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Lian live-blogs final reviews from Harvard GSD

2013-05-17T14:26:00-04:00

Lian, our resident GSD school blogger is currently live blogging reviews. So far she's covered:

Grace La appointed Full Professor at Harvard GSD, Department of Architecture

2013-03-04T16:41:00-05:00

Grace La, co-founder with James Dallman of LA DALLMAN Architects, and Associate Professor at the UWM School of Architecture & Urban Planning, has been appointed Full Professor with tenure at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), Department of Architecture. Her appointment, officially announced on March 1st by Dean Mohsen Mostafavi, will take effect July 1, 2013. The office of LA DALLMAN, which continues practice in Milwaukee, will also expand to Boston.

“Professor La’s expertise in the integration of building, infrastructure, and landscape will add a significant dimension to our program and its global community. We are delighted that she will join our faculty,” says Dean Mostafavi.

LA DALLMAN has received over forty professional honors, including Design Awards from the American Institute of Architects Wisconsin, and prizes in international competitions. In 2011, LA DALLMAN was the first American firm awarded The Rice Design Alliance Prize, recognizing “excepti...

Harvard University GSD announces the $100k annual Wheelwright Prize

2012-12-22T17:33:00-05:00

Harvard GSD Introduces the Wheelwright Prize $100,000 Annual Award Open to Architects Worldwide

Harvard Graduate School of Design announces the launch of the Wheelwright Prize, a $100,000 traveling fellowship awarded annually to talented early-career architects worldwide proposing exceptional itineraries for research and discovery. With an open application process (deadline February 28, 2013), the Wheelwright Prize recognizes the importance of field research to professional development, and reinforces Harvard GSD’s dedication to fostering investigative approaches to contemporary design.

Since 1935, Harvard GSD has awarded the annual Arthur W. Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship, established in memory of Wheelwright, Class of 1887. Intended to encourage the study of architecture outside the United States, the prize was formerly available only to GSD alumni; past fellows include Paul Rudolph, Eliot Noyes, William Wurster, Christopher Tunnard, I. M. Pei, John Haro, Klaus Herdeg, Farès el-Dahdah, Adele Santos, and Linda Pollak.

Under the leadership of Dean Mohsen Mostafavi, Har...