Climate change is one of the most pressing issues faced by people and governments across the globe. Does it have the potential to alter the political order of the world? My answer is yes, it does—but ...

49: Publics, F/W 2021. Size 224 x 297 mm, (softcover) 160 pages.

Turba Tol Hol-Hol Tol—the Chilean Pavilion at the 59th Venice Art Biennale in 2022—was devoted to the environmental conservation of the peatlands of Tierra del Fuego, an archipelago spanning what are ...

This issue of Harvard Design Magazine and its focus on the putative “core” of landscape architecture raise timely and fundamental questions of disciplinary and professional identity for the field.

Felicity D. Scott describes the moment when interconnections between humankind and the environment came to occupy center stage in international forums, a phenomenon Scott calls “environmentality.” The ...

The arts and humanities contribute to the process of cultural translation by propagating and protecting what I call the “right to narrate”—the authority to tell stories, recount or recast histories, ...

Urban planning is not gender neutral. While there has long been research on how urban systems fail to respond to women’s needs, it was only a decade ago that the subject surged. Since then, countless ...

Why is architecture so often represented only from the outside? Do architects just pay more attention to the outside? Or is it perhaps because the external view of a building provides the image of a ...

At a moment when the word “design” has come to refer to everything and thus nothing, Harvard Design Magazine 52 examines the state of architectural practice today. Once asserted to be the “mother art” ...

In architecture, contracts play an outsize role in determining an architect’s relationship with clients and how they work together with builders and other vendors and stakeholders in a building ...

The invention of the internet—the world wide web—in 1989 can be seen as a bookend of sorts to the famous Blue Marble photograph, taken by Ronald Evans from Apollo 17 in 1972: this 17-year period was ...