
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., February 17, 2022 – The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC), in its latest peer-reviewed paper in Energy and Buildings, demonstrates that Harvard’s HouseZero, which serves as both a laboratory andRead More
moreCAMBRIDGE, Mass., February 17, 2022 – The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC), in its latest peer-reviewed paper in Energy and Buildings, demonstrates that Harvard’s HouseZero, which serves as both a laboratory andRead More
moreCAMBRIDGE, 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 embodiedRead More
moreThe members of the Master Jury for the 2017-2019 Cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture were announced today. The Jury, which independently selects the recipients of the US$ 1 million Award, will conveneRead More
moreThe Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) announced today the completion of HouseZero, the retrofitting of its headquarters in a pre-1940s building in Cambridge intoRead More
moreBenjamin Romano, former CGBC Visiting Affiliated Faculty Member, accepted the 2018 International Highrise Award for the Torre Reforma in Mexico City. The International Highrise Award (IHA) was jointly initiated in 2003 by the City ofRead More
moreBook launch events for Sustainability in Scandinavia: Architectural Design and Planning will be hosted by the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (KADK) in early October.Read More
moreAli Malkawi, Marius Nygaard, Anne Beim and Erik Stenberg have edited a book entitled Sustainability in Scandinavia: Architectural Design and Planning. The book contains a collection of case-studies—most written by participants of the CGBC’s 2015 Fall Conference:Read More
moreOn Tuesday, April 3, 2018, the CGBC’s Harvard HouseZero, an ambitious living laboratory and prototype for ultra-efficiency, was officially commissioned during a private ceremony in Harvard GSD’s Piper Auditorium. Event participants included Drew Faust, PresidentRead More
moreOn Tuesday November 7, 2017, CGBC Founding Director Ali Malkawi was honored by King Abdullah II of Jordan with the Jordanian Star of Science Medal at the World Science Forum (WSF) 2017. King Abdullah honored aRead More
moreWe are very excited to announce that the first two DDes Fellows sponsored by the Center for Green Buildings and Cities and advised by Professor Malkawi will defend their dissertations this week. This marks theRead More
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