Volume 26: Carolina Dwelling (1978)
Carolina Dwelling: Towards Preservation of Place: In Celebration of the North Carolina Vernacular Landscape (Download PDF) Carolina Dwelling is a collection of essays that describe, analyze, trace the history and suggest the possible meanings of various features of the North Carolina vernacular landscape. The book’s purpose is to provide a basis for collective reflection upon both the particularity […]
Volume 25: Projections (1977)
Projections (Download PDF) Volume 25 is a collection of articles and opinions which project a complete statement of the possibilities and potentialities for the future of design. This statement also represents a variety of roles that designers may play as agents and makers concerned with environmental design. Ultimately this statement deals with the purpose of […]
Volume 24: Patterns (1975)
Patterns (Download PDF) (excerpted from the introduction) Pattern, structural or applied, functions as a visual element enriching surface and form . Whether sophisticated mathematical configuration or loosely designed primitive crafts, pattern is structure composed of an image or motif repeated in a specific order. Repetition implies order and system, lending itself easily to mass production. The […]
Volume 23: Designing the Method (1974)
Designing the Method (Download PDF) (excerpted from the introduction) There is a growing realization of the need for new strategies to solve increasingly complex problems in the built environment. Rapid urbanization, accompanied by changes in goals, values, and technology, have resulted in changes in people’s environmental needs and aspirations in such areas as education, housing, […]
Volume 20: Eleven Views (1973)
Eleven Views (Download PDF) Eleven Views is a series of visual contributions that relate to light, seeing, sequence, relating, pattern, developing, form, defining, mood, revealing, texture, composing, process, finding. Contributors: John M. Bailey, David Robinson Godschalk, Peter Batchelor, Dr. Frances Fox Piven, Larry B. Morrison, Hugh Morley Zimmers, Chester W. Hartman, Randolph T. Hester, Bernard P. […]
Volume 19: Projects (no.1) and (no.2) (1970)
Issue 1: Projects (Download PDF) It has been several years since the Student Publication has presented work done in the School of Design; this issue, devoted to projects undertaken in the context of the School, attempts to sample current involvement. All of the contributors to Volume 19:1 have taught at the School; two are graduates as […]
Volume 18
Contributors: Murray A. Milne, Sidney Cohn, Henry Sanoff, David Stea, Raymond G. Studer, Charles H. Burnette, Amos Rapaport, Davis Bonstell, and Kenneth Craik
Volume 17:1: Building Skeletons
Building Skeletons: An investigation of ten buildings – Brian Shawcroft and twenty students of the School of Design
Volume 17:2
Photography for Designer Brian Shawcroft
Volume 16: Forty Gardens
Introduction: Past cultures reveal themselves by conceptional evidence through their buildings and associated landscape configurations. An understanding of this order and physical form must be a fundamental part in the make-up and general knowledge of the designer.
Volume 15
Contributors: Peter Batchelor, Richard R. Wilkinson, Warren J. Ranney, William Perry D. White, Frank Hough
Volume 14
Contributors: Harwell Hamilton Harris, Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Louis I. Kahn, Paolo Solari
Volume 13
The City, Form and Intent: being a collection of the plans of fifty significant towns and cities all to the scale 1 :14400 · Richard Saul Wurman and sixty-one students of the School of Design
Volume 12, Issue 2
LANGUAGE AND THE DESIGNER FOUR CLASSIC PRE-COLUMBIAN CITIES – SITE RELATIONSHIPS: MIDWAY PLANTATION – MEASURED DRAWINGS
Volumes 11-12, Issue 1.
