Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 11 hours ago
At the GSD, we are celebrating “Designers of Mountain and Water,” our current exhibition featuring 58 landscape architecture projects in Asia.
Join us tonight, February 5, to kick off a conference about how landscape architects are responding to a changing climate. Co-organized with the Korea Institute at Harvard, the conference continues February 6 with presentations by leading practitioners, scholars, and researchers.
In this video, Jungyoon Kim, exhibition curator and associate professor in practice of Landscape Architecture, introduces the show. The 58 featured projects are organized by “bioregion”, geographic areas defined not by nation, but by climate, ecology, and geology—“the borders that nature drew.” Intricate line drawings on the walls of the Druker Design Gallery map these bioregions and show the terrain that designers of mountain and water work with.
The Sinographic compound (山水), denoting “mountain and water,” is widely shared across many Asian contexts, with different regional traditions and approaches. As shanshui in China, sansui in Japan, and sansu in Korea, the term has historically referred to creative artistic and philosophical visions of the natural world, combining the vital elements of a fully dynamic landscape. With climate change underway, the exhibition asks, what contemporary elements and dimensions of nature are necessary for designing and building sustainable spaces for human habitation and flourishing?
At the GSD, we are celebrating “Designers of Mountain and Water,” our current exhibition featuring 58 landscape architecture projects in Asia.
Join us tonight, February 5, to kick off a conference about how landscape architects are responding to a changing climate. Co-organized with the Korea Institute at Harvard, the conference continues February 6 with presentations by leading practitioners, scholars, and researchers.
In this video, Jungyoon Kim, exhibition curator and associate professor in practice of Landscape Architecture, introduces the show. The 58 featured projects are organized by “bioregion”, geographic areas defined not by nation, but by climate, ecology, and geology—“the borders that nature drew.” Intricate line drawings on the walls of the Druker Design Gallery map these bioregions and show the terrain that designers of mountain and water work with.
The Sinographic compound (山水), denoting “mountain and water,” is widely shared across many Asian contexts, with different regional traditions and approaches. As shanshui in China, sansui in Japan, and sansu in Korea, the term has historically referred to creative artistic and philosophical visions of the natural world, combining the vital elements of a fully dynamic landscape. With climate change underway, the exhibition asks, what contemporary elements and dimensions of nature are necessary for designing and building sustainable spaces for human habitation and flourishing?
