Architecture & Design

Explore Harvard’s role in shaping architecture and design—on campus and around the globe.

Room filled with furniture made from tightly rolled newspaper sheets.

A Paper House In Massachusetts

The 1920s Rockport cottage reflects resourceful ingenuity.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Photograph of the back side of Gund Hall with Memorial Church in the background

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. 

by Nina Pasquini

Kitchen at Whittier Birthplace with round wood table and 4 chairs and wood surround fireplace

Civil War American Writer and Abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier

Homes of the poet and abolitionist, whose verses were said to have inspired Abraham Lincoln. 

by Nell Porter-Brown

Vacationing with a Purpose

New England “summer camps” for adults

by Nell Porter-Brown

Yamamoto's installation, made of 20 orange tubes that stretch from floor to ceiling in a white room.

Making Space

The natural history of Junko Yamamoto’s art and architecture

by Nina Pasquini

City skyline with construction of skyscrapers in the foreground

Real Estate by Design

A new Graduate School of Design degree

by John S. Rosenberg

sweeping aerial view of blue sky and Quabbin Reservoir water and mountains

Journey into Quabbin Reservoir’s Hidden Past

Rambling around the Quabbin Reservoir

by Nell Porter-Brown

Photograph of stone bridge over a pond in a park

Happenings In Hartford

Literary legacies, parks, festivals—and more

by Nell Porter-Brown

A rendering of MASS Design’s proposal to reclaim the waterfront and renew Poughkeepsie’s center

Building a Better World

MASS Design’s healing architecture

by Mark Travis

John Hume, Ted Kennedy, Tip O'Neill

Hume, Heaney, Harvard-and Peace In Northern Ireland

In life and literature, living “dangerously out between” opposing factions while seeking common ground

by Marilynn Richtarik

Historic portrait of Henry Clarke Warren

Henry Clarke Warren

Brief life of a Harvard-educated Buddhist scholar: 1854-1899

by David Gauld