The Boston office of Behnisch Architekten has completed a massive academic building on a new campus for Harvard University that features the "world's first hydroformed stainless-steel screen". More
US architecture and design school Harvard GSD has removed Philip Johnson's name from a house he built while studying at the institution in response to a campaign calling for a rethink of the Nazi-supporting late architect's legacy. More
Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have sued the Trump administration in federal court to block an order that would mean all international students not attending in-person classes would be stripped of visas. More
Students and alumni of Harvard GSD have launched an online sale of items donated by architects and designers, including an IKEA chair signed by Virgil Abloh and a Sam Jacob painting, to fundraise for organisations that fight for racial equality. More
Boston architect Eric Höweler and a team from Harvard's Graduate School of Design have helped local doctors develop patient isolation hoods – a new type of device that could save the lives of healthcare workers and "impact things worldwide" in the fight against coronavirus. More
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
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
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
Architect Sarah Whiting has been appointed dean of Harvard University Graduate School of Design. More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Harvard Graduate School of Design is launching a web-based course that offers architectural education at no cost. More
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
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
