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Annual Report Presents the School’S Many Statistics, Initiatives, and Activities from the Past Year in a Single Condensed Volume ANNUAL 2014 REPORT Dear Alumni and Friends, The Harvard University Graduate School of Design provides a unique space for students, faculty, practitioners, and researchers to explore innovative ideas and offers a dynamic framework through which these ideas can be tested. The GSD must remain the vital locus for the creation of knowledge about our built environment. We need to continue to develop the technologies, processes, and functions that will improve the performance of our built environment. Our work must also confront the current and future challenges of our contemporary societies. The relationship between knowledge and societal impact is central to the design pedagogy and research agenda at the GSD. As such, it underpins the aspirations and priorities of our Grounded Visionaries campaign. 1 The 2013–2014 academic year saw tremendous growth at the School: unprecedented applications and acceptance rates; the appointment of several distinguished faculty members; and the expanded post-professional MArch II degree program. In support of President Faust’s vision of One Harvard, the GSD also embarked on new collaborations across campus. The Deans’ Design Challenge: Urban Life 2030 at the Harvard i-Lab and the establishment of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities, with Founding Director Ali Malkawi at the helm, exemplify our interdisciplinary efforts. The School continued to reach beyond campus, and beyond Cambridge, to engage in a host of activities around the globe. We invited GSD alumni to share their thoughts in the first-ever Alumni Research Initiative in an effort to build a more engaged community. We hosted symposia in Hong Kong, two GSD student teams won design competitions in Japan, GSD faculty led an affordable housing study in Brazil, and our School community participated in the Venice Biennale, for which our students carried out research, design, and production work as part of the curatorial team and the Rotterdam studio. This GSD Annual Report presents the School’s many statistics, initiatives, and activities from the past year in a single condensed volume. As we look ahead, with the renewed focus established through our Grounded Visionaries campaign, it will be imperative that we continue to transform and redefine our role as design educators, researchers, and instigators. By doing so, we can ensure that the next generation of design leaders can continue to construct a more inspired future. Best wishes, Mohsen Mostafavi Dean and Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design 2 Rahul Mehrotra MAUD ’87 Erika Naginski RF ’04, GSA ’00 Faculty 3 Rahul Mehrotra MAUD ’87 Preston Scott Cohen MArch ’85 4 Last spring, the GSD made several key faculty # of Faculty appointments. Grace La AB ’92, MArch ’95 was appointed as the Master in Architecture Program Director, succeeding Mark Mulligan MArch ’90 who is now the Interim Curator of the Loeb Fellowship. Other notable appointments include Michael Hooper as Associate Professor of Urban Planning, Ali Malkawi 72 as Founding Director of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities, Erika Naginski RF ’04, GSA ’00 as Director of Doctoral Programs, and Antoine Picon Faculty by Department as Director of Research. Further, Bradley Cantrell MLA ’03 was appointed Associate Professor of Landscape Architectural Technology. Coming from Louisiana State University, Cantrell was the 2013-14 recipient of the Garden 35Architecture Club of America Rome Prize Fellow in Landscape Architecture. Kiel Moe MDesS ’03, co-director of the School’s Master of Design Studies program and the Energy, Environments & Design Lab, was promoted to Associate Professor of Architecture and Energy. In addition, Rosetta Elkin was appointed Assistant 20Landscape Architecture Professor of Landscape Architecture. Elkin, whose teaching and research focuses on innovative applications of ecological and vegetative technologies, also teaches in the core studio sequence and leads seminars in graphic representation and phytogeography. Bobby Pietrusko MArch ’12 was appointed Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban 17Urban Planning and Design Planning. As co-founder of the metaLAB at Harvard, his teaching and research consider geospatial representation, narrative and critical cartography, and spatial taxonomies. Andrew Witt MDesS ’02, MArch ’07 was appointed Assistant Professor in Practice of Architecture. Witt co-founded the GSD’s Geometry Lab and most recently served as Director of Research at Gehry Technologies. 