Five GSD faculty are joining the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University as affiliates, working to solve urban problems across fields and disciplines. https://cities.harvard.edu/news/eighteen-harvard-faculty-named-as-affiliates-of-the-bloomberg-center-for-cities-at-harvard-university/

My first for @gsd.harvard.edu, on the shifts—material, moral, and otherwise—inherent to the 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial. www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/articles/rev...

TODAY @ 3:15 pm: A conversation with the Mayor of Denver @harvardkennedy.bsky.social and open to all @harvard.edu ID holders. @gsd.harvard.edu @hls.harvard.edu @hsph.harvard.edu

Project Air is an affordable, accurate, and highly sensitive indoor air quality sensor developed in collaboration with @harvardseas.bsky.social, @gsd.harvard.edu, and the University of North Carolina. Learn more:

Now accepting abstracts for the 2026 Cambridge Talks symposium, “Surfacing,” 4/24-4/25, 2026, inviting scholars of the built environment to consider the physical production of surfaces and their mediating roles. Deadline 1/2/26. hgsd.us/4pg1wgp

A new paper by our Gramlich fellow Aaron Smithson examines the use of off-site construction to build new affordable housing, including SRO units for formerly unhoused residents to single-family for-sale homes on community land trust plots. @gsd.harvard.edu www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/using-s...

A panel of architects and academics discussed how architects can balance the need to house a growing urban population with the environmental costs of building at a Harvard talk on Thursday. Ramon Moreno Jr. and Yahir Ramirez report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

The @gsd.harvard.edu seeks to appoint a distinguished scholar and/or practitioner with a deep understanding of housing markets, practice, and policy to serve as the Nicolas P. and Joan B. Retsinas Director of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. www.jchs.harvard.edu/nicolas-p-an...

Two GSD faculty members have been appointed to new endowed chairs established with a gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies: Nestor M. Davidson, Emma Bloomberg Professor of Real Estate, and Rachel Weber, Emma Bloomberg Professor of Urban Planning. hgsd.us/3LJrpXs

TODAY at 6:30PM ET — The GSD Practice Forum Panel will bring together disciplinary experts, practitioners, and students from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning to address structural hurdles embedded in ethical 21st-century design practice. https://hgsd.us/3Xvyy05

TOMORROW — The GSD Practice Forum Panel Discussion will bring together disciplinary experts, practitioners, and students from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning to address structural hurdles embedded in ethical 21st-century design practice. https://hgsd.us/3Xvyy05

Shoutout to the "architectural crown" of the museum, designed by GSD Associate Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture Sara Zewde!

In just five years, the income needed to afford the median-priced home nearly doubled—from $68k to $131k. Getting payments back to 2020 levels would require interest rates to be nearly zero, per @harvard-jchs.bsky.social www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/lower-i... #FigureFriday #housing #affordability

TOMORROW – "Black Roots: Grounded and Growing Toward Collective Futures", presented by the Black Student Union and Africa GSD, will explore the complex relationships between belief systems, environments, and lands that shape Black communities across the diaspora. https://hgsd.us/BiD2025

Members of the @harvard.edu & @mitdusp.bsky.social communities, join us next Monday, November 10 @gsd.harvard.edu for a screening of the film To Build Law, a documentary by the @ccaconversations.bsky.social about the growing movement that fights for renovation over demolition.

Watch GSD Assistant Professor of Urban Planning Magda Maaoui talk about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's housing policy on Radio France!

On November 15, the new Studio Museum will open in Harlem, featuring a rooftop garden designed by Associate Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture Sara Zewde. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/arts/design/studio-museum-harlem-adjaye.html

Happy Election Day! Are you a mayor interested in the Just City Mayoral Fellowship for 2026? Submit an expression of interest by November 17! www.micd.org/events/2026-...

