Dirty Minimalism: The Liberation of Unimportance in Recent Dutch Architecture
24: The Origins and Evolution of “Urban Design,” 1956–2006
March 2006 is the fiftieth anniversary of the First Urban Design Conference at Harvard—an event that, under the leadership of José Luis Sert, marked a beginning of the self-conscious pursuit of urban design as an intellectual discipline and as a professional focus distinct from architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning. This issue of Harvard Design Magazine critically examines the ideas and goals expressed in that first conference and at how those have and have not been affirmed by historical actualities since then. A recognition that, since designing a city is within no one person’s powers, urban design has to occur in more small-scale and indirect ways pervades these essays, even as they affirm the need for all design professionals to think as if they were urban designers to advance civilized life.
Andrés Duany
Evonne Levy, Robert Levit
Fumihiko Maki
Alex Krieger
Lawrence Summers
Gayle Farris, Jerold S. Kayden, Jonathan F.P. Rose, Ken Hubbard, Mark R. Goldweitz, Ronald M. Druker, Ronald Ratner
Camilo José Vergara, Howard Gillette
Richard Marshall
Eric Mumford
Jonathan Barnett
Timothy Love
Peter G. Rowe
Denise Scott Brown
Alex Krieger
Daniel Naegele
Daniel Naegele
Robert Fishman
Christopher Long
Marshall Berman
Susannah Hagan
Dean Cardasis
Susannah Hagan