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 ...

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, ...

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.

The title of this essay refers to the dance composition “Still Here” by Bill T. Jones. 1 Wilson Dreck, “Julian Francis Abele,” unpublished article, 3.. 2 Article in Philly Talk, unsigned, 1970, 27.. 3 ...

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, ...

Who makes architecture? To ask this question in Harvard Design Magazine might seem redundant, but I would like to ask it about a very specific and iconic building in Chicago—the Benito Juarez ...

March 2006 is the fiftieth anniversary of the First Urban Design Conference at Harvard—an event that, under the leadership of José Luis Sert, marked a beginning of the self-conscious pursuit of urban ...

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 ...