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Mostafavi to step down as GSD dean
Mohsen Mostafavi, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) since January 2008, announced Oct. 24 that he will step down from the position at the end of the 2018-19 academic year.
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For retail, the revolution is televised
For retail, the revolution is being televised, or at least delivered through online screens.
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Jeff Koons: High king of middlebrow
Though he may be the favorite artist of oligarchs, Jeff Koons sees his art as democratic experience for viewers and a vehicle for his own transcendence and self-actualization.
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Koolhaas sees architecture as timid
Legendary Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas discusses the ideas and politics behind his latest projects during a presentation at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
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Form, setting, space, light
Legendary fashion designer Calvin Klein spoke at the Harvard Graduate School of Design Monday evening about how the language of architecture has influenced his 40-year career and now, the rest of his life.
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Where design, engineering meet
The Harvard Graduate School of Design and John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will jointly offer a new degree at the intersection of their disciplines. In a Q&A session, the two deans outlined what’s ahead.
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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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Redesigning design contests
A Harvard conference on design competitions — which can be creative, ubiquitous, and troubling — lays out the present controversies surrounding them, and some solutions.
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A celebration in Beijing
Harvard President Drew Faust joined more than 430 alumni, faculty, and friends in Beijing on Sunday to celebrate the University’s long and growing ties to China.
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Powerful voices
The W.E.B. Du Bois Medal was awarded to seven recipients, who were recognized for their outstanding contributions to African-American culture. The special ceremony concluded with a ribbon-cutting for the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.
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Meeting the challenges
Harvard University has announced 18 student-led teams as finalists in three deans’ innovation competitions focused on cultural entrepreneurship, health and life sciences, and design.
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Eyes on ‘America,’ with hope of drawing more
Christopher E.G. Benfey lectured on “America,” a wall designed by Josef Albers, as part of GSD’s “Then and Now” series.
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A challenge from the deans
Harvard’s deans and the University’s provost have announced a new competition, challenging students to propose sustainable ideas that would improve urban life by 2030.
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A 21st-century campus
Supporting the development of a robust campus, one that enhances Harvard’s mission of innovative teaching and learning, while simultaneously fostering connections across the University and the broader community will be an important goal of The Harvard Campaign.
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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.
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High art with a human touch
Visionary architect and developer John C. Portman Jr., inventor of soaring atria in city hotels, stopped by the Harvard’s Graduate School of Design to offer advice and wisdom.
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Widening the Wheelwright
Every year since 1935, the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) has awarded one of its graduates the Arthur W. Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship, praised by generations of recipients for enriching careers in most cases already under way.
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To understand, make a map
“Cartographic Grounds,” an exhibit of new and old mapmaking at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, intends to inspire a new generation of designers to draw, with precision, what they see, and to present, with art, what they imagine.
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Venice and the built world
Several representatives of the Harvard Graduate School of Design took part in the Venice Biennale, a leading architectural event. Dean Mohsen Mostafavi helped to host an opening reception for the American Pavilion.
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Thinking local
On a visit to Harvard, an African architect imparts a Third World lesson: more for less.
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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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Challenges, solutions for South Asia
A two-day symposium on the future of South Asia examined several key challenges facing the region, as well as solutions on issues ranging from climate change to population control.
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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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10 named to new Harvard Library Board
President Drew Faust has announced the names of the first 10 members of the new Harvard Library Board, which will oversee the transition of the University’s vast library system to a coordinated structure.
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Belsky named managing director of Joint Center for Housing Studies
Eric S. Belsky, executive director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies, has been appointed managing director of the Center.
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What they’re reading
A survey of top Harvard faculty shows what books they’re reading and enjoying on summer’s edge.
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Around the Schools: Graduate School of Design
A year ago, the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) held a three-day international conference on the future of cities. “Ecological Urbanism” drew on disciplines as seemingly diverse as design, cultural history, medicine, economics, and literature.
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Of men, women, and space
A Radcliffe conference tackles the tangle of how men and women handle matters of personal and public space.
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Art for students’ sake
With an assist from the Graduate School of Design, student art exhibit brightens Mass Hall corridor.
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The Lab experiment
The Lab, a three-year experiment orchestrated by David Edwards, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering, offers a “forum to help catalyze ideas” across many fields. Stemming from his course “Idea Translation” (ES 147), the exhibition of student-based experiments is designed to morph into an ongoing series of events and “idea nights” open…
