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Harvard Design Press has named the titles in its inaugural publication, including the works of Frida Escobedo and an examination of public art in Mexico City.
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Over the years, Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) has educated countless celebrated architects and urban planners. Now, the school is introducing an endeavor that could make thought-provoking teachings on design more accessible to the wider world.
This week, Harvard GSD announced the launch of Harvard Design Press, a book publisher organized under the greater auspices of Harvard University Press. According to the announcement, the imprint “challenges, broadens, and advances the design disciplines and advocates for the value and power of design in making a more resilient, just, and beautiful world.”
Doing so will involve publishing new ideas about how the graduate program’s disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and urban design are researched and practiced. In the process, Harvard Design Press hopes to connect both established and emerging thinkers and practitioners with avenues and opportunities to share their work that migh