This and the next issue of Harvard Design Magazine are devoted to questioning and overcoming the commonly held assumption that the pursuit of sustainability and the pursuit of pleasure are in tension if not opposition. Here, broad cultural issues and architecture, and the design of objects are studied. Sustainability is put in parentheses in the title because this term is contested and ambiguous: usually referring to technological prowess in reducing energy consumption and natural damage, the world should also imply much broader realities, including the social, the cultural, the economic, and the psychological—the ecological in its fullest sense. The city, in this view, is an endlessly independent network.
Table of Contents
Essays
A Critical Overview of New Architecture in India
Beauty from Sustainability?
Climatic Constructions: Thermal Asymmetry in Architecture
Delight in Sun, Wind, and Light: Sustainability and Pleasure Indoors/Outdoors
Frameworks of Performance & Delight
Hypermondern Society & the Eclectic Individual; The Invention of the Local
In Situ: Site-Specificity in Sustainable Architecture
New Transformers in Building
Ordos: Nine Houses by GSD Faculty
Small Pleasures in Huge Webs
Sustainability and Pleasure: An Untimely Meditation
Sustainability, or the Redefinition of the Pleasure Principle
The New Somatic Architecture
The Sensual City: The Artificial Enabling the Natural
The “Architecture 2030 Challenge”: A Reality Check
Toward an Architecture of Lightness
Wheels, Safeties, and Bicycles-to-Be
Interview
Reviews
Architecture in the Age of Divided Representation by Dalibor Vesely
Eisenman Inside Out: Selected Writings by Peter Eisenman
Endless City: The Urban Age Project edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic
Giuseppe Terragni: Transformations, Decompositions, Critiques by Peter Eisenman
In Search of New Public Domain by Maartin Hajer and Arnold Reijndorp
Open: New Designs for online Public Space edited by Raymond W. Gastil and Zoe Ryan
Retrofitting Suburbia by Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson
The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture by Peter Eisenman
Tracing Eisenman: Peter Eisenman Complete Work by Peter Eisenman
Written into the Void: Selected Writings, 1990-2004 by Peter Eisenman
