Architecture & Design

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

Boston Board Approves Harvard’s Enterprise Research Campus Framework

City planners adopt principles to guide future development of the commercial innovation district in Allston.

by Jonathan Shaw

An Obligation to Dignity

Poet and lawyer—and MacArthur “genius”—Reginald Dwayne Betts on art and imprisonment

by Lydialyle Gibson

The Places You’ll Go

Art, science, sports—and fanciful holiday lights—in the Connecticut River Valley 

by Nell Porter-Brown

America’s Oldest Synagogue

Newport R.I.’s colonial era and thriving Jewish community 

by Nell Porter-Brown

New Bedford

Exploring the coastal fishing hub’s history, architecture, parks, and arts scene

by Nell Porter-Brown

A Net-Zero-Energy Victorian Home Makes History

HBS alumna Betsy Harper develops the first net-zero-energy, Victorian “passive house” in the world.  

by Kristina DeMichele

Highfield Hall & Gardens, on Cape Cod

The renewed community life of a grand Cape Cod estate

by Nell Porter-Brown

LEED Platinum and ILFI recognition for Science and Engineering Complex

Harvard leveraged construction of its new Science and Engineering Complex to remove harmful chemicals from building-materials supply chains.

by Jonathan Shaw

Allston Research Campus Takes Form

Tishman Speyer details the first phase of the “enterprise research campus”—and points to a doubling of the project’s ultimate size.

by Jonathan Shaw

An innovative gate for Harvard Yard

At Houghton and Lamont libraries, a creative new entry into the Yard

by Jacob Sweet

Stephen Gray of Harvard Design School profiled by Jacob Sweet

Stephen Gray pioneers equitable urban design.

by Jacob Sweet