Beautiful Big Feet
31: (Sustainability) + Pleasure, Vol. II: Landscapes, Urbanism, and Products
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 tension if not opposition. Here, urbanism, landscape 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
Beautiful Big Feet
Kongjian Yu
City Trees for Sustainability and Delight
Henry W. Lawrence
Design Against Nature
Eelco Hooftman
Does Our Technology Make Our Past Irrelevant to Our Future?
Antoine Picon
Dubai in Hindsight: Souq Cartographies
Stephen Ramos
Eutopia Now!
Michael Sorkin
Get Fit: Morphosis’s New Academic Building for the Cooper Union
Marrikka Trotter
Green Pleasures
Constance Classen
Local Food Is Not Always the Most Sustainable
Bill Rankin
Lush Lots: Everyday Urban Agriculture
Dominec Vitiello, Michael Nairn
Prodesse et Delectare
Dorothée Imbert
Promiscuous Patterns, Synthetic Architecture
David Salomon, Paul Andersen
Proximate Utopia, or the Semblance of the Future
Timothy Hyde
Sex and the City Landscape: Desire and Sustainability
Martha Schwartz
Sexy and Good: Sustainable Product Design
Alice Rawsthorn
Slow Landscapes
Elizabeth K. Meyer
The Natural History of Foresaken Spaces
Gilles Clément
The Vertical Forest and New Urban Comfort
Francisca Insulza, Stefano Boeri
Toxic Landscapes
J. Henry Fair
Varied Tree Shade for New Urban Pleasures
Gary R. Hilderbrand
Review
Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic by Dell Upton
Robin F. Bachin
The Code of the City: Standards and the Hidden Language of Place Making by Eran Ben-Joseph
Matthew J. Kiefer
The Utzon Logbooks by Jørn Utzon
Kenneth Frampton