GSD Platform 9

Platform is the Harvard University Graduate School of Design's annualcompendium of select student work, events, lectures, and exhibitions.Taking the artistic still life as its departure point, the ninth edition ofPlatform chronicles the 2015-2016 academic year at the GSD. Models andstudent projects, including dissertations and drawings, are skillfully arrangedand presented to reference the still life as expressed in 18th- and 19thcenturyEuropean painting, popular advertising, contemporary art, andother contexts.These images not only present the broad range of work produced byGSD students but also challenge conventional modes of architecturaldocumentation through multiple readings, lists, and novel interpretationsof form.Co-published with Harvard University Graduate School of Design.