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“A practice that is not as established is documenting what becomes of a building after the years have passed. Yet, how a building ultimately performs as a work of architecture can only be determined after it exists in the world and is used by people over a length of time.” – Noritaka Minami @studionori , photographer Continuing our look at Gund Hall, home to Harvard Graduate School of Design @harvardgsd , through John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense, we turn to the catalog produced alongside the book, tracing the ideas, images, and material that further document the building’s history. John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense features essays from Paul Walker @paulwalker6834 , Mary Lou Lobsinger @maryloulobsinger , Peter Scriver and Antony Moulis, Philip Goad, and Paolo Scrivano, along with nearly 100 new photographs from visual artist Noritaka Minami @studionori of existing buildings designed by Andrews in North America and Australia. Order your copy of John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense at link in bio.

Gund Hall: then and now. In Chapter 7 of John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense, we look back at the sketches, technical drawings, and construction of Gund Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Design @harvardgsd . Paired alongside photographs from today, these images show us what has changed, what has stayed, and the lasting legacy the building continues to hold. John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense features essays from Paul Walker @paulwalker6834 , Mary Lou Lobsinger @maryloulobsinger , Peter Scriver and Antony Moulis, Philip Goad, and Paolo Scrivano, along with nearly 100 new photographs from visual artist Noritaka Minami @studionori of existing buildings designed by Andrews in North America and Australia. Order your copy at link in bio. Designed by Chad Kloepfer @chadkloepfer and Willis Kingery Photographs of Gund Hall by Maita Hagad @maitahagad

“Grandma Ruby’s husband died on Mom’s first birthday. Left to raise six children during the ‘60s could not have been an easy task. She worked as a manager for Goodwill. Grandma Ruby internalized the idea that Black women aren’t supposed to cry; they’re to remain silent and endure suffering.” — LaToya Ruby Frazier (excerpted from Harvard Design Magazine, No. 41). Following Mother’s Day celebrations, we are revisiting “The Notion of Family” by LaToya Ruby Frazier from #HDM41: Family Planning and “The Incubator Incubator, the Administration of Leaking Bodies, and Other Labor Pains” by the feminist architecture collaborative @eff_arch from #HDM46: No Sweat to celebrate and give light to the realities of motherhood. Visit the magazine’s website at link in bio to read the feminist architecture collaborative’s essay and other sample essays from #HDM41 and #HDM46.

Spotted in the trays: A–Z: Harvard University Graduate School of Design 2022 on the desk of Saniya Malhotra @forestrani (MLA ’28). When asked how she uses the book in her work at the GSD, she shared: “It’s a great compilation of projects, and what’s especially valuable is that you can follow the entire process behind a drawing through the accompanying text while also seeing the ideas and concepts distilled into a single image. I also return to it as a graphic reference because it includes so many diagrams, model representations, and other visual tools that support the traditional drawings expected of us.” A–Z is an annual publication that features work produced by each graduating class at the Harvard GSD @harvardgsd . This alphabetical record features a catalog of rich and varied student work from the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning and design, and design engineering. A–Z: Harvard University Graduate School of Design 2022 was designed by Huber/Sterzinger @hubersterzinger and Noha Mokhtar Photographs by Maita Hagad @maitahagad

Hannah Beachler @hannahbeachler is known as an award-winning production designer, but in Design in a Frame of Emotion, she tells the audience that she considers herself to be more of a story designer. As film stills and concept art from a few of those stories—Moonlight, Miles Ahead, Creed, Lemonade, and Black Panther—flash across a screen, Beachler engages in a conversation with Jacqueline Stewart and Toni L. Griffin about set building and curation, urban design, location scouting, Afrofuturism, fictional histories, and Black feminist narratives, and elucidates her role: a designer behind on-screen tableaux that provide not only visual feasts of artistry and imagination but also intimate spaces of emotion, humanity, and constructed memory. Design in a Frame of Emotion is the eighth title in The Incidents, a book series based on events at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Series edited by Ken Stewart and Marielle Suba Designed by Ella @ellalosangeles Copublished with and distributed by Sternberg Press @sternbergpress_official See link in bio to view the full scope of the series and to purchase. Photographs by Maita Hagad @maitahagad

Through an unlikely partnership with R. Buckminster Fuller, feminist writer June Jordan’s “Skyrise for Harlem” project offered a Futuristic vision for Harlem that argued for environmental redesign: “it is architecture, conceived of in its fullest meaning as the creation of environment, which may actually determine the pace, pattern, and quality of living experience.” Jordan was not an architect in the conventional sense,” Nikil Saval @nikilsaval says. “But in the understanding of someone who sought to propose and build interventions in public space, she was.” A Rage in Harlem: June Jordan and Architecture by Nikil Saval @nikilsaval is the tenth title in The Incidents, a book series based on events at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Series edited by Ken Stewart and Marielle Suba Designed by Ella @ellalosangeles Copublished with and distributed by Sternberg Press @sternbergpress_official See link in bio to view the full scope of the series and to purchase.

