GSD Alumni Council

12/14/2021

Nominations open until Dec 31, 2021.
https://bit.ly/GSDAA2022

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The Harvard Graduate School of Design Alumni Award honors outstanding leadership by GSD alumni, underscoring the essential role that GSD graduates play in leading change around the world. The award recognizes and celebrates the diversity, range, and impact of GSD alumni within their communities and across their areas of practice.

The GSD Alumni Award honors up to three individuals each year who demonstrate outstanding design leadership in their communities. This inclusive approach enables the GSD Alumni Council to celebrate the inherent diversity, range of innovation, and impact of GSD graduates worldwide.

More at: alumni.gsd.harvard.edu/gsd-alumni-award/

11/22/2021

Join the Harvard Alumni Association for an exploration of the University’s multi-disciplinary approach to combating climate change. Following remarks from the newly appointed Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability, James Stock, three faculty members will share a window into their work. Presenting faculty include:

Francesca Dominici, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population and Data Science and Co-Director of the Data Science Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Jody Freeman, Archibald Cox Professor of Law and Director, Environmental and Energy Law Program, Harvard Law School

David Keith, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

More information & registration here:

Join the Harvard Alumni Association for an exploration of the University’s multi-disciplinary approach to combating climate change. Following remarks from the newly appointed Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability, James Stock, three faculty members will share a window into their work.

05/26/2021

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR MEMBER HAZEL RUTH EDWARDS ( )

President Joe Biden has selected Hazel Ruth Edwards, who is the chair of the Department of Architecture at Howard University’s College of Engineering and Architecture, along with three other new members of the U.S. Commission on Fine Arts.

Fellow new members are:
Bill Tsien of Williams Tsien Architects
Peter Cook of
Justin Garrett Moore of





https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/555374-biden-replacing-four-trump-appointed-members-of-us-commission-of-fine?rl=1

05/18/2021

Join '79 , and founder of Studio-MLA Mia Lehrer and this great panel in conversation next week, Thursday, May 27 at 5pm PDT.

https://aiasf.org/event/latinx-voices-design-advocacy-equity-building-comunidad/

AIA San Francisco - AIASF

04/23/2021

Proud to celebrate Nader Tehrani ’91, Meejin Yoon ’97, and Theaster Gates ’11 will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters during its virtual award ceremony on May 19 at 7 p.m. EST.

Membership in the Academy is limited to 300 architects, visual artists, composers, and writers who are elected for life. The honor of election is considered the highest form of recognition of artistic merit in the United States.

The American Academy of Arts and Letters was founded in 1898 as an honor society of the country’s leading architects, artists, composers, and writers.

https://alumni.gsd.harvard.edu/alumni_updates/nader-tehrani-maud-91-meejin-yoon-maud-97-and-theaster-gates-lf-11-newly-elected-to-american-academy-of-arts-and-letters/

04/23/2021

Join David Rubin '90, member
and Founding Principal of DAVID RUBIN Land Collective as the featured speaker in the National Building Museum’s Spotlight on Design series on:

April 27th @ 6:30 PM (EST), in conversation with Jennifer Reut PhD, as part of the Museum’s celebration of Landscape Architecture Month.

REGISTRATION LINK:
http://go.nbm.org/site/Calendar/1143323321?view=Detail&id=127056

The arc of the presentation will focus on resolving complex projects through an empathetic approach when designing for memorials and park paces, featuring projects within our nation’s capital. They aspire to discuss the joys and challenges of navigating Washington DC’s complex federal and local public space environment, all while steadfastly emphasizing and advocating for , , and the of every visitor. The event is open to all.

04/22/2021

Mark your calendars!

Friday, April 23rd at 6 pm EST

Frances Loeb Library Faculty Colloquium Series Presents
Studio Ecologies: Designing Landscape Architectural Education for Unpredictable Futures, Forthcoming 2021 Routledge Publication

Rosalea Monacella & Bridget Keane

Register in advance for this webinar:

https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pNQ57k2QRzeHG0L29zcU3A

Introduction: Anita Berrizbeitia Chair of Landscape Architecture (GSD)

Overview:

Rosalea Monacella (GSD) & Bridget Keane (RMIT)

Speakers:

Paola Viganò (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne & University of Venice)

Fadi Masoud, Jane Wolff & Elise Shelley (University of Toronto)

Elisa C. Cattaneo (Politecnico di Milan

04/15/2021

Join this panel conversation presenting challenges and strategies for preserving, maintaining and growing affordable housing in Chicago.

Tuesday, April 20, 5:30 pm CST

Affordable housing continues to be a growing need across the country and in the Chicago region. The pandemic in particular has highlighted challenges that many renters and homeowners face with finding housing that fits their requirements as well as their price point. Affordable housing can come in all shapes and sizes and the creation and preservation of this type of housing is critical to ensuring that people remain housed in times of economic downturns. This panel discussion presents challenges and strategies for preserving, maintaining and growing affordable housing from three different practitioners working in the field.

Panelists:
Chandra Christmas-Rouse, Enterprise Community Partners ( ’19)
Chris Lee, Johnson & Lee Architects ( ’79)
Rafael Leon, Chicago Metropolitan Housing Development Corporation ( ’09)

Moderators:
Paola Aguirre, Borderless Studio ( '11)
Christina Harris, Metropolitan Planning Council ( '11)

Register at: bit.ly/panel-affordable-housing

04/15/2021

Brian Johnson '99 featured in The New York Times speaks about how he developed a love of golf and course design at an early age, and how he has mastered a field that has historically lacked diversity.

Brandon Johnson developed a love of golf and course design at an early age. He has mastered a field that has historically lacked diversity.

04/15/2021

Exciting news! Mark Rios FAIA, FASLA, '82, '82, emeritus member, and founder of L.A.-based multidisciplinary design practice will be leading major expansion and modernization project of landmark Television City.

Los Angeles's Television City is set to double in size thanks to an ambitious new master plan from RIOS that will add new studios and pedestrian upgrades

03/25/2021

Congratulations '14 Sekou Cooke for this appointment as new director of the Master of Urban Design program at UNC Charlotte School of Architecture.

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UNC Charlotte's School of Architecture welcomes Sekou Cooke to its faculty as the Director of the Master of Urban Design (MUD) program. Cooke is an acclaimed architect, educator, curator, and researcher whose work exemplifies a career in shaping design practice with social justice...

03/25/2021

Join '88 David Heymann, FAIA. David is an architect, author, and the Harwell Hamilton Harris Regents Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas. His focus is the complex relationship of constructions and landscapes.

THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 2021, 6:30 - 8:30PM

David Heymann AR '84 will present a public lecture followed by a discussion and Q&A