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 04
November 2024
︎︎︎BUY 04
Editors
Isabel Lewis, Adrea Piazza, and Andrea Sandell
Contributors
Rain Chan, Sophie Weston Chien, Liz Cormack, Syeda Aimen Fatima, Emily Hsee, Areti Kotsoni,Isabel Lewis, Jennifer Li, Adrea Piazza, Andrea Sandell, Sumayyah Súnmádé Raji, Julia Spackman, Raphaele Tayvah, CoCo Tin, and Audrey Watkins
Designed by
Siyu Mao
Printed by
Grafiche Veneziane
Published by Harvard GSD
Distributed by Harvard University Press
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Emily Wettstein x MLA Welcome Packages
Sophie Weston Chien
Danielle Aubert x Harvard University Strike Posters
Audrey Watkins
Theaster Gates x Karel Miler’s “Actions”
Isabel Lewis
Shannon Mattern x Nancy Graves Maps
Areti Kotsoni
Eric Robsky Huntley x Papers of Howard T. Fisher
Liz Cormack
Kate Wagner x The Industrial Film Collection
Jennifer Li
Ryan W. Kennihan x Site of Reversible Destiny
Julia Spackman
Fernanda Canales x Harvardevens Village Photographs
Emily Hsee
Yasmeen Lari x Mimar
Syeda Aimen Fatima
Mae-ling Lokko x Benin Bronzes
Sumayyah Súnmádé Raji
Melanie Boehi x United Fruit Company Photographs
Raphaele Tayvah
Jeffrey Shaw x Mark Rothko’s Harvard Murals
Rain Chan
Þóra Pétursdóttir x Herbaria
Adrea Piazza
Stefanie Hessler x The Feejee Mermaid
CoCo Tin
Sergio Lopez-Pineiro x Williamina Fleming’s Astronomical
Photographs
Andrea Sandell
Pairs 03
November 2022
︎︎︎ BUY 03
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
Raphi Tayvah
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
︎︎︎ 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
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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
