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Rethinking the Developmental City in China
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Harvard Design Magazine #38
Harvard Design Magazine
Do You Read Me?
Spring/Summer 2014 Designed by With Projects, Inc. 160 pages 21.6 x 30.5 cm ISSN 1093-4421 $16.00 Distributed by Central Books and Speedimpex
“Do You Read Me?” invites “reading” across disciplinary boundaries. The question anticipates a response: “Loud and clear!” But it also suggests distortion or misinterpretation. This issue is about reading and misreading, and the role of design in streamlining or garbling the exchange between sender and receiver. In a world where we are all constantly “read” as data, we might rethink the appeal of misunderstanding, or inscrutability. This issue suggests that the role of design is not just to construct certitudes, but also to enable more nuanced realities to coexist. With contributions by Homi K. Bhabha, Alan Kay, Sanford Kwinter, Tan Lin, Eileen Myles, Philippe Rahm, Ines Weizman, and Kazys Varnelis, among others.
Harvard Design Magazine #39 Wet Matter
Harvard Design Magazine
The ocean represents the “other 71 percent” of our planet, yet it remains a glaring blind spot in the Western imagination. Catastrophic events remind us of its influence, but we tend to marginalize or misunderstand the scales of the oceanic—we overlook its potential power. This issue challenges the terrestrial frameworks that shape today’s industrial, corporate, and economic patterns. It profiles the ocean as contemporary urban space and subject of material, political, and ecologic significance, asking how we are shaping it, and how it is shaping us. With contributions by Ulrich Beck, Joshua Comaroff, Keller Easterling, Rebecca Gomperts, AbdouMaliq Simone, Supersudaca, Mark von Schlegell, and Dawn Wright, among others.
Fall/Winter 2014 Guest edited by Pierre Bélanger Designed by With Projects, Inc. 176 pages 21.6 x 30.5 cm ISSN 1093-4421 $16.00 Distributed by Central Books and Speedimpex
Harvard Design Magazine #40
Harvard Design Magazine
Well, Well, Well
Spring/Summer 2015 Designed by With Projects, Inc. 192 pages 21.6 x 30.5 cm ISSN 1093-4421 $16.00 Distributed by Central Books and Speedimpex
“Well, Well, Well” explores the tensions and transformations of the landscape of health and illness. As designers and inhabitants, we create this landscape, and in turn, must navigate our well-being within it. As the rules of wellness continue to change—along with political events, science and technology, and nature itself—design and planning must respond accordingly. Architecture’s panaceas are not without expiration dates, and might even turn out to do more harm than good— but ultimately design has the power to promote and support health and healing in preemptive and progressive ways. With contributions by George Church, Beatriz Colomina, Linda Fried and Interboro Partners, Kiel Moe, and Ai-Jen Poo, among others.
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Harvard Design Magazine #41 Family Planning
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What is the shape of today’s family and the spaces it occupies? Is the family a “unit,” or is it a dynamic, dispersed, unstable network? This issue questions the model of the heteronormative, nuclear family, examining how “non-traditional” family realities influence, and are influenced by, spaces we use and need as homes; patterns of existence in cities, suburbs, and the countryside; and global mobility. “Family Planning” starts with the premise that we need to imagine new, different forms of living together, inviting readers to challenge and reimagine the space of the family unit. With contributions by Michael Hardt, Eve Blau, Vyjayanthi Rao, Jeremy Till, and McKenzie Wark, among others.
Fall/Winter 2015 Designed by With Projects, Inc. ca. 176 pages 21.6 x 30.5 cm ISSN 1093-4421 $16.00 Distributed by Central Books and Speedimpex
New Geographies #6 Grounding Metabolism
New Geographies
Edited by Daniel Ibañez, Nikos Katsikis
August 2014 Designed by Rob Daurio and Chelsea Spencer 190 pages 20.4 x 25.5 cm ISBN 978-1-934510-37-7 $24.95 Distributed by Harvard University Press
Design disciplines have always recognized the potential of urban metabolism to shape spatial strategies, from Patrick Geddes’s Valley Section to the megastructures of the Japanese Metabolists. Confined to the regional scale historically, today’s generalized urbanization is characterized by an unprecedented complexity and planetary upscaling of metabolic relations. This volume of New Geographies aims to trace alternative, synthetic routes to design through a more elaborate understanding of the relation between metabolic models and concepts and the formal, physical, and material specificities of spatial structures across scales. With contributions by Neil Brenner and Nikos Katsikis, Muriam Haleh Davis, Fadi Masoud, Bas Princen, Stefania Staniscia, and Wouter Vanstiphout, among others.