What grounds a discipline? The CORE? series, spanning issues 35–37 of Harvard Design Magazine, examines the knowledge, methods, and conventions that shape architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism. “It is of course the knowledge of specific single disciplines that defines and fuels transdisciplinary practices. We cannot speak of cross-fertilization between architecture and landscape architecture, for example, unless we under-stand and possess the know-how, creativity, and convent-ions distinct to each of these disciplines.” — Mohsen Mostafavi (excerpted from #HDM35 Architecture’s Core? introduction) Interiors designed by Allon Kaye Covers and slip case designed by Irma Boom @irma_boom_amsterdam These back issues and more are available for purchase at link in bio. Buy all three copies from the CORE? series and receive them packaged in this limited edition slip case. To take advantage of this offer, use promo code hdm-core-ig upon check out. Available while supplies last!

In Five Footnotes Toward an Architecture, Mark Lee @johnstonmarklee delivers a lecture that embraces dialogue, context, and precedent, and rejects the notion of a heroic manifesto in favor of the footnote: “something ancillary, something used for referencing and providing citations for metanarratives that already exist.” And why five? “It’s a ubiquitous number in the culture of architecture. Five orders, five architects, five points.” Five Footnotes Toward an Architecture is based on a lecture delivered on April 4, 2023 and is the thirteenth title in The Incidents, a book series based on events at the Harvard Graduate School of Design @harvardgsd . It features an introduction by Sarah M. Whiting and afterwords from Michelle JaJa Chang @ja_ja_co , K. Michael Hays @kmichaelhays , Andrew Holder @andrewjamesholder , Jeannette Kuo @jeannettekuo_kk , and Jorge Silvetti.

Happy Earth Day from Harvard Design Press! To celebrate Earth Day this week, HDP revisited the role of design in shaping environmental futures. Through Wet Matter, Into the Woods, and Thinking Through Soil @thinkingthroughsoil , we explore practices attuned to water, forest ecologies, and the ground. As Giorgio Agamben writes in his essay “The Divine Forest” from #HDM45 "Into the Woods": “Humans have not lost our own nature—believing one has lost something means one can never find it again. But neither do we possess it as an endangered good—a pristine wood—that must be conserved at all costs. Rather, we have entered it and have never yet understood it—that is, we have not yet become human; anthropogenesis is still under way.” Read sample content and purchase your copy via the link in bio.

This National Library Week, we’re highlighting Harvard Design Magazine, No. 43, "Shelf Life," which investigates and unpacks the contents, containers, and systems of storage that organize our world. In Shannon Mattern’s @atlas.sounds essay “Before Billy: A Brief History of the Bookcase,” she explains that as books became more widely available, they were no longer kept chained, and the lectern evolved into a book “press,” a type of bookcase designed to be closed. This “afforded the user a sense of control over its use, a more comfortable engagement with it (thanks, also, to the arrival of smaller print formats), and, perhaps, greater intellectual liberty.” To read this and other sample content from "Shelf Life," and to order this and more back issues of Harvard Design Magazine, see link in bio.

A-Z between shipment and shelf. Copies will soon be available for sale at the Frances Loeb Library @harvardgsdlibrary and Harvard University Press @harvardpress . A–Z is an annual publication that features work produced by each graduating class at the Harvard GSD @harvardgsd . This alphabetical record features a catalog of rich and varied student work from the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning and design, and design engineering. A–Z: Harvard University Graduate School of Design 2023 and 2024 were designed by Tomáš Celizna with Martina Vanini. Photographs by Maita Hagad @maitahagad

Posthuman Knowledge and the Critical Posthumanities oscillates between evocations and transections of contemporary conditions, for which Rosi Braidotti @rosibraidottiofficial offers what she calls the “posthuman convergence” as a new paradigm for situating and navigating their problems and possibilities. Posthuman Knowledge and the Critical Posthumanities is the twelfth title in The Incidents, a book series based on events at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Series edited by Ken Stewart and Marielle Suba Designed by Ella @ellalosangeles Copublished with and distributed by Sternberg Press @sternbergpress_official See link in bio to purchase.