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.
A Passion for Equity
How urban designer and developer Anyeley Hallová became a leader in sustainable development for social justice
by Isabel Mehta
Wheat and War in Ukraine
A Harvard graduate’s design of the newly relevant Holodomor Memorial in Washington, D.C.
by Isabel Mehta
Can Infrastructure Remedy Social Ills?
A Design School class suggests how “social infrastructure” can meet societal needs.
Seafaring America
Visiting Mystic, Connecticut
Harvard Horizons Spotlights Seven Scholars
Ph.D. students discuss subjects from aliens to infrastructural aesthetics.
by Jacob Sweet
Architectural Upheaval
A comprehensive examination of avant-garde architecture
A Verdant Cultural Retreat
Boston’s Forest Hills Cemetery is a welcome respite from the world.
How to Create Your Springtime Oasis
Breathing new life into our domiciles
by Kara Baskin
Curating a More Diverse Campus Environment
A report and recommendations, from the FAS task force on signage and visual culture issues
An Obligation to Dignity
Poet and lawyer—and MacArthur “genius”—Reginald Dwayne Betts on art and imprisonment