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Alex Krieger Professor in Practice Department of Urban Planning and Design |
Publications
Remaking the Urban Waterfront Primary Authors: Contributing Authors: Waterfronts provide a natural opportunity to make a memorable urban place, yet many of them remain obsolete or underused. Remaking the Urban Waterfront, written by expert architects and planners, explains the importance of and challenges inherent in transforming waterfronts, the key design issues, zoning and land use regulations, environmental obstacles, development incentives, and how the public and private sectors must work together to create spectacular new waterfronts. Case studies of both small- and large-scale projects describe how mixed-use, residential, retail/entertainment, commercial/ industrial, civic buildings, and parks were developed in the United States, Europe, and Australia. Each includes color photographs, a complete description of the history of the project, the development plan, challenges faced, and experience gained, plus a development timeline, project data, and contact information.
Planning in Paradise: Urban Redevelopment
Honolulu Hawai'i
An important element of urban design and planning education at the Harvard Design School is the creation of academic studio problems within a real-world context. This allows students to have first-hand contact with public officials and other decision makers on a project of specific interest to all parties, and to gain a palpable understanding and knowledge of design, planning and developmental circumstances elsewhere in the United States and, indeed, in other parts of the world. For the sponsors of these academic exercises benefits clearly derive from having students study and re-imagine an area of their local interest, in an unfettered and often invigorating manner, as well as having access to a forum for discussion of pertinent issues that, again, is unencumbered by day-to-day constraints and the pragmatism that inevitably comes to bear on real projects. In short, when done well, it is a mutually beneficial experience that preserves the academic integrity of the exercise at hand, produces considerable insight beyond rank-and-file procedures, and fosters professional understanding and empathy in a direct and sympathetic manner. Planning in Paradise, the subject of this studio, centered on the Kakaako postindustrial district of Honolulu, Hawaii, immediately presented what to many may have seemed like a paradox, i.e., how can one perfect something, the image of which already transcends normal expectations about the quality of life. Of course, nothing could have been further from the truth and, indeed, even if this claim was true, then why not? Paradise, after all, is a thoroughly human construct, or many constructs, and therefore, susceptible to further improvement. In the case of Kakaako, through, a new kind of urbanism was called for and one that recognized both the incomparable setting and general disposition of the district and yet also recognized the need to present an alternative and even novel kind of urbanism that meets the needs of a broad range of socioeconomic backgrounds in today's relatively moribund site circumstances. What follows in this volume are attempts to come to grips with this dilemma, ably lead by Janine Clifford and Alex Krieger and under the just as able sponsorship of the Hawaii Community Development Corporation, City & County of Honolulu, Kamehameha Schools, Victoria Ward Limited, Schuler Homes, Outrigger Enterprises, Inc., Architect Hawaii Ltd., Englekirk Partners Consulting, Walker-Mood Construction Company Ltd., and Autodesk, Inc. To all the Design School new found friends and collaborators in Honolulu, we extend our heartfelt thanks for their time, patience and perseverance with us, as well as for so willingly helping us attempt the ridiculous — planning in paradise!!
Mapping Boston
To the attentive user even the simplest map can reveal not only where things are but how people perceive and imagine the spaces they occupy. Mapping Boston is an exemplar of such creative attentiveness — bringing the history of one of America's oldest and most beautiful cities alive through the maps that have depicted it over the centuries. The book includes both historical maps of the city and maps showing the gradual emergence of the New England region from the imaginations of explorers to a form that we would recognize today. Each map is accompanied by a full description and a short essay offering an insight into its context. The topics of these vignettes by Anne Mackin include people both familiar and unknown, landmarks, and events that were significant in shaping the landscape or life of the city. A highlight of the book is a series of new maps detailing Boston's growth. The book also contains seven essays that explore the intertwining of maps and history. Urban historian Sam Bass Warner, Jr., starts with a capsule history of Boston. Barbara McCorkle, David Bosse, and David Cobb discuss the making and trading of maps from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Historian Nancy S. Seasholes reviews the city's remarkable topographic history as reflected in maps, and planner Alex Krieger explores the relation between maps and the physical reality of the city as experienced by residents and visitors. In an epilogue, novelist James Carroll ponders the place of Boston in contemporary culture and the interior maps we carry of a city. Alex Krieger is Chairman of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a principal of Chan Krieger & Associates, where Amy Turner an architect. David Cobb is Head of the Harvard Map Collection at the Harvard College Library.
