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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Cultivating cities
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


Yale Divinity School
Master of Divinity | 2028
Berkeley Divinity School and the Institute of Sacred Music

Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Master of 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, 2023–2025

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

dwg. Landscape Architecture
Urban design intern | Austin, 2021

Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Research assistant, Asst. Prof. 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
News reporter (volunteer fellow) | Nome, Alaska, 2017–2018

Ecclesiatical and Community Service

Trinity Episcopal Church on the Green
Seminarian intern  |  New Haven, 2026–2027

Berkeley Divinity School at Yale
Chapel minister and head sacristan  |  New Haven, 2026–2027

The Episcopal Chaplaincy at Harvard
Board member; past graduate student co-president | Cambridge, 2022–present

VA Connecticut Healthcare
Chaplain intern  |  West Haven, Connecticut, 2026

Old West Church Food Forest
Volunteer steward | Boston, 2023–2025

The Society of St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Monastery
Graduate student monastic resident | Cambridge, Massachusetts, 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

Ordination

The Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
Postulant for holy orders to the priesthood  |  2025–present

Honors + Awards

Berkeley Divinity School at Yale Eleanor Lee McGee Prize
For academic distinguishment in the first year of study
2026


Berkeley Divinity School at Yale Bishop Hamilton Kellogg Trust Fellowship
2026

Hideo Sasaki Foundation Excellence in Design Education Award
2025

Yale Institute of Sacred Music Merit Scholarship
2025

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

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