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    2018 Apr 30

    Passports: Lives in Transit

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    Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Harvard University, Cambridge

    This exhibition conceives of passports as the ruins of a modern dream now in terminal crisis – the dream of a globalized world. Drawing on the collections of Harvard Library, Passports: Lives in Transit addresses this major contemporary issue through the lens of passports, visa applications, and other documents associated with noteworthy nineteenth- and twentieth-century travelers, émigrés and refugees. Also on view, items of personal significance to a Harvard student telling a story of Latino immigration to the U.S., as well as a site-specific multimedia art installation of...

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    2018 Apr 19

    Dr. Yvonne Cagle

    6:30pm to 8:00pm

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    Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, Room 105, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Dr. Yvonne Cagle is a NASA Astronaut and Family Physician. In 2008, Dr. Cagle retired as a Colonel in the USAF where she served as a Senior... Read more about Dr. Yvonne Cagle

    2018 Apr 19

    Harvard Celebrates Earth Day

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

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    Science Center Plaza, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge

    Celebrate Earth Day at Harvard’s Sustainability Fair on the Science Center Plaza!

    Explore how the University and our community partners can help green your scene while enjoying activities such as a Freecycle, compost tea demonstration, games,... Read more about Harvard Celebrates Earth Day

    2018 Apr 17

    Henry N. Cobb, Peter Eisenman, and Rafael Moneo, “How Will Architecture Be Conceived?”

    6:30pm to 8:00pm

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    Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, Room 105, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Please join us for an evening with Rafael Moneo, Henry N. Cobb, and Peter Eisenman as they investigate the question, “How will architecture be conceived?” Each... Read more about Henry N. Cobb, Peter Eisenman, and Rafael Moneo, “How Will Architecture Be Conceived?”

    2018 Apr 13

    Housing Symposium, “Reframing Housing Development: How Changes in Design, Construction, and Regulation Could Reduce the Cost of Housing”

    1:00pm to 6:30pm

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    Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, Room 105, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge

    What can be done to reduce the cost of housing, particularly in the United States? To help answer this question, we will bring together a diverse mix of people... Read more about Housing Symposium, “Reframing Housing Development: How Changes in Design, Construction, and Regulation Could Reduce the Cost of Housing”

    2018 Apr 10

    John T. Dunlop Lecture in Housing and Urbanization: Raphael W. Bostic, "Fair Housing in the U.S.: Past, Present and Future?"

    6:30pm to 8:00pm

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    Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, Room 105, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Co-presented by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies and the Office of Communications.

    Please join us as we welcome Raphael W. Bostic (AB '87) for the annual John T. Dunlop Lecture, which honors the late John T. Dunlop, a distinguished scholar and... Read more about John T. Dunlop Lecture in Housing and Urbanization: Raphael W. Bostic, "Fair Housing in the U.S.: Past, Present and Future?"

    2018 Apr 09

    Amanda Levete

    6:30pm to 8:00pm

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    Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, Room 105, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Amanda Levete will discuss AL_A’s latest projects, with a particular focus on two recently completed museums: the Victoria & Albert Museum Exhibition Road... Read more about Amanda Levete

    2018 Apr 03

    Harvard HouseZero Typology Symposium

    4:00pm to 6:00pm

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    Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, Room 105, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge

    The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) retrofitted its headquarters, a pre-1940s house in Cambridge, MA, into a first-of-its-kind test case to demonstrate unprecedented levels of building efficiency and promote substantial shifts in the design and operation of existing buildings. Dubbed “HouseZero,” the project aims to prove that ultra-efficient retrofits can, indeed, be achieved...

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    2018 Mar 11

    Learn to Observe: Tree Spotter Spring Training

    10:30am to 1:00pm

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    Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston

    With nearly 4,000 different kinds of plants represented in the Arboretum's living collections, every day presents rich opportunities to see something new. If you enjoy learning about plants and their unique characteristics, you can contribute to science as a participant in our Tree Spotters program. This citizen science project opens a window into the Arboretum's phenology: the timing of natural events, such as the leafing out and flowering of trees in the spring and changing foliage colors in the fall. Your observations will...

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