Seok Min Yeo is a Korean landscape urbanist and research associate at the Office for Urbanization. Yeo completed his MLA at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and his B.Arch at Syracuse University School of Architecture. Yeo’s work explores techniques of understanding and translating ecological phenomena into design methods, with a special interest in the relationship of the sun and the built form of the city. Before coming to Harvard, he held design positions at Payette and Safdie Architects.
Month: February 2019
Jeffrey S. Nesbit
Jeffrey S. Nesbit is an American architect, urbanist, and postdoctoral research fellow in the Office for Urbanization. His research focuses on processes of urbanization, infrastructure, and the defense landscape. Currently, Nesbit is studying the 20th century spaceport launch complex at the intersection of architecture, aerospace history, and the rise of “technical lands.” He has written several journal articles and book chapters on infrastructure, urbanization, and the history of technology, and is co-editor of Chasing the City: Models for Extra-Urban Investigations (Routledge, 2018), Rio de Janeiro: Urban Expansion and Environment (Routledge, 2019), and New Geographies 11 Extraterrestrial (Actar, 2019).
Boya Zhang
Boya Zhang is a Chinese architect and research associate in the Office for Urbanization. Zhang completed his MArch II at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and holds his MArch degree and BArch degree with Distinction from Tsinghua University. Zhang’s research interests focus on the interactions between urban form and its environs shaped by cultural and political forces. Prior to joining the Office, he worked for architectural offices in Beijing, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Boston.
Research Assistants
Celina Abba, MLA ’23
Christopher Ball, MAUD ’23
Fabiana Casale, MLA, MDes ’22
Olani Ewunnet, MDes ’22
Slide Kelly, MLA, MDes ’24
Angela Moreno-Long, MLA ’22
Arty Vartanyan, MLA, MAUD ’23
GSD Faculty
Preston Scott Cohen, Gerald M. McCue Professor in Architecture
Timothy Dekker, Lecturer in Landscape Architecture
Jill Desimini, Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture
Gareth Doherty, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Senior Research Associate
Ann Forsyth, Professor of Urban Planning, Director of the Master in Urban Planning Program
Jerold Kayden, Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design
Ali Malkawi, Professor of Architectural Technology and Founding Director of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities
David Moreno-Mateos, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture
Richard Peiser, Michael D. Spear Professor of Real Estate Development
Chris Reed, Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture
Holly W. Samuelson, Assistant Professor of Architecture
Andres Sevtsuk, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning
Bing Wang, Assistant Professor in Practice of Real Estate and the Built Environment
Amy Whitesides, Design Critic in Landscape Architecture
Andrew Witt, Assistant Professor in Practice of Architecture
External Faculty
Rosetta Elkin, Academic Director of Landscape Architecture, Pratt Institute
Andrew Fox, Professor, North Carolina State University and Co-Director of Coastal Dynamics Design Lab
Teresa Gali-Izard, Chair of Landscape Architecture, ETH Zurich
Jesse M. Keenan, Associate Professor of Real Estate, Tulane University
Maggie Tsang, Wortham Fellow, Rice University
Kongjian Yu, Professor of Landscape Architecture, Peking University
Partners
Michael Rock / 2 × 4, New York
Eric Rodenbeck / Stamen, San Francisco
Eric de Broche des Combes / Luxigon, Paris
Alumni
Pedro Aparicio, Research Associate
Aziz Barbar, Research Associate
Christina Burkot, Administrator
Bert deJonghe, Research Assistant
Sara Favargiotti, Visiting Scholar
Francesca Romana Forlini, Research Assistant
Mariano Gomez-Luque, Research Fellow
Mark Heller, Research Assistant
Camila Huber Horta Barbosa, Research Assistant
Daniel Ibañez, Research Fellow
Gia Jung, Research Assistant
Amir Karimpour, Research Assistant
Mingyu Kim, Research Associate
Sue Kim, Research Associate
Helen Kongsgaard, Research Associate
Christian Lavista, Research Assistant
Jaewon Lee, Research Assistant
Ting Liang, Research Assistant
Xiuzheng Li, Research Associate
Xun Liu, Research Associate
Jiangpu Meng, Research Assistant
Chris Merritt, Research Assistant
Matthew Moffitt, Research Assistant
Sam Naylor, Research Assistant
Javier Ors-Austin, Research Assistant
Mercedes Peralta, Research Associate
Fletcher Phillips, Research Assistant
Daniel Quesada Lombó, Research Associate
Lane Raffaldini Rubin, Research Assistant
Christopher Reznich, Research Assistant
Luciana Saboia, Visiting Scholar
Ruben Segovia, Research Associate
Sudeshna Sen, Research Assistant
Dana Shaikh Solaiman, Research Assistant
Soo Ran Shin, Research Assistant
Joshua Stevens, Research Assistant
Isabel Strauss, Research Assistant
Irene Toselli, Visiting Scholar
Maggie Tsang, Research Assistant
Ximena de Villafranca, Research Assistant
Abbey Wallace, Research Assistant
Zhaodi Wang, Research Assistant
Zishen Wen, Research Assistant
Lindsay Woodson, Research Assistant
Weijia Wu, Research Assistant
Sofia Xanthakou, Research Assistant
Jessy Yang, Research Associate
Erin Yook, Research Assistant
Haoyu Zhao, Research Assistant
Xin Zhong, Research Assistant
Common Frameworks
“We believe passionately that those cities that are positioned to excel in this time of global change are pursuing broad, integrated strategies to tap hidden value, celebrate ecology and culture, attract people and investment and overcome financial and operational inefficiencies to define success.” – AECOM
The Harvard GSD AECOM Project on China is a three-year research and design project premised on two fundamental ambitions: recuperating an idea of the city and pursuing alternative forms of urbanization in response to the challenges posed by the developmental city in China. The former treats the project of the city as a cultural, political, and aesthetic act; the latter views the city as a site for urbanization, articulated through architecture, landscape, and infrastructure. This endeavor is analytical and propositional in equal measure.
Each year, the Project on China focuses on a theoretical problem and practical challenge posed by the model of the developmental city in China, using a particular city as an exemplar. The first year focuses on the problem of the megaplot, the basic planning unit for rapid and speculative urbanization, using Xiamen as a case study. The second year investigates the challenges faced by cities in city-regions and the effects of cross-border urbanization, with Macau as the paradigm. The third year examines the status of the countryside in the context of state-driven initiatives to urbanize rural areas, with a focus on existing villages and in-progress new agricultural towns.
Project Team: Christopher C.M. Lee (PI), Mohsen Mostafavi, Simon Whittle, Peter G. Rowe, Rahul Mehrotra, Piper Gaubatz, and Jianfei Zhu.