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?

The tech companies’ determination to scale up construction has been met with equally stiff resistance from the communities near proposed sites. Packed town meetings from Maine to Arizona have become ...

The Peter J. Solomon (Class of 1960) Gate. Unless otherwise noted, all photos by Ralph Lieberman. Courtesy of Harvard University Press. What, pray tell, are such fancifully drawn characters as Peter ...

If you follow the ongoing and often heated debate over housing policy in Massachusetts, you likely saw the viral moment at a recent Marblehead town meeting, when a resident—dressed like a stand-in ...

Parsing distinctions between architecture and “mere” building has been a preoccupation of thinkers and practitioners since ancient times. The very difficulty of defining neat disciplinary boundaries ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) arrives at a time when the design fields face deep contradictions. How can concerns for sustainability reconcile with the need for growth? How can socially inclusive ...

A cone of intersecting strips of red-white-and-blue woven vinyl fabric greets visitors near the entrance to A Temporary Exhibition of Temporal Public Spaces, on view at the Harvard Graduate School of ...

Ancient pollen trapped in fresco wall-paintings, like a mosquito in amber, provides a historical ecological snapshot. Compacted grains of garden soil preserve 2,000-year-old footsteps. Even the ...

Over the past few weeks, the Harvard Graduate School of Design has been animated by several conversations addressing the climate crisis, in part catalyzed by two visitors: Bill McKibben, the longtime ...

While the first article in this series on artificial intelligence (AI) explored how designers may be uniquely positioned to confront the technology’s implications, this second essay examines AI as a ...

Gareth Doherty’s book, Landscape Fieldwork: How Engaging the World Can Change Design, was published by the University of Virginia Press in 2025. Photo courtesy of the University of Virginia Press.

At a moment when forced displacement has reached historic levels worldwide, some of the most urgent urban questions are no longer confined to emergency response but instead concern what it takes to ...