Henry Grabar
Henry Grabar is a 2024 Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Since 2016, he has been a staff writer at Slate where he writes the Metropolis column, with a focus on housing, transportation, and the environment. His work has also been published in Architect, the Atlantic, the Guardian, Harper’s, the Wall Street Journal; and he has produced podcasts for Decoder Ring, 99 Percent Invisible, What Next, and other shows. His research on French colonial architecture in Algiers after 1962 was published in the journal Cultural Geographies; and he was the editor of The Future of Transportation anthology (Metropolis Books, 2019). Most recently, Grabar is the author of Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World, which was published in May, 2023 by Penguin Press. He has taught journalism to students from the University of Southern California, Sarah Lawrence, and other institutions; and his story about immigrants in the meatpacking town of Fremont, Nebraska was a finalist for the 2018 Livingston Award for excellence in national reporting by a journalist under 35. Grabar was the 2020 recipient of the Richard Rogers Fellowship from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design; and he graduated from Yale with a degree in American Studies and French.
