“Reflecting on Shinohara”: Kazuyo Sejima and Seng Kuan in Conversation
In conversation with Seng Kuan, Kazuyo Sejima of SANAA reflects on Shinohara…
Topic Practice
Balanced between concept and realization, design practice exposes the connections between the design imagination and the space in which it operates. By critically studying issues of practice, designers imagine new methods to advance their influence and to intervene in the world.
Radical geometry: With Haus Gables, Jennifer Bonner proposes a new urban typology
Photo credit: NAARO On the first day of the construction of Haus Gables–after 11 trucks…
Talking Practice: Preston Scott Cohen
In this episode, Talking Practice host Grace La interviews Preston Scott Cohen, founder…
Remembering Pei: Tracing the architect’s legacy to the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Ieoh Ming (I.M.) Pei died on May 16, 2019, at the age of 102. Over…
Kuehn Malvezzi on liberating institutional design from all that is “dark, serious, and deeply moral”
This spring, Berlin-based architects Johannes Kuehn, Wilfried Kuehn, and Simona Malvezzi asked…
What we think we know about architecture: A conversation with Sharon Johnston
Unsettled ground is familiar territory to Sharon Johnston. Her firm with partner…
Instigations, speculations, and platforms: Dean Mohsen Mostafavi’s lasting contribution to Harvard Graduate School of Design
Mohsen Mostafavi’s deanship has been booked-ended by publications: The first was Ecological…
A Pattern Language: A user’s guide to the seminal architectural handbook
“A complex of buildings with no center is like a man without a head.” This…
The Detroit model: Kimberly Dowdell discusses strategies for revitalization
Cities like Detroit have become increasingly central to public dialogue about the nature and politics…
What can the utopian communities of the 60s teach today’s designers about co-living?
Wind blows hard over the bluff as huge waves roll in from the horizon, crashing…