Pairs is a student-edited journal of conversations at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD).

Each issue pairs “subjects” (interviewees) with “objects” (archival, material things from Harvard, the GSD, or outside archive), and has a conversation. The journal does not have a theme, but instead organizes a diversity of threads and concerns relevant to our moment in the design disciplines. The conversations are in turn not comprehensive accounts but open-ended exchanges, eliciting often candid and provisional ideas in progress; a space for a greater degree of exchange between students, guests, and a larger public.

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 the GSD and distributed by Harvard University Press.

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

Read more about Pairs on the Harvard GSD Publications site 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
︎︎︎ 03 on HUP

Editors
Olivia Howard, Adrea Piazza, and Kyle Winston
Contributors
Elif Erez, Emily Hsee, Stephanie 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

Pairs 02
December 2021
︎︎︎ BUY 02

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

︎︎︎ 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