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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Notebooks, as a type of research, are something very familiar to me. Sometimes to understand things you need to draw them—exactly like we see in Anni Albers’s notebook. 1 To find solutions through ...

Jenny French with final models produced by students in the architecture design studio course “Outfitting Architecture: Expanded Comfort in Athens,” fall 2025. Photo by Steph Larsen. Aerial view of ...

Wildfires are nothing new in Los Angeles. Nor is the overlap between fire and the cultural imagination in Southern California. Literary, artistic, and cinematic depictions of the city and its ...

A shading pavilion in the park. A pop-up chapel in a parking lot. A pollinator tower in a plaza. These architectural interventions differ in material, form, and scale, yet they share a common purpose: ...