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35: Architecture’s Core?
This and the next two issues of Harvard Design Magazine will focus more specifically on disciplinary themes. It is of course the knowledge of specific single disciplines that defines and fuels transdisciplinary practices. We cannot speak of cross-fertilization between architecture and landscape architecture, for example, unless we under-stand and possess the know-how, creativity, and convent-ions distinct to each of these disciplines.
“Architecture’s Core?” seeks to unfold a range of practices significant in the creation of contemporary architecture. The inventiveness entailed is particularly important at a time when the vast majority of the buildings being constructed across the globe have little to contribute to the discipline. It is not that these buildings have no financial or protective worth, but rather that they do not deepen or broaden our understanding of architecture’s core values.
— Mohsen Mostafavi (excerpted from the introduction)
Articles
Table of Contents
Editors' Letter
Matters of Discipline
Mohsen Mostafavi
Essay
“Normal” at Last? New German Architecture Off the Therapist’s Couch
Anh-Linh Ngo
“Man is a Fatal Disease of the Animal”: Excerpts from “Architecture Lacan Deleuze”
Andrew Payne
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Farshid Moussavi
A Balkanized Norwegian Profession, Yet Three Architectural Gems
Jan Olav Jensen
A Letter to Benedetta
Mack Scogin
Architecture as Impact on Living, and a Word on Moving on from Editing HDM
William S. Saunders
Balancing the Cramped with the Communal: Recent Japanese Housing
Ken Tadashi Oshima
Densely Urban, Expansively Rural: Canadian Architectural Character Now
Matthew Soules
Detlef Mertins: Modernity Unbound
Daniela Fabricius
Dispatches: Present-ing a School’s History in Objects
Peter Hewitt Christensen
Effable Eloquence: The Casa de Música
Wes Jones
Figure, Phenomenality, and Materiality in the Hinman Studio
K. Michael Hays
Full Circle: Two Recent Outstanding Works in Spain
Luis Fernández-Galiano
Is Digital Culture Secular?: On Books by Mario Carpo and Antoine Picon
Reinhold Martin
Love Is a Strong Verb
Yvonne Farrell
Making Room for Architecture in Slovenia
Petra Čeferin
My Passage to India: A Jain Temple and the Fate of Narrative in Sacred Architecture
James S. Ackerman
No Strings Attached
Penelope Dean
Non-Integrated Integration: Kiyonori Kikutake’s 1964 Hotel Tokoen
Toyo Ito
Powers of Mind: James Stirling at the Clore Gallery
Irénée Scalbert
Redefining the Autonomy of Architecture: The Architectural Project and the Production of Subjectivity
Pier Vittorio Aureli
Siza, True to Siza: The Iberê Camargo Foundation
Rafael Moneo
The Core that Wasn’t
Zeynep Çelik
The End of the Digital
Mario Carpo
The Glories of the Architectural Section
Rafaël Magrou
The Hidden Core of Architecture
Preston Scott Cohen
The New Cosmopolitans: Realigning the Global and the Local
Stan Allen
The Poetics of Origins: Notes on Arendt and Kahn
Jeffrey Lieber
Theory of the Excuse and the Erotics of Material Agency
Alejandro Zaera-Polo
Thinking Small in China
Aric Chen
Toward a Local Modernity in Africa: Diébédo Francis Kéré’s Center for Earth Architecture
Issa Diabaté
Urban Vitality through Inventive Public Places: New Projects in Italy
Stefano Boeri