Harvard Design Magazine, Fall/Winter 2010-2011, number 33
HDM 33: Design Practices Now, Vol. II: Landscape Architecture and Urban Design
Fall/Winter 2010-2011
What are the pressing issues and problems in the work lives of contemporary landscape archite cts, urban designers, and architects? What supports and what obstructs their efforts to help create outstanding buildings and places? What current conditions for practice are novel, and how should they be understood and managed? What are ideal structures for the collaborations of designers with owners and builders, and with other professionals, such as engineers, fabricators, and ecological scientists? What can be learned from the variations in design practices across regions, nations, and continents? How are new digital technologies affecting design practice?
In this final volume on design practice, designers from around the world address these questions and offer images of design details of their work. In addition, scholar/critics focus on particular issues in analytic detail. The main focus here is on landscape architecture and urban design.
Features | Contemporary Practice | Portfolio | Conjectures | Books | Order
FEATURES
Landscape Architecture Practice Now
Discussion with Gary Hilderbrand, Signe Nielsen, Linda Pollak, Chris Reed, Lucinda Sanders, William Saunders, Michael Van Valkenburgh
Dan Willis
Are Charrettes Old School? (pdf)
Dana Cuff
WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture
Michael van Ackere
Made in Japan Can Be Made Anywhere
Christopher Hawthorne
What Makes a Venice Architecture Biennale Good (Like This One)?
Peggy Deamer
The Changing Nature of Architectural Work
Scott Johnson
Once Theory to Practice, Now Practice to Theory?
Tom Spector
Beyond Boondoggles: In Search of Meaningful Continuing Education
Jonathan Barnett
Problems with Urban Design Competitions
CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE
Kate Orff
SCAPE/Landscape Architecture PLLC, USA
Mario Schjetnan
Grupo de Diseño Urbano, Mexico
Jose Luis Vallejo, Belinda Tato
Ecosistema Urbano, Madrid
Chelina Odbert
Kounkuey Design Initiative, Kenya (pdf)
Peter Walker
Peter Walker and Partners Landscape Architects, Berkeley, California
Shlomo Aronson
Shlomo Aronson Landscape Architects, Town Planners, and Architects, Israel
Dennis Pieprz
Sasaki, Watertown, Massachusetts, and San Francisco, on Abu Dhabi
Günther Vogt
Vogt Landscape Architects, Switzerland (pdf)
Tilman Latz
Latz+Partner, Kranzberg, Germany, and London
Abha Narain Lambah
Abha Narain Lambah Associates, Mumbai
Kathryn Gustafson
Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, Seattle, Washington; Gustafson Porter, London
Adriaan Geuze
West 8 urban design & landscape architecture, Rotterdam, New York, Toronto
Kongjian Yu
Turenscape Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Architecture, Beijing (pdf)
Ken Greenberg
Greenberg Consultants Inc., Toronto
James Corner
Field Operations landscape architecture and urban design, New York
Lluis Ortega
F451, Spain
Mark Johnson
Civitas—Urban Design, Planning, and Landscape Architecture, Denver, Colorado
Robert Yaro
Regional Plan Association, New York City; Princeton, New Jersey; Stamford, Connecticut
Joe Brown
AECOM, Los Angeles, New York, et al.
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PORTFOLIO
Krzysztof Wodiczko
Arc de Triomphe: World Institute for the Abolition of War
CONJECTURES
David Edwards
Art and the Future of Eating
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BOOKS
Reviewed by Tim Benton
On Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy by Michelangelo Sabatino
Reviewed by Witold Rybczynski
On Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape by Kirk Savage
Reviewed by Marrikka Trotter
On Utopia’s Ghost: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again by Reinhold Martin
Reviewed by Bryan E. Norwood
On Architecture’s Historical Turn: Phenomenology and the Rise of the Postmodern by Jorge Otero-Pailos
Reviewed by Kenneth Frampton
On The Agencies of the Frame: Tectonic Strategies in Cinema and Architecture by Michael Tawa
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