The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) this week announced a new visual identity created in order to help galvanize its institutional and pedagogical aims, claiming it needed an "updated language of forms to communicate the school’s mission and values." The rebranding effort comes in... View full entry

Following a letter released November 27, 2020 by The ---- Johnson Study Group calling for all institutions to remove the name of Philip Johnson from "every leadership title, public space, and honorific of any form," Sarah Whiting, Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture at the... View full entry

Following advocacy efforts from the African American Student Union (AASU) and AfricaGSD at Harvard University, Harvard GSD Dean Sarah Whiting has unveiled a list of steps the school will take as it works to address institutional failures on issues of anti-racism and racial equality. In the... View full entry

In the days since protests seeking justice for Black and African Americans who have died at the hands of police broke out around the country, a growing number of architecture schools have issued statements in support of this ascendant political and social movement.  These statements come as... View full entry

Sarah M. Whiting, the new dean at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, has announced that she will be stepping back from her administrative duties temporarily in order to undergo cancer treatment.  Previously on Archinect: “Deans List: Sarah Whiting on Taking The Helm of... View full entry

After 11 years of service, Mohsen Mostafavi will be succeeded by Sarah Whiting, the current dean of Rice University in Houston, Texas, as the dean of Harvard Graduate School of Design.  Whiting has an illustrious past as a scholar and practitioner, with degrees from Yale, Princeton and... View full entry