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ISTHMUS<\/strong><\/em>, the journal edited by Mark Strong, states that it was started and entirely run by students from GSD with the purpose \u201cto bring to sight written and visual projects undertaken by students that are not strictly architecture. Such work has not been exhibited, published, or viewed through traditional publications [\u2026] isthmus can provide some food for discussion among students about design\u2019s relation to culture and theory.\u201d <\/em>In providing a forum to show \u201cthat which is not shown\u201d<\/em>, the first and only issue of isthmus<\/em> includes from art installations and essays on the work of Robert Smithson, to well-documented histories of the published canon of modernism (Can Our Cities Survive?<\/em> compared to The Heart of the City<\/em>), and discussions on colonialism and nationalism in India. Individually well-selected essays, they do bring to the fore research that runs parallel to those habitually \u201cshown.\u201d However, as a compendium, the editorial strategy is lost, be it by topical interest, commonalities, or even dialectical oppositions. As an editorial project, it gathers publishable material, but as a collection of written and image-based essays, it is not clearly curated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Curated by Ines Zalduendo, Special Collections Curator at the Frances Loeb Library, M.Arch \u201995<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An Opinion on Architecture <\/em>| Task: A Magazine for the Younger Generation in Architecture <\/em>| Synthesis<\/em> | Connection: Visual Arts at Harvard <\/em>| for’m <\/em>| The Harvard Architecture Review <\/em>| re\/alignment <\/em>| APPENDX: Culture\/Theory\/Praxis <\/em>| isthmus <\/em>| Gamut<\/em> | Trays: A Student Journal of the GSD<\/em> | New Geographies <\/em>| Platform <\/em>| Harvard Real Estate Review <\/em>| Open Letters <\/em>| Very Vary Veri <\/em>| MASKS, the Journal: Journal of the Dissimulation in Art <\/em>| Process: Journal of the GSD Design Research Forum<\/em> | OBL\/QUE<\/em> <\/em>| WID Bibliography<\/em> | Pairs <\/em>| Translations<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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