The draft of Housing 2030— RI’s first Statewide Housing Plan since 2006 — is now available for public review and comment! You can access the plan and public comment link on the homepage of the Department of Housing’s website (housing.ri.gov) under “What’s New?”

DESIGN:ED Podcast: MASS Design Group's Katie Swenson architecturalrecord.com/articles/15626…

EXCLUSIVE: Five of the world’s leaders in addressing climate change caused flooding have recorded must-see presentations about how to address this existential problem. Watch Now–And then attend the Free Live Global Summit with them on May 7. tclf.org/soak-it-combat… PlayCore

Matt Smith '25 moderates: 5/15 11:30-1:30pm Leading from the Ground Up: Mayors in Small Cities and Rural Communities Mayors: Lisa Hicks Gilbert, Elaine, AR Ren Hatt, Green River, UT Kristine Lott, Winooski, VT Link to register in our bio

Brent Leggs ’11, Glenn LaRue Smith ‘97, and Susan Chin ‘00 have been invited for 1-3 month residencies at the American Academy in Rome during the 2025-26 Rome Prize fellowship year.

Faculty, students, alumni, and affiliates of the Harvard GSD—including a robust contingent of Loebs— have key roles at the 2025 Venice Biennale. The GSD’s Design News gives a full accounting. Link to the story is in our bio.

En #Quito el 92% de empresas formalmente registradas son micro y personales. No logran crecer y generar más empleos. No hay una política nacional articulada con las políticas locales para ellas. Datos QuitoComoVamos

Michelle Joan Wilkinson ’20 has co-curated a show at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in NYC and co-edited an exceptional book *Making Home,* including a chapter with John Zeisel ’71. Link to exhibit and publication is in our bio.

The dramatic new Schuylkill Banks bridge & trail promises to improve access for Philly’s isolated Grays Ferry neighborhood. So what’s the first big project that gets built? A giant garage. My columns explains how that undercuts a legacy of planning. inquirer.com/columnists/cho…

In Episode 6 of the Nexus Podcast, Mavis Gragg ('24)'s legal advocacy for Black heirs' property rights and Euneika Rogers-Sipp/ Ndgo Bnting (Ndgo—'16)'s creative preservation practices and food sovereignty demonstrate the role of design as care in the Black feminist tradition. Link in our bio

New podcast: Starting a new Architecture School, Rooted in the Classics Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, experiments with reforms to how we educate young architects and designers What's it like to start an architecture school from scratch? That’s a question that has run

As she leaves Harvard to return home, Claudia Dobles Camargo ’23 is announcing her candidacy for president of Costa Rica in the 2026 election. So proud to have been part of her pathway to this point! Link to announcement on our bio page. #decarbonization #futurapresidenta

See this Instagram video by Kikelomo Omonubi.oshinowo instagram.com/reel/CqfEQBSDs…

Pierre-Emmanuel Becherand ‘25 returns to the #GrandParisExpress project, overseeing 25 new metro stations by 2027. His new podcast #StationtoStation will be released in the fall: public transportation, architecture, culture, urban policy in 10 cities around the world.

Tosin Oshinowo '25 featured here: thenationonlineng.net/my-alternative…