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Deadline EXTENDED to January 9! Submit your abstracts!
gsd.harvard.edu Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · Nov 18
Now accepting abstracts for the 2026 Cambridge Talks symposium, “Surfacing,” 4/24-4/25, 2026, inviting scholars of the built environment to consider the physical production of surfaces and their mediating roles. Deadline 1/2/26.

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Cambridge Talks 2026: Surfacing
In his 1993 essay on “The Topology of Environmentalism,” anthropologist Timothy Ingold critiqued the concept of "the global environment." The image of
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January 2, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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🎆 Happy 2026 from GSD! Starting off the year with an accurate, edible gingerbread scale model of Gund that students Miu Kondo, Kiyomi Langenhagen, and Sun Woo Byun built for fun before winter break!
A monochrome image of a gingerbread model of Gund Hall, displayed on a flat surface with other gingerbread structures in the background. Computer model of gingerbread Gund, with an illustrated recipe of how it was made A gingerbread replica of Gund Hall, decorated with white icing details, isolated on a white background. Close-up of a monochrome image of a gingerbread model of Gund Hall, showing details of the roof and icing.
January 1, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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Enrique Silva (Lincoln Institute), @lohplaces.bsky.social (@brookings.edu), and Nestor Davidson (@gsd.harvard.edu) highlighted state & local land policy initiatives, efforts by the federal & some state governments to preempt them, and creative ways that states can push back.
Three panelists sit on red chairs during a session at the 2025 Lincoln Institute Journalists Forum. A man on the left speaks into a microphone while holding papers; the woman in the center, wearing a plaid dress, holds a mic in her lap; the man on the right looks toward the speaker, also holding a mic. Behind them, a screen shows a slide titled “Opening Overview” with “Moderator: Enrique Silva” and “Speakers: Tracy Loh and Nestor Davidson.”
December 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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👏@theguardian.com names the Ismaili Center in Houston (designed by the GSD's Farshid Moussavi) in the top design and architecture of 2025, calling it "beautifully built and characterised by an inviting sense of openness."
The best design and architecture of 2025
This year’s highlights include the remodelling of a Richard Seifert brutalist ‘corncob’ tower, a celebration of Japanese carpentry and a wearable hot-water bottle
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December 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Our partners at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (@gsd.harvard.edu) are now accepting applications for the Pollman Fellowship in Real Estate and Urban Development.
December 19, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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For over 60 years, we have traced how people live, what housing works and what doesn’t, and when smart policy can widen the circle of opportunity.

Thank you to A. Krista Sykes @gsd.harvard.edu for capturing our center's past, present, and future so thoughtfully.

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More Than a Roof: The Evolution of Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies
Since its founding in 1959, the Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies has helped shape urban policy, drive innovative practice, and develop the housing leaders of tomorrow.
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December 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Since the GSD's founding in 1936, its students have produced at least 17 different student publications. This fall, excerpts from one, Open Letters, were exhibited in the student-run Quotes Gallery, and an Archives Party at the Loeb Library allowed attendees to examine journals going back to 1941.
Student Journals Recount the GSD's Intellectual History
Open Letters, an epistolary journal, belongs to a history of publications at the GSD in which students have led the discourse about design.
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December 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Leylâ Uysal grew up in a Kurdish community in rural Türkiye, where she had to persuade her parents to allow her to attend school. After founding Bajer Watches, she enrolled at GSD, where she received her MDes in 2024 and is currently a student in the MLA program.

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Poster for 'The project: Hope & Regenerative agriculture in adaptive trials' featuring two individuals in traditional attire standing in a garden. The backdrop includes lush greenery, vegetables, and vibrant floral graphics. Text and logos related to the project are visible at the bottom. Illustration showing a progression of land use, starting with natural forest transitioning through various stages of development and agriculture to a densely planted area, with a river on the left side and a person tilling the soil at the beginning of the sequence. Person smiling, standing by a railing with a brick building in the background.
December 15, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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In a nondescript office over One Bow Street in Harvard Square, @harvard-jchs.bsky.social keeps a finger on the pulse of America’s housing markets—and tries to connect city planners, advocates, and business groups to solve some of the country’s thorniest issues. Thanks @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social!
‘A Wicked Problem’: How Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies Imagines Solutions to a Crisis | News | The Harvard Crimson
In a nondescript office over One Bow Street in Harvard Square, the Joint Center for Housing Studies keeps a finger on the pulse of America’s housing markets — and tries to connect city planners, advoc...
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December 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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With partial funding from our center, @gsd.harvard.edu professor Eve Blau disusses the challenges of rebuilding Ukraine, and how architecture, urban design, and planning can respond under conditions of profound instability and change.

