Gabriel M. Colombo


Toward the Joyful City

“We make a dwelling in the evening air,
In which being there together is enough.”1


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Urban design + architecture
for joy + flourishing.

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1 Wallace Stevens, “Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour.”

Gabriel M. Colombo


Toward the Joyful City

“We make a dwelling in the evening air,
In which being there together is enough.”1

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Urban design + architecture for joy + flourishing.

Master in Architecture student,
Harvard Graduate School of Design.

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1 Wallace Stevens, “Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour.”


Education


Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Master in Architecture | 2023

The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies and Plan II Honors (humanities), with High Honors | 2017
Special honors in Urban Studies

University College London
Coursework in architectural history and representation | 2015

Professional + Academic Experience

Sasaki
Urban planner and designer | Boston, 2023–present

ecosistema urbano
Urban design intern | Madrid and Cambridge, 2022–2023

dwg. Landscape Architecture
Urban design intern | Austin, 2021

Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Graduate research assistant, Assistant Professor Belinda Tato | Cambridge, 2021–2023

Black + Vernooy Architecture and Urban Design
Urban design and policy intern | Austin, 2018–2020

Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Publications editorial assistant | Cambridge, 2021

KNOM Radio Mission
Volunteer fellow — news reporter | Nome, Alaska, 2017–2018

Honors + Awards

Faith and Form International Awards: Honor Award
The Borges Cloisters | Student work category | 2024

Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies Thesis Grant
The Contemplative City: Monastic Urbanism and Ecology | 2022
Research travel to monasteries in Spain, France, the Netherlands, and England

Harvard Graduate School of Design COVID Research Grant
Intimate Space: Hans van der Laan’s Monastic Wisdom for the Post-COVID Home | 2020

Harvard Graduate School of Design Alexander Phillips Scholarship
2019–2023

The University of Texas at Austin Plan II Honors Model Thesis Award
Gathering Texas: The Sociocultural Performance of Urban Public Spaces in the Lone Star State | 2017

Community + Leadership

The Episcopal Chaplaincy at Harvard
Graduate Co-President, Designer- and Fool-in-Residence | Cambridge, 2022–present

Old West Church Food Forest
Volunteer Steward | Boston, 2023–present

The Society of St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Monastery
Graduate Student Resident | Cambridge, 2021–2022

GSD Radio, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Producer and Host, (im)material: Faith, Spirituality, and Design | Cambridge, 2020–2021

Nome Arts Council
Choral and Theatre Director | Nome, Alaska, 2017–2018