Architecture & Design


Dominica’s “Bouyon” Star

Musician “Shelly” Alfred’s indigenous Caribbean sound

by Jose Alison Kentish

A Verdant Cultural Retreat

Boston’s Forest Hills Cemetery is a welcome respite from the world.

by Nell Porter Brown

How to Create Your Springtime Oasis

Breathing new life into our domiciles

by Kara Baskin

Curating a More Diverse Campus Environment

A report and recommendations, from the FAS task force on signage and visual culture issues 

by Lydialyle Gibson

An Obligation to Dignity

Poet and lawyer—and MacArthur “genius”—Reginald Dwayne Betts on art and imprisonment

by Lydialyle Gibson

The Places You’ll Go

Art, science, sports—and fanciful holiday lights—in the Connecticut River Valley 

by Nell Porter Brown

America’s Oldest Synagogue

Newport R.I.’s colonial era and thriving Jewish community 

by Nell Porter Brown

New Bedford

Exploring the coastal fishing hub’s history, architecture, parks, and arts scene

by Nell Porter Brown

A Net-Zero-Energy Victorian Home Makes History

HBS alumna Betsy Harper develops the first net-zero-energy, Victorian “passive house” in the world.  

by Kristina DeMichele

A Cultural Escape

The renewed community life of a grand Cape Cod estate

by Nell Porter Brown

Scrubbing Supply Chains

Harvard leveraged construction of its new Science and Engineering Complex to remove harmful chemicals from building-materials supply chains.

by Jonathan Shaw