Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning
Faculty of the Committee on the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning
Antoine Picon, Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology (Design School) (Co-Chair)
K. Michael Hays, Eliot Noyes Professor in Architectural Theory (Design School) (Co-Chair)
Eve Marion Blau, Adjunct Professor of Architectural History (Design School)
Giuliana Bruno, Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies
Lizabeth Cohen, Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies
Susan S. Fainstein, Professor of Urban Planning (Design School)
Peter L. Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor (on leave 2009-10)
Sheila S. Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, John F. Kennedy School of Government
Jerold Kayden, Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design (Design School)
Sanford Kwinter, Term Professor of Architecture (Design School)
Michèle Lamont, Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies
Neil Levine, Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Alina A. Payne, Professor of History of Art and Architecture
A. Hashim Sarkis, Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism in Muslim Societies (Design School)
Christine Smith, Robert C. and Marian K. Weinberg Professor of Architectural History (Design School)
The PhD in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning is administered by a joint committee of the Faculty of Design and of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The program is intended for persons who wish to enter careers in scholarship and advanced research as distinct from the professional practice of architecture, landscape architecture, or urban planning.
Students must master a major area of their field and achieve a thorough grounding (equivalent to one year of full-time study) in the theory and methods of one of the arts and sciences related to their major subject, such as fine arts, history, philosophy, or sociology. Major areas of study include the history and theory of architecture, landscape architecture and urban form from antiquity to the present; or the analysis and development of cities, landscapes, and regions with emphasis on social, economic, ecological, transportation, and infrastructural systems.
Applicants must show evidence of distinguished work at the bachelor’s or master’s level, and should indicate their major subject of interest and the department of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in which they will carry out their minor discipline.
The Harvard Design School also offers a separate, three-year program leading to the Doctor of Design degree, which is oriented to the practice of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. This program requires a separate and different application. For information, contact the Admissions Office, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. The phone number is 617-495-5453.
Graduate Courses of Reading and Research
*Design 300. Reading and Research in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, or Urban Planning
Catalog Number: 6076
Alan Altshuler (Kennedy School, Design School) 3541, Mario Biagioli 1756, Eve Marion Blau (Design School) 5078, Svetlana Boym 1926, Giuliana Bruno 2658, Lizabeth Cohen 3627, Margaret Lee Crawford (Design School) 3934, Susan S. Fainstein (Design School) 5504, Richard T. T. Forman (Design School) 1207, José A. Gomez-Ibãnez (Kennedy School, Design School) 4586, K. Michael Hays (Design School) 2759, Jerold Kayden (Design School) 2442, Neil Levine 4178, Gülru Necipoglu-Kafadar 1688, Katharine Park 2974 (on leave 2009-10), Alina A. Payne 4605, Antoine Picon (Design School) 4295, A. Hashim Sarkis (Design School) 4594, Christine Smith (Design School) 2445, and John R. Stilgoe 8032
*Design 304. Direction of Doctoral Dissertations in Architecture
Catalog Number: 2503
Mario Biagioli 1756, Eve Marion Blau (Design School) 5078, Giuliana Bruno 2658, Peter L. Galison 3239 (on leave 2009-10), K. Michael Hays (Design School) 2759, Neil Levine 4178, Gülru Necipoglu-Kafadar 1688, Alina A. Payne 4605, Antoine Picon (Design School) 4295, A. Hashim Sarkis (Design School) 4594, Christine Smith (Design School) 2445, and John R. Stilgoe 8032
*Design 307. Direction of Doctoral Dissertations in Landscape Architecture
Catalog Number: 7028
Richard T. T. Forman (Design School) 1207, K. Michael Hays (Design School) 2759, Gülru Necipoglu-Kafadar 1688, and John R. Stilgoe 8032
*Design 310. Direction of Doctoral Dissertations in Urban Planning
Catalog Number: 5219
Alan Altshuler (Kennedy School, Design School) 3541, Lizabeth Cohen 3627, Margaret Lee Crawford (Design School) 3934, Susan S. Fainstein (Design School) 5504, José A. Gomez-Ibãnez (Kennedy School, Design School) 4586, Jerold Kayden (Design School) 2442, and A. Hashim Sarkis (Design School) 4594