New Geographies #7 Geographies of Information Edited by Taraneh Meshkani, Ali Fard
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Contemporary networks of information and communication are inherently geographic. “Geographies of Information” attempts to realign design’s relationship to information technologies by expanding on their underlying multiscalar complexities and contextual intricacies. With an emphasis on the impure, messy, and dynamic characteristics of contemporary society, this volume of New Geographies focuses on the hybridities that support the construction of the networked materialities and sociotechnical networked relationships. With contributions by Benjamin Bratton, Stephen Graham, Jennifer Light, Antoine Picon, Mark Shepard, Kazys Varnelis, and Mason White, among others.
October 2015 Designed by Chelsea Spencer 180 pages 20.4 x 25.5 cm ISBN 978-1-934510-38-4 $24.95 Distributed by Harvard University Press
New Geographies #8 Island
New Geographies
Edited by Daniel Daou, Pablo Pérez Ramos
September 2016 Designed by Chelsea Spencer ca. 190 pages 20.4 x 25.5 cm ISBN 978-1-934510-45-2 $24.95 Distributed by Harvard University Press
From Thomas More’s Utopia to Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory to O. M. Ungers’s archipelago, insights derived from “island thinking” are commonly extrapolated across scales and fields. The recurrence and appeal of the island metaphor lie in its capacity to simplify the complex and frame the apparently unbounded. Yet the island seems to confront current ontological mainstreams in the geographic: globalization’s motifs of openness and interconnectedness, and ecology’s privileging of environmental processes and flows over forms and boundaries. This volume proposes an epistemological pulse between the loss of the exterior implied in the planetary upscaling of territorial interpretations, and the need to rearrange new boundaries in an environment frequently explained through the process-oriented lens of ecology.
The Architecture of Taste Pierre Hermé
The Incidents
The Architecture of Taste recaptures the “lecture de pâtisserie” delivered by renowned pastry chef Pierre Hermé. Presenting his work as layered experiments in gastronomy— as well as in design and time—Hermé laid the foundations of a theory of the architecture of taste. Commentary by architect Savinien Caracostea and theorist Sanford Kwinter draws out points of engagement between gastronomy and architecture—such as the importance of sequence and layering in time and space, illustrated by the vertical cut of Hermé’s Plaisir Sucré. With sensory descriptions, original “taste diagrams,” and recipes (for 400), the book taps directly into Hermé’s creative approach.
April 2015 Designed by Åbäke Softcover 96 pages 13.5 x 21 cm ISBN 978-3-95679-139-0 $14.00 Copublished with Sternberg Press
Freedom of Use
The Incidents
Anne Lacaton, Jean-Philippe Vassal
August 2015 Designed by Åbäke Softcover 96 pages 13.5 x 21 cm ISBN 978-3-95679-173-4 $14.00 Copublished with Sternberg Press
Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal are known for an architecture that privileges inhabitants’ freedom and pleasure through generous, open designs. The architects opened their 2015 lecture at Harvard University with a manifesto: study and create an inventory of the existing situation; densify without compressing individual space; promote user mobility, access, choice; and most importantly, never demolish. Their principle of doubling space is echoed in the book’s treatment of photography: black-and-white exterior shots run alongside the text, forming a dialogue with corresponding full-color photographs of each interior, gathered at the end of the book.
Platform 8 An Index of Design & Research Edited by Zaneta Hong
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Platform 8 catalogs a curated selection of work generated in the past year at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Alongside final products of design education, Platform 8 places particular emphasis on collecting and documenting the people and artifacts that shape researchdriven design practices. Here, design is presented both as process and as a final product. The book’s indexical structure, punctuated with a collection of portraits, presents a comprehensive picture of the school. Platform 8 shows the intention, direction, and passion seen and experienced every day at the GSD.
