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Josep Lluis Sert: the Architect of Urban Design, 1953-1969
Eric Mumford and Hashim Sarkis
This book examines the emergence and evolution of the discipline of urban design as articulated through the work of Josep Lluis Sert, one of its most influential practitioners and theorists.

Puerto Madero Waterfront, Jorge Liernur
New Geographies 0
Editor-in-Chief: Neyran Turan
This is the inaugural issue of the journal, which aims to examine recent claims made by the design disciplines about larger territorial subjects traditionally associated with geography and planning. It is made possible by the Aga Khan Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
Puerto Madero Waterfront, Jorge Liernur

Studio Works 12
Faculty Editors: Laura Miller, Paula Meijerink, Martin Zogran
Bi-annual compilation of selected student work and GSD exhibitions.

Puerto Madero Waterfront, Jorge Liernur
CASE: Puerto Madero Waterfront
Edited by: Jorge F. Liernur
This sixth volume of the CASE series seeks to critically assess the key urban interventions of Puerto Madero in Buenos Aires, Argentina, through both professional and ideological perspectives.
 
Territories: Contemporary European Landscape Design
Edited by: Joseph Disponzio

This book was born as an exhibition and conference of the same name at the GSD in Spring, 2001.
The exhibition gathered together for the first time in North America landscape design projects from more than
fifty European designers from nine countries.

 


Olympic Sculpture Park for the Seattle Art Museum: Weiss/Manfredi
Faculty editor: Joan Busquets
The Weiss / Manfredi design for the Olympic Sculpture Park was awared the ninth Veronica Rudge Green Prize
in Urban Design in 2007.
 
Studio Works 11
Faculty editors: Joseph MacDonald, Holly Getch Clarke, Paula Meijerink, Martin Zogran
The bi-annual compilation of selected student work.

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Manfredo Tafuri, Interpreting the Renaissance

Interpreting the Renaissance: Princes, Cities, Architects
Manfredo Tafuri

Tafuri studies the theory and practice of Renaissance architecture, offering new and compelling
readings of its various social, intellectual, and cultural contexts while providing a broad
understanding of uses of representation that shaped the entire era.

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Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategies in the Work of Eight Contemporary Architects
Rafael Moneo
Rafael Moneo discusses the work of eight contemporary architects, profiling theoretical positions, innovations, and design contributions, and offering critical analyses.

Barcelona; the Urban Evolution of a Compact City
Joan Busquets
An examination of the 2,000 year history of urban development in Barcelona, and prospects for the city in the twenty-first century.

Introductions: Jorge Silvetti
Edited by Rodolphe el-Khoury
A collection of lecture introductions given by Jorge Silvetti during his tenure as Chair of the Architecture Department at the GSD.

Studio Works 10
Faculty editors: Holly Getch Clarke, Hope Hasbrouck, Joe MacDonald, and Martin Zogran

The annual compilation of selected student work.

Aleppo: Rehabilitation of the Old City
Edited by Joan Busquets
A catalog that documents the rehabilitation project in the Old City of Aleppo, the recipient of the eighth Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design.

Residential Waterfront, Borneo Sporenburg, Amsterdam
Edited by Rodolfo Machado
The Seventh Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design

The Favela-Bairro Project: Jorge Mario Jáuregui Architects
Edited by Rodolfo Machado
The Sixth Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design

Immaterial | Ultramaterial
Edited by Toshiko Mori
Investigation into the profound effect radical innovations in materials and fabrication are having on contemporary architecture.

Before and After the End of Time: Architecture and the Year 1000
Edited by Christine Smith
A look at the contrast between the heavenly architecture of prophecy and Romanesque architecture at the turn of the first millennium.

Carlos Jiménez: House and Studio
Edited by Darell Fields
The elegant growth of the architect's home/studio complex from 1983 to the present.

Enrique Norten: A House in the City
Edited by Brooke Hodge
A complex urban yet private and quiet house for the architect and his family in the world's most populous city, Mexico City.

Case: Downsiew Park Toronto
Edited by Julia Czerniak
A CASE series book.

Case: Toyo Ito Sendai Mediatheque
Edited by Ron Witte
A CASE series book.

Case: Le Corbusier’s Venice Hospital
Edited by Hashim Sarkis
A CASE series book.

Case: Lafayette Park
Edited by Charles Waldheim
A CASE series book.

Case: Brasilia's Superquadra
Edited by Fares El-Dahdah
A CASE series book.

Richard Neutra’s Windshield House
Edited by Dietrich Neumann
The intriguing multiple “lives” of a house designed by Neutra, his first on the East Coast, damaged by hurricane only weeks after completion it was rebuilt and occupied until tragically destroyed by a fire in 1973.

Project on the City: The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping
Edited by Chuihau Judy Chung, Jeffery Inaba, Rem Koolhaas, Sze Tsung Leong

Project on the City: The Great Leap Forward
Edited by Chuihau Judy Chung, Jeffery Inaba, Rem Koolhaas, Sze Tsung Leong
Innovations in Structures
By Jason Kerwin (2006)

A New Technology series book.
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Computer Aided Collaboration in Managing Construction
By Burcin Becerik, Spiro N. Pollalis (2006)

A New Technology series book.
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Transformations: Paradigms for Designing Transformable Places
By Konstantinos Oungrinis (2006)

A New Technology series book.
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Participatory Virtual Preservation: a Dissertation Synopsis by Imdat As
By Imdat As (2005)

A New Technology series book.
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Globalization and Building Practice I: An Analytic Framework and Four Case Studies
By Thomas Schropfer (2005)

A New Technology series book.
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Polyvalence and Parametrics: Parametric Modeling in Architecture Design
By Jason Halaby (2004)
A New Technologies series book.
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Re-visions - Recording Architecture I
Edited by Imdat As and Daniel Schodek (2004)
A New Technologies series book.
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Computer-Aided Design and Computer-Aided Manufacturing
Edited by Dan Schodek and Kimo Griggs (2003)
A New Technologies series book.

Coffee, Cake, CAD/CAM: Reinventing the Urban Diner
Edited by Kimo Griggs and Martin Bechthold (2003)
A New Technologies series book.
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New Technologies in Architecture: Digital Design and Manufacturing Techniques
By Martin Bechthold, Kimo Griggs, Daniel Schodek, Marco Steinberg (2001)
A New Technologies series book.
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New Technologies in Architecture II and III: Digital Design and Manufacturing Techniques
Symposiums organized by Kimo Griggs, Martin Bechthold, and Marco Steinberg (2003)
A New Technologies series book.
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Patient Transport Module: Stroke PTM feasibility study report
By Daniel Schodek and Marco Steinberg (2003)
A New Technologies series book.
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Smart Materials and Technologies in Architecture
By Michelle Addington, Nico Kienzl, and Daniel Schodek (2002)
A New Technologies series book.

Rei Kawakubo: comme des garcons
The 2000 Excellence in Design Award

Robert Wilson
The 1998 Excellence in Design Award

Philippe Starck
The 1997 Excellence in Design Award