Deconstruction/Construction: The Cheonggyecheon Restoration Project in Seoul
The restoration of the Cheonggyecheon River that runs through Seoul, Korea, in a mere twenty-nine…
Topic Ecology
Designing for the Unknown: The Transformative Potential of Mine Clearance on the Falkland Islands
by Hans Baumann (MLA ’11) On April 2, 1982, the Argentine Navy invaded the Falkland…
Ecological Urbanism
While climate change, sustainable architecture and green technologies have become increasingly topical issues, concerns regarding…
An Ecology of Vulnerability: The Sewerage Crisis in Ahmedabad, India
by Stephanie Tam (MArch ’11) Politicized aesthetics have been a perennial subject of debate for…
The Lemons of the Sorrentine Peninsula: An Integrated Cultural Landscape
by Vera Shur (MArch ’11) and Julian Wu (MArch ’11) The Food and Agriculture Organization…
Ecological Urbanism
The contemporary urban environment is facilitated by ecologies that exceed the city’s physical and political limits, reaching into hinterlands and beyond. Urbanism is also made up of many smaller pieces—a mosaic, as Richard T.T. Forman describes urban as well as rural landscapes—between which the boundaries…
Landing Salt: Industry and the Structure of Places
by Dan Adams (MArch ’05) Landing Salt is a study of the ways that global…
Sauerbruch Hutton: Sense and Sensuality
Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton are the Fall 2005 Kenzo Tange Visiting Design Critics at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Having founded their architectural practice in London in the late eighties, they opened a second office in Berlin in 1993, where Juan Lucas…