“Dual Use”, Farshid Moussavi’s current studio at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, explores the politics of designing everyday spaces in architecture and the profound impact it has on people’s lives. In an era when residential developments’ cookie-cutter formwork follows private-sector financial systems and reinforces divisions along gender and class lines, Moussavi is interested in subverting that capitalistic demand. By generating new socially inclusive and politically resilient dual-use housing typologies while still satisfying market need, Moussavi adopts an approach that is anchored in real-world problems as well as in the constraints of practice.

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The surprise that initially greeted this entrenched polarization reinforces, all too well, the thrust of the current exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: that the true terra incognita is outside of town. “Countryside, the Future,” organized by the Dutch architect and theorist Rem Koolhaas, argues that architects, intellectuals and politicians have focused on metropolitan life to the point of myopia, and have missed convulsive changes — demographic ones, political ones, technological ones — in sparsely populated regions.

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Yotam Ben Hur (MArch ’20) awarded KPF Foundation’s Paul Katz Fellowship


Harvard University
Graduate School of Design

May 2020

Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Yotam Ben Hur (MArch ’20) is one of two recipients of the Kohn Pedersen Fox Foundation’s 2020 Paul Katz Fellowship, an internationally recognized award that honors the life and work of former KPF Principal Paul Katz. The GSD’s Ian Miley (MArch ’20) was also recognized with one of two honorable mentions....

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KPF Foundation Awards 2020 Paul Katz Fellowships


Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
May 2020
Yotam Ben Hur of Harvard GSD and Andrew Keung of Columbia GSAPP are the winners of this year’s grants, established in honor of the life and work of former KPF Principal Paul Katz.

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Rem koolhaas and OMA’s think tank, AMO, led by samir bantal, explore radical change in the world’s non-urban territories in a new exhibition on view at new york’s guggenheim. rather than an art or architecture show, the display — titled ‘countryside, the future’ — is referred to as ‘an effort to explore the contours of a new countryside’. the exhibition, which occupies the entirety of the frank lloyd wright-designed rotunda, uses the building’s architecture to tell a story that unfolds as visitors ascend the famous spiraling circulation route.

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