Arts & Culture

Garden view of Aspet, with vibrant flower beds and Mount Ascutney in the background.

Harvard Squared | May-June 2025

Basking in the Beaux-Arts

Park offers art, nature, and history in New Hampshire

by Nell Porter-Brown

Bruce Mau

University News |

Bruce Mau to Speak at Design School

The renowned designer addresses degree candidates on May 23.

This country house, built for a filmmaker, includes a portico that becomes communal space when the owners aren't using it.

Arts & Culture |

A Conversation with Rahul Mehrotra

The architect discusses how design can address social problems.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Anthony Malkin ’84 has transformed the Empire State Building into a model of “green” engineering.

Alumni | March-April 2012

A Green Empire

How Anthony Malkin ’84 engineered the largest “green” retrofit ever

by Jonathan Shaw

Exterior of the Herta and Paul Amir Building at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Montage | May-June 2012

Spaces for Art, People, and Light

GSD's Preston Scott Cohen designed a new wing on the Tel Aviv art museum.

by Craig Lambert

The red fist from “The 1969 Protest T-shirt” dispatch, originally designed by Harvey Hacker ’63, filled a “graphic gap” for students protesting the “Bust,” a violent eviction of occupying students from University Hall by police officers and state troopers on April 10, 1969.

University News |

Design Dispatches: Meshing Past, Present, and Future

A Graduate School of Design exhibition celebrates 75 years of rich history.

From a vantage point south of Western Avenue in Allston, looking northeast toward Harvard Square, the unfinished science complex dominates the foreground. Beyond it lie athletic fields that may yield to expansion by the School of Public Health, the Graduate School of Education, or other academic enterprises. A business “enterprise research campus” is envisioned south of Western Avenue, across from the high-rise graduate-student housing at One Western Avenue.

University News |

Allston Plan and Schedule Endorsed by Harvard Corporation

A multiyear process of planning, community engagement, and prospective development is outlined.

The Saratoga Avenue Community Center in Brooklyn

Montage | September-October 2011

Oasis in Limestone and Brick

A much admired community center in Brooklyn, designed by George Ranalli.

by Tom Vinciguerra

The winning wildlife-crossing design distills multiple habitat types from the surrounding landscape into parallel bands that act as corridors for various animal species. Wide bands provide an open field of view, while narrow forest and shrub bands provide enclosed corridors.

Right Now | May-June 2011

Throughways for Wildlife

A winning proposal to keep cars and critters apart

Illustration by Nicole Wong

New England Regional | March-April 2011

When Grass Isn’t Greener

Alternatives to the "perfect" lawn, at home and at Harvard

by Nell Porter-Brown

The homes offer views of rural vistas from every room.

New England Regional | July-August 2010

Greener Pastures

A New Hampshire cohousing community models sustainability. View an image gallery.

by Nell Porter-Brown