Spheres and Networks: Two Ways to Reinterpret Globalization
30: (Sustainability) + Pleasure, Vol. I: Culture and Architecture
This and the next 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 tension if not opposition. Here, broad cultural issues and architecture, and the design of objects are studied. Sustainability is put in parentheses in the title because this term is contested and ambiguous: usually referring to technological prowess in reducing energy consumption and natural damage, the world should also imply much broader realities, including the social, the cultural, the economic, and the psychological—the ecological in its fullest sense. The city, in this view, is an endlessly independent network.
Articles
Table of Contents
Essay
A Critical Overview of New Architecture in India
Nalina Moses
Beauty from Sustainability?
Iñaki Ábalos
Climatic Constructions: Thermal Asymmetry in Architecture
Philippe Rahm
Delight in Sun, Wind, and Light: Sustainability and Pleasure Indoors/Outdoors
G. Z. Brown
Frameworks of Performance & Delight
David Leatherbarrow, Richard Wesley
Hypermondern Society & the Eclectic Individual; The Invention of the Local
François Ascher
In Situ: Site-Specificity in Sustainable Architecture
Anja Thierfelder, Matthias Schuler
New Transformers in Building
Chuck Hoberman
Ordos: Nine Houses by GSD Faculty
Jeffrey Kipnis
Small Pleasures in Huge Webs
Verena Conley
Sustainability and Pleasure: An Untimely Meditation
Andrew Payne
Sustainability, or the Redefinition of the Pleasure Principle
Matthias Sauerbruch
The Joy of Less
Wendy Steiner
The New Somatic Architecture
Christopher Hight
The Sensual City: The Artificial Enabling the Natural
Jacques Ferrier
Wheels, Safeties, and Bicycles-to-Be
John Stilgoe
Interview
Talking to Myself about the Poetics of Space
Peter Sloterdijk
Review
Architecture in the Age of Divided Representation by Dalibor Vesely
Tom Spector
Eisenman Inside Out: Selected Writings by Peter Eisenman
Timothy Hyde
Endless City: The Urban Age Project edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic
Reinhold Martin
Giuseppe Terragni: Transformations, Decompositions, Critiques by Peter Eisenman
Timothy Hyde
In Search of New Public Domain by Maartin Hajer and Arnold Reijndorp
Dana Cuff
Open: New Designs for online Public Space edited by Raymond W. Gastil and Zoe Ryan
Dana Cuff
Retrofitting Suburbia by Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson
Hubert Murray
The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture by Peter Eisenman
Timothy Hyde
Tracing Eisenman: Peter Eisenman Complete Work by Peter Eisenman
Timothy Hyde
Written into the Void: Selected Writings, 1990-2004 by Peter Eisenman
Timothy Hyde