For her thesis, Sara Falkson (MDE '25) bought sports bras from several different brands and reassembled them into "Frankenstein" configurations in the engineering lab. Now her work continues with her company Robyn. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/23/sports/sara-falkson-robyn-sports-bra/

TOMORROW in Gund Hall – Join us for a celebration of the winners of the 15th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design, The Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture Campus (RICA) by MASS in Bugesera, Rwanda, and the opening of the coinciding exhibition. https://hgsd.us/3LvM80I

The 15th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design has been awarded to the Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture (RICA) campus in Bugesera, Rwanda. Join us on November 5th and 6th for a celebration of the winners and the opening of the coinciding exhibition. https://hgsd.us/3LvM80I

MERCH has landed! Get your hoodies, T-shirts, and totes for next week's Black in Design Conference at https://hgsd.us/BiD25tix .

TODAY at 6:30pm: Joshua Ramus, founding principal of REX, will reflect on the evolution of ideas that germinated over the 10,887 days since he defended his master’s thesis in Piper Auditorium, when he developed his beliefs that architecture should actively empower its users. https://hgsd.us/48HivTZ

Black in Design 2025: Black Roots (November 7-8, 2025) Continue the conversation over shared meals! Meal tickets are available. Sign up by Friday, Oct 31! There are options to purchase admission to the reception on Friday evening, as well as breakfast and lunch on Saturday https://hgsd.us/4op4peT

TODAY: Join us for the Tyrwhitt Urban Design Lecture, "The Measure of Freedom and Unfreedom". Speaker Mabel O. Wilson is the Nancy and George E. Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning, & Preservation and Chair of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia. https://hgsd.us/4oiyEUA

Happy #NationalCatDay from Remy, making himself at home all around the GSD Image 1: Zizheng Li Image 2: Caspar Bhalerao Images 3 and 4: Anita Kan

This Thursday: Joshua Ramus, founding principal of REX, will reflect on the evolution of ideas that germinated over the 10,887 days since he defended his master’s thesis in Piper Auditorium, when he developed his beliefs that architecture should actively empower its users. https://hgsd.us/48HivTZ

Wednesday: Mabel O. Wilson explores the establishment of the capital city built at the fall line of the Potomac River in 1791, when it was intended to become not only the seat of federal government, but, with infrastructural improvements, a major trading point and port. https://hgsd.us/4oiyEUA

Amy Love Tomasso, a former student @gsd.harvard.edu who is now Director of Policy Innovation at Ivory Innovations, explains missing middle housing, what it is, and what cities and states can do to encourage more of it.

TODAY at 6:30PM EST – Meriem Chabani, founder and principal of NEW SOUTH, will present the GSD's Aga Khan Program lecture, which will frame architecture as a relational and adaptive practice, one that listens, compromises, and evolves across time, context, and encounter. https://hgsd.us/3WGuw4H

Eric Höweler, GSD Professor of Architecture, is interviewed about AquaPraça, a floating venue currently in use at the Venice Biennale that will later travel overseas to Belém, Brazil for COP30. https://hgsd.us/42UHe3B

Shaped like a friend! Read about Biboni, Johnston Marklee's debut furniture collection for Knoll—inspired by the curving, floaty shapes of "Bibendum + macaroni" www.wallpaper.com/design-inter...

TOMORROW – If architects can see beyond the allure of new construction, what kinds of climate-conscious buildings, healthy cities, and collective ways of living might they create? Join guest editors Jeanne Gang and Lizabeth Cohen for the release of HDM 53: Reuse and Repair. https://hgsd.us/42LEe9t

GSD students and alumni collaborated to translate the fall 2025 public programs poster into the 34 primary languages spoken by members of the student body. https://hgsd.us/4qn5TaK

A team of GSD students—Justin Joel Tan (MRE ’26), Marko Velazquez (MRE ’26), Noah Garcia (MRE ’26), Tejas S (MRE ’26), and Pranav Subramanian (MDes ’27)—won the Ivory Innovations 2025 Hack-A-House competition in the Construction & Design category. https://hgsd.us/4hlebMd

