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Imagining a Wetter Future

How do you design for a city whose future is increasingly shaped by water? In Miami, sea level rise, flooding, and storm surge are already...

The Architecture of Human Waste

Berlin’s vast 19th-century sewage farms—once engineered to process the city’s waste across thousands of acres of agricultural land—remain one of the largest experiments in...

Design Impact: Places Left Behind Vol. 3

Join the GSD Alumni Council for Design Impact: Places Left Behind Vol. 3, a virtual forum exploring the intersection of spatial design and policy...

Yvonne Farrell Speaks to GSD Graduates at Class Day 2026

Yvonne Farrell is co-founder of Grafton Architects, established with Shelley McNamara in 1978. They shared the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2020. Their work includes...

Harvard GSD Dean Sarah Whiting Wins Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education

In a Chicago ceremony this spring, Sarah M. Whiting, dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture at Harvard GSD, accepted the 2026 AIA/ACSA...

Deborah N. Archer: Transportation Infrastructure and Race in American Cities

Looking back on the Spring 2026 semester: As part of our public programs series, legal scholar Deborah N. Archer delivered the lecture “Transportation Infrastructure...

Harvard GSD Class of 2026: Eric Rannestad (MDes Mediums)

Eric Rannestad (MDes ’26) is an artist whose work explores the systems and technologies humans use to compartmentalize, measure, and model the world. Working...

Harvard GSD Class of 2026: Savalee Tikle (Master of Architecture in Urban Design)

At the intersection of sustainable design strategies and data-driven community advocacy, Savalee Tikle is studying in the Department of Urban Planning and the GSD. An architect and...

Harvard GSD Class of 2026: Valentine Geze (Master in Design Engineering)

A Chicago native, Valentine Geze (MDE ’26) earned a bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering with a minor in studio art from Loyola University Chicago....