CAMBRIDGE, Mass., November 20, 2021 – The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) at the Graduate School of Design has just published “Zero-carbon Balance: The Case of HouseZero,” the first full accounting of the structure’s embodied … Read more
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The Wall Street Journal features Joseph Allen on why ventilation and filtration matter in indoor spaces
Associate Professor of Exposure Assessment Science Joseph Allen explains why ventilation and filtration matter when it comes to mitigating the transmission of COVID-19 in the Wall Street video: “Ventilation Is Key to Battling Covid. Here’s Why.” See the full video … Read more
The Wall Street Journal features Holly Samuelson on the future of office design
Associate Professor Holly Samuelson, an expert on buildings and human health, offers some insight about what offices will look like in the future in the Wall Street video: “The Office Redesign Has Only Just Begun.” See the full video below … Read more
Vogue talks to Holly Samuelson about what your office may look like after lockdown
Associate Professor Holly Samuelson discusses the big and small ways office design will change post-COVID-19. The questions she’s currently asking herself are: “What are multiple people touching every day that we don’t need to have lots of people touching? Do … Read more
TORRE REFORMA is named a 50 Books | 50 Covers of 2019 winner
The book TORRE REFORMA by L. Benjamín Romano, with text by Felipe Leal, Ali Malkawi, and Francisco Serrano, is named a 50 Books | 50 Covers of 2019 winner. With photographs by Iwan Bann, TORRE REFORMA documents the Reforma Tower … Read more
Dwell features Ali Malkawi as one of eight climate-conscious design visionaries
As working from home becomes the new normal for many around the world, Dwell talks to Founding Director of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities Ali Malkawi about the future of energy-efficient living. Malkawi is featured among eight … Read more
Postponed: CGBC Spring 2020 Lunchtime Lecture Series
In line with Harvard’s COVID-19 travel policies and campus restrictions, the Havard Center for Green Buildings and Cities Lunchtime Lecture Series (Spring 2020) will be postponed until further notice. Each speaker will be invited to reschedule their lecture. Details
Multidisciplinary team of designers from the CGBC and scientists from SEAS are awarded funding through Harvard Climate Change Solutions Fund
A multidisciplinary team of scientists and designers from the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC), the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), and the Harvard John A. Paulson School Of Engineering And Applied Sciences (SEAS) was awarded funding … Read more
L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui talks to Ali Malkawi about HouseZero and the future of simulation software and predictive tools
International magazine L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui interviews Founding Director of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities Professor Ali Malkawi about the future of simulation software and predictive tools both in the design process and in the operation of buildings after … Read more
BBC Worklife interviews Holly Samuelson on how indoor air quality boosts not only health, but cognitive abilities
Improving indoor air quality may boost cognitive abilities as well as health. So how should buildings be designed to make us more productive? The question posed to Holly Samuelson, Associated Professor of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design … Read more