liv...

There's still time to register for some events at the 2026 Walking Festival of Sound, April 15-May 2. The program is live at www.wfos.net

Wednesday, April 8, Harvard Kennedy School of Government Info and RSVP: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/meeti...

Next Friday at 6:30 PM ET: "Living Together by Design: Housing to Connect Generations" symposium at Harvard GSD exploring intergenerational housing, social isolation, and community resilience through design & policy. https://bit.ly/47F9fhX

What is happening in global health around Harvard this week? - AI in Global Health @harvardcid.bsky.social - Advanced statistics & AI to improve health @hsph.harvard.edu - The Power of Eco-Machines @gsd.harvard.edu - What a Key EPA Repeal Means @harvardmagazine.bsky.social bit.ly/m/HarvardGH_...

Next Tuesday at 6:30 PM ET: Kate Orff presents a lecture, where she draws "Throughlines" across 30 years of work since her time at the GSD, linking research, publications, and landscape projects along a trajectory of thought and action. https://bit.ly/4tteB8s