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.”


Honors + Awards

Berkeley Divinity School at Yale Bishop Hamilton Kellogg Trust Fellowship
2026

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