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

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

Anyeley Hallová

A Passion for Equity

How urban designer and developer Anyeley Hallová became a leader in sustainable development for social justice

by Isabel Mehta

Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Holodomor Memorial

Wheat and War In Ukraine

A Harvard graduate’s design of the newly relevant Holodomor Memorial in Washington, D.C.

by Isabel Mehta

Design rendering of East Side Coastal Resiliency Project in New York City

Can Infrastructure Remedy Social Ills?

A Design School class suggests how “social infrastructure” can meet societal needs.

by Nancy Walecki

Seafaring America

Visiting Mystic, Connecticut

by Craig Lambert

The seven 2022 Harvard Horzions scholars

Harvard Horizons Spotlights Seven Scholars

Ph.D. students discuss subjects from aliens to infrastructural aesthetics.

by Jacob Sweet