Harvard Design Magazine
Harvard Design Magazine probes beyond the established design disciplines to enrich and diversify current discourse.
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The Way We Were, the Way We Are: The Theory and Practice of …
What is the designed city, who wants to make it happen, and who designs it? Today most urban design professionals would say that a well-designed city has three components: it conserves the natural environment and is responsive to it; it creates a desirable public realm that includes transportation, streets, civic spaces, shopping, entertainment, parks, and recreation; and it supports social ...
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Harvard Design Magazine probes beyond the established design disciplines to enrich and diversify current discourse. Scholarly, poetic, and visually lush, each presents new interpretations of design’s defining role in today’s culture. Distinguished and unexpected voices from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban ...
Catalog - Harvard Design Magazine
Catalog. With more than 50 issues in print, Harvard Design Magazine probes beyond the reaches of the established design disciplines to enrich and challenge current discourse. Explore 25 years of design thinking and scholarship, buy our current issue, …
Shifting Landscapes In-Between Times - Harvard Design Magazine
These ‘in-between times’ heighten the very nature of landscape as process, while landscape as product—‘finished’ plazas, streetscapes, parks, and gardens—is revealed as an illusory aspiration, a hoped for future in the face of constant, relentless change. 2. Ruin Time and Landscapes Past. While geological time provides a conceptual ...
Instruments of Service - Harvard Design Magazine
Instruments of service are the instruction manuals that architects—and other designers—make so that others can make something. They define the architect’s relationships with labor, construction, clients, and society. And these relationships—along with the agency of architectural practice—are changing as a growing number of external ...
Innovate or Perish: New Technologies and Architecture’s Future
For savvy architects with a dash of fortitude, revolutionary opportunities for creating enhanced predictability, complexity, branding, feedback, and economies of scale glimmer on the horizon. In this essay I will focus on the potentials of new design and building technologies, centering my comments on improving architecture’s marketplace success.
Publics - Harvard Design Magazine
Harvard Design Magazine 49: Publics questions how public spaces—the physical, the cultural, and the theoretical—operate in a fragmented social and political environment, both in the US and abroad.. Guest editors Anita Berrizbeitia and Diane E. Davis convene leading public intellectuals, scholars, and practitioners in architecture, urban planning, …
Green World, Gray Heart?: The Promise and the Reality of …
—Robert Thayer, Gray World, Green Heart: Technology, Nature, and the Sustainable Landscape We live in what the great American environmentalist Aldo Leopold referred to as a “world of wounds,” where there is irrefutable evidence that we are balancing precariously on the brink of natural disasters: “Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course.