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Yard Sard

Harvard GSD students launch month-long Design Yard Sale for racial justice

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Whiteness in the Ivory Tower

Black students demand action on institutionalized whiteness at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design

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Justice Now

Architecture schools send messages of solidarity to those protesting against police violence, racial injustice

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Shell-shocked

Daniel Fernández Pascual awarded 2020 Wheelwright Prize

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Review in Revue

Experience the best student projects in these virtual end-of-year exhibitions

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Boston Medical

Harvard GSD collaborates with local hospitals on novel personal protective equipment

Wishing the Best

Sarah Whiting, dean of Harvard GSD, will step back, citing illness

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Ten Years in the Making

Rahul Mehrotra is Harvard GSD’s new Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design

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Affect in the Greenhouse

Love in a Mist (The Politics of Fertility) deftly blends design with pregnancy politics

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Dean's List

The country’s newest architecture deans share their visions, role models, and mascots

Passive Progressive

Harvard’s HouseZero is a live-in lab for sustainable renovation

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African American Design Nexus

Harvard’s GSD launches platform to feature work of black designers

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Brutalismo

Harvard updates skin of brutalist campus center for the 21st century

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UNDER WRAPS

Wheelwright Prize for 2019 awarded to Aleksandra Jaeschke

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From Rice to Riches

Sarah Whiting chosen as next dean of Harvard Graduate School of Design

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Olde Towne Booming

Facades+ Boston will dive into the trends reshaping the city

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Is It You?

Harvard’s Graduate School of Design close to selecting its new dean

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Not small or large, though

Is the medium the message in post-digital architecture?