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Models in progress in the Trays as we march toward the end of the semester!
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Models in progress in the Trays as we march toward the end of the semester!
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Great profile of Jacek Smolicki ’26 in the Harvard Gazette: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Artist Profile: Jacek Smolicki Listens to the World | Arts | The Harvard Crimson
Jacek Smolicki, a Stockholm-based designer, researcher, and artist specializing in immersive environmental soundscapes, is Harvard’s 2026 Loeb/ArtLab fellow.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Great profile of Jacek Smolicki ’26 in the Harvard Gazette: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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/
https://cities.harvard.edu/news/eighteen-harvard-faculty-named-as-affiliates-of-the-bloomberg-center-for-cities-at-harvard-university/
Eighteen Harvard Faculty Named as Affiliates of the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University - Bloomberg Center for Cities
Fifty-two professors have accepted faculty affiliation at Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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/
https://cities.harvard.edu/news/eighteen-harvard-faculty-named-as-affiliates-of-the-bloomberg-center-for-cities-at-harvard-university/
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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...
Architecture’s Mercurial Moment: The GSD at the 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial
The 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial, with many projects by GSD affiliates, shows the field at a mercurial moment.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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...
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TODAY @ 3:15 pm: A conversation with the Mayor of Denver @harvardkennedy.bsky.social and open to all @harvard.edu ID holders.
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Next Thu, Nov 20, the @harvard.edu community is invited to join us for a conversation with Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, who has led efforts to move thousands of people experiencing homelessness into housing with collaborative programs and measurable results.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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
@gsd.harvard.edu @hls.harvard.edu @hsph.harvard.edu
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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:
Project Air: Bioinspired Sensor of Volatile Compounds
We are bringing to market an innovative, bioinspired sensor of volatile compounds that gives building operators confidence in the measurement of gasses indoors and provides guidance to achieving healt...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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.
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Cambridge Talks 2026: Surfacing
In his 1993 essay on “The Topology of Environmentalism,” anthropologist Timothy Ingold critiqued the concept of "the global environment." The image of
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November 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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
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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
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November 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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...
www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/using-s...
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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...
Ramon Moreno Jr. and Yahir Ramirez report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Architects Discuss Balancing Sustainability, Urban Growth at Harvard GSD Panel | News | The Harvard Crimson
A panel of architects and academics discussed how architects can develop a sustainable model for their profession, balancing the need to house a growing urban population with the environmental costs…
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November 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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...
Ramon Moreno Jr. and Yahir Ramirez report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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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.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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...
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.
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GSD Faculty Appointed to Emma Bloomberg Chairs
Two faculty members at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) have been appointed to new endowed chairs established with a gift from Bloomberg
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November 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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.
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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
GSD Practice Forum Panel Discussion
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November 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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
GSD Practice Forum Panel Discussion
A live stream for this event will be available on this page at the scheduled start time. Closed captioning is available by clicking the “CC” icon at the
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November 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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!
The Studio Museum of Harlem is at the top of the list of independent cultural institutions we must support. This week the museum offered a preview of the opening of its extraordinary new building on 125th Street. Director Thelma Golden is a leader without parallel. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/a...
Planting a Flag, and a Flagship, for Black Art
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November 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Shoutout to the "architectural crown" of the museum, designed by GSD Associate Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture Sara Zewde!
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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
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#FigureFriday #housing #affordability
November 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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
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#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
"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
Black in Design 2025 - Black in Design
BLACK IN DESIGN 2025 When November 07 — 08, 2025 Sunday Assembly on November 9th, 2025 hosted by BSU and AfricaGSD in collaboration with BiD Where Gund Hall, 42-48 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 Quest...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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
"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
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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.
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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!
I can’t vote in NYC. But one thing I can do is get on French national morning news to talk about Zohran’s promising housing plan, and what it will take to make it happen, when he wins
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November 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/arts/design/studio-museum-harlem-adjaye.html
Harlem’s Remarkable New Studio Museum Redefines 125th Street
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November 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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
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-...
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-...
2026 Just City Mayoral Fellowship - Mayors' Institute on City Design
This unique and highly interactive program brings together a small group of mayors to directly tackle injustices in each of their cities through planning and design interventions.
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November 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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-...
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/
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/23/sports/sara-falkson-robyn-sports-bra/
This Harvard-educated engineer is trying to keep girls from quitting sports. She’s starting by redesigning the sports bra. - The Boston Globe
Sara Falkson's company, Robyn, has two goals: redesigning the sports bra, and presenting a body confidence curriculum that keeps girls active throughout their teenage years.
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November 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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/
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
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 Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture Campus by MASS
About this Event Established in 1986, the biennial Green Prize recognizes projects that make an exemplary contribution to the public realm of a city,
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November 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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
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
The Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture Campus by MASS
About this Event Established in 1986, the biennial Green Prize recognizes projects that make an exemplary contribution to the public realm of a city,
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October 31, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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 .
Get your hoodies, T-shirts, and totes for next week's Black in Design Conference at https://hgsd.us/BiD25tix .
October 31, 2025 at 2:48 PM
MERCH has landed!
Get your hoodies, T-shirts, and totes for next week's Black in Design Conference at https://hgsd.us/BiD25tix .
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
Joshua Ramus, "10,887"
Join us for a talk by Joshua Ramus, the founding principal of New York-based architecture firm REX.
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October 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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