current issue celebrating 30 blog multimedia books events neocon next generation design competition state of design ceu new products designmart Connect with us		April 2011 Features Social Design | Easier Said Than Done By Avinash Rajagopal The design industry’s recent humanitarian fervor is a welcome development, but good intentions alone are hardly enough to effect real change on the ground. Features The Green Movement | The Tree Huggers Grow Up By Martin C. Pedersen How did green design go from a fringe concern to a mainstream crusade? Three of the movement’s pioneers discuss this remarkable transformation—and what comes next. Notes from Metropolis Mission Statement By Horace Havemeyer III The founder and publisher of Metropolis talks about the early days of the magazine. Turn, Turn, Turn By Susan S. Szenasy The famous Pete Seeger song has our editor in chief reflecting on 30 seasons of architecture and design. Essays The Gods Must be Crazy By John Hockenberry A 1980 film about a Coke bottle dropped over the desert might be the best metaphor for what’s happened to design. Rose-Colored Glasses By Paul Goldberger Why are predictions on the Future of Architecture (capital F, capital A) always so wrong? Handy Containers By Karrie Jacobs While we may have rejected the box as the standard architectural form, we’re more dedicated to it than ever. Here but Not Here By Andrew Blum Architecture has yet to acknowledge the impact of social media on our experience of physical space. Hits & Misses Universal Design/User-Friendly Skies By Mason Currey Design’s Garbage Problem/Going, Going, Going By Martin C. Pedersen Computers, Eh?/Fishy Business By Martin C. Pedersen Collaboration in Seattle/De Young in Trouble! By Martin C. Pedersen Architects Pollute/Dubai By Mason Currey Buzzwords Iconic By George Lois Starchitect By Paula Scher Localism By David Carson Green By Scott Stowell Essential Designs Highlights from the Collection By Paul Makovsky These ten picks from MoMA embody key moments and movements from the last 30 years of design. ICFF Preview London (and Tokyo and Oslo … ) Calling By Kristi Cameron Foreign companies are poised to have a particularly strong showing at this year’s ICFF. Talent, Scouted By Kristi Cameron A cadre of young designers bring their fresh ideas to ICFF Studio Reference Page Reference By Michael Silverberg Our Charles Jencks Moment By Paul Makovsky Post-Modernism | Pomo Returns (Or Maybe it Never Left) By Mark Lamster Mocked, maligned, misunderstood, it’s the movement that no one wants to claim membership in—even retrospectively. And yet, might we still be in its grip? New Urbanism | The Case for Looking Beyond Style By Andres Duany Taking on the “avant-garde establishment,” Andrés Duany attempts to set the record straight. (Note to the avant-garde: feel free to respond.) Deconstructivism | The Kamikaze Mission By Martin C. Pedersen Mark Wigley, Philip Johnson’s partner in crime, recalls the groundbreaking 1988 show that took on the reigning ism. Prefab | The Dream that Refused to Die By Christoper Hawthorne The 1990s brought a renewed interest in an old idea. But for the most part, the newcomers were as perplexed by the challenge as the masters of design who preceded them. Blobism | The Digital Playground Erupts By Philip Nobel The new millennium ushered in an era of computer-enabled shapes increasingly divorced from the real concerns of architecture. Craft | A Return to the Hand By Janet Abrams The renaissance of craft currently occurring among artists, architects, designers, and a generation of DIYers otherwise glued to their keyboards speaks to a universal longing for the tactile and the real. Minimalism By Belinda Lanks and Martin C. Pedersen Order This Issue Now! Past Issues Of Metropolis

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