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The @gsd.harvard.edu seeks to appoint a distinguished scholar and/or practitioner with a deep understanding of housing markets, practice, and policy to serve as the Nicolas P. and Joan B. Retsinas Director of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The @gsd.harvard.edu seeks to appoint a distinguished scholar and/or practitioner with a deep understanding of housing markets, practice, and policy to serve as the Nicolas P. and Joan B. Retsinas Director of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.
www.jchs.harvard.edu/nicolas-p-an...
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Two GSD faculty members have been appointed to new endowed chairs established with a gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies: Nestor M. Davidson, Emma Bloomberg Professor of Real Estate, and Rachel Weber, Emma Bloomberg Professor of Urban Planning.
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GSD Faculty Appointed to Emma Bloomberg Chairs
Two faculty members at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) have been appointed to new endowed chairs established with a gift from Bloomberg
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November 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Two GSD faculty members have been appointed to new endowed chairs established with a gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies: Nestor M. Davidson, Emma Bloomberg Professor of Real Estate, and Rachel Weber, Emma Bloomberg Professor of Urban Planning.
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TODAY at 6:30PM ET — The GSD Practice Forum Panel will bring together disciplinary experts, practitioners, and students from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning to address structural hurdles embedded in ethical 21st-century design practice. https://hgsd.us/3Xvyy05
GSD Practice Forum Panel Discussion
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November 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
TODAY at 6:30PM ET — The GSD Practice Forum Panel will bring together disciplinary experts, practitioners, and students from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning to address structural hurdles embedded in ethical 21st-century design practice. https://hgsd.us/3Xvyy05
TOMORROW — The GSD Practice Forum Panel Discussion will bring together disciplinary experts, practitioners, and students from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning to address structural hurdles embedded in ethical 21st-century design practice. https://hgsd.us/3Xvyy05
GSD Practice Forum Panel Discussion
A live stream for this event will be available on this page at the scheduled start time. Closed captioning is available by clicking the “CC” icon at the
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November 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
TOMORROW — The GSD Practice Forum Panel Discussion will bring together disciplinary experts, practitioners, and students from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning to address structural hurdles embedded in ethical 21st-century design practice. https://hgsd.us/3Xvyy05
Shoutout to the "architectural crown" of the museum, designed by GSD Associate Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture Sara Zewde!
The Studio Museum of Harlem is at the top of the list of independent cultural institutions we must support. This week the museum offered a preview of the opening of its extraordinary new building on 125th Street. Director Thelma Golden is a leader without parallel. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/a...
Planting a Flag, and a Flagship, for Black Art
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November 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Shoutout to the "architectural crown" of the museum, designed by GSD Associate Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture Sara Zewde!
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In just five years, the income needed to afford the median-priced home nearly doubled—from $68k to $131k. Getting payments back to 2020 levels would require interest rates to be nearly zero, per @harvard-jchs.bsky.social
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#FigureFriday #housing #affordability
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#FigureFriday #housing #affordability
November 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
In just five years, the income needed to afford the median-priced home nearly doubled—from $68k to $131k. Getting payments back to 2020 levels would require interest rates to be nearly zero, per @harvard-jchs.bsky.social
www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/lower-i...
#FigureFriday #housing #affordability
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#FigureFriday #housing #affordability
TOMORROW –
"Black Roots: Grounded and Growing Toward Collective Futures", presented by the Black Student Union and Africa GSD, will explore the complex relationships between belief systems, environments, and lands that shape Black communities across the diaspora. https://hgsd.us/BiD2025
"Black Roots: Grounded and Growing Toward Collective Futures", presented by the Black Student Union and Africa GSD, will explore the complex relationships between belief systems, environments, and lands that shape Black communities across the diaspora. https://hgsd.us/BiD2025
Black in Design 2025 - Black in Design
BLACK IN DESIGN 2025 When November 07 — 08, 2025 Sunday Assembly on November 9th, 2025 hosted by BSU and AfricaGSD in collaboration with BiD Where Gund Hall, 42-48 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 Quest...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
TOMORROW –
"Black Roots: Grounded and Growing Toward Collective Futures", presented by the Black Student Union and Africa GSD, will explore the complex relationships between belief systems, environments, and lands that shape Black communities across the diaspora. https://hgsd.us/BiD2025
"Black Roots: Grounded and Growing Toward Collective Futures", presented by the Black Student Union and Africa GSD, will explore the complex relationships between belief systems, environments, and lands that shape Black communities across the diaspora. https://hgsd.us/BiD2025
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Members of the @harvard.edu & @mitdusp.bsky.social communities, join us next Monday, November 10 @gsd.harvard.edu for a screening of the film To Build Law, a documentary by the @ccaconversations.bsky.social about the growing movement that fights for renovation over demolition.
