Arts & Culture
Explore Harvard’s vibrant arts scene—from campus exhibitions and theater to cultural analysis and literary reviews. Discover how creativity shapes the Harvard experience.
Your Guide to Summer 2025 Along Boston Harbor
Enjoying Boston Harbor’s Renaissance this summer
Cohousing at Nubanusit Neighborhood and Farm models sustainability.
A New Hampshire cohousing community models sustainability. View an image gallery.
Charlie Allen's art of home restoration
Charlie Allen makes period homes work for their owners. View images of his work.
Green architecture for a Kripalu addition.
The newest addition to a Berkshires yoga retreat melds with the landscape. View an image gallery.
Denise Scott Brown speaks at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Architect Denise Scott Brown recommends hitchhiking and the brave results that can emerge from tackling hard problems.
Skyscrapers as symbols
In Tall Building: Imagining the Skyscraper, Scott Johnson explores the semiotics of these urban giants.
Harvard in China: panelists address urban planning and sustainable growth
A panel discussion with Mohsen Mostafavi, Alex Krieger, Lin Wang, John C. Portman III, Wu Jiang, and Yu Kongjian
Before the Cocktail Napkin
In this excerpt from her new book, Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture, Cammy Brothers discusses how the artist demonstrated the possibility for architecture to be a vehicle for the imagination equal to painting or sculpture.
Carpenter Center's Craftsman
A new book, Le Corbusier Le Grand, pulls together the career of Le Corbusier, with material on Harvard’s Carpenter Center.
Straw and Sustainability
In “The Three Little Pigs,” the big, bad wolf huffs and puffs and easily blows down the first piglet’s straw house.
Works and Woods
Architecture and ecology in Japan...
by Paul Gleason