Design Miami | Unbuilt GSD

Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA | 2017

Collaboration The UNBUILT team was comprised Joanne Cheung, Doug Harsevoort, Steven Meyer, Jenny Shen, and Yiliu Shen-Burke (all MArch ’18). The team was advised by Luis Callejas, lecturer in architecture and landscape architecture; Hanif Kara, professor in practice of architectural technology; and Dan Borelli MDesS ’12, director of exhibitions.

The annual Design Miami fair traditionally features an entry pavilion designed by early-career architects, a public installation that serves as a beacon for the fair and that provokes consideration and curiosity among the thousands of visitors who visit the fair’s programs and galleries. For the 2015 pavilion design, Design Miami announced a first-of-its-kind collaboration with the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

LocationUNBUILT’s design features a range of experimental and speculative projects designed by members of the GSD community, presented as a canopy of foam models. As the name of the pavilion suggests, most of these projects may never be built—but for the participating students especially, they represent important manifestations of their emerging skills, research, and design imagination. In its coverage of this year’s fair, T Magazine called UNBUILT “a fitting symbol for this year’s program, which promises a more inclusive look at design.” Wallpaper* Magazine offered a full look at the conceptual and design process in its December issue.