Gareth Doherty’s book, Landscape Fieldwork: How Engaging the World Can Change Design, was published by the University of Virginia Press in 2025. Photo courtesy of the University of Virginia Press.

On a late summer day, AquaPraça—a floating 400-square-meter steel platform, painted brilliant white—appeared in the Venetian Lagoon, destined for its September 5 debut at the 19th International ...

Put the city up; tear the city down, put it up again; let us find a city. —Carl Sandburg, “The Windy City,” 1922 Chicago was a well-loved subject of writer Carl Sandburg. Committed to the working ...

Chicago was a well-loved subject of writer Carl Sandburg. Committed to the working class, his poems vividly recount the people who labored to make and remake the city during its heady period of growth ...

Ancient pollen trapped in fresco wall-paintings, like a mosquito in amber, provides a historical ecological snapshot. Compacted grains of garden soil preserve 2,000-year-old footsteps. Even the ...

United Nations estimates suggest that nearly one billion people now live in slums worldwide—one-sixth of the planet’s population. Without concerted action, the number is expected to double by 2030.

At a moment when the word “design” has come to refer to everything and thus nothing, this issue examines the […] ...

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 ...

The house has been built for a wealthy publisher, his family, their guests, and some cars. The publisher was paralyzed from the waist down after a car crash—a rubber-burning, steel-twisting, ...

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.

It is increasingly clear that one of the major female architects of the 20th century was the Italian Lina Bo Bardi, who emigrated to Brazil in 1945 and made a name for herself there. But this claim is ...

Redesign, for decades stigmatized by Modernist purists as an inferior architectural specialty reserved for the artistically timid and creatively challenged, has finally become a legitimate part of ...