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Members of the @harvard.edu & @mitdusp.bsky.social communities, join us next Monday, November 10 @gsd.harvard.edu for a screening of the film To Build Law, a documentary by the @ccaconversations.bsky.social about the growing movement that fights for renovation over demolition.
Watch GSD Assistant Professor of Urban Planning Magda Maaoui talk about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's housing policy on Radio France!
I can’t vote in NYC. But one thing I can do is get on French national morning news to talk about Zohran’s promising housing plan, and what it will take to make it happen, when he wins
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November 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Watch GSD Assistant Professor of Urban Planning Magda Maaoui talk about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's housing policy on Radio France!
On November 15, the new Studio Museum will open in Harlem, featuring a rooftop garden designed by Associate Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture Sara Zewde.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/arts/design/studio-museum-harlem-adjaye.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/arts/design/studio-museum-harlem-adjaye.html
Harlem’s Remarkable New Studio Museum Redefines 125th Street
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November 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
On November 15, the new Studio Museum will open in Harlem, featuring a rooftop garden designed by Associate Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture Sara Zewde.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/arts/design/studio-museum-harlem-adjaye.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/arts/design/studio-museum-harlem-adjaye.html
Happy Election Day!
Are you a mayor interested in the Just City Mayoral Fellowship for 2026? Submit an expression of interest by November 17!
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Are you a mayor interested in the Just City Mayoral Fellowship for 2026? Submit an expression of interest by November 17!
www.micd.org/events/2026-...
2026 Just City Mayoral Fellowship - Mayors' Institute on City Design
This unique and highly interactive program brings together a small group of mayors to directly tackle injustices in each of their cities through planning and design interventions.
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November 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Happy Election Day!
Are you a mayor interested in the Just City Mayoral Fellowship for 2026? Submit an expression of interest by November 17!
www.micd.org/events/2026-...
Are you a mayor interested in the Just City Mayoral Fellowship for 2026? Submit an expression of interest by November 17!
www.micd.org/events/2026-...
For her thesis, Sara Falkson (MDE '25) bought sports bras from several different brands and reassembled them into "Frankenstein" configurations in the engineering lab. Now her work continues with her company Robyn.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/23/sports/sara-falkson-robyn-sports-bra/
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/23/sports/sara-falkson-robyn-sports-bra/
This Harvard-educated engineer is trying to keep girls from quitting sports. She’s starting by redesigning the sports bra. - The Boston Globe
Sara Falkson's company, Robyn, has two goals: redesigning the sports bra, and presenting a body confidence curriculum that keeps girls active throughout their teenage years.
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November 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
For her thesis, Sara Falkson (MDE '25) bought sports bras from several different brands and reassembled them into "Frankenstein" configurations in the engineering lab. Now her work continues with her company Robyn.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/23/sports/sara-falkson-robyn-sports-bra/
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/23/sports/sara-falkson-robyn-sports-bra/
TOMORROW in Gund Hall –
Join us for a celebration of the winners of the 15th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design, The Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture Campus (RICA) by MASS in Bugesera, Rwanda, and the opening of the coinciding exhibition. https://hgsd.us/3LvM80I
Join us for a celebration of the winners of the 15th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design, The Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture Campus (RICA) by MASS in Bugesera, Rwanda, and the opening of the coinciding exhibition. https://hgsd.us/3LvM80I
The Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture Campus by MASS
About this Event Established in 1986, the biennial Green Prize recognizes projects that make an exemplary contribution to the public realm of a city,
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November 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
TOMORROW in Gund Hall –
Join us for a celebration of the winners of the 15th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design, The Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture Campus (RICA) by MASS in Bugesera, Rwanda, and the opening of the coinciding exhibition. https://hgsd.us/3LvM80I
Join us for a celebration of the winners of the 15th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design, The Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture Campus (RICA) by MASS in Bugesera, Rwanda, and the opening of the coinciding exhibition. https://hgsd.us/3LvM80I
The 15th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design has been awarded to the Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture (RICA) campus in Bugesera, Rwanda. Join us on November 5th and 6th for a celebration of the winners and the opening of the coinciding exhibition. https://hgsd.us/3LvM80I
The Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture Campus by MASS
About this Event Established in 1986, the biennial Green Prize recognizes projects that make an exemplary contribution to the public realm of a city,
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October 31, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The 15th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design has been awarded to the Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture (RICA) campus in Bugesera, Rwanda. Join us on November 5th and 6th for a celebration of the winners and the opening of the coinciding exhibition. https://hgsd.us/3LvM80I
MERCH has landed!
