This issue of Harvard Design Magazine focuses on the present moment in design, where many forty-something architects are impatient to have real progressive effects on the world bust are also well aware of how difficult that is and how one must comprise and collaborate with the powers that be to achieve any improvements. It is about an odd merging of realism with utopianism, about practices that are trying to bite off large chunks of reality to work with, that are eager to collaborate with all sorts of other professionals and generalists (the public, politicians, other design professionals, developers, government, corporations, etc.), even eager to contaminate their professional purity and authorship with the input of these others. Their work is adaptable and incremental in order to be effective.
20: Stocktaking 2004: Nine Questions about the Present and Future of Design S/S 2004
Table of Contents
Essays
Incarnate Sensualities: The Architecture of Alvaro Siza
Memories of Modernism: Archeology of the Future
Neocreationism and the Illusion of Ecological Restoration
Phyllis Lambert, Advocacy Planner in the Late 1960s
Stocktaking 2004: Nine Questions About the Present and Future of Design
Through Glass, Darkly: Recent Glass Architecture in Japan
Reviews
Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820–2000 by Dolores Hayden
Crime and Ornament: The Arts and Popular Culture in the Shadow of Adolf Loos edited by Bernie Miller and Melony Ward
Otto Wagner, Adolf Loos, and the Road to Modern Architecture by Werner Oechslin
The Order of Ornament, The Structure of Style: Theoretical Foundations of Modern Art and Architecture by Debra Schafter
The Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space by Reinhold Martin
