Essay in Places: Design Observer
The second in a series of essays that Tim Love is writing about urban design and design pedagogy was posted on Places: Design Observer on April 13th. In his new piece, Love surveys the recent spate of visionary “paper architecture” and makes analogies to the speculative projects proposed during the recession of the 1970s. Always the optimistic polemicist, he sees the current downturn as an opportunity to correct some of the misguided excesses of the digital revolution (see his first essay) by aligning the discipline of architecture with the aspirations and approaches of Landscape Urbanism.
Love’s Latest Essay Published in Places
Utile principal Tim Love’s most recent essay, Between Mission Statement and Parametric Model, is featured in Design Observer’s Places Journal. In the essay, Love examines a growing divide between pedagogical priorities in American schools of architecture: formal experimentation driven by parametric modeling vs. sustainable and socially inspired design intentions. Click here to read the article.
Harvard Law School Panel Discussion
Tim Love is one of four panelists invited to comment on the new book “City Bound: How States Stifle Urban Innovation” by Gerald E. Fung and David J. Barron. The authors, both professors at the Harvard Law School, make the case that the legal structure that binds city power to state authority limits the ability of cities to do comprehensive planning. Love will discuss the issues raised by the book in the context of potential approaches to the redevelopment of Government Center in Boston. Utile recently explored a range of strategies for the district on behalf of the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency (MassDevelopment).
The other panelists are Susan Fainstein, Professor of Urban Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design; Robert J. Sampson, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences at Harvard University; and Sam Bass Warner, Visiting Professor of Urban History at MIT.
A conversation to celebrate the release of City Bound: How States Stifle Urban Innovation
Monday, March 16 6:00 PM
Stubbins Room
Harvard Graduate School of Design
48 Quincy Street, Cambridge