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2020 Design Studies Thesis Prize: Angela Mayrina’s “A Guidebook to an Empty Land: Kalimantan and the Shadows of the Capital”

The Design Studies Thesis Prize is given annually for the best thesis by a Master in Design Studies student. Often, the Thesis Prize recognizes distinct methodologies of design research and is awarded to multiple students for separate projects.

2023 Alaa Suliman Eltayeb Mohamed Hamid, MDes Art, Design, and the Public Domain “Ghostopia – Interrogating Colonial Legacies and A Manifesto for the Mondernized Nile”

2022 Allison Hyatt, MDes Energy and Environment “Priorities in Building Decarbonization: Accounting for Total Carbon and the Time Value of Carbon in Cost-Benefit Analyses of Residential Retrofits” Anny Li, MDes History and Philosophy of Design and Media “The World Was Their Garden: Plant Introductions at the US Department of Agriculture, 1898-1984” Nicole Piepenbrink, MDes Critical Conservation “Here Lies Darby Vassall: Rendering the Obscured and Concealed History of Slavery at Christ Church Cambridge”

2021 Juan David Grisales, MDes Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology “From Humboldt to Caldas: Environmental Liberations through Tropical Altitudes” Proey Liao, MDes History and Philosophy of Design and Media “An Attempt to Approach a Void: Georges Perec, Cause commune, and the Infraordinary”

2020 Angela Mayrina, MDes Art, Design, and the Public Domain “A Guidebook to an Empty Land: Kalimantan and the Shadows of the Capital” Karan Saharya, MDes Critical Conservation “In the Name of Heritage: Conservation as an Agent of Differential Development, Spatial Cleansing, and Social Exclusion in Mehrauli, Delhi”

2019 Isaac Dov Kornblatt-Stier, MDes Critical Conservation “Architecture for a New World: Louis Kahn and Philadelphia” Malinda Seu, MDes Art, Design, and the Public Domain “Cyberfeminism Catalog 1990–2020” Maggie Tsang, MDes Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology “Lines in The Sand: Rethinking Private Property On Barrier Islands”

2018 Jiabao Li, MDes Technology “TransVision: Exploring the State of the Visual Field” Enrique Aureng Silva Estrada, MDes Critical Conservation “Critical intervention: the liminality of earthquakes, fragments, and palimpsests as alternatives to preservation in Mexico”

2017 Gabriel Munoz Moreno and Santiago Serna Gonzalez, MDes Energy and Environments “Sovereignty on Stilts: Drawing a Genealogy of Extra-Territorial Urbanization along the Mudflats of the Tropical Belt”

Honoring Our Students

Thanks to generous support from our community, the GSD has been able to recognize exceptional scholarly achievement, leadership, and service by future design leaders throughout the school.

Student prizes are essential to ensuring that future design leaders have every opportunity and confidence to reach their full potential. The larger GSD community has gone above and beyond to create this support for our students, who are seizing the chance to make their mark on the world of design and set the stage for a more resilient, just, and beautiful world. Read on to learn more about the outstanding student prize winners from this academic year.

Peter Walker and Partners Fellowship for Landscape Architecture

Scarlet Rendleman MLA ’22 & Liwei Shen MLA ’22

This fellowship supports travel and study for a graduating GSD student to advance their understanding of the body of scholarship and practices related to landscape design. The prize was awarded to two recipients—Scarlet Rendleman and Liwei Shen—who both fully embrace the fellowship’s intent, with plans to explore various landscapes and corners of the world. As Scarlet put it, “My friends and family will remark that one of my favorite activities is traveling, and the more foreign the land, the better.”

With most of her childhood immersed in the southwestern U.S., Scarlet is adamant about the ethics of environmental stewardship and the implications for community health. Her experiences range from engaging elected and tribal leaders in Northern New Mexico around economic development initiatives and nuclear waste remediation to codesigning and organizing events along the Black Belt in Georgia to documenting the experiences of African-American residents affected most by the legacies of social, economic, and environmental injustice. Using her background in community service abroad in Peru and Brazil and undergraduate study in urban planning at the University of New Mexico, Scarlet endeavors to elevate design as a platform for collective healing, environmental literacy, and rehabilitation.

