Parsing distinctions between architecture and “mere” building has been a preoccupation of thinkers and practitioners since ancient times. The very difficulty of defining neat disciplinary boundaries ...

What is a home today? How do we reconcile our dire need for new housing with the fact that our needs will certainly change over time, and today’s buildings might soon be obsolete? How do we provide ...

A shading pavilion in the park. A pop-up chapel in a parking lot. A pollinator tower in a plaza. These architectural interventions differ in material, form, and scale, yet they share a common purpose: ...

AI arrives at a time when the design fields face deep contradictions. How can concerns for sustainability reconcile with the need for growth? How can socially inclusive values find expression in ...

Gareth Doherty’s book, Landscape Fieldwork: How Engaging the World Can Change Design, was published by the University of Virginia Press in 2025. Photo courtesy of the University of Virginia Press.

After arriving in Cambridge in late August to begin the Loeb Fellowship at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) and Harvard ArtLab, I began getting to know my new neighborhood by walking and listening ...

Ancient pollen trapped in fresco wall-paintings, like a mosquito in amber, provides a historical ecological snapshot. Compacted grains of garden soil preserve 2,000-year-old footsteps. Even the ...

In The Round. Courtesy of Iman Fayyad. While many installations address the harsh political climate with soft materials like inflatables and fabrics, Thin Volumes: In the Round by assistant professor ...

On a late summer day, AquaPraça—a floating 400-square-meter steel platform, painted brilliant white—appeared in the Venetian Lagoon, destined for its September 5 debut at the 19th International ...

At a moment when the word “design” has come to refer to everything and thus nothing, this issue examines the […] ...

I grew up in a domestic world that seemed to hospitably reconfigure itself around our family’s evolving interests and enterprises. As my younger brother’s model horse and airplane collections expanded ...

Put the city up; tear the city down, put it up again; let us find a city. —Carl Sandburg, “The Windy City,” 1922 Chicago was a well-loved subject of writer Carl Sandburg. Committed to the working ...