Series Editor:
William S. Saunders
Harvard Design Magazine Reader
These books collect essays, reviews, and commentaries originally published in Harvard Design Magazine on a particular theme or concern current and vital in design, urban studies, or architecture. Urban planning, sprawl, sustainability, starchitecture, and much more are discussed and debated by leading authorities. From Bilbao to Michael Graves at Target, from public housing to the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, from malls to ecological design, the Harvard Design Magazine Readers bring together many pertinent aspects and viewpoints related to these comprehensive topics into accessible anthologies suitable for professional, academic, and interested general audiences.
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Books in this Series
Nature, Landscape, and Building for Sustainability
Thought-provoking essays on bridging the destructive divide between humanity and the natural world
The New Architectural Pragmatism
Explores the tension between adaptation and resistance to commercial conditions in architectural practice and theory
Judging Architectural Value
Architects, critics, and scholars debate what makes architecture bad, good, and great
Urban Planning Today
A provocative and practical consideration of what works, and what does not, in American urban planning
Commodification and Spectacle in Architecture
Diverse points of view on the relationship between design and capitalism