Harvard Design Magazine
Multiple-issue subscriptions starting at $44 with shipping. Harvard Design Magazine probes beyond the established design disciplines to enrich and diversify current discourse.
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 ...
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.
Architects, Builders, and the Failed Promise of Deep Collaboration
4 days ago · 1 BIM refers to Building Information Modeling, a digital platform for collaboration between architects, engineers, and the construction team. BIM data includes 3D information about the parts of the building and how they fit together. Such models are used to coordinate construction, and increasingly, to monitor building performance after construction and during maintenance and management.
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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 ...
Whatever Happened to Total Design? - Harvard Design Magazine
Essay. Total design has two meanings: first, what might be called the implosion of design, the focusing of design inward on a single intense point; second, what might be called the explosion of design, the expansion of design out to touch every possible point in the world. In either case, the architect is in control, centralizing, orchestrating ...
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.
The New Urbanism and the Communitarian Trap
The new urbanism changes the spatial frame, but not the presumption of spatial order as a vehicle for controlling history and process. The connection between spatial form and social process is here made through a relation between architectural design and a certain ideology of community. The New Urbanism assembles much of its rhetorical and ...
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 ...
Not Unlike Life Itself: Landscape Strategy Now
In this sense, both strategy and design are crucial for evolving new forms, new programs, new publics, new natures, and new urbanisms. That’s design intelligence, with its broad reach and its extraordinary creativity, not unlike life itself. 1 Michael Speaks, “Theory was interesting . . . but now we have work,” arq 6/2, June 26, 2002.