Architecture & Design


Basking in the Beaux-Arts

Park offers art, nature, and history in New Hampshire

by Nell Porter-Brown

Innovation-Colonial Style

The Saugus Iron Works highlights early U.S. industrial history

by Nell Porter-Brown

26 Ways to Get into Harvard

A nitty-gritty guide by a Nieman Fellow and his team.

Preserving a Muse

Nathaniel Hawthorne's Salem muse was preserved by philanthropist Caroline Emmerton.

by Nell Porter-Brown

St. Louis Blues

Urban planners and scholars talk racism and exclusion in St. Louis.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Frank Gehry to Receive Arts Medal

Gehry is the first architect to earn the distinction. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Mapping the Ganges

A decade spent exploring India’s dynamic sacred river

by Nell Porter-Brown

A Treasure Way Up High

In Sanders Theatre, a “constellation” of a chandelier

by Peter DeMarco

Under Wraps

Josep Lluís Sert’s International Style icon gets a half-century exterior toning and face lift.

Design Engineering Debuts

Two Harvard faculties collaborate, aiming to solve real-world problems.

by John S. Rosenberg

An Ipswich Idyll

Restorations revive the grand spirit of a North Shore estate.

by Nell Porter-Brown