“Nothing will come of nothing.” In the next decades designers will need ot shift their prime paradigm from drawing on blank slates and to adaptively redesign the already designed and built environment. This shift, which will be necessitated by increasing resource shortages and the need for sustainability, could be thought of as threatening designers’ creativity and autonomy, but such an assumption is based on the treacherous belief that monologues are “freer” than dialogues, that one cannot bring oneself into being more fully in a rich, demanding responsiveness to givens, like transformations of rail yards into parks, malls into housing, or military bases into villages, and adding onto rather than tearing down buildings. Harvard Design Magazine 23 focuses on and theorizes exciting, effective, urgent, and rich redesign or “co-design” (additions)—past, present, and future.
Table of Contents
Essays
Bust or Fold: Suburbia as Destiny
Deference, Dialogue, and Dissolve: How New Architecture Meets Old
Diminishing Difficulty: Mass Customization and the Digital Production of Architecture
Does Enforcement of Architects’ Regulations Protect the Public Welfare? Not Enough.
Gathering the Given: Michelangelo’s Redesign of the Campidoglio
In Celebration of Complementary Architecture: Architectural History’s Suppressed Glories
Moneo’s Anxiety: Rafael Moneo’s Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategies in the Work of Eight Contemporary Architects
Reconstruction Doubts: The Ironies of Building in Schinkel’s Name
Roadside Redesigns: —Woody and Variegated—to Help Sustain Nature and People
The Production of Locality in Josep Luis Sert’s Peabody Terrace
Urban Land is a Natural Thing to Waste: Seeing and Appreciating Drosscapes
Reviews
Dark Age Ahead by Jane Jacobs
Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory by Andreas Huyssen
Warped Space by Anthony Vidler
