Patti Leigh Brown '10 reports: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/a...

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

In a recent Southern Coffee Talk podcast, Surella Segu ’18, Ricardo Fernández, Armando Hashimoto ’18 Affiliate, and Shaney Peña Gómez ’18 explore why booming tourist destinations can face severe housing challenges for residents. Listen on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/22rd....

AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Architectural Education 2026: Sarah Whiting, Assoc. AIA www.aia.org/design-excel...

Great article from Nikishka Iyengar ‘25 nonprofitquarterly.org/building-eco...

Julia Thayne '26, co-founder of Twoº & Rising, outlines a vision for sustainable cities. www.gsd.harvard.edu/2025/11/juli...

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...

Great profile of Jacek Smolicki ’26 in the Harvard Gazette: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

At the closing events of the Venice Biennale is Susan Chin ‘00, a co-commissioner of PORCH: Generosity of Architecture at the US Pavilion. Her American Academy of Rome colleague Brent Leggs ’11 will be part of a workshop called The Afterlives of Ruins. www.aarome.org/news/feature...

During the Loeb Fellowship 55th Alumni Reunion, Anne-Marie Lubenau ‘12 and Melissa Levine of GSD Career Services convened a Pathways to Practice panel for GSD students. Panelists were Jamie Blosser ‘15, Roger Cummings ‘09, Barbara Deutsch ‘06, Arif ilahi Khan ‘16, and Tracy Metz ‘07.

Skill sharing workshop for the 55th Loeb Alumni Reunion— How to Build an Underground Movement for Ecological Care of Open Spaces — Tessa Huxley ’87, Rebecca McMackin ’23, and Andrea Filippone ‘08 (Affiliate).

Friday, a lunchtime treat--Jen Hughes '26 is on the panel: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/rethi...

Felice Frankel will be at the Cambridge Public Library to present her new book Phenomenal Moments: Revealing the Hidden Science Around Us December 3, 2025 - 6:00pm Cambridge Public Library 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138 Free --RSVP Required www.harvard.com/event/felice...

Soundwalk with @jacek_smolicki ’26 yesterday: orienting and disorienting, amplified ambient sound and recorded sound, hyperawareness both of the landscape and the images within one’s head. A mile’s walk within spitting distance of Harvard Square, but a world apart. An exceptional experience!

James Vaseff (’84)’s new book reflects on the Cambridge/Boston Harvard experience from 1969 forward.

Sign up for the 2025 Black in Design Conference, Nov. 7 and 8, Gund Hall Among the speakers and panelists: Euneika Rogers-Sipp (aka NDGO) ’16, Mavis Gragg ’24, and Cecilia Cuff ’26. Info: blackindesign.org/black-in-des...

📢 Apply now to be a Loeb Fellow! Deadline: January 5, 2026 To urban planners, designers, public artists, developers, journalists, policymakers and others whose work focuses on improving the built and natural environment! 🔗 Apply:https://loebfellowship.gsd.harvard.edu/apply-nominate/

Nov. 4, 2025 | 6:30 PM Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA Premiere—OLMSTED AND YOSEMITE: Civil War, Abolition, and the National Park Idea, directed by Ian Forster, based on the book by Rolf Diamant and Ethan Carr, and conversation with the authors.

Last week, the popular South End and Back Bay annual walking tour and reception for current and Boston area Loebs: history, geography, great views of the city, dinner, and camaradarie!

Charles Birnbaum ’98 and Mario Schjetnan ’85 will be featured speakers at the Oberlander Prize Forum IV: Soak It Up in LA,” Dec 04–06, 2025. Water, water management, and climate change accelerated urban flooding are on the agenda. Info and registration: www.tclf.org/soak-it-los-...

Joseph Zeal-Henry '24 makes the case for the culture sector to take more interest in the means of production to deliver the equitable economic potential of the sector (and how DIY sound system culture is the perfect blueprint) in an article for the Financial Times. www.ft.com/content/27a7...

Deanna Van Buren '13 lectures at Pratt 9/3: Designing for Abolition, detailing the work of her firm Designing Justice + Designing Spaces, and others, to dismantle our failing system of mass incarceration and create an ecosystem of care to replace it. www.pratt.edu/events/desig...

Rebecca McMackin '23 shares her trusted garden reference resources in a podcast interview with Margaret Roach. Listen or read the transcript: awaytogarden.com/garden-refer...

Post-coal country like McDowell County, West Virginia, is looking to its agricultural past to envision a sustainable future. Natalia Rudiak ’26 recorded what she learned on her recent visit to McDowell for Reimagine Appalachia. Watch here: youtu.be/qdUa9Tur1cs?...

JXTA Sneaker Ball 8/23/25, 2:30-6 PM Roger Cummings’s Juxtaposition Arts celebrates 30 years of culture, creativity, and community at the annual Minneapolis event. More info and tickets: juxtapositionarts.org/events-calen...

Calling visionaries, innovators, and problem solvers–– applications are open for the 2026-27 Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University Graduate School of Design! Tell us how YOU are working for transformative change. Learn more with the link in our bio. Photo courtesy of Tim Hursley and Rural Studio

Exciting news: Tosin Oshinowo '25 has been selected for the 2025-2026 Open Society Fellowship. www.opensocietyfoundations.org/newsroom/ope...

Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens’ Heafitz Lecture Series presents Rebecca McMackin '23 and her “Adventures in Ecological Horticulture.” The free lecture is held on Aug. 28 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the Gardens’ Bosarge Family Education Center. Link is in our bio.

Tosin Oshinowo '25 featured here: thenationonlineng.net/my-alternati...

Pierre-Emmanuel Becherand ‘25 returns to the #GrandParisExpress project, overseeing 25 new metro stations by 2027. His new podcast Station to Station will be released in the fall: public transportation, architecture, culture, urban policy in 10 cities around the world. #stationtostation

@tosin.oshinowo ’25 is saying goodbye to her Loeb class and heading back to her architecture practice in Lagos. She’ll be working on a WW1 monument, plus a book based on her project, “Alternative Urbanism: Self-Organising Markets of Lagos,” honored at the Venice Biennale.

As she leaves Harvard to return home, Claudia Dobles Camargo ’23 is announcing her candidacy for president of Costa Rica in the 2026 election. So proud to have been part of her pathway to this point! Link to her announcement is on our bio page. #goodgovernment #decarbonization #futurapresidenta

In Ep. 6 of the Nexus Podcast, Mavis Gragg ('24)'s legal advocacy for Black heirs' property rights and Euneika Rogers-Sipp (Ndgo—'16)'s creative preservation practices and food sovereignty demonstrate the role of design as care in the Black feminist tradition. aadn.gsd.harvard.edu/2025/04/25/e...

The new Secretary of Housing for the State of Rhode Island is Deborah Goddard '03, confirmed in March and just getting around to letting her friends know! She's also the Chair of the Rhode Island Housing Finance Agency. Fantastic news for Rhode Island! rhodeislandcurrent.com/2025/03/06/r...

Michelle Joan Wilkinson ’20 has co-curated a show at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in NYC and co-edited an exceptional book *Making Home,* including a chapter with John Zeisel ’71. Exhibit www.cooperhewitt.org/exhibitions/ Publication shop.cooperhewitt.org/products/mak...

Faculty, students, alumni, and affiliates of the Harvard Graduate School of Design—including a robust contingent of Loebs— have key roles at the 2025 Venice Biennale. The GSD’s Design News gives a full accounting. www.gsd.harvard.edu/2025/05/harv...

Brent Leggs ’11, Glenn LaRue Smith ‘97, and Susan Chin ‘00 have been invited for residencies at the American Academy in Rome during the 2025-26 Rome Prize fellowship year. Along with Lesley Lokko, 2022 Senior Loeb Scholar, they will be living and working at the Academy for periods of 1-3 months.

The Loeb Fellowship Class of 2026 are revitalizing urban and rural places, democratizing policymaking, engaging arts and culture to improve our health and environment, and strengthening civic engagement. Learn all about them: loebfellowship.gsd.harvard.edu/stories/intr...

The International Jury of the 2025 Venice Biennale has recognised Tosin Oshinowo ‘25 with a special mention for her project Alternative Urbanism: The Self-Organized Markets of Lagos. www.labiennale.org/en/news/awar...

Alexandra Lange '14 has won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for her Bloomberg CityLab essays,which focused on children and urban spaces and how they can be more “family-friendly, including in housing, public spaces and cultural institutions.” We're so proud!

Matt Smith '25 moderates: cities.harvard.edu/events/leadi... Speakers: Diane Davis (welcome), Harvard GSD Matthew Smith (moderator), Cofounder/Director, Building Common Ground Lisa Hicks Gilbert, mayor of Elaine, Arkansas Ren Hatt, mayor of Green River, Utah Kristine Lott, mayor of Winooski, Vermont

Open Studio with Shana M. griffin, Loeb/Artlab Fellow Monday, May 5, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Stop by, take a peek, share your thoughts, or say hi. Light refreshments will be served. Artlab is located at 140 N. Harvard Street.

An article featuring Alberto Kritzler ’23 is among Metropolis Magazine’s Top 5 Architecture and Design Reads for April. metropolismag.com/profiles/alb...

@MphoMatsipa ’22 is one of the 3 international jurors of the 2025 Venice Biennale. Excellent choice! www.labiennale.org/en/news/inte...

Congratulations to Theaster Gates ’11 on being named a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow. www.gf.org

Loeb Fellows 2025 Final Presentations May 9, 2025 6:30-8:30 PM Gund Hall Piper Auditorium and Livestream Free and open to the public www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/loeb-f...

Coming up: 4/28 12 pm, Urban Conversations | Under Construction Henry Grabar In conversation with Rachel Meltzer. Register—https://mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/event/urban-conversations-under-construction

Coming up: 4/28 12 pm, Urban Conversations | Under Construction Henry Grabar In conversation with Rachel Meltzer. Register—https://mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/event/urban-conversations-under-construction

Ana Maria Duran Calisto '11 and Anna Heringer have joined the jury for the 2025 Dezeen Awards. www.dezeen.com/awards/2025/...

Lynn Richards ’13 has written a great article for the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy: Housing Design Has to Evolve. Read it in Landlines www.lincolninst.edu/publications...