Get your hoodies, T-shirts, and totes for next week's Black in Design Conference at https://hgsd.us/BiD25tix .
Get your hoodies, T-shirts, and totes for next week's Black in Design Conference at https://hgsd.us/BiD25tix .
October 31, 2025 at 2:48 PM
MERCH has landed!
Get your hoodies, T-shirts, and totes for next week's Black in Design Conference at https://hgsd.us/BiD25tix .
Get your hoodies, T-shirts, and totes for next week's Black in Design Conference at https://hgsd.us/BiD25tix .
TODAY at 6:30pm: Joshua Ramus, founding principal of REX, will reflect on the evolution of ideas that germinated over the 10,887 days since he defended his master’s thesis in Piper Auditorium, when he developed his beliefs that architecture should actively empower its users. https://hgsd.us/48HivTZ
Joshua Ramus, "10,887"
Join us for a talk by Joshua Ramus, the founding principal of New York-based architecture firm REX.
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October 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
TODAY at 6:30pm: Joshua Ramus, founding principal of REX, will reflect on the evolution of ideas that germinated over the 10,887 days since he defended his master’s thesis in Piper Auditorium, when he developed his beliefs that architecture should actively empower its users. https://hgsd.us/48HivTZ
Black in Design 2025: Black Roots (November 7-8, 2025)
Continue the conversation over shared meals! Meal tickets are available. Sign up by Friday, Oct 31!
There are options to purchase admission to the reception on Friday evening, as well as breakfast and lunch on Saturday
https://hgsd.us/4op4peT
Continue the conversation over shared meals! Meal tickets are available. Sign up by Friday, Oct 31!
There are options to purchase admission to the reception on Friday evening, as well as breakfast and lunch on Saturday
https://hgsd.us/4op4peT
October 29, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Black in Design 2025: Black Roots (November 7-8, 2025)
Continue the conversation over shared meals! Meal tickets are available. Sign up by Friday, Oct 31!
There are options to purchase admission to the reception on Friday evening, as well as breakfast and lunch on Saturday
https://hgsd.us/4op4peT
Continue the conversation over shared meals! Meal tickets are available. Sign up by Friday, Oct 31!
There are options to purchase admission to the reception on Friday evening, as well as breakfast and lunch on Saturday
https://hgsd.us/4op4peT
TODAY: Join us for the Tyrwhitt Urban Design Lecture, "The Measure of Freedom and Unfreedom".
Speaker Mabel O. Wilson is the Nancy and George E. Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning, & Preservation and Chair of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia. https://hgsd.us/4oiyEUA
Speaker Mabel O. Wilson is the Nancy and George E. Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning, & Preservation and Chair of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia. https://hgsd.us/4oiyEUA
The Measure of Freedom and Unfreedom
Join us for a talk by Mabel O. Wilson, Nancy and George E. Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia.
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October 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
TODAY: Join us for the Tyrwhitt Urban Design Lecture, "The Measure of Freedom and Unfreedom".
