Architecture & Design

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

Harvard and City Leaders Celebrate ERC Opening

Phase A of the Allston project includes a hotel, residences, and a two-acre greenway.

by Laurel M. Shugart

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

Making Space

The natural history of Junko Yamamoto’s art and architecture

by Nina Pasquini

Real Estate by Design

A new Graduate School of Design degree

by John S. Rosenberg

Journey into Quabbin Reservoir’s Hidden Past

Rambling around the Quabbin Reservoir

by Nell Porter-Brown

Happenings in Hartford

Literary legacies, parks, festivals—and more

by Nell Porter-Brown

Building a Better World

MASS Design’s healing architecture

by Mark Travis

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

Henry Clarke Warren

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

by David Gauld

Litchfield’s Legal Eagles

Visiting America’s first formal law school

by Nell Porter-Brown