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 ...

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.

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, ...

I swim in white-tiled pools with straight black lines; in water where you can see the other side—where there is another side. The walls don’t move; they define and contain my chlorinated monotony. In ...

The invention of the internet—the world wide web—in 1989 can be seen as a bookend of sorts to the famous Blue Marble photograph, taken by Ronald Evans from Apollo 17 in 1972: this 17-year period was ...

Urban planning is not gender neutral. While there has long been research on how urban systems fail to respond to women’s needs, it was only a decade ago that the subject surged. Since then, countless ...

The arts and humanities contribute to the process of cultural translation by propagating and protecting what I call the “right to narrate”—the authority to tell stories, recount or recast histories, ...

When I was growing up, we, like most Utah Mormon families, kept a year’s supply of food in the basement. Canned goods and preserved apples and peaches in Mason jars were periodically rotated, newer ...

Staring into the mundane depths of any modern technical system requires that one make peace with an analytic absurdity. Namely, that although one of our oldest fallacies concerning technical life is ...