Big Forking Dilemma: Contemporary Architecture’s Autonomic Turn
32: Design Practices Now, Vol. I
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 outstanding buildings and places? What current conditions for practice are novel, and how should they be understood and managed? What are ideal structures for the collaborations of designers with owners and builders, and with other professionals, such as engineers, fabricators, and ecological scientists? What can be learned from the variations in design practices across regions, nations, and continents? How are new digital technologies affecting design practice?
In this and the next issue of Harvard Design Magazine, designers from around the world address these questions and offer images of design details of their work. In addition, scholar/critics focus on particular issues in analytic detail.
Articles
Table of Contents
Essay
A London Particular: Fog Envelopes Practice
Simon Allford
A Way Forward? Integrated Project Delivery
Phillip G. Bernstein
Ai Weiwei: FAKE Design, China
Architectural Practice Now
Mack Scogin, Preston Scott Cohen, Toshiko Mori, William S. Saunders
David Lake: Lake|Flato Architects, Texas
Idea-Driven Practices: What Eight Young GSD Designers Do
Pierre Bélanger
Introduction to the GSD’s “The Return of Nature” Symposia
Preston Scott Cohen
Issa Diabaté: Koffi & Diabaté Architects, Côte d’Ivoire, Africa
John Denton: Denton Corker Marshall, Australia and East Asia
Learning from Burnham: The Origins of American Architectural Practice
Jay Wickersham
Nelson Chen: Nelson Chen Architects, Hong Kong and China
On Credit: Many Collaborators, One Name in Lights
Christopher Hawthorne
Paul Robbrecht: Robbrecht en Daem Architecten, Belgium
Rahul Mehrotra: RMA Architects, India
Rodrigo Pérez de Arce: Catholic University Santiago, Chile and South America
Špela Videčnik: Ofis Arhitekti, Slovenia
The “Livable” Suburbanized City: Post-Politics and a Vancouver near You
Matthew Soules
The New Small Architectural Practices: Creativity Incubators or Co-opted Branders?
Sebastian Schmaling
Toyo Ito: Toyo Ito & Associates Architects, Japan
Utopia Across Scales: Thoughts on Kenzo Tange
Mark Mulligan
What I Believe
Sylvia Lavin
Why Ecological Urbanism? Why Now?
Mohsen Mostafavi