Next Thursday at 6:30PM – Meriem Chabani, founder and principal of NEW SOUTH, will present the GSD's Aga Khan Program lecture, which will frame architecture as a relational and adaptive practice, one that listens, compromises, and evolves across time, context, and encounter. https://hgsd.us/3WGuw4H

Our virtual open houses offer an excellent opportunity for prospective students and applicants to learn more about your program of interest and life at the GSD directly from faculty. Coming up in late Oct/early Nov!! https://hgsd.us/4hk8yOz

OCT 22nd – If architects can see beyond the allure of new construction, what kinds of climate-conscious buildings, healthy cities, and collective ways of living might they create? Join guest editors Jeanne Gang and Lizabeth Cohen for the release of HDM 53: Reuse and Repair. https://hgsd.us/42LEe9t

Florencia Rodriguez (LF ’13) is the artistic director of the sixth Chicago Architecture Biennial, on view through February 28, 2026. It includes the work of more than two dozen GSD faculty, students, and alumni. https://hgsd.us/4h3BiuP

Harvard Magazine profiled Julie Bargmann, MLA ’87, who heads D.I.R.T. (Dump It Right Here) Studio and reimagines disused industrial sites or urban spaces as parks, gardens, residences, and offices https://www.harvardmagazine.com/architecture-design/harvard-landscape-architect-urban-revitalization

TOMORROW at 6:30PM EST— Los Angeles-based artist Patrick Martinez will discuss the role of art in public space as a tool for advocacy, followed by a conversation with Boston Public Art Triennial artistic director Pedro Alonzo and GSD design critic Malkit Shoshan. https://hgsd.us/3KCxepb

TOMORROW — Join us for a celebratory sampling of projects exhibited at the 6th Chicago Architecture Biennial. This event features presentations by several GSD-affiliated exhibitors followed by a conversation moderated by the biennial’s artistic director, Florencia Rodriquez. https://hgsd.us/4o8rC4o

Registration and Meal Tickets are now open for this year's Black in Design Conference, "Black Roots: Grounded and Growing Toward Collective Futures", taking place at the GSD on November 7th and 8th. Visit blackindesign.org to learn more and sign up!

*REGISTER NOW!* The Event Program, Speaker Roster, and Meal Tickets are now available for this year's Black in Design Conference, "Black Roots: Grounded and Growing Toward Collective Futures", taking place at the GSD on November 7th and 8th. Visit blackindesign.org to learn more and sign up.

Joe Russell (MArch ’27) and Emma Sheffer (MArch ’27) won the 2025 Architizer A+ Vision Award in the Vision for Reuse and Renovation category. A 150-bed housing project across from the port of Chelsea, MA, their project “Theseus” adapts cargo holds from decommissioned bulk-carrier ships.

Thursday, Oct 15th in Piper — Los Angeles-based artist Patrick Martinez will discuss the role of art in public space as a tool for advocacy, followed by a conversation with Boston Public Art Triennial artistic director Pedro Alonzo and GSD design critic Malkit Shoshan. https://hgsd.us/3KCxepb

Oct 14th — JOIN US for a celebratory sampling of projects exhibited at the 6th Chicago Architecture Biennial. This event features presentations by several GSD-affiliated exhibitors followed by a conversation moderated by the biennial’s artistic director, Florencia Rodriquez. https://hgsd.us/4o8rC4o

Architect: Bruner/Cott Also known for outstanding work at MassMOCA and, in Fort Point, most of the original Channel Center buildings including both new and adaptive reuse projects such as 25 and 35 Channel Center.

👏 Congrats to Gund Hall! Docomomo US—a non-profit organization dedicated to the documentation and conservation of works of the twentieth-century modern movement—announced Gund as the recipient of the 2025 Modernism in America Award for excellence in civic design. https://hgsd.us/4q4AOsw

It's an HKS x GSD crossover episode today: datasmart.hks.harvard.edu/charles-wald... I had the pleasure of connecting with a colleague at the @gsd.harvard.edu, Charles Waldheim, who hosts the Future of the American City podcast.