Interboro Partners talks to Linda Fried about designing (for) long lives. All of the above. The challenge is to think differently about design and aging, and to set different kinds of goals. We need ...

The house has been built for a wealthy publisher, his family, their guests, and some cars. The publisher was paralyzed from the waist down after a car crash—a rubber-burning, steel-twisting, ...

On April 1, 1986, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon delivered a lecture at Gund Hall at the Harvard Graduate School of Design on her proclivity for green rectangles, the wild gardens of California, breaking ...

Redesign, for decades stigmatized by Modernist purists as an inferior architectural specialty reserved for the artistically timid and creatively challenged, has finally become a legitimate part of ...

The Spirit of the Lima Bean could easily stand as an emblem for a whole school of thought that sees modern collective memory as a phenomenon of rupture and loss. According to this school, only when ...

Another big blue jug of tequila and triple sec arrives at the table, ice cubes clattering, vapor condensing over it like a weather front. Pete says how great to be in Texas now the margarita’s here.

It is increasingly clear that one of the major female architects of the 20th century was the Italian Lina Bo Bardi, who emigrated to Brazil in 1945 and made a name for herself there. But this claim is ...

Perhaps the most telling thing I found is that the definition of a charrette has changed. Most professional architects now equate charrettes with interactive brainstorming sessions. These kinder, ...

I begin with a confession: the first city I ever visited, outside of that big-shouldered metropolis close to my suburban Chicago home, was Walt Disney World. At least, the Florida theme park seemed ...

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 ...

As the chart of Latin America-related activities since 1980 on the next pages makes abundantly clear, the Harvard Graduate School of Design has had a long and rich history of engagement with ...