Contributors: Horacio Caminos, Duncan Stuart, Vernon Shogren, Augusto Cavallari-Murat, Pier Luigi Nervi
Volume 08
Contributors: Henry Kamhoefner, Pietro Belluschi, Paul Buisson, Sherman Pardue, Guilio Pizzetti, Patrick Horsbrugh, Jose de Rivera, Prof. Dr. Ing. Guido Oberti, Prof. Dr. Ing. Arturo Danusso, James M. Fitch, Sylvia Crowe, Auguste Rodin, Norbert Gorwic, Melvin Ravitz, Barclay Jones, Percy Johnson-Marshall, Grady Claw, Thomas Hodne, Norman Klein
Volume 06
Contributors: Felix Cardellach, Pier Luigi Nervi, Duncan Stuart, Felix Candella, George Boas, Garret Eckbo, Mario Sal Vadori, Jose Luis Sert, Horacio Caminos, Atilio Gallo, Giuseppe Guarnieri
Volume 05
Contributors: Eduardo Catalano, Felix Candela, Duncan R. Stuart, Felix J. Samuely, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Robert Le Ricolais, Sam Rosenberg, Brian Hackett, Lawrence Halprin, A. M. Mood, R. D. Specht
Volume 04
Contributors: Manuel Bromberg, Goldfarb, Kina, Buckminster Fuller, Lewis Clarke, Bier, Simon, Wilkinson, Atilio Gallo, Roy Gussow, Margaret Lemle, Irwin Jones, Eduard F. Sekler, Richard J. Neutra, George Boas
Volume 03:
The School of Design is a community of people working. It is the people in it who are important. The contribution of each person in terms of what he gets out of it is no more or less important than is another’s contribution in terms of what he gets out of it. But this is […]
Volume 02:
Volume 2 In this first issue of our second year you will find us concerned with the man of social awareness. We dedicate this issue to the promotion of this idea. You will not only find manifestations of our development as architects but also thoughts in our development as citizens. We profess that the combination […]
Volume 01
Volume 1 “This first issue of a Student Publication of the School of Design is dedicated to Matthew Nowicki and is concerned principally with his later work including an essay on architecture, his work in North Carolina and a selection from his last work – his sketches in India.”
Remember by Steven Matijcio
Remember In his 2009 book What is an Apparatus? Italian political philosopher Giorgio Agamben characterized his titular inquiry as “literally anything that has in some way the capacity to capture, orient, determine, intercept, model, control or secure the gestures, behaviors, opinions, or discourses of living beings.” (1) He goes on to explain that beyond institutions (such […]
The Arrogance of Permanence (or Designs Should Flow like Leaves) by Aly Khalifa
We are taught in design school that the best designs have a lasting quality. We see beautiful commercial objects in venues like New York’s Museum of Modern Art and are led to think it represents the ultimate achievement of a design project. Designers are then inspired to create solutions that might one day be next […]
401 Oberlin Road + 520 S Person Street by Erin Sterling Lewis
Change is constant. It insinuates impermanence and can be exciting or devastating. Living in the fast growing city of Raleigh, I’ve seen a tremendous amount of change since moving here in 2002 – some exciting and some devastating. I practiced architecture for seven years before serving on the Raleigh Planning Commission. I worked on buildings […]
Volume 36: Marketing Project
In Volume 36, we look to engage a discussion on the role of design and designers in shaping, framing, and reflecting reality. While the notion of the designer as a constructor or visionary of a future reality is not a new one, the increasing complexity and connectivity of our world begs for renewed vigor in […]
Volume 37 Confirmed Contributors!
We have a great list of contributors for Volume 37, including Lev Manovich, Diller, Scofidio + Renfro, Aly Khalifa and more! We’re really excited for how this volume is coming together.
An Interview with Dan Gottlieb
(Dan Gottlieb was interviewed by Shelley Smith, Master of Art + Design student) [SS] I’d like us to just kind of start with a general who you are and how you came to be here. You mentioned that you were a fine artist, so–that’s quite a career path. [DG] Yes, well, in retrospect, it feels […]
Hopscotch by Grayson Currin
Last weekend, people would not stop asking me if I was having a good time. In rock clubs, on city street corners and even at the table at which my wife and I finally sat down to have dinner around 1:30 a.m. on a Friday night: Everywhere I went, there the question (or some variation […]
What Does Planting Tomatoes Have To Do with Fashion? by Natalie Chanin
This essay is adapted and reprinted with permission from EarthPledge Publishing. The Alabama tomato is truly a wonder. It takes on the color of the deep red soil, and the taste borders on sweet and tart. I grew up eating these tomatoes straight out of my grandparent’s garden in Florence, Alabama, and after having lived […]
