Senior Loeb Scholar David Harvey: Toward an Alternative Urbanization
"There's always an inflection point in exponential curves," 2016 Senior Loeb Scholar David Harvey explains, characterizing the ferocious rate of global-scale development as a mathematical principle....
View ArticleRevolution, Counterrevolution, and Reform: Where Do We Want to Go, What Is...
GSD senior research fellow Susan Fainstein provocatively launched a midday conversation with 2016 Loeb Senior Scholar David Harvey, renowned theorist on the work of Karl Marx and capital's role in the...
View ArticleTod Williams and Billie Tsien Lecture Tonight at GSD
Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, this year’s Senior Loeb Scholars, will give a lecture on their recent work on Tuesday, March 26th, from 6:30 to 8:00 pm in Piper Auditorium. Tod Williams Billie Tsien...
View ArticleCapturing the Spirit of Place: BillieTsien and Tod Williams
This year’s Senior Loeb Scholars Tod Williams and Billie Tsien spoke at the GSD recently, where they were warmly introduced by long-time friend and Loeb Fellowship curator James Stockard. Tsien and...
View ArticleSenior Loeb Scholars Tod Williams and Billie Tsien at the GSD
Billie Tsien and Tod Williams barely stopped to sleep during their week as Senior Loeb Scholars at the GSD in March. In addition to lectures, reviews and class visits, they generously spent many...
View ArticleSubtlety and Respect: Billie Tsien and Tod Williams
According to the Wall Street Journal, “civic architecture hit a high mark with the LeFrak Centerat Lakeside,” Billie Tsien and Tod Williams’s design for a skating park in Brooklyn. It’s hailed as part...
View ArticleKatherine Boo Delivers
Author and journalist Katherine Boo, who spent a week at the GSD as a 2014 Senior Loeb Scholar along (along with her husband Sunil Khilnani, professor of international politics at King’s College,...
View ArticleAnn Beha Wins AIA Honor Award
The Cambridge Public Library, designed by William Rawn Associates with Ann Beha (LF ’88), is among the buildings selected this year for the AIA’s Honor Awards for Architecture. The jury called it “the...
View ArticleAnnouncing the 2015 Senior Loeb Scholar: Michael Craig-Martin
Each spring the Senior Loeb Scholar brings the perspective of an artistic practice outside the field of architecture to enrich the atmosphere and discourse of the GSD. This year’s Senior Loeb Scholar,...
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