A Critic Writes by Reyner Banham
5: Design Arts and Architecture
At the beginning of the academic year 1997–98, the Department of Architecture, under the auspices of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, launched the Design Arts Initiative, intending to broaden our academic involvement with the allied arts—such as industrial and product design, interior design, graphic design, and the decorative arts—that are not part of the School’s curriculum and programs that, since its foundation more than half a century ago, have canonized the alliances between architecture, physical planning, urbanism, and landscape architecture. We aim to respond, on the one hand, to our obligation to comply with the ample intellectual mission of the School and its traditions, and on the other, to the new territory that professional practice, the market, industry, art and popular culture have been remapping in the last decades and that inevitably has challenged from the outside some of the ideological, methodological, and theoretical boundaries that defined the field of action of architectural education. We celebrate the closing of this year of the Design Arts at Harvard with this special issue of the Harvard Design Magazine.
— Jorge S. Silvetti, guest editor (excerpted from the introduction)
Articles
Table of Contents
Essay
“Thinking by Drawing”
Brooke Hodge
And What About Industrial Design?
Steve Diskin
Design and Fabrication
Toshiko Mori
Design as Export
Stephen Leet
Loose Upper Lip
Deyan Sudjic
Mutant Materials
Paola Antonelli
P.S./P.C.
K. Michael Hays
Recent Architectural Paradigms and a Personal Alternative
Rafael Moneo
Rockbottom: Villa by OMA
Wouter Vanstiphout
Spirit of the Nineties
Renny Ramakers
Starck Speaks
Philippe Starck
Villa Planchart
Monica Ponce de Leon
Whatever Happened to Total Design?
Mark Wigley
Who Will Sing the Marble Meadows?
Christine Smith, Joseph O'Connor
Review
A Critic Writes by Reyner Banham
Wouter Vanstiphout
Architecture of Fear edited by Nan Ellin
Edward Robbins
City Life by Witold Rybczynski
Edward Robbins
The New Urban Frontier by Neil Smith
Edward Robbins
Translations from Drawing to Building by Robin Evans
Joseph Rykwert