Landscapes of Development analyzes the impact of development policies and politics on the physical environment of the Eastern Mediterranean, a region defined here not as a rigid geographical area but as a larger cultural context. Since the end of World War II, the drive toward development has featured dreams of progress and emancipation intertwined with processes of reconstruction, decolonization, and nation-building, as well as transnational agendas for socioeconomic restructuring (capitalist or otherwise) and larger postwar/Cold War power politics. In physical terms, the drive toward development has been responsible for the rapid growth of metropolitan centers, the radical restructuring of rural landscapes, and the proliferation of dams, irrigation systems, and other infrastructures.Eight essays examine formal manifestations of development, placing the spotlight on urban and rural schemes, housing projects, and agro-landscapes and dams from Israel to Turkey, and from Greece to Syria. These contributions are all grounded in new scholarly research, employing a variety of critical tools to situate built works within the larger sociopolitical context that influenced their design and implementation, and to reflect on their social, cultural, and environmental impact.

Landscapes of Development: The Impact of Modernization Discourses on the Physical Environment of the Eastern Mediterranean (Aga Khan Program of the Graduate School of Design)

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Neyran Turan

Vilma Hastaoglou-Martinidis

Sibel Bozdoğan

Rachel Kallus

Panayiota Pyla

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Harvard Graduate School of Design

<p>From the economic to the political, from public health to the climate, models seem to run the world. In architecture, the model is no longer just a physical tool for conceptualizing or representing architects' visions but must also encompass digital and 3D-printed models, data and artificial intelligence models, business models, educational models, and even engage the discipline's own questionable history in establishing role models. A thematic issue, Log 50: Model Behavior interrogates models in this expanded sense: what are their values, their behaviors, and the behaviors they elicit. In a record-setting 256 pages, 39 authors, ranging from established architectural thinkers to up-and-coming practitioners, examine the role of the model in architecture today through critical essays, conversations, observations, projects, and provocations.</p>

Log 50: Model Behavior

Michael Meredith

Paulette Singley

Todd Gannon

Jesse Reiser

Sean Anderson

Stan Allen

Phil Bernstein

Penelope Dean

Dora Epstein Jones

Erik Herrmann

Eric Höweler

Christian Hubert

Sharon Johnston

Kiel Moe

Marrikka Trotter

Andrew Witt

Anyone Corporation

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Ang, Li

Marina Otero Verzier

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Holly Jean Buck

Leena Cho

Billy Fleming

Ingrid Halland

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Marina Tabassum

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