Travel has the capacity to reveal new worlds of understanding. It can remind us of who we are and what is truly important. It provides a fresh lens to expand ourselves and explore our salient role as stewards of this remarkable planet. Thus, it is a tremendous opportunity to extend my education of the world and the discipline of landscape architecture through this fellowship. Scarlet Rendleman MLA ’22

To dive deeper into her interest in complex topography, anthropology, and atmospheric science, Liweh will use the funds for travel and research in middle and east Asian countries to explore the social and spatial atmospheric aesthetics in response to climate change risks. Liweh, who earned her bachelor’s degree in architecture from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China, plans to seek local communities which differ in geology, hydrology, and culture but in a similar climate change trend to be warmer and wetter. Her interest lies in how the atmospheric system connects these places and how these separated indigenous groups maintain their spiritual identity and build and extend reciprocal hydrology into the atmosphere. Her fellowship travel will build upon her graduate thesis, “The Echoes of Sky River – Two Pre-modern and Modern Atmospheric Assemblages,” which received the 2022 Landscape Architecture Thesis Prize.

This opportunity means a lot to me, not only because of the chance to travel and manifest my hydrological understanding but also as an extension of my graduate thesis. Therefore, I sincerely appreciate this opportunity, and I look forward to sharing updates on my research. Liwei Shen MLA ’22

Daniel L. Schodek Award for Technology and Sustainability 

Gabriella Perry MDes ’22 & Indrajeet Haldar MDes ’22 

This award honors the memory and legacy of Professor Daniel Schodek and the standards of excellence he established during his 40 years of teaching and mentoring at the GSD. The award is given annually in recognition of the best Master in Design Studies thesis in the area of technology and sustainable design.

For her thesis, Gabriella built the “Croche-Matic,” a robot for crocheting 3D spherical objects. This novel machine can successfully complete stitches never done by machine. With her work primarily focused on digital fabrication and creating new ways to make things, which intersects the disciplines of design and engineering, Gabriella is embarking on a full-time role after graduation as a Design Technology Specialist for Rivian.

I came to Harvard confused about my place in the design world, but here I have found a community of people who have shown me the value of my work. My colleagues and professors are the reason that I was able to create the Croche-Matic. I hope to continue this work and further develop my machine as I exit academia and transition into a full-time job. Thank you for supporting design technology students like me who have come to the GSD to explore their passions amongst a community of ambitious and innovative individuals. Gabriella Perry MDes ’22

Indrajeet’s thesis “On the Mathematics of Memetics” spanned sociology, computation, and information design to develop richly articulated models of how online communities create trust. In that research, she examined online social spaces—specifically Reddit—and their manipulations of ideological economies, and how designers can endeavor to build sustainable digital spaces.

The continual support from the GSD in the form of funding towards my research and the culmination of the project as an award truly shall be one of my fondest memories, not only of my time here but also of my professional career.  I would personally like to acknowledge the GSD’s push to develop multidisciplinary research, and the award is a testament to the inclusive intellectual freedom that the MDes Program brings along with the faculty with their wide milieu of expertise. This has personally helped shape most of the work I do now and build up enough of a technical skill set in misinformation research. Indrajeet Haldar MDes ’22 

Clifford Wong Prize in Housing Design

Brian Lee MArch ’22 

This prize is awarded for the multi-family housing design that incorporates the most interesting ideas and/or innovations that may lead to socially-oriented, improved living conditions. Brian’s winning thesis, “People’s Park Complex: Repairing the Modern City,” explores the role of the addition as an alternative and stealthy form of preservation for the People’s Park Complex, a typological archetype of modernist housing in Singapore. Eschewing the tendency to demolish aging midcentury projects and without the benefit of government subsidy, the design proposes an architectural prosthetic that heroically invigorates the old through the new. The strategy leverages the iconic status of the complex to diversify unit types, rehabilitate dysfunctional accessibility, and introduce a much-needed middle scale of semi-public space.