Speaker Mabel O. Wilson is the Nancy and George E. Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning, & Preservation and Chair of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia. https://hgsd.us/4oiyEUA
Speaker Mabel O. Wilson is the Nancy and George E. Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning, & Preservation and Chair of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia. https://hgsd.us/4oiyEUA
Happy #NationalCatDay from Remy, making himself at home all around the GSD
Image 1: Zizheng Li
Image 2: Caspar Bhalerao
Images 3 and 4: Anita Kan
Image 1: Zizheng Li
Image 2: Caspar Bhalerao
Images 3 and 4: Anita Kan
October 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Happy #NationalCatDay from Remy, making himself at home all around the GSD
Image 1: Zizheng Li
Image 2: Caspar Bhalerao
Images 3 and 4: Anita Kan
Image 1: Zizheng Li
Image 2: Caspar Bhalerao
Images 3 and 4: Anita Kan
This Thursday: Joshua Ramus, founding principal of REX, will reflect on the evolution of ideas that germinated over the 10,887 days since he defended his master’s thesis in Piper Auditorium, when he developed his beliefs that architecture should actively empower its users. https://hgsd.us/48HivTZ
Joshua Ramus, "10,887"
Join us for a talk by Joshua Ramus, the founding principal of New York-based architecture firm REX.
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October 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This Thursday: Joshua Ramus, founding principal of REX, will reflect on the evolution of ideas that germinated over the 10,887 days since he defended his master’s thesis in Piper Auditorium, when he developed his beliefs that architecture should actively empower its users. https://hgsd.us/48HivTZ
Wednesday: Mabel O. Wilson explores the establishment of the capital city built at the fall line of the Potomac River in 1791, when it was intended to become not only the seat of federal government, but, with infrastructural improvements, a major trading point and port. https://hgsd.us/4oiyEUA
The Measure of Freedom and Unfreedom
Join us for a talk by Mabel O. Wilson, Nancy and George E. Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia.
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October 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Wednesday: Mabel O. Wilson explores the establishment of the capital city built at the fall line of the Potomac River in 1791, when it was intended to become not only the seat of federal government, but, with infrastructural improvements, a major trading point and port. https://hgsd.us/4oiyEUA
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Amy Love Tomasso, a former student @gsd.harvard.edu who is now Director of Policy Innovation at Ivory Innovations, explains missing middle housing, what it is, and what cities and states can do to encourage more of it.
October 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Amy Love Tomasso, a former student @gsd.harvard.edu who is now Director of Policy Innovation at Ivory Innovations, explains missing middle housing, what it is, and what cities and states can do to encourage more of it.
TODAY at 6:30PM EST – Meriem Chabani, founder and principal of NEW SOUTH, will present the GSD's Aga Khan Program lecture, which will frame architecture as a relational and adaptive practice, one that listens, compromises, and evolves across time, context, and encounter.
https://hgsd.us/3WGuw4H
https://hgsd.us/3WGuw4H
"South South Cosmogonies"
A live stream for this event will be available on this page at the scheduled start time. Closed captioning is available by clicking the “CC” icon at the
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October 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
TODAY at 6:30PM EST – Meriem Chabani, founder and principal of NEW SOUTH, will present the GSD's Aga Khan Program lecture, which will frame architecture as a relational and adaptive practice, one that listens, compromises, and evolves across time, context, and encounter.
https://hgsd.us/3WGuw4H
https://hgsd.us/3WGuw4H
Eric Höweler, GSD Professor of Architecture, is interviewed about AquaPraça, a floating venue currently in use at the Venice Biennale that will later travel overseas to Belém, Brazil for COP30.
https://hgsd.us/42UHe3B
https://hgsd.us/42UHe3B
An Interview with Eric Höweler: AquaPraça, from Venice to Belém
Professor Eric Höweler of the Harvard Graduate School of Design talks about AquaPraça, eco-literacy, and responsible architecture.
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October 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Eric Höweler, GSD Professor of Architecture, is interviewed about AquaPraça, a floating venue currently in use at the Venice Biennale that will later travel overseas to Belém, Brazil for COP30.
https://hgsd.us/42UHe3B
https://hgsd.us/42UHe3B
Shaped like a friend!
Read about Biboni, Johnston Marklee's debut furniture collection for Knoll—inspired by the curving, floaty shapes of "Bibendum + macaroni"
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Read about Biboni, Johnston Marklee's debut furniture collection for Knoll—inspired by the curving, floaty shapes of "Bibendum + macaroni"
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October 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Shaped like a friend!
Read about Biboni, Johnston Marklee's debut furniture collection for Knoll—inspired by the curving, floaty shapes of "Bibendum + macaroni"
www.wallpaper.com/design-inter...
Read about Biboni, Johnston Marklee's debut furniture collection for Knoll—inspired by the curving, floaty shapes of "Bibendum + macaroni"
www.wallpaper.com/design-inter...