Dive into the archives.
- Landscape Infrastructures DVD
[Landscape Infrastructures DVD now available.]
This past October 25, 2008, The Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design hosted a symposium organized and curated by Prof. Pierre Bélanger, recently swiped up by appointed by Harvard GSD, titled Landscape Infrastructures. Bélanger rightly marks our time as witness to a unique convergence of infrastructure and landscape. The urgency [...]
- Student Works: Convergent Species
[A map of select territories which have been impacted by a complex collision on the natural and the industrial.]
We will regularly be publishing student projects and thesis research titled Student Works that is an extension of themes related to infrastructures and networks of habitats and resources. The first is a project by Vivian Chin, a [...]
- Vortices, Heaps, and Enzymes
[The streets of Naples have been inundated with garbage since last summer.]
Or, Three States of Waste…
We have been following the Naples "trash crisis" for almost a year now. Unbeknownst to us, as of a few days ago, the problem has apparently been declared “resolved” by Berlusconi.
It began more than 14 years ago, but flared up [...]
- Burying CO2
[Ideal spots for sequestering CO2 off the coast of Oregon.]
Many have viewed "carbon sequestration" — taking the CO2 produced by burning coal and burying it underground — as a major component of combating climate change. However, there are many questions about the plan — most notably, just where a major emitter like the US could [...]
- Terror Town®, Disaster City®, and now MoD City
[An aerial of what is called Disaster City, near College Station, TX]
A playground for military and urban search-and-rescue teams called Disaster City® is located in College Station, Texas. At 52 acres, the mock community contains full-scale, collapsible structures designed to simulate various levels of disaster and wreckage which can be customized for specific training needs.
It [...]
