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Deans List: Sarah Whiting on Taking The Helm of Harvard's Graduate School of Design

2019-12-10T13:23:00-05:00

Deans List is an interview series with the leaders of architecture schools, worldwide. The series profiles the school’s programs, pedagogical approaches, and academic goals, as defined by the dean–giving an invaluable perspective into the institution’s unique curriculum, faculty, and academic environment.

For this installment, Archinect spoke with Sarah M. Whiting, Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) at Harvard University. The school is home to over 900 students and offers an expansive set of programs and degrees at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels in architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and design studies. Whiting, who is a design principal and co-founder of WW Architecture arrived at GSD in July 2019. The last time we spoke to Dean Whiting, she was the Dean at Rice University.

We caught up with Whiting once again as she arrives at Harvard to discuss the school's reputation for years-long curric...

SoapBox: Discourse?

2017-11-20T13:02:00-05:00

Soapbox is a weekly series delivering a curated set of lectures, talks and symposia concerning contemporary themes but explored through the archives of lectures past and present. With the plethora of lectures, talks, symposia and panels occurring world wide on a daily basis, how can we begin to keep up and if not, find them once they are gone? Soapbox looks to assemble a selection of recent, archived and outlier lectures surrounding a given theme. Soapbox looks to curate this never-ending library of ideas into an engaging and diverse list of thoughts and provocations. Soapbox is just that, a collection aimed at discovering the occasional needle in a haystack.

The Deans List: Sarah Whiting of Rice University

2014-01-03T15:20:00-05:00

The Deans List is an interview series with the leaders of architecture schools, worldwide. The series profiles the school’s programming, as defined by the head honcho – giving an invaluable perspective into the institution’s unique curriculum, faculty and academic environment.

For this issue, we spoke with Sarah Whiting, Dean of the Rice School of Architecture in Houston, Texas.