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, ...

Gareth Doherty’s book, Landscape Fieldwork: How Engaging the World Can Change Design, was published by the University of Virginia Press in 2025. Photo courtesy of the University of Virginia Press.

Put the city up; tear the city down, put it up again; let us find a city. —Carl Sandburg, “The Windy City,” 1922 Chicago was a well-loved subject of writer Carl Sandburg. Committed to the working ...

Chicago was a well-loved subject of writer Carl Sandburg. Committed to the working class, his poems vividly recount the people who labored to make and remake the city during its heady period of growth ...

At a moment when the word “design” has come to refer to everything and thus nothing, this issue examines the […] ...

Despite remarkable advancements in technology, the construction documents that architects produce for their clients to communicate a building design and its intent—what are called CD sets—have not ...

As family configurations evolve and atomize, and “exceptions” become the norm—divorced, blended, solo, cooperative, childless, single-parent, widowed, queer, aging, migrant, transnational, foster, ...

These contradictions are what generated this issue of Harvard Design Magazine. “Well, Well, Well” explores some of the tensions and transformations of the landscape of health and illness. As both ...

“A terrible mechanism [is] on the march, its gears multiplying.” So begins the 48th issue of Harvard Design Magazine, guest edited by Mark Lee, chair of the department of architecture at the Harvard ...

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 ...

Harvard Design Magazine 51: Multihyphenate examines multihyphenation as a mode of creative practice, a political response, and economic imperative in our 21st century neoliberal world.

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 ...