Harvard Design Magazine, Spring/Summer 2010, number 32, "Design Practices Now, Vol. I: architecture"
HDM 32: Design Practices Now, Vol. 1: Architecture
Spring/Summer 2010
What are the pressing issues and problems in the work lives of contemporary landscape architects, 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 and the next issue of Harvard Design Magazine, 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.
Features | International Practices | Regional Practices | Conjectures | Books | Order
FEATURES
Wes Jones
Big Forking Dilemma: Contemporary Architecture’s Autonomic Turn (pdf)
Jay Wickersham
Learning from Burnham: The Origins of American Architectural Practice
Architectural Practice Now
Discussion with Henry N. Cobb, Preston Scott Cohen, Gary Haney, Michael Maltzan, Toshiko Mori, William S. Saunders, Mack Scogin, Marion Weiss, Tod Williams
Christopher Hawthorne
On Credit: Many Collaborators, One Name in Lights (pdf)
Phillip G. Bernstein
A Way Forward? Integrated Project Delivery
Simon Allford
A London Particular: Fog Envelopes Practice
Idea-Driven Practices: What Eight Young GSD Designers Do
Pierre Bélanger, Felipe Correa, John Hong, Eric Höweler, Mariana Ibanez, Florian Idenburg, Michael Meredith, Ingeborg Rocker
Sebastian Schmaling
The New Small Architectural Practices: Creativity Incubators or Co-opted Branders?
Tom Spector
The Old Man’s Profession: The Incredible Shrinking Cohort of American Architects
INTERNATIONAL PRACTICES
David Adjaye
Adjaye Associates
Nathalie de Vries
MVRDV
M. Arthur Gensler Jr.
Gensler
Gary Haney
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Steven Holl
Steven Holl Architects
Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Moshe Safdie
Moshe Safdie and Associates (pdf)
Patrik Schumaker
Zaha Hadid Architects
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REGIONAL PRACTICES
Nelson Chen
Nelson Chen Architects, Hong Kong and China
John Denton
Denton Corker Marshall, Australia and East Asia
Issa Diabaté
Koffi & Diabaté Architects, Côte d’Ivoire, Africa
Toyo Ito
Toyo Ito & Associates Architects, Japan
David Lake
Lake|Flato Architects, Texas
Rahul Mehrotra
RMA Architects, India
Rodrigo Pérez de Arce
Catholic University Santiago, Chile and South America
Paul Robbrecht
Robbrecht en Daem Architecten, Belgium
Špela Videčnik
Ofis Arhitekti, Slovenia
Ai Weiwei
FAKE Design, China
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CONJECTURES
Mohsen Mostafavi
Why Ecological Urbanism? Why Now? (pdf)
Preston Scott Cohen
Introduction to the GSD’s The Return of Nature Symposia
Sylvia Lavin
What I Believe
Matthew Soules
The “Livable” Suburbanized City: Post-Politics and a Vancouver near You
Mark Mulligan
Utopia Across Scales: Thoughts on Kenzo Tange
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BOOKS
Reviewed by Reinhold Martin
On Le Corbusier and the Occult
by J.K. Birksted
Reviewed by Christine Smith
On Michael Camille, The Gargoyles of Notre-Dame: Medievalism and the Monsters of Modernity
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