Housing has always been and will continue to be a critical component in our efforts to better our lives. Housing is perhaps unnecessarily complex—requiring sustained investment from a whole host of professions, including government bodies, designers, developers, builders, and non-profit organizations. Unlike most other awards that are limited to individual design disciplines, the Clifford Wong Prize appropriately highlights the gravity of the housing challenge across the design field by being open to all in the GSD. I thank you for the affirmation that winning the prize entails, and I hope the significance of the award can help me carry my interests into the future. Brian Lee MArch ’22 

Peter Rice Prize

Hangsoo Jeong MArch ’22 

This prize honors students of exceptional promise in the school’s architecture and advanced degree programs who have proven their competence and innovation in advancing architecture and structural engineering. Hangsoo has consistently and creatively integrated structural design in his academic work, including his thesis, “ Upon Concrete: Retrofitting Architecture with Malleability .” His thesis considers how retrofitting existing concrete structures with zinc-plated steel reinforcements can significantly elevate the structural elements and endow built environments with more flexibility and adaptability.

Today, our urban environment furthermore looks for architectural evolution more than ever before for revitalizing and transforming urban areas and cities to improve livability, reduce environmental impacts and promote sustainability. Accordingly, the study on architectural and structural design is no longer merely for an individual project or academic achievement. It meets the needs of our time in consideration of the continuing trend of urbanization. Therefore, the Peter Rice Prize, awarded to a student of exceptional promise in advancing architecture and structural design, has a great meaning to me. The Prize would not only keep me motivated to practice and contribute to the architecture field of today, but also contribute to the well-being of humanity by promoting resilience in cities all over the world. Hangsoo Jeong MArch ’22 

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Harvard University Theses, Dissertations, and Prize Papers

The Harvard University Archives ’ collection of theses, dissertations, and prize papers document the wide range of academic research undertaken by Harvard students over the course of the University’s history.

Beyond their value as pieces of original research, these collections document the history of American higher education, chronicling both the growth of Harvard as a major research institution as well as the development of numerous academic fields. They are also an important source of biographical information, offering insight into the academic careers of the authors.

Spanning from the ‘theses and quaestiones’ of the 17th and 18th centuries to the current yearly output of student research, they include both the first Harvard Ph.D. dissertation (by William Byerly, Ph.D . 1873) and the dissertation of the first woman to earn a doctorate from Harvard ( Lorna Myrtle Hodgkinson , Ed.D. 1922).

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Prize-Winning Harvard GSD Thesis Questions the Skin-Deep Application of Vernacular Design

• Written by Niall Patrick Walsh
• Published on January 24, 2019

Each year, the Boston Society of Architects offers the James Templeton Kelley Prize to the best final design project for the MArch degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Design . This year, the March II recipient was Ziwei Song for their thesis titled “Not so skin deep: vernacularism in XL” for exploring alternative ways of integrating the Chinese vernacular with modern “XL” developments.

Ziwei’s thesis sought to re-approach the typical developer project in China , and demonstrate the capacity of the vernacular image to positively-effect the sequence, perception, and exposure of space. To test this, the project was placed on Chongqing, a typical second-tier city in China with a concentration of XL developer projects.

Ziwei’s critique of existing applications of the vernacular identifies “decorated sheds” which use vernacular roofs to superficially communicate a culture, or “ducks” which wrap buildings in cultural icons to distort a generic program. Both modes are not only skin-deep representations of the vernacular but skin-deep attempts to use the vernacular to create meaningful, comfortable living space. Ziwei speculated: “Isn’t there an alternative way of building XL projects that go beyond the skin-deep nature of image culture, that is woven into the experience of space?”

The resulting scheme returns to the root of cultural icons to experiment with the ability of the vernacular to choreograph space, bringing spatial richness to the XL tower typology. Ziwei translated the horizontal expansion of a traditional courtyard into the expanded exploration of vertical living, generating functional, sophisticated, exciting spaces that “simultaneously reflect the depth of cultural identity and foster distinctive urban atmospheres in China.”

The image of the scheme’s roof profiles and garden walls are associated with place and culture while also choreographing the spatial experience. The roof profile guides the observer’s view to the outer threshold while organizing the circulatory flow into different living spaces. Garden and gable walls confine neighbor boundaries to protect privacy and differentiate between singular and collective spaces.

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To sustain a vernacular language across a tall scheme, Ziwei also looked to the vernacular typology of temples and guild halls, which deployed smaller units to construct a range of scales, from small private units to mid-scale social chambers and large scale civic spaces.

The final design of the tower builds both on the spatial flow of vernacular dwelling that supports flexible, adaptive living components and the viable footprint of developer tower plan. The tower alters the conventionally introverted core to four sides, freeing the central space to collective social space known as the event court. The event court houses various types of social program ranging from theater, foot court, co-working space, sports court, gallery, sculpture garden to urban forest, the key to the formation of mini-community. -Ziwei Song

More information on Ziwei’s proposal can be found on the Harvard GSD website here .

