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Nation & World
GSD awards waterfront project its Green Prize
Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) has announced that the firm of Weiss/Manfredi will receive the ninth Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design in recognition of the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park. Transforming a dilapidated brownfield site, the park creates a new landscape for art within the urban infrastructure, reconnecting the city to…
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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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Nation & World
New tourism threatens desert ecosystems worldwide
The Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) hosted a conference April 4-5 titled “Desert Tourism: Delineating the Fragile Edges of Development.” Panel discussions with leading architects, planners, and developers explored the relationship between tourism, social development, and the architecture and landscapes of arid regions around the world.
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Nation & World
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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Nation & World
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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Nation & World
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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Nation & World
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…
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Nation & World
KSG community pays tribute to Frank Stanton
Broadcast legend Frank Stanton, longtime president of CBS and a former chair of the Kennedy School’s Visiting Committee, is being remembered by the Kennedy School community following his death Dec. 24, 2006, in Boston. He was 98 years old.
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Nation & World
Design School students lend a helping eye to nonprofits
Six Graduate School of Design (GSD) students have been spending their summer applying design skills that they spend the rest of the year acquiring. In communities throughout the area, from Boston’s Chinatown to Lowell to Hyannis, the students are turning theory into reality as they go ahead with proposals that won them summer funding.