What are the pressing issues and problems in the work lives of contemporary landscape architects, urban designers, and architects? What supports and what obstructs their efforts to help create ...

We are constantly offered, and usually eat to satiation, the pre-digested food of electronic and built spectacle, from flashing webpages […] ...

A country of farmers who have successfully eluded all attempts of foreign monarchs to seize dominion over their small state, Switzerland has, unlike most other European countries, never known ...

Derived from the Sanskrit word jangala, “jungle” is used to refer to “an uncultivated waste,” “a place of bewildering complexity and confusion,” “a scene of ruthless competition, struggle, or ...

She was a gentle beast—a broad, chesty English mastiff with a sagging black jowl and a mouth like a cave. Mostly, Bear lived outside, where there was space for her immensity. But even before the first ...

No country had ever been as wealthy as America was after 1945. No people were ever as absorbed in the fevers of technology and mobility or the splendors of youth and consumption. It was as if the ...

For almost 1,000 years, young Chinese girls were forced to bind their feet so they could marry citified elites, since their natural “big” feet were associated with provincial people and rustic life.

You have to go underground. Under the ground, the social relations of plants and of fungi are at their most active and visible. If you want to see what I call “the city,” a dynamic scene where all ...

This and the previous issue of Harvard Design Magazine are devoted to questioning and overcoming the commonly held assumption that the pursuit of sustainability and the pursuit of pleasure are in ...

My favorite book as a child was called Story Number 2. Written by the absurdist playwright Eugene Ionesco, it tells the tale of the logical Josette and her enigmatic father, who gives her a lesson in ...

How do architecture and design work as markers of class? How have the socioeconomic and demographic character of patrons and clients for architecture varied over time and place? Is one’s idea of ...

Sarah Whiting joined the GSD as dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture in July 2019. A typical short biography would, rightly, portray her as a committed educator and practitioner. But ...