Despite remarkable advancements in technology, the construction documents that architects produce for their clients to ...

Parsing distinctions between architecture and “mere” building has been a preoccupation of thinkers and practitioners since ancient times. The very difficulty of defining neat disciplinary boundaries ...

At a moment when the word “design” has come to refer to everything and thus nothing, Harvard Design Magazine 52 examines the state of architectural practice today. Once asserted to be the “mother art” ...

Redesign, for decades stigmatized by Modernist purists as an inferior architectural specialty reserved for the artistically timid and creatively challenged, has finally become a legitimate part of ...

Felicity D. Scott describes the moment when interconnections between humankind and the environment came to occupy center stage in international forums, a phenomenon Scott calls “environmentality.” The ...

What models of the future family home might emerge from the refracted visions of thirteen theory dudes, six tech and logistics corporations, six proto-starchitects (five men, one woman), three bad ...

This issue of Harvard Design Magazine and its focus on the putative “core” of landscape architecture raise timely and fundamental questions of disciplinary and professional identity for the field.

At a moment when the word “design” has come to refer to everything and thus nothing, this issue examines the state of architectural practice today.

The Origins and Evolution of "Urban Design," 1956–2006 quantity ...

These contradictions are what generated this issue of Harvard Design Magazine. “Well, Well, Well” explores some of the tensions and transformations of the landscape of health and illness. As both ...

I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence. — Jacques Cousteau, 1981 When President Obama shut down the manned space shuttle program on August 31, 2011, ...