Architecture & Design

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

A graphic depiction of a stone wall, reimagining the stone wall set in Harvard Square near Winthrop Street

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.

by Olivia Farrar

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

Historic buildings and American flag in Litchfield, Connecticut

Litchfield’s Legal Eagles

Visiting America’s first formal law school

by Nell Porter-Brown

Landscape architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom M.L.A. ’06

How to Adapt to Climate Change

Lessons from Bangkok presented at the Harvard Graduate School of Design

by Jonathan Shaw

A view of the conference from Western Avenue.

Harvard’s “Treehouse” in Allston

Unveiling a new conference center in Allston

by Jonathan Shaw

Photo of Allyson Mendenhall outside

Community with Purpose

New Harvard Alumni Association president Allyson Mendenhall

by Nell Porter-Brown

blue skies and green fields and music center building

Listen Up

A new regional music center opens in Groton, Massachusetts.

by Nell Porter-Brown