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Nation & World
Khan winners at Gund Hall
An exhibition featuring the winning projects of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture will run through May 21 in the gallery at Gund Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). The Aga Khan Program at the GSD and the Humanities Center at Harvard University organized the exhibition, in collaboration with the Aga Khan Award for…
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RMJM gift supports integrated design program at GSD
Despite the current building boom, many recent graduates from architecture and engineering schools are choosing to pursue more lucrative careers in high-tech and management consulting, rather than building and design. This trend, according to design professionals, could have major consequences for the construction industry. As part of an effort to address it, a recent $1.5…
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Panel discusses paucity of designing women
Women in Design, a student group at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) that aims to increase the visibility of women in the field, kicked off its four-part spring symposium, “Progress in Process,” Thursday night (March 13) with a panel discussion on where women in architecture are now and where they are headed. Department…
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GSD professor, renowned engineer, LeMessurier dead at 81
William James LeMessurier, Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) adjunct professor of architectural technology in the Department of Architecture, died this past July 14. One of the world’s pre-eminent structural engineers, he taught at the GSD for decades. He was 81.
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Newsmakers
The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) recently named several Graduate School of Design (GSD) faculty members recipients of professional awards. Their work will be officially honored at the ASLA’s annual conference in October.
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School of Design names Loeb fellowship class for 2007-08
The following midcareer practitioners, whose work is dedicated to the improvement of the built and natural environment, will be in residence as Loeb Fellows at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) for the upcoming academic year.
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Design School’s Mazereeuw receives Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship
The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) has announced that Miho Mazereeuw M.Arch./M.L.A. ’02 will receive the Arthur W. Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship in Architecture to study post-disaster urban architecture in three cities along the Ring of Fire, a zone of the most frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
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Albert Szabo
Albert Szabo was born in 1925 in New York City and grew up in a household where design mattered, his father being a pattern maker for the renowned dress designer Claire McCardell. Albert studied science, then fine arts at Brooklyn College between 1942 and 1947, with an interruption for military service as an aviation cadet.…
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Memorial to honor Stubbins, professor of architecture
A memorial service for Hugh Stubbins Jr., an alumnus and professor of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), will be held April 11 at 5 p.m. in the Memorial Church. Following the service, there will be a reception in the Stubbins Room of Gund Hall from 6 to 8 p.m. Stubbins died…
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Medieval Islamic architecture presages 20th century mathematics
Intricate decorative tilework found in medieval architecture across the Islamic world appears to exhibit advanced decagonal quasicrystal geometry – a concept discovered by Western mathematicians and physicists only in the 1970s and 1980s. If so, medieval Islamic application of this geometry would predate Western mastery by at least half a millennium.
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Urban design, strategic architecture
When Eve Blau speaks of Milan Lenuci, the city surveyor of Zagreb in the late 19th century, a note of reverence enters her voice. “He’s one of our great heroes,” she says. Lenuci’s finest accomplishment was the “Green Horseshoe,” a U-shaped series of parks and promenades surrounding Zagreb’s center and providing a refreshing refuge from…
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Newsmakers
The works of five Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) professors are featured in the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum’s National Design Triennial 2006, “Design Life Now.”
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GSD faculty reel in progressive architecture awards
Office dA, the firm of Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) Architecture Professor Monica Ponce de Leon and Adjunct Professor Nader Tehrani, together with Aga Khan Visiting Fellow Aziza Chaouni, received P/A Awards – regarded as the world’s top honor for “un-built projects” – at the Center for Architecture in New York City this past…