Pairs is a journal of conversations edited by students at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Each issue pairs subjects with objects: interviewees with contents from a Harvard or external archive. The journal does not have a theme, but instead organizes a diversity of threads and concerns relevant to our moment in the design disciplines: covering architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design and planning. The conversations are in turn not comprehensive accounts but open-ended exchanges, eliciting often candid and provisional ideas in progress.

Pairs was founded by students Nicolás Delgado Álcega, Vladimir Gintoff, and Kimberley Huggins in 2019 with the support of Dean Sarah M. Whiting and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Pairs is published by Harvard GSD and distributed by Harvard University Press.

A new issue of Pairs is released every fall and applications for Editor and Contributor roles open to all active GSD students every spring.

Read more about Pairs on the Harvard GSD site, at Harvard University Press, and check out our fellow student-edited titles: Open Letters, Real Estate Review, and New Geographies.

Contact the editors at pairs@gsd.harvard.edu.

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Pairs 03
November 2022
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Editors
Olivia Howard, Adrea Piazza, and Kyle Winston
Contributors
Elif Erez, Emily Hsee, Linda Just, Stephanie Rae Lloyd, Andrea Sandell, Kenismael Santiago-Págan, Klelia Siska, Julia Spackman, and Raphi Tayvah

Designed by Siyu Mao
Printed by Grafiche Veneziane

Published by Harvard GSD
Distributed by Harvard University Press

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Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine x Building Gund Hall
Julia Spackman

Kevin Young x Woodberry Poetry Room
Emily Hsee

Mindy Seu x Metahaven, “Inhabitant”
Andrea Sandell

Christopher C.M. Lee x Smithsons’ Golden Lane
Stephanie Rae Lloyd

Thomas Demand x Blaschka Glass Flowers
Olivia Howard

Matthew Au & Mira Henry x Petra Blaisse’s Gold Curtain
Klelia Siska

Keller Easterling x Levittowns
Kenismael Santiago-Pagán

Merrill Elam, Mack Scogin, & Helen Han x (nostalgia) & “Favorite Things”
Linda Just

Alfredo Thiermann x Carpenter Center Ramp
Julia Spackman

Edward Eigen x Nabokov's Butterflies
Elif Erez & Emily Hsee

Charlotte Malterre-Barthes x Gropius and Wachsmann’s Packaged House
Klelia Siska

Ilze & Heinrich Wolff x Maison Tropicale
Kenismael Santiago-Pagán

Marrikka Trotter x Tanner Fountain
Stephanie Rae Lloyd

Marianela D’Aprile x Universal News Volume 3, Release 7
Olivia Howard

Katarina Burin x Freud’s Dream House
Adrea Piazza

Pairs 02
December 2021
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Editors
Nicolás Delgado Álcega, Vladimir Gintoff, Kimberley Huggins, and Kyle Winston
Contributors
Elisa Ngan, Emma Lewis, and Maxwell Smith-Holmes

Designed by Normal
Cover by Aryn Beitz
Printed by Grafiche Veneziane

Published by Harvard GSD
Distributed by Harvard University Press

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Paola Sturla x Philips Pavilion
Elisa Ngan

David Hartt & Sharon Johnston x Stirling’s Sketches of Sackler
Vladimir Gintoff

John R. Stilgoe x Sever Hall Graffito
Kyle Winston

Rashid bin Shabib & Gareth Doherty x Tange’s Drawings of St. Mary’s
Vladimir Gintoff

Malkit Shoshan x Missionary, UN, and Tuareg Tents
Emma Lewis

Irma Boom x The Vergilius Vaticanus
Kimberley Huggins

Kathryn Yusoff x Image Not Available
Maxwell Smith-Holmes

︎︎︎ Jorge Silvetti x Labyrinth of Affinities
Nicolás Delgado Álcega

Sara Hendren x Nearly Me Breast Prosthetic
Elisa Ngan

Lyndon Neri x Sketches for a Scarpa Show
Nicolás Delgado Álcega

David Foster & Zachary Mollica x Hemlock Rings and Tree Forks
Kimberley Huggins

Sumayya Vally x Islamic Heritage Project
Vladimir Gintoff

Terry Tempest Williams x Aaron Siskind’s Utah Series
Emma Lewis

Jane Mah Hutton x New England Erratics
Maxwell Smith-Holmes

Emanuel Admassu x “After Property” Studio Imagery
Kyle Winston

Pairs 01
March 2021
︎︎︎ BUY 01

Senior Editors
Nicolás Delgado Álcega, Vladimir Gintoff, and Kimberley Huggins
Associate Editors
Mark Bavoso, Linda Just, and Kyle Winston

Designed by Normal
Cover by Alexandra Bell & Kahlil Joseph
Printed by Grafiche Veneziane

Published by Harvard GSD

︎︎︎ Launch with Giovanna Borasi

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Piet Oudolf x Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium
Kimberley Huggins

Oana Stănescu x Frabziska Hosken’s Personal Archive
Linda Just

Christopher Hawthorne x Arnold Arboretum Lease
Kyle Winston

︎︎︎ Sara Zewde x W.E.B. Du Bois Data Portraits
Kimberley Huggins

Paul Nakazawa & Jacob Reidel x GSD Event Poster Collection
Nicolás Delgado Álcega

Michelle Chang x Lena Bergner’s Weaving Techniques
Mark Bavoso

Hans Ulrich Obrist x A Letter by Obrist and Stiegler
Nicolás Delgado Álcega

Teresa Galí-Izard & Günther Vogt x Harvard Forest Dioramas
Kimberley Huggins

Robert Gerard Pietrusko x Historical Scientific Instruments
Linda Just

Jennifer Bonner x Dave Hickey’s Seminar Booklet
Vladimir Gintoff

Pier Paolo Tamburelli x Archigram Magazine
Mark Bavoso

Tatiana Bilbao x Iñaki Ábalos‘s Gropius Lecture
Kyle Winston

Thomas Weaver x The Turgot Map of Paris
Vladimir Gintoff

Alexandra Bell & Kahlil Joseph x BLKNWS®

Postscript with Sarah M. Whiting
Nicolás Delgado Álcega, Vladimir Gintoff, and Kimberley Huggins