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.
Architect Kimberly Dowdell is Changing Her Profession
Kimberly Dowdell influences her profession—and the built environment.
Harvard Professor on Printmaking
An art historian analyzes an overlooked medium.
by Murray Whyte
Harvard's Landscape Architect Bas Smets on Cooling Cities
Bas Smets harnesses nature to cool cities.
It’s “Not the Earth that Needs Fixing”
Karenna Gore ’95 addresses Graduate School of Design.
Dominica’s “Bouyon” Star
Musician “Shelly” Alfred’s indigenous Caribbean sound
Renovating Harvard Graduate School of Design's Gund Hall
Renovations on Gund Hall of Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) to be completed by next year.
Civil War American Writer and Abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier
Homes of the poet and abolitionist, whose verses were said to have inspired Abraham Lincoln.
Vacationing with a Purpose
New England “summer camps” for adults
Making Space
The natural history of Junko Yamamoto’s art and architecture
Real Estate by Design
A new Graduate School of Design degree