Wolfgang Rieder appointed Loeb Fellow at Harvard University
Dezeen promotion: Wolfgang Rieder, owner of concrete brand Rieder Group, has become the first Austrian design entrepreneur to be granted a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University. More
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Scientists develop "greenhouse shields" to grow food on Mars
Researchers at Harvard University have devised a way to terraform Mars by placing sheets of silica aerogel on the planet's surface, which would warm it up to make it suitable for growing plants. More
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Five polycarbonate volumes form Harvard University's ArtLab by Barkow Leibinger
Architecture firm Barkow Leibinger has covered this experimental arts hub at Harvard University in polycarbonate panels to make it illuminate like a "lightbox at night". More
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Sarah Whiting named first female dean of Harvard Graduate School of Design
Architect Sarah Whiting has been appointed dean of Harvard University Graduate School of Design. More
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Harvard's brutalist Smith Campus Center receives dramatic makeover by Hopkins
British firm Hopkins Architects and US studios Bruner/Cott Architects and Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates have overhauled a massive, 1960s building at Harvard University, adding in living walls and glazed rooms. More
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First geoengineering experiment to dim the sun on track for 2019
Harvard scientists will attempt to replicate the climate-cooling effect of volcanic eruptions with a world-first solar geoengineering experiment set for early 2019. More
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Snøhetta completes ultra-efficient HouseZero at Harvard University
Rooftop photovoltaics and windows that automatically open and close are among the sustainable features in a small Harvard building, which Snøhetta, Skanska and university researchers have retrofitted. More
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Open-plan offices discourage face-to-face communication, says research
Workers in open-plan offices have less face-to-face interaction with colleagues than those who work separately, according to research by Harvard students. More
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Spider-shaped tiny robot could be the future of micro-surgery
Centimetre-sized soft robots could one day be used to perform surgery and enter other tight spaces, using a method devised by researchers at Harvard University. More
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Herzog & de Meuron to overhaul Harvard GSD's Gund Hall
Architecture firms Herzog & de Meuron and Beyer Blinder Belle have been enlisted to renovate and expand the main building at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, in order to support "groundbreaking collaborations" between its programmes. More
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Harvard GSD names Mark Lee as architecture department chair
Mark Lee of architecture firm Johnston Marklee has been appointed as the chair of the architecture department at Harvard University's graduate design school. More
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Snøhetta's Harvard HouseZero aims to "solve one of the world's biggest energy problems"
Harvard University, Snøhetta and Skanska Technology have teamed up to retrofit an old house, demonstrating how existing buildings can be made more energy efficient to help address climate change. More
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Harvard to offer free online architecture course
The Harvard Graduate School of Design is launching a web-based course that offers architectural education at no cost. More
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Octobot is a soft 3D-printed robot that moves by itself
Researchers at Harvard University have designed a soft 3D-printed robot that can move on its own, powered by a chemical reaction, instead of electricity or batteries. More
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Harvard students create tiny vacation houses for stressed-out city dwellers
Graduate students from Harvard University have launched a company that designs, builds and rents out wilderness micro cabins to urban residents "looking to escape the digital grind and test drive tiny-house living" (+ slideshow). More
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Giant 3D-printed replica of Palmyra Arch will be installed in London and New York
Full-scale copies of a 2,000-year-old Syrian architectural landmark believed to have been destroyed by ISIS will be on view in London and New York this April. More
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Harvard Students create pink pavilion of 200 elevated models outside Design Miami
Design Miami 2015: a group of students from the Harvard Graduate School of Design has built a temporary entrance pavilion from architectural models outside the Design Miami fair. More
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Kennedy & Violich adds copper-clad volume to the top of a Harvard building
Kennedy & Violich Architecture has enlarged a 1970s brick building at Harvard University by creating two new levels topped with a pitched roof. More
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Tiny devices replicate human organs to provide an alternative drug-testing method
Scientists at Harvard University have developed a microchip that can be lined with human cells to mimic the complex tissue structures of human organs. More
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Richard Rogers donates house designed for parents to Harvard architecture school
British architect Richard Rogers is gifting the seminal Wimbledon home he designed for his parents in the late 1960s to the Harvard Graduate School of Design. More
