GSD 08 Platform formulates prevalent tendencies and coherences among the many that operate within the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Its content groupings are the site of relations between a diverse range of projects and research, developing affinities between projects, events, and writings and revealing a cross-section of ideas and interests. More than a mere recording of lectures, publications, and exhibitions, this book unravels a new order of experiences and discoveries. Featuring texts by: Shigeru Ban, Teddy Cruz, Erwan Bouroullec, Rowan Bouroullec, Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Rem Koolhaas, Mohsen Mostafavi,Sanford Kwinter, Farshid Moussavi, Sarah Whiting, Iñaki Abalos, George Legendre, Hani Rashid, Peter Eisenman, Joan Busquets, Felipe Correa, Jorge Silvetti,Hashim Sarkis, Jeff Kipnis, and many others.

Gsd 08 Platform

Arts & Photography

Ortega, Llu's

Architecture

ACTAR, Harvard Graduate School of Design

The past two decades have witnessed a resurgence of ecological ideas and ecological thinking in discussions of urbanism, society, culture, and design. The field of ecology has moved from classical determinism and a reductionist Newtonian concern with stability, certainty, and order in favor of more contemporary understandings of dynamic systemic change and the related phenomena of adaptability, resilience, and flexibility. But ecology is not simply a project of the natural sciences. Researchers, theorists, social commentators, and designers have all used ecology as a broader idea or metaphor for a set of conditions and relationships with political, economic, and social implications. Projective Ecologies takes stock of the diversity ofcontemporary ecological research and theory--embracing Felix Guattari's broader definition of ecology as at once environmental, social, and existential--and speculates on potential paths forward for design practices. Where are ecological thinking and theory now? What do current trajectories of research suggest for future practice? How can advances in ecological research and modeling, in social theory, and in digital visualization inform, with greater rigor, more robust design thinking and practice? New original essays by Peter Del Tredici, Erle Ellis, Christopher Hight, Sanford Kwinter, Sean Lally, Nina-Marie Lister, Chris Reed, Jane Wolff Reprinted/excerpted essays by Robert Cook, David Fletcher, Richard T.T. Forman, C.S. Holling. With drawings by, Gross.MAX, James Corner, Field Operations, Sean Lally, Anuradha Mathur and Dilip DaCunha, OMA, Stoss Landscape Urbanism, West 8.

Projective Ecologies

"Platform 2" provides a sampling of the most salient research and design explorations undertaken at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) during the 2008-2009 academic year. Organized thematically, the publication identifies underlying congruencies among studio work, theses, research, lectures, conferences, and writings to unfold some of the many critical ideas and interests currently being explored in the School. Ranging in scope from detailed material fabrication to large-scale territorial and infrastructural strategies, the work spans a broad and diverse set of geographies and scenarios. In documenting this work, the publication archives and disseminates the rich intellectual momentum of the GSD. Contributors: Michael Meredith , Mohsen Mostafavi , James Ackerman , Preston Scott-Cohen , Josuha Prince Ramus , Iñaki Ábalos , Dirk Sijmons , Sissel Tolaas , Scheri Fultiner , Louisa Hutton , Matthias Sauerbruch , Judith Grant Long , José Luis Vallejo , Belinda Tato , Chris Reed

Gsd Platform 2

Corrêa, Felipe

In The Function of Form, internationally acclaimed architect, Farshid Moussavi, provides a provocative critique of the historically opposing relationship between function and form to reveal the contradiction at the heart of modernism. We need to move away from the definition of function as utility, she argues, to align it with how function is defined in mathematics, biology or music. Form, on the other hand, should be considered not only in the way buildings are produced, but also how they perform sensorially. Function and form, considered together in architecture, stand in opposition to the dualism which defined our approach to the built environment throughout the twentieth century. This book provides a thought-provoking account of the challenges facing the 21st century built environment, and an enlivened awareness of the wider possibilities of architectural form.

The Function of Form

Moussavi, Farshid

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Projective Ecologies

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The Function of Form