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Yaohua Wang wins 2014 Harvard GSD thesis prize with “Salvaged Stadium”

Recent Harvard Graduate School of Design graduate Yaohua Wang finished his M.Arch program on a high note by winning the 2014 James Templeton Kelley Prize for Best M.Arch II Thesis for his project, "Salvaged Stadium". Although Wang doesn't win an award every single time for his projects, his intricate ideas have spurred some debate in the past. — bustler.net

Salvaged Stadium explores the notion of finding architecture's "hidden dimension". In the introduction, Yaohua Wang writes:

Learn more about Salvaged Stadium on Bustler . You can also watch the animated story below.

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Exactly what did he "repurpose" the stadium for, other than his thesis project?

This struck me as a political statement more than an architectural project. That can be a useful thing to do. Looking at his other works it looks like a reasonable attempt to address possible criticism that his previous projects lacked consideration of relevant social or practical factors.

In this case though I'd say it's a non-architectural problem: migrant workers' children lack good education because the local governments won't bear the costs of educating those children. Lack of buildings is not the problem - lack of teachers, books, and official support is.

I'd also question whether the potential conflict between users (sports fans / concertgoers / students) during an event is acceptable. It wasn't clear to me how that was handled.

As to the presentation, the dialogue / cartoon format is entertaining. But it makes it hard to figure out what is actually proposed. It seems he is building a school next to the stadium. Is it an existing stadium, or being built new with a school attached under one side? I wish the presentation included a plan. Architects are a tough audience for this sort of stuff because we actually want to see the proposed building.

Assuming Mr. Wang reads these comments - congratulations! Whether this project succeeded depends on what you were aiming for. I'm not sure it makes sense as a building. But as a critical statement about municipal priorities - I get it. Now that school is done you can begin the real work of deciding how to approach these problems. Good luck.

^I realized the plans are posted on Bustler - couldn't open them earlier when I wrote. But they don't give a lot of information about what's going on. I have to admit I'm still confused.

Is this an actual stadium being repurposed? Where is it? Or is this a proposed design for a stadium including plans for repurposing later? What exactly exists before the school is added.

I'm the sort of person who rushes to post before I've read things thoroghly, but I'm making a pretty good effort here and still coming up short. Hope someone can offer some insight.

Here is what Bustler says he says (italics mine):  "Here I’m trying to offer an option. This option unfolds through a narrative, which get presented in the form of a comic story. This story is a case study situated in China's hyper-development and top-heavy political climate. It’s a story happened in a fictional Chinese city . The focus of this story is an olympic stadium."

Therefore, I deduce it is a fictional stadium being in a fictional city.

And that, therefore, it would be a case of a fictional repurposing of a fictional stadium design.

And possibly with a fictional political purpose. Is it not rather strange that the crème de la crème of American establishment -within the top heavy echelon of US academic and governmental institutions- would be finding added value in a (/n especially) Chinese/ Chinese originating individual (I am assuming that he is) passing off suggested criticisms of China via top-heavy political climate and so on?

Mono purpose stadiums present the same problems -within different contexts- everywhere. And many countries - whether seen to be despotic or democratic, top heavy or otherwise judged (by whom and how?)- fall prey to the sense of razzmatazz and want to display how great they and their cities are.  Therefore, making  associations between the purpose of building iconic buildings that fall out of use very quickly and the idiosyncratic nature of one country or another seems to be a matter of deliberated incontigency.

Thanks Tammuz, I was looking too hard in the presentation boards and missed that!

I agree in a way. I think it's important for students to be aware of the political background of the works they admire or propose - but this particular criticism seems forced. The effort to tie two issues together (migrant schools in China + underutilized showpiece stadiums) confuses an issue specific to China with one that applies worldwide. Was that the student's intent - or the instructor's?

I get a sense of an attempt to address two unrelated viewpoints in one project. The biggest challenge with making architectural statements is that it's easy for the underlying reasoning to go unquestioned - the architecture being a distraction from the thinking.

To me, the issue of stadium architecture goes beyond whether they are underutilized buildings to whether they really are an appropriate use of public funds. Plenty examples exist of American cities subsidizing new stadiums which primarily benefit wealthy team owners and franchises. The stadiums get used frequently - but they're not really a public amenity.

