Architecture & Design
Explore Harvard’s role in shaping architecture and design—on campus and around the globe.
One of Harvard’s Oldest Structures Is Hiding Behind a Beer Garden
A crumbling wall in Harvard Square holds centuries of the city’s story, if you know how to read it.
The New Boston Athenaeum
Find “the joy of discovery and power of this unique place.”
Harvard Sculptor Justin Peyser on Finding Sanctuary
Probing the concepts of territory and sanctuary.
Affordable Homeownership in Allston
An affordable homeownership project is proposed on a Harvard-donated site in Allston.
From Harvard-Trained Architect to Miniature Diorama Builder
Fred Gevalt’s astonishing and intricate diorama
Designing for “Changing Climates”
An exhibit on landscape architect Bas Smets
Henry Hobson Richardson: Architect of Harvard's Iconic Austin and Sever Halls
Invaluable architectural archive published at last
Ecological Edges: Darren Sears’s Watercolor Landscapes
The surreal, artistic cartography of Darren Sears
Among the Oyster Houses
Harvard students’ art installation nods at New England’s coastal farms.
Men and Their Castles
Historic New England explores the “bachelor decorators”
How Was Brooklyn Bridge Park Planned?
Michael Van Valkenburgh and the making of Brooklyn Bridge Park