Archinect - Features

Redlines: Oblique

2019-02-28T10:24:00-05:00

Redlines is a collection of interviews with editors that make today's most provocative architectural publications come to life. While architecture is traditionally concerned with buildings, materials, and scale, their importance and historical impact are recorded through words, books, and images that are often organized, published, and disseminated. Redlines seeks to understand the pedagogical and design frameworks that shape this process.

In this session, we talk to Natalia Escobar about her publication, Oblique, a publication she founded while an instructor at Harvard Graduate School of Design and which is presented as a collective effort of the school's faculty and its students all in the same.

Has Educational Complacency Diminished Today's Discourse?

2018-08-23T11:22:00-04:00

Complacency is the enemy of progress and Architecture, as a whole, is built on progress. The progress of thought, progress of conversations and progress of objection. Architecture is not a search for truth, but instead, as a discipline, it is a collection of studies, inquiries, and expertise into an expanding field of knowledge. The discipline of Architecture is one that grows, progresses, and builds upon itself just as its buildings build upon eras of decades past. And yet, the voices of yesterday have been anxiously overcompensating for their diminishing relevance, fading into mere echoes by fearfully retreating to the false comfort of a broken record discipline—one where progress is stifled and treated as insolent. The suppression of progress has not gone unnoticed and as the imposed stagnancy solidifies, conversations turn against those imposing it, demanding a return to the discipline of Architecture.

Screen/Print #42: Harvard's New Geographies 07, 'Geographies of Information'

2016-06-24T10:16:00-04:00

It’s easy to forget that, in an era of unprecedented access to information fueled by an accelerating Moore’s Law, everything weighs on the land. While unlikely to be visible from the backyard, the infrastructure of digital technologies will only become more pervasive, and should be respected with the same aesthetic and critical discourse that we bestow on the ballet of the sidewalk, the symphony of the city, and the poetry of infrastructure.

Screen/Print #36: Harvard Design Magazine's "Well, Well, Well"

2015-08-14T10:32:00-04:00

“Well, Well, Well”, the fortieth issue from the Harvard Design Magazine, explores the tricky business of designing for health, and provokes considerations on the flip-side of neglecting to do so.