Topic Practice
Balanced between concept and realization, design practice exposes the connections between the design imagination and the space in which it operates. By critically studying issues of practice, designers imagine new methods to advance their influence and to intervene in the world.
Student work: Mining an emerging area of dementia studies, Alicia Valencia encourages memory-care facilities to embrace aesthetic play
Children may be celebrated for their non-rational thoughts, but society expects that adults will use…
Mariabruna Fabrizi, Fosco Lucarelli [Microcities / Socks-studio], “Inner Space”
“Inner Space” is part of an ongoing research project into the construction…
Susan Fainstein with Sai Balakrishnan and Cuz Potter, “The Challenge of Applying Theory to Planning Practice”
Susan S. Fainstein is a Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow in…
Sarah Whiting and K. Michael Hays: A Conversation
Sarah Whiting, Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture, is well-known…
“Reflecting on Shinohara”: Kazuyo Sejima and Seng Kuan in Conversation
In conversation with Seng Kuan, Kazuyo Sejima of SANAA reflects on Shinohara…
Radical geometry: With Haus Gables, Jennifer Bonner proposes a new urban typology
Photo credit: NAARO On the first day of the construction of Haus Gables–after 11 trucks…
Talking Practice: Preston Scott Cohen
In this episode, Talking Practice host Grace La interviews Preston Scott Cohen, founder…
Remembering Pei: Tracing the architect’s legacy to the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Ieoh Ming (I.M.) Pei died on May 16, 2019, at the age of 102. Over…
Kuehn Malvezzi on liberating institutional design from all that is “dark, serious, and deeply moral”
This spring, Berlin-based architects Johannes Kuehn, Wilfried Kuehn, and Simona Malvezzi asked…