As an aside - there seems to be a strong influence by the thesis adviser on the form of this building.

I really do rather enjoy this project. I love the fish story, the story seems to apply to migrants, stadium, architect, charitable organization and city. Having seen posts before on this site, about the state of existing facilities from the Beijing Olympics, it seems only appropriate to consider this project as a possibility. Also, from my limited recollection, it was my understanding, that while the State/Party are what makes things tick in China, local communities and cities operate outside of the Party strictures, and are many times corrupt, local fiefdoms. It's also been my understanding that minority, and migrants are rather invisible, and rather slippery constituencies. And, charities it would seem, if they had enough funds, could pay off local officials,not suffer the wrath of Party officials, re-use a stadium that had one purpose alone, and is no longer needed, or wanted by the locals.

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The following awards were presented at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) during June Commencement.

GSD awards were given to the following master in design studies candidates: Ioannis Ignatakis (Gerald M. McCue Medal), Francisco Gonzalez de Canales (Dimitris Pikionis Award), and Andrew Wells Baccon (Digital Design Prize).

University awards were conferred on Andrew Jonathan Witt, master in architecture (John E. Thayer Scholarship), and Kevin Richard Bunker, master in urban planning (Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographic Information Science).

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Andrew Jonathan Witt, master in architecture, and David Jason Gerber, doctor of design (a 2004-05 fellowship recipient, Gerber traveled to the United Kingdom and Europe). Witt also received the American Institute of Architect’s Medal.

The institute presented its certificate of merit to Grace Mun Wah Leung, master in architecture.

The Alpha Rho Chi Medal was given to Sarah Jacob and Ying Zhou (both master in architecture candidates).

The James Templeton Kelley Prize was conferred on Andrew Wells Baccon, master in architecture.

The Julia Amory Appleton Traveling Fellowship was awarded to Anna Aleksandrovna Neimark, master in architecture.

The Kevin V. Kieran Prize was bestowed on Jeremy James DeCarteret Tate, master in architecture.

Department of Architecture Faculty Design Awards were given to Julie Hui-Guang Kaufman (M.Arch. I) and Russell David Crader II (M.Arch. II).

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The American Society of Landscape Architecture (ASLA) awarded its certificate of honor to Nayla Michel Al-Akl and Adalie Pierce-McManamon (both master’s students in landscape architecture). ASLA’s certificate of merit was awarded to Matthew Mearl Gillen, master in landscape architecture, and Lauren Therese Lynn, master in landscape architecture/master in urban planning. The society’s Norman T. Newton Prize was conferred on Tzufen Liao, master in landscape architecture.

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Liang Wang is an architect, urban designer, and educator. He is an Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining UT Austin, Liang has taught at The Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Syracuse University School of Architecture. Liang’s scholarship and teaching concern history and theory of urban form and design, space and politics of the superblock, architecture and urbanism in East Asia, as well as urban housing and collective living. His research work and teaching have been supported by Harvard University, Syracuse University, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and the David Rockefeller Center, among others. In line with his research, Liang is the co-author of the book  Chinese Modern: Episodes Backward and Forward in Time  (Birkhäuser, 2022) and  Urban Blocks and Grids: History, Technical Features, and Outcomes  (Scholars’ Press, 2019). He is also the co-editor of the twelfth issue of the  New Geographies  journal  Commons   (Harvard University Press and Harvard GSD, 2021). 

Liang is the co-founder of Commons Office—a research-minded design practice embracing a trans-scalar and trans-disciplinary approach to architecture and urbanism. Prior to founding Commons Office, he practiced internationally at Herzog & de Meuron, SOM, WW Architecture, and Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects, where he worked on multi-scalar architecture and urban design projects including the Skolkovo University in Moscow, Tanjong Pagar Center in Singapore, and the Anting Auto Town R&D Harbor in Shanghai.

Liang received his Doctor of Design degree from Harvard University. Previously, he completed his Master of Architecture in Urban Design degree with distinction from the GSD, where he was awarded the Urban Design Thesis Prize and the Clifford Wong Prize in Housing Design. He also holds a Master of Architecture degree from Rice University, where he won the Morris R. Pitman Award in Architecture and the Fondren Research Award. 

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