November 2015 Design consultants: Zak Jensen and Laura Grey Softcover ca. 400 pages 15.6 x 23.5 cm ISBN 978-1-940291-74-1 $34.95 Copublished with Actar
Networked Urbanism: Design Thinking Initiatives for a Better Urban Life
Studio Reports
Belinda Tato, Jose Luis Vallejo
October 2014 Series design by Zak Jensen and Laura Grey Report design by Enrique Agudo, Molly Huang, Carlos Leon, Hung Kai Liao, Marco Rizzetto, Rachel Weston Softcover 126 pages 17 x 24.5 cm ISBN 978-1-934510-39-1 $16.35 Available on Amazon.com and Issuu
Networked Urbanism was a series of studios taught between 2010 and 2014. The studios aimed to bring network-design thinking to the forefront of design disciplines, and strove to solve real-world problems on the ground, providing an alternative to the traditional approach of designing urban environments from a bird’s-eye view and a single designer’s perspective. The studio examined both the physical dimension of the city and its social processes and fluxes, developing initiatives that generated spontaneous transformations and set up conditions for change.
Territorialism Paola Viganò
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The two-part Territorialism studio (2012 and 2013) examined the territorial scale and the form of the territory as a basis to understand the contemporary city and the modifications that have occurred in its spatial, economic, and social structure. The studio was based on the premise that the urban field is changing, and ecological rationality can offer fundamental opportunities to intersect and integrate various territorial layers. It focused attention on time, impermanence, and biotic relations, which, through natural dynamics, can permeate all environments. And it operated on the premise that what we perceive as a territory is above all a mental construction inside which territories can be created or erased.
November 2014 Series design by Zak Jensen and Laura Grey Report design by Carolyn Deuschle with Daniel Rauchwerger Softcover 146 pages 17 x 24.5 cm ISBN 978-1-934510-41-4 $27.68 Available on Amazon.com and Issuu
High-Rise, High-Density
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Stephen Bates, Jonathan Sergison
November 2014 Series design by Zak Jensen and Laura Grey Report design by Sarah Maunder Softcover 88 pages 17 x 24.5 cm ISBN 978-1-934510-42-1 $10.52 Available on Amazon.com and Issuu
The high-rise, multistory building is a very American invention, the result of increasing land values in cities, an abundance of iron ore, and Elisha Otis’s invention of the elevator. In “The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered” from 1896, Louis Sullivan argues for an approach to high-rise buildings that combines appearance with pragmatism, architectural and architectonic qualities, and technical performance. In spring 2014, students in the High-Rise, High-Density studio designed towers for residential use in Boston, placing emphasis on the atmosphere of the building, how it is entered from the street, how a believable and comfortable set of interior spaces is created, how volumes are expressed, and facade design.
Another Nature Junya Ishigami
Studio Reports
In spring 2014, the Another Nature studio invited new views on place and the role of architecture, challenging the distinctions created through program, enclosure, and formal organization. The studio considered these three relationships in the context of contemporary Tokyo, a city where rapid and extensive urbanization has increasingly alienated individuals from their natural surroundings. Although the country as a whole is relatively affluent, it faces persistent economic stagnation compounded by an aging population, rising state expenditures, and a diminishing tax base. These larger issues call into question existing approaches toward development and provide an opening for new conceptions of building and public space.
March 2015 Series design by Zak Jensen and Laura Grey Report edited by Sky Milner Report design by Jiasi Tan Softcover 134 pages 17 x 24.5 cm ISBN 978-1-934510-44-5 $17.05 Available on Amazon.com and Issuu
Design and Politics: Managing Risks and Vulnerabilities
Studio Reports
Henk Ovink with John Gendall, Samuel Carter, Scott Davis
April 2015 Series design by Zak Jensen and Laura Grey Report design by Anya Domlesky Softcover 116 pages 17 x 24.5 cm ISBN 978-1-934510-43-8 $17.20 Available on Amazon.com and Issuu
Contemporary spatial design faces a political paradox. To address emerging environmental challenges and the risk of climate-related disasters, it must transcend political boundaries to operate regionally, at the scale of “landscape urbanism.� In the Hurricane Sandyaffected region, states, counties, and municipalities grappled with the reality of sea-level rise and climate risk. In 2013, the Presidential Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force launched the Rebuild by Design competition, a collaborative process for driving regional resilience. The spring 2014 studio, like Rebuild by Design, aimed to find ways of directing disaster-relief spending and identified layers of risks and vulnerabilities by designing spatial and political systems with significant regional impact.
