Harvard Design Magazine is committed to fostering critical understanding of the designing and making of the built environment through the examination of its underlying values and its place within larger social and cultural forces. In this issue eleven leading designers and critics step back from contemporary practices to evaluatively characterize their major attributes. Each answers questions on: most important current issues, best recent projects, overrated projects, designers’ power and influence, the impact of design on daily life, designers as environmentalists, designers’ new roles, design education, and design’s place in our market economy. In addition, essays appear on Alvaro Siza, Charlotte Perriand, fear in American land use, recent attempts to rekindle modernism, and several other topics. Harvard Design Magazine 21 is offered for your intellectual stimulation and engagement.
Table of Contents
Essays
A Call for the Radical Revitalization of American Planning
A Scientific Autobiography 1982–2004: Madrid, Harvard, OMA, the AA, Yokohama, the globe
Architects Behaving Badly: Ignoring Environmental Behavior Research
Double-Loaded: Everyday Architecture and Windows for Improvement
ELEMENTAL: Building Innovative Social Housing in Chile
Iconic Public Buildings as Sites of Technological Innovation
Incremental Urbanism: New Models for the Redesign of America’s Commercial Strips
Letter
Morning Shower Thoughts on Remaking Cities
No More Dreams? The Passion for Reality in Recent Dutch Architecture…and Its Limitations
No More Tabula Rasa: Progressive Architectural Practices in England
Quiet Havana, Potential Global City
Sert, CIAM, and the GSD: A Memoir
Utopia and the Hazards of Perfection: Now and in the Renaissance
“Nothing to Envy in the World”?
Reviews
Cedric Price: The Square Book; Re:CP; Opera by Cedric Price
City: Urbanism and Its End by Douglas W. Rae
Eichler/Modernism Rebuilds the American Dream by Paul Andamson and Marty Arbunich
Pevsner on Art and Architecture: The Radio Talks by Nikolaus Pevsner edited by Stephen Games
Suburban Alchemy: 1960s New Towns and the Transformation of the American Dream by Nicholas Dagen Bloom
Territories: Islands, Camps and Other States of Utopia edited by Anselm Franke, Rafi Segal, and Eyal Weizman
The Art of Structural Design: A Swiss Legacy by David P. Billington