Design Concepts for Nippon-Daira
and Its Region,
This publication summarizes the work of the Nippon-Daira Academic Exchange Program, involving graduate students and faculty from the United States, Japan, Korea, and Canada, which took place in several phases between April and September 1992. The Nippon-Daira Academic Exchange afforded an opportunity for all involved to confront two challenging circumstances that are becoming increasingly commonplace in the modern field of urban design. The first circumstance is one in which a traditional settlement pattern, natural landscape, or cultural legacy is threatened even while a population's contemporary activities are constrained by them. If anything, bitter experience has taught us that extreme positions on this issue can be costly. Hard-line preservation, for instance, can unnecessarily limit the scope of human activity, whereas laissez-faire development policies can ruin an otherwise pristine environment. The second circumstance is the increasingly cross-cultural experience of design itself. Efforts at international cooperation bring up questions of how to interpret and design within an essentially foreign setting, and how to collaborate fruitfully and work as part of a team with colleagues from different cultural and intellectual backgrounds. Both circumstances arise more and more frequently as earlier international barriers to development capital, cultural influence, and building enterprise are lowered.
Towns and Town-Making
Principles,
This publication contains essays by Alex Krieger, --- Leon Krier, William Lennertz, Patrick Pinnell, and Vincent Scully, Jr. The foreword was written by Peter Rowe, Dean of the Faculty of Design, Harvard University. It is one in a series of publications of the GSD and was published in connection with an exhibition of work by Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk in the fall of 1990 at the Gund Hall Gallery. Krieger writes, "The contemporary American suburban landscape is a victim of its own success. We were seeking its advantages long before the automobile materialized to make them conveniently accessible. Hardly an aberrant form of settlement, the leafy suburb between city and country is precisely the form of settlement that the western world has desired since the Enlightenment. . . A pre-eighteenth century mind could hardly have conceived that the forlorn and marginally inhabited zone directly outside of the city walls, which for centuries denoted "a place of inferior, debased and especially licentious habits of life," would now expand to encompass a territory in which all would reside. By the end of the 19th century, the transformation of the loathsome suburb would be complete as it became the safe haven from the monstrous and even more loathsome industrial city...." Contents Foreword, Peter G. Rowe Since (and Before) Seaside, Alex Krieger Seaside and New Haven, Vincent Scully, Jr. Town-Making Fundamentals, William Lennertz Villages, Towns, Cities, and Territories, Comparative Scale Plans
VILLAGES TOWNS AND CITIES Belmont TERRITORIES CODES Organon, Patrick Pinnell Appendices Afterword, Leon Krier
Establishing a Threshold, Twelve Architectural Practices in
Boston,
Contents Foreword Credits
The Architecture of Kallman McKinnell & Wood, This monograph is appropriately devoted to the architecture of Kallmann, McKinnell & Wood. It records the exhibition of the firm's work accompanying N. Michael McKinnell's 1998 Walter Gropius Lecture at the Graduate School of Design. As such, it reveals only part of the story of the architects' careers. What two generations of American architecture students know well, and what each of the essayists touches upon, is that Gerhard Kallmann and Michael McKinnell have pursued the teaching of architecture with a vigor equal to that for their practice. While many architects combine teaching and practice during the course of their professional lives, few are willing to sustain the demands concurrently over any length of time. For over two decades—and to the direct benefit of both their architecture and their students—Kallmann and McKinnell have shown an equal devotion to both enterprises.
Past Futures: Two Centuries Of Imagining Boston, This catalogue was published in connection with the exhibition "Past Futures: Two Centuries of Imagining Boston," jointly sponsored by the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and the State Street Bank and Trust Company, Boston. The exhibition took place at the State Street Bank Concourse Gallery from March 5 - May 31, 1985, and at Gund Hall Gallery, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts from October 1-18, 1985. "Past Futures: Two Centuries of Imagining Boston" is one in a series of publications commemorating the 50th anniversary of the faculty of the Graduate School of Design, and the 350th anniversary of Harvard College.
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