Tag: Gund Hall

  • Nation & World

    Harvard’s GSD selects architects for proposed expansion

    The proposed expansion of Harvard Graduate School of Design will include new space to be integrated into the heart of the School’s existing structure.

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    Election Day at Harvard

    After a bruising election, voters at Harvard cast their ballots and settled in to watch the results.

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    Design for movement

    GSD architecture graduate Lauren Friedrich, M.Arch. ’16, looks at how architecture can better support health by providing unexpected physical challenges and minor obstacles rather than always prioritizing ease and comfort.

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    Design, inspired by ‘the trays’

    At Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, the tiered, open spaces long known as “the trays” help fire students’ imaginations.

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    Housing that reflects the world

    An exhibit at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design showcases, explains half a century of lessons in living around the globe.

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    Future man

    “Tectonic Visions Between Land and Sea,” at Gund Hall through Oct. 16, is a room-filling, eye-filling Kiyonori Kikutake retrospective.

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    Art of the ‘Divine’

    “The Divine Comedy,” a daring and grand exhibit in three parts, gives a modern spin to Dante’s three realms of the dead, and shows how art can break disciplinary boundaries.

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    Top-down approach

    Efforts to promote sustainability at the Graduate School of Design include composting, freecycle, racks, and a green roof at Gund Hall.

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    The art of architecture

    Harvard’s campus reflects three centuries of architectural history, and a practiced intimacy that draws people together.

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    Boulders that bowl over

    A new exhibit at Gund Hall shows how rocks are used to shape landscape design and to create art.

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    Practice, education, activism

    The Graduate School of Design at Harvard celebrates one of its own, the late J. Max Bond Jr., a pioneering architect.

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    Building a happy ending

    Harvard Graduate School of Design students unite to help Boston’s Chinatown neighborhood bring back a local library that was demolished 50 years ago to make way for Boston’s Central Artery.

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    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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    Symposium held on ‘Olympic’ architecture

    The Olympics are never just about sport. This summer’s Beijing Olympics have been emphatically about architecture, too. In preparation for the games this August, the Chinese capital is undergoing an urban transformation unprecedented in recent history.

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    ‘Dirty Work’

    As reports of the subprime mortgage meltdown continue, an exhibition on view through March 16 in Gund Hall Gallery highlights a real estate crisis of an altogether different sort. A third of the world’s city dwellers — 1 billion people — live in shantytowns.

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