With this issue, Harvard Design Magazine begins a new design and broader cultural focus. The topic, “What about the Inside?,” explores the state of interiors and interiority in contemporary art, architecture, fabric design, product design, office buildings, photography, and philosophy.
29: What About the Inside? F/W 2008

Table of Contents
Editor’s Note
Essays
Whatever Happened to “Whatever Happened to Total Design?”? The Momentary Utopian Jouissance of the Bouroullec Brothers
The Reenchantment of the Interior: Olafur Eliasson’s Weather Project
Beneficent Emptiness in the Photography of Candida Höfer
Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe: Introduction
Dexterous Architecture
Excerpts from Spheres III: Foams first English translation by Daniela Fabricious
Global Architecture: A Review Essay
Houses of Mirth: Atelier Bow-Wow’s Ironies
Interiors at Risk: Precarious Spaces in Contemporary Art
Landscapes within Buildings
Making Space for Fashion: Stanton Williams’s 1987 Commission for Issey Miyake
Petra Envy: Designs of Petra Blaisse
Tensions in Transparency. Between Information and Experience: The Dialectical Logic of SANAA’s Architecture
The Beauty of the Percolation: On the Interiors of Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis
The Continuous Interior: Infrastructure for Publicity and Control
The Digital and the Utopian: Reassessing Buckminster Fuller
The Machine as the Garden: The New Harvard Campus in Allston, Sustainability and its Effects on Design
Weaving Worlds, Stitching Stories: On the Fabrics of Reiko Sudo
Reviews
Architect and Engineer: A Study in Sibling Rivalry by Andrew Saint
Form Follows Libido: Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture by Sylvia Lavin
Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky: Life as a Voyage edited by Monika Platzer
The Concrete Dragon: China’s Urban Revolution and What It Means for the World by Thomas J. Campanella
The Neoliberal City: Governance, Ideology, and Development in American Cities by Jason Hackworth