Habitation in Extreme Environments Rok Oman, Spela Videcnik
Studio Reports
Given dramatic climate shifts, housing design in harsh environments translates into a matter of immediate safety. Remote settlements in the North must be designed and constructed in accordance with ideas of self-sufficiency and back-up energy systems. This situation requires incisive designs that respond to irregular loading from strong winds, heavy snowfall, avalanches, and extreme cold. The dichotomy between vernacular housing traditions and the latest innovation in building technology establishes an interesting terrain for the design of comfortable living environments. Design must therefore respond effectively to scarcity, inaccessibility, and unpredictability with innovation particular to extreme climates.
May 2015 Series design by Zak Jensen and Laura Grey Report design by Katie MacDonald and Erin Pellegrino Softcover 148 pages 17 x 24.5 cm ISBN 978-1-934510-48-3 $18.69 Available on Amazon.com and Issuu
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August 2015 Series design by Zak Jensen and Laura Grey Report design by Yong K. Kim, HyperBina Design Softcover 120 pages 17 x 24.5 cm ISBN 978-1-934510-49-0 $17.20 Available on Amazon.com and Issuu
Within the global constellation of increasingly connected urban centers, shifts in cultural preferences, design thinking, and spatial signification often reflect transitions in capital forces and economic realities. This spring 2014 course was constructed around the belief that globalization imposes unprecedented forces that directly impact the built environment. The pedagogical focus was twofold: to establish an intellectual framework to understand and embrace the interrelationship between real estate and design, so that design thinking becomes a value-adding and differentiating component in development; and to rethink, anticipate, and reinvent practice paradigms in an academic setting that respond to exigent and transformative environmental, market, and cultural changes.
The Storm, the Strife, and Everyday Life: Sea Changes in Suburbs Dan D’Oca
Studio Reports
This fall 2014 studio took stock of Long Island’s changes, and used this research to work with community-based organizations to envision, design, and outline steps toward inclusive, socially just futures. Students looked at how newer issues on Long Island (increased immigration, poverty, aging populations, sea level rise, etc.) have combined with more familiar problems (racial segregation, political fragmentation, a relative dearth of housing and transportation options, etc.) to create an unsustainable situation. In a subsequent design phase, students worked with local nonprofits on development initiatives, from low-income apartment buildings, to parks and recreational facilities, to mixed-use, transit-oriented downtown developments, to community-wide masterplans.
August 2015 Series design by Zak Jensen and Laura Grey Report design by Irene Figeroa Ortiz and Marcus Pulsipher ca. 150 pages 17 x 24.5 cm ISBN 978-1-934510-50-6 $18.69 Available on Amazon.com and Issuu
The Barracks of Pion: Developing the Edge of the Park of Versailles
Studio Reports
Michel Desvigne, Inessa Hansch
October 2015 Series design by Zak Jensen and Laura Grey Report design by Hillary Asher and Courtney Goode ca. 150 pages 17 x 24.5 cm ISBN 978-1-934510-51-3 $18.69 Available on Amazon.com and Issuu
Versailles is often considered the site of invention of the classical city. Strikingly, the shapes of the city respond to those of the park. This link between geography, agrarian structures, and urban forms is an extraordinary reference for the contemporary city. This spring 2015 studio focused on a site adjacent to the park—former military barracks, where the city is planning to develop a new neighborhood. At the center of this study was the construction of peri-urban areas, their inclusion in an agricultural territory, the deciphering and transposition of historical traces, and the invention of urban forms in relation to the creation of public spaces across the landscape.