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Ukraine in Times of War: Reconstruction as Strategy, Tactics, and Practice
Russian aggression against Ukraine began with the occupation and annexation of Crimea in 2014 and escalated into a full-scale invasion […]
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December 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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“There’s no starting gun on climate change adaptation – it’s already happening,” said Charles Waldheim, professor of landscape architecture at GSD. For the past five years, Waldheim’s research group has been simulating a stress test on Cape Ann’s future.

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When the Atlantic creeps closer
Marrying science and planning, a five-year Harvard study has helped a vulnerable Massachusetts peninsula prepare for rough seas ahead.
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December 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Alum Sara Falkson (MDE '25) is using her athletic and engineering backgrounds to design a line of sports bras specifically for middle- or high-school athletes who might be wearing one for the first time.

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Alumni Profile: Sara Falkson, MDE '25
Improving girls’ body confidence with properly fitting apparel
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December 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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🚨 Applications for the Wheelwright Prize are due February 8, 2026!

The Wheelwright is an international competition for early-career architects. Winners receive a $100,000 (USD) fellowship to foster intensive, innovative architectural research.

🔗 For more information, visit wheelwrightprize.org.
Promotional graphic for the 2026 Wheelwright Prize offering $100,000 for early-career architects, with an application deadline of February 8, presented by Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
December 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Read about the climate-related work GSD students and faculty did in Monterrey: hgsd.us/3SRKCGi
December 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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There's our 2023 Veronica Rudge Green Prize winner!! We love to see it
November 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Models in progress in the Trays as we march toward the end of the semester!
Interior of the Trays at GSD with models and blueprints visible on desks, featuring a person working.
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Great profile of Jacek Smolicki ’26 in the Harvard Gazette: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Artist Profile: Jacek Smolicki Listens to the World | Arts | The Harvard Crimson
Jacek Smolicki, a Stockholm-based designer, researcher, and artist specializing in immersive environmental soundscapes, is Harvard’s 2026 Loeb/ArtLab fellow.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Five GSD faculty are joining the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University as affiliates, working to solve urban problems across fields and disciplines.

https://cities.harvard.edu/news/eighteen-harvard-faculty-named-as-affiliates-of-the-bloomberg-center-for-cities-at-harvard-university/
Eighteen Harvard Faculty Named as Affiliates of the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University - Bloomberg Center for Cities
Fifty-two professors have accepted faculty affiliation at Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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My first for @gsd.harvard.edu, on the shifts—material, moral, and otherwise—inherent to the 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial. www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/articles/rev...
Architecture’s Mercurial Moment: The GSD at the 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial
The 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial, with many projects by GSD affiliates, shows the field at a mercurial moment.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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TODAY @ 3:15 pm: A conversation with the Mayor of Denver @harvardkennedy.bsky.social and open to all @harvard.edu ID holders.

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harvard-jchs.bsky.social Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies @harvard-jchs.bsky.social · Nov 12
Next Thu, Nov 20, the @harvard.edu community is invited to join us for a conversation with Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, who has led efforts to move thousands of people experiencing homelessness into housing with collaborative programs and measurable results.

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November 20, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Project Air is an affordable, accurate, and highly sensitive indoor air quality sensor developed in collaboration with @harvardseas.bsky.social, @gsd.harvard.edu, and the University of North Carolina. Learn more:
Project Air: Bioinspired Sensor of Volatile Compounds
We are bringing to market an innovative, bioinspired sensor of volatile compounds that gives building operators confidence in the measurement of gasses indoors and provides guidance to achieving healt...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Now accepting abstracts for the 2026 Cambridge Talks symposium, “Surfacing,” 4/24-4/25, 2026, inviting scholars of the built environment to consider the physical production of surfaces and their mediating roles. Deadline 1/2/26.

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Cambridge Talks 2026: Surfacing
In his 1993 essay on “The Topology of Environmentalism,” anthropologist Timothy Ingold critiqued the concept of "the global environment." The image of
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November 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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A new paper by our Gramlich fellow Aaron Smithson examines the use of off-site construction to build new affordable housing, including SRO units for formerly unhoused residents to single-family for-sale homes on community land trust plots. @gsd.harvard.edu

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November 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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A panel of architects and academics discussed how architects can balance the need to house a growing urban population with the environmental costs of building at a Harvard talk on Thursday.

Ramon Moreno Jr. and Yahir Ramirez report.

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Architects Discuss Balancing Sustainability, Urban Growth at Harvard GSD Panel | News | The Harvard Crimson
A panel of architects and academics discussed how architects can develop a sustainable model for their profession, balancing the need to house a growing urban population with the environmental costs…
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November 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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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