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Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) students design Miami’s 2015 Entry Pavilion
United States Architecture News - Sep 15, 2015 - 10:35 4683 views
A rendering of this year's entry pavilion at Design Miami, image nytimes.com
Each year, Design Miami commissions an early-career architect to design the entry pavilion for its site. And for 2015, the fair’s organizers awarded the project to the most fledgling designers possible: a group of students — Joanne Cheung, Jenny Shen, Steven Meyer, Doug Harsevoort and Yiliu Shen-Burke — at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). Together, they have designed UNBUILT, a kind of fragmented canopy made with 200 unique, pink-foam architectural models — the kind architecture students agonize over in studio — perched atop a metal grid structure. But don’t expect to recognize the models as you walk in; until now, the buildings they represent have existed only in the imaginations of their designers......Continue Reading