5 % of Faculty Born Outside of the US 26% ARCH 13% LA 12% UPD % 51Total % of Men and Women on Faculty Male 68.9% Female 31.1% # of Visiting Faculty 496 2 32 107Total ARCH LA UPD 6 Undergraduate Education 7 The third year of the undergraduate track in # of Undergraduates architectural studies continued to build upon the long tradition of a humanities-based architecture program at Harvard. It is co-directed by Michael Hays, Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, and the specialized studios are taught by GSD faculty, 19 as are many of the other courses. Within the architectural studies track, two broad areas of emphasis are made available to the 19 students of Harvard College enrolled in the program: History and Theory includes the study of architecture, cities, landscapes, designed objects, ornament, architectural photography, and material culture. The work spans such diverse places as Africa, the Americas, China, Europe, India, the Islamic world, and Japan, all from antiquity to the present. Design Studies investigates the social and aesthetic dimensions of contemporary architecture, landscapes, cities, and territories, emphasizing issues of sustainable environments, new forms of urbanism, and the use of digital media for visualization and analysis. Sample of FAS Courses Taught by GSD Faculty GSD Faculty Course Title Zaneta Hong Architecture Studio 1: Transformation Yanni Loukissas Connections – Studio II Timothy Hyde Faculty Tutorial Mark Mulligan & Construction Lab I + II: Conference Course Michael Smith Sonja Dümpelmann From Mother Earth to Planet Mars: Designed Landscapes, 1850-2013 8 Research 9 Research at the GSD forms interdisciplinary bridges within Harvard’s wealth of institutional and intellectual resources and beyond. It is grounded in the belief that many of the key challenges and opportunities of our era require cooperation among the arts, humanities, and sciences, and among the academy, industry, and the public sphere. Research mobilizes design in its full capacity towards addressing important societal issues. A key resource for scholars, practitioners, and public and private sector leaders, the research units at the GSD inform policy decisions and convene critical discussion on a broad range of issues. Continuing this tradition, the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) was established in January 2014. Housed at the GSD, the CGBC aims to transform the building industry through a commitment to design-centric strategy that directly links research outcomes to the development of new processes, systems, and products. The CGBC sets forth a new era of research activities at the GSD. The Center joins the School’s other notable research centers, programs, initiatives, and labs in an effort to bring design to new frontiers of research and societal impact. Through ambitious and rapidly expanding agendas, they serve the global community and help train the next generation of design leaders. Research Centers Harvard Center for Aims to transform the building industry through a commitment Green Buildings and Cities to a design-centric strategy that directly links research outcomes to the development of new processes, systems, and products. Learn more at harvardcgbc.org. Harvard Joint Center for Advances the understanding of housing issues and informs policy Housing Studies through research, education, and public outreach programs. Learn more at jchs.harvard.edu. Design Labs Energy, Environments & Expands and deepens our understanding of energy in relation Design Lab to buildings, environments, and design. 10 Geometry Lab Engages with core questions of architectural geometry and computational design—addressing issues of digital fabrication, infrastructural optimization, and the history of geometry in design. Material Processes & Pursues the understanding, development, and deployment of Systems Group innovative technologies in the promotion of design as an agent of change in the quest for a better future. metaLAB A program of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society that serves as an institutional hub for Harvard’s digital art, design, and humanities' communities while actively collaborating with partners both locally and worldwide. New Educational Connects members of the GSD community who conduct Environments research in new spaces for teaching and learning. New Geographies Lab Focuses on urban transformations in the Muslim world, casts them in the larger regional and territorial landscapes, and proposes alternatives for their improvement by design. Responsive Environments & Takes an interdisciplinary look at the design of the physical Artifacts Lab environment with regard to technologically augmented experiences. Social Agency Lab Studies the ways in which individuals, institutions, and organizations shape social outcomes in cities. Urban Theory Lab Builds upon the notion of generalized urbanization to investigate emergent socio-spatial formations under the twenty-first century capitalism. Sample of Programs & Initiatives
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