“Poor but Sexy”: Berlin, the New Communal Frank Barkow, Arno Brandlhuber
Studio Reports
In 2004, former Berlin mayor Klaus “Wowi” Wowereit claimed that Berlin was “Arm aber Sexy,” poor but sexy, setting the tone for a post-reunification milieu with cheap rents, changing demographics, and a burgeoning art and music scene. Today, there is increasing friction between market-driven speculation and the need for affordable housing—30,000 new apartments are needed within five years. The current political climate suggests a proactive one, where planners, architects, and developers can propose housing solutions, anticipating and provoking new experimental ideas for an immediate future. Proposals developed in the spring 2015 course questioned “private” and “public” space, and how they overlap and are mediated and articulated through housing solutions.
October 2015 Series design by Zak Jensen and Laura Grey Report design by Maria Hudl ca. 150 pages 17 x 24.5 cm ISBN 978-1934510-54-4 $18.69 Available on Amazon.com and Issuu
Common Frameworks: Rethinking the Developmental City in China, Part 1 Xiamen: The Megaplot
Studio Reports
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September 2013 Designed by Project Projects Softcover 142 pages 20.5 x 25.5 cm ISBN 978-1-934510-36-0 Available on Issuu
Xiamen: The Megaplot is the first of a three-year research and design study on the future of the Chinese city. Asserting that the megaplot has dissolved the idea of the city as a common space, the studio projects present an alternative urban strategy, conceiving a common framework for housing, workspace, nature, and civic functions. The critique recuperates the cultural logic of Chinese civilization that underpins all of its aesthetic production: the alternation of binary opposites, in this case the reciprocal elements of architecture and landscape, to maintain equilibrium. It sows the seed for an alternative idea of the city for China.
Common Frameworks: Rethinking the Developmental City in China, Part 2 Macau: Cross-Border City Edited by Christopher C. M. Lee
Studio Reports
Macau: Cross-Border City focuses on the city of Macau and particularly on the challenges faced by cities in city-regions and the effects of cross-border urbanization. Asserting that the tropes used to describe and understand the border and its architecture fall short, the studio projects present an alternative urban strategy, conceiving a common framework for the border and its supporting facilities. The critique reconceptualizes the inherent architecture and spatiality of the cross-border city, and its implicit ambition to bring about a city that is plural and equitable.
September 2014 Designed by Project Projects Softcover 152 pages 20.5 x 25.5 cm ISBN 978-1-934510-40-7 Available on Issuu
Common Frameworks: Rethinking the Developmental City in China, Part 3 Taiqian: The Countryside as a City
Studio Reports
Edited by Christopher C. M. Lee
September 2015 Designed by Project Projects Softcover ca. 152 pages 20.5 x 25.5 cm ISBN 978-1-934510-52-1 Available on Issuu
Taiqian: The Countryside as a City is premised upon two fundamental ambitions: the recuperation of an idea of the city as a project, and the pursuit of alternative forms of urbanization in response to the challenges posed by the developmental city in China. The former treats the project of the city as a cultural, political, and aesthetic act; the latter as a strategic project for urbanization, articulated through its architecture, landscape, and infrastructure. Research was focused on the transformation of China’s rural villages into towns. The studio defines the common framework as an architecture, landscape, and infrastructure that reifies the idea of the city as a space of coexistence.
Projective Ecologies Edited by Chris Reed, Nina-Marie Lister
Design Research Series
The past two decades have witnessed a resurgence of ecological thinking in discussions of urbanism, culture, and design. The field of ecology has moved from classical determinism and a reductionist Newtonian concern with order in favor of more contemporary understandings of dynamic systemic change and the related phenomena of adaptability and resilience. Projective Ecologies takes stock of the diversity of contemporary ecological research and theory—embracing Félix Guattari’s broader definition of ecology as at once environmental, social, and existential—and speculates on potential paths forward for design practices. With contributors by James Corner, Erle C. Ellis, Richard T. T. Forman, Sanford Kwinter, Sean Lally, West 8, and Jane Wolff, among others.
