Parsing distinctions between architecture and “mere” building has been a preoccupation of thinkers and practitioners since ancient times. The very difficulty of defining neat disciplinary boundaries ...

In 1921, Loos titled his first essay collection Spoken into the Void; the work was intended as a critique of his Austrian contemporaries’ ignorance of modern lifestyles.Indirectly, the “void” in the ...

Sean Canty, assistant professor of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and founder of Studio Sean Canty, invited Casey Cadwallader, American fashion designer and Creative Director of ...

At a moment when the word “design” has come to refer to everything and thus nothing, this issue examines the hidden mechanics and visible output of design practice in order to track the shifting role ...

Harvard Design Magazine 51: Multihyphenate examines multihyphenation as a mode of creative practice, a political response, and economic imperative in our 21st century neoliberal world.

1.La Casa bella, founded as a design magazine in 1928, changed its name to Casabella in 1933: it was only then that it began to concern itself almost exclusively with architecture.. 2 In her memoirs, ...

1 Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 79–135.. 2 See Aristotle, The Politics, trans. T. A. Sinclair (London: Penguin, 1981).. 3 The ideology of the ...

Before books, there were scrolls. The ancient Romans, like the Sumerians, stored their extensive scroll collections in “cells,” or pigeonholes (nidus, forulus, or loculamentum), or on pegmata, ...

1 The U.S. Green Building Council has codified the link between building, rebuilding, and sustainability in its LEED program, promoting the reuse of old buildings to “extend the lifecycle of existing ...

1 Such proposed rooflines were later built in straight lines for practical reasons. See H. Allen Brooks, “Le Corbusier’s Formative Years at La Chaux-de-Fonds,” in Le Corbusier, H. Allen Brooks, ed.

More recently, in China, the architects Tiantian Xu of DnA and Wang Shu have both employed a form of “acupuncture urbanism” (a term coined by the Spanish city planner Manuel de Solà-Morales) to push ...

In June 2014, drivers crossing the causeway between Singapore and Johor, Malaysia, began to notice something strange. A slender sandbar, which had long stood in the middle of the narrow straits, had ...