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  • Nation & World

    They’re alive!

    The living walls at the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center — eight organic interior designs made of climbing, creeping arms of trees and blocks of ferns and other tropical plants —are a welcome addition to Harvard’s newly configured social hub year-round.

    6 minutes
    Tiago Pereira tending to the green wall
  • Nation & World

    Eduard Sekler, Carpenter Center’s inaugural director, dead at 96

    Eduard Franz Sekler, an architecture historian and first director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, has died. He was 96.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Getting to 50

    Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, soon turning 50, was celebrated at the Graduate School of Design through a visit from its first director, Eduard Sekler, along with early faculty and students.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The art of saving art

    Works by Le Corbusier and Joan Miró are back at the Carpenter Center after painstaking repair work by conservators at the Weissman Preservation Center.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    At 50, a building still dares

    A new art exhibit opens a yearlong celebration of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, which turns 50 in May.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    75 years of innovation

    Exhibit at the Graduate School of Design reflects life and trends from Gropius to Gehry.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The art of architecture

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

    16 minutes