July 2014 Designed by Ramon Prat Hardcover 380 pages 16.5 x 22 cm ISBN 978-1-940291-12-3 $34.95 Copublished with Actar
The Function of Style
Design Research Series
Farshid Moussavi
April 2015 Designed by Farshid Moussavi Softcover 602 pages 17.2 x 21.8 cm ISBN 978-1-940291-30-7 $44.95 Copublished with Actar
What is the function of style today? If the 1970s were defined by postmodernism and the 1980s by deconstruction, how do we characterize the architecture of the 1990s to the present? Some built forms transmit affects of curvilinearity, others of crystallinity; some transmit multiplicity, others unity; some transmit cellularity, others openness; some transmit dematerialization, others weight. In this book, Farshid Moussavi argues that this diversity should not be mistaken for an eclecticism driven by external forces. The third volume in Moussavi’s “Function” series, the book presents the architectural landscape as an intricate web in which individual buildings are the product of ideas appropriated from other buildings designed for different activities of everyday life.
The Generic Sublime Ciro Najle
Design Research Series
Skyscraper collectives, tower agglomerations, mixed-use developments; airport hubs, industrial parks, hotel complexes; satellite cities, theme parks, gated communities: what is the potential latent in contemporary extra-large typologies currently restricted by the typological tradition of urbanism and the dominant segregation of disciplinary domains? What is the reach of this potential to rethink the contemporary urban condition and imagine its future models? The Generic Sublime explores the sublime condition that the generic has the potential to adopt, investigating how its concept—assumed to achieve universality by means of formal neutrality, organizational homogeneity, and programmatic blankness—holds the opportunity to turn into its very opposite: the singular, the irreducible, and the extraordinary.
Spring 2016 Designed by Ramon Prat Hardcover ca. 360 pages 16.5 x 22 cm ISBN 978-1-940291-75-8 $34.95 Copublished with Actar
Spatializing Politics: Essays on Power and Place
Harvard Design Studies
Edited by Delia Duong Ba Wendel, Fallon Samuels Aidoo
November 2015 Designed by Sam de Groot Softcover ca. 400 pages 16.51 x 23.39 cm ISBN 978-1-934510-46-9 $24.95 Distributed by Harvard University Press
Spatializing Politics is an anthology of emerging scholarship that treats built and imagined spaces as critical to knowing political power. The essays in this collection illustrate how buildings and landscapes as disparate as Rust Belt railway stations and rural Rwandan hills become tools of political action and frameworks for political authority. By focusing on the architects and spaces of political empowerment, the anthology crosses anthropology, architectural history, conflict studies, geography, public policy, science/technology studies, and urban planning. With contributions by Hector Fernando Burga, Joy Knoblauch, Orly Linovski, and Anh-Thu Ngo, among others.
Airport Landscape: Urban Ecologies in the Aerial Age Edited by Sonja D端mpelmann, Charles Waldheim
Harvard Design Studies
Airports have never been more central to the life of cities, yet they remain relatively peripheral in design discourse. In spite of this, landscape architects have recently reaffirmed their historic assertions about the airfield as a site of design. Airport Landscape presents these practices through case study projects for the ecological enhancement of operating airports and the conversion of abandoned airports. This material supports the claim of an augmented role for landscape architects commensurate with their desire to be considered urbanists of the aerial age. The book gathers work from the eponymous exhibition at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, presenting the airport as a site of and for landscape.
January 2016 Designed by Sam de Groot Softcover ca. 275 pages 22.5 x 29.69 cm ISBN 978-1-934510-47-6 $24.95 Distributed by Harvard University Press
Common Frameworks
Christopher C. M. Lee (ed.)
Common Frameworks: Rethinking the Developmental City in China
Common Frameworks
Harvard Design Studies February 2016 Designed by Sam de Groot Softcover ca. 350 pages 22.5 x 29.69 cm ISBN 978-1-934510-53-7 $24.95 TBC Distributed by Harvard University Press
Christopher C. M. Lee (ed.)
Edited by Christopher C. M. Lee
Rethinking the Developmental City in China The Project on China was a three-year research and design project premised on two fundamental ambitions: recuperating an idea of the city and pursuing alternative forms of urbanization in response to the challenges posed by the developmental city in China. Each year, the project focused on a theoretical problem and practical challenge, using a particular city as an exemplar: the megaplot, with Xiamen as a case study; the future of the city in city-regions and the effects of crossborder urbanization, with Macau as the paradigm; and the status of the countryside in the context of state-driven initiatives to urbanize rural areas, specifically in Taiqian. This book presents a critical reflection on the developmental city and the recent hyper-rapid urbanization in China.
