Cloud City at the Met
Argentine artist Tomás Saraceno’s “Cloud City” was an inflatable transparent form flying from Harvard’s Carpenter Center roof terrace last year as part of “The Divine Comedy” project on art and the...
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Jim Lasko Shifts Perspective
From within the experience of the Loeb fellowship, current fellow Jim Lasko, founder of Redmoon theater company in Chicago, reflects on failure, accomplishment, gratitude and the messiness of human...
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Rocco Landesman: Dispatch from Chattanooga
Image courtesy of Chattanooga/Hamilton County Parks and Recreation National Endowment for the Arts chairman Rocco Landesman was wowed by the arts environment in Chattanooga, TN, during his September...
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Barbara Deutsch – New ASLA Fellow
Teresa Brice, Barbara Deutsch, Kathy Fox, Janet Echelman, Charles McKinney under the Echelman sculpture in Phoenix After the ASLA Annual Meeting in Phoenix this month, Barbara Deutsch (LF 2006) wrote...
View ArticlePhilosopher’s Way Inauguration: bringing the artist’s touch to nature
Art has insinuated itself into McLaren Park, a natural oasis in southeastern San Francisco. The "Philosopher’s Way” is a new public artwork by Susan Schwartzenberg (LF 1999), Peter Richards and George...
View ArticleCharles Birnbaum’s “Best Of” List
Charles Birnbaum (LF 1998) has done his end of year wrap-up for the Huffington Post. Read "2012's Notable Developments in Landscape Architecture.”
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ArchRecord Editor’s Picks for 2012
Architectural Record’s “Editor’s Picks: Best Architecture of 2012” is studded with GSD stars, including Tracy Metz (LF 2007) for her book Sweet & Salt. See the list of the GSD projects that...
View ArticleCloud Terrace extended at Dumbarton Oaks
Andy Cao’s (LF 2011) stunning art installation at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington D.C. has been extended well beyond its planned duration and will remain in place through April. A recent article in the...
View ArticleThe City as Playground
Loeb Fellow Helen Marriage invited co-director and co-founder Nicky Webb of Artichoke Trust in London to the GSD to delve into the creative and institutional process of producing public art. The...
View ArticleThe Imagination of the Artist
Helen Marriage (LF 2013) continues her occasional Friday series "The Power of Cultural Disruption” with a conversation with Jim Lasko (LF 2013) and Elizabeth Streb on March 8. Marriage believes that...
View ArticleHelen Marriage and GSD Students Take Art to the Streets
Helen Marriage (LF 20130, working with a team of GSD students, is using geotechnology to demystify art and connect audiences with the music, visual art and theatre in urban public spaces. The vision...
View ArticlePrivate Initiative City: Rick Lowe in the New Houston
Houston has enviable ethnic diversity, arts and culture, great food, and entrepreneurial spirit. Visionary (often transplanted) Houstonians like Rick Lowe (LF 2002) are one factor contributing to the...
View ArticleNesting
Nests are beautiful, sturdy, cozy, highly engineered retreats, and humans are producing a surprising variety in all kinds of settings. Chee Perlman (LF 2011) commenting in the New York Times, calls...
View ArticleMeet the Loebs Through Video, 2
The second group of Loebs to present their work to the GSD community, Matt Nohn, Alexie Torres-Fleming and Baye Adolfo-Wilson, have all found ways to channel their leadership to build empowerment in...
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Loebs Bring Placemaking Creativity to Cities
Jim Lasko, Jim Gray and Harriet Tregoning sent the following blog post, which highlights Loeb collaboration and the impact of the Fellowship. The Urban Land Institute, ArtPlace America and the Aspen...
View ArticleIntroducing Boston through the Eyes of the Landscape Architect
The weather is perfect for being outside, and what better companion than the "Landscape Architect's Guide to Boston?" View it on the American Society of Landscape Architects website.
View ArticleAntony Gormley at the GSD
Antony Gormley –installation artist, sculptor, public artist - will be on hand to deliver the Margaret McCurry Lecture in Design Arts at the GSD on November 22. When: Friday, November 22, 6:30 -...
View ArticleLoebs in the Twin Cities: The 2013 Study Tour
In October the 2013 Loeb Annual Study Tour descended on the Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul, for several days of walking tours, panels, working sessions, reconnecting and networking. It...
View ArticleLight in Derry
The news from Derry-Londonderry is that the 4-night Lumiere festival curated by Helen Marriage (LF ’13) was a smashing success, attracting 180 thousand people to see 17 installations around the city,...
View ArticleParticipatory Promise: Antony Gormley at the GSD
For the last major lecture of the fall semester, the Margaret McCurry Lecture in Design Arts, the GSD community enjoyed an evening with celebrated British sculptor and installation artist Antony...
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