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...speakers from a variety of disciplines including architecture, ecology, literature, history, and economics. “The conference had to include a certain balance of some of the best practices and ideas technologies, and sensibilities we thought we be important in terms of the future,” said GSD Dean Mohsen Mostafavi. According to Mostafavi, the main goal of the conference was to present a new type of thinking that could influence instruction at the GSD as well as the world outside of the school. Another overhanging goal, however, was to show how ecological urbanism and sustainability...
...diverse discourse on environmentalism. “The environmental community seemed to be self-selective and not diverse,” she said. “Not socio-economically diverse, not geographically diverse, not class-diverse.” Martin Zogran, an assistant professor of urban design at the GSD, noted that the school is working to incorporate this new trend of inter-disciplinary environmentalism into its curriculum. This year, the school introduced a Sustainable Design concentration area in their Master of Design Studies program. Zenobia Meckley, a GSD student studying landscaping, said that the panel was one of many...
...have studied in the arts or humanities have gone on to productive careers.” Sorensen wants students to explore the best this liberal arts university has to offer, which includes engaging in opportunities from the natural sciences to the performing arts. Sara Oseasohn ’74, GSD ’77, the Associate Dean for Administration for the Arts and Humanities, hopes that they can host a similar event every year to help students who are trying to decide what concentrations, courses, and activities to participate in. The Arts and Humanities office has hosted smaller events geared...
...entirely new meaning. Parents would not only carry UPS boxes but would also help students lug around their dorm rooms, which would be large glass boxes themselves.These are only some of the ultramodern ideas to emerge out of Professor Jonathan Levi’s studio class at the GSD, a core course in the school’s architectural design program. The semester-long project challenged 66 students to address the University’s impending extension into Allston. Specifically, the students grappled with one proposed plan for the expansion that entails building four Houses across the River to replace...
...Biggest Skate Park? Unknowingly, the city and its designers have contributed enormously to the development of skateboarding and skater culture since the 1970s. “Deathbowl to Downtown,” a new movie which was screened last Friday at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), argues that building practices adopted in the 1960s inadvertently helped spark the explosion in skateboarding culture that has occurred over the last 30 years.In 1961, New York City adopted new building regulations designed to encourage more modern architecture and create more privately-owned public space. As part of this effort, the city...