The Machine As The Garden:the New Harvard Campus In Allston, Sustainability, And Its Effects On Design

摘要

If the beginning of Harvard's large fifty-year campus development across the Charles River in Allston is any indication of what future design and planning hold in store, we are entering an era in which building and landscape performance to minimize negative effects of the built world on nature will take a leading role. This means that technical and engineering considerations will assume new prominence, that teams of designers and scientists will need to collaborate constantly from early on, and that efforts to make buildings and landscapes aesthetically strong will need to seamlessly integrate environment-supporting features. And that in turn means that the new Harvard will not and should not look like the old Harvard. Ifthe Allston campuswereto be made of brick buildings on expanses of treed lawns, Harvard would be shirking its responsibility to and leadership of the widerworld.