The Writings of Josep Lluís Sert Edited by Eric Mumford
This collection of architect Josep Lluís Sert’s writings on urbanism highlights rare texts by the former dean of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Of the 15 essays featured, 10 have never been previously published. The other five were long forgotten: one first appeared in the rather obscure Michigan Society of Architects Bulletin; one in Harvard Today, a rare and long-defunct alumni magazine; and one in the GSD proceedings of the Fifth Urban Design Conference, copies of which can now only be found in a few university libraries; and the other two were published commercially, but both in out-of-print books.
March 2015 Designed by Jena Sher Hardcover 166 pages 17 x 24 cm ISBN 978-0-300-20739-2 $50.00 Copublished with Yale University Press
Kiyonori Kikutake: Between Land and Sea Edited by Ken Tadashi Oshima
October 2015 Designed by Integral Lars Müller Hardcover 192 pages 25 x 20 cm ISBN 978-3-03778-432-7 $60.00 Copublished with Lars Müller Publishers
For more than half a century, visionary architect Kiyonori Kikutake (1928–2011) pursued Metabolic architecture, embracing forces of renewal, recycling, and transformation. This volume, the first comprehensive assessment of Kikutake in the English language, highlights his lifelong creation of a constantly evolving platform for living, floating above land and sea through pivotal works including the Sky House, Hotel Tokoen, and the urban scale of his ongoing Marine City project. Abundantly illustrated with archival drawings and photography, this volume provides perspectives on the practices, discourses, and production contexts of Kikutake’s work as well as the architecture and urbanism of postwar Japan. With contributions by Toyo Ito, Seng Kuan, Mohsen Mostafavi, Mark Mulligan, and Fred Thompson.
Ethics of the Urban: The City and the Spaces of the Political Edited by Mohsen Mostafavi
Is democracy spatial? How are the physical aspects of our cities, streets, and public spaces bearers of our values? In a world of intensifying geo-economic integration, extreme financial and geopolitical volatility, accelerating population movements, deepening environmental crises, and a dramatic wave of popular protest against governments and capitalist speculation, cities have become leading sites for claims on state power and new formations of political subjectivity and citizenship. This volume brings together perspectives from history, sociology, art, political theory, planning, law, and design to explore the urban spaces of the political. With contributions by Keller Easterling, Gerald Frug, Chantal Mouffe, Saskia Sassen, Richard Sennett, and Erik Swyngedouw, among others.
October 2015 Designed by Integral Lars M端ller Hardcover 368 pages 16.5 x 24 cm ISBN 978-3-03778-381-8 $60.00 Copublished with Lars M端ller Publishers
Ecological Urbanism, Revised Edition Edited by Mohsen Mostafavi with Gareth Doherty
October 2015 Designed by Integral Lars M端ller Hardcover 656 pages 16.5 x 24 cm ISBN 978-3-03778-467-9 $60.00 e-book, 2012 ISBN 978-3-03778-330-6 $19.99 Copublished with Lars M端ller Publishers Chinese edition, with IfengSpace Media, 2014 ISBN 978-7-55370-143-1 Spanish edition, with Editorial Gustavo Gili, 2014 ISBN 978-8-42522-742-4 Portuguese edition, with Editorial Gustavo Gili, 2014 ISBN 978-8-56598-550-5
While climate change, sustainable architecture, and green technologies have become increasingly topical, issues surrounding the sustainability of the city are much less developed. An ecological approach is urgently needed as an imaginative and practical method for addressing the urban. This book brings together designers, theorists, economists, engineers, artists, scientists, and public health specialists, with the goal of providing a nuanced understanding of ecological urbanism and what it might be in the future. The promise is nothing short of a new ethics and aesthetics of the urban. Featuring 30 new international projects. With contributions by Stefano Boeri, Rem Koolhaas, Bruno Latour, Nina-Marie Lister, and Sissel Tolaas, among others.
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