At Harvard he threw himself into a series of theoretical projects, while keeping a hand in Brazilian politics.
"Up to then, I had always worked on theoretical projects, but Katrina made you see how things can fall apart," he said.
He was an architect who largely abstained from conventional practice, and the bulk of his work consisted of theoretical projects, executed in the form of drawings that were combined into poetic, often highly personal narratives.
A dramatic composition of zinc-clad, zigzag-shaped wings, the Berlin Jewish Museum has brought wide public attention to the work of an architect previously known for theoretical projects.
But when the film goes to the laboratory to observe more complex and theoretical projects, the information it imparts is so sketchy we are reminded of how difficult it is to translate science into lay language.
In fact, these theoretical projects, rendered in a series of drawings and sketches that are now in the New York Museum of Modern Art, foreshadowed the entire range of his later work.
But Mr. Ungers was equally well known in the architecture field for his theoretical projects, including work in the 1960s in Berlin and in the 1970s at Cornell, where he helped to raise the architecture department's reputation by attracting many students from abroad.
And there have been disagreements about the appropriate balance between empirical and theoretical projects, and between disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary projects.
Existing studies have focused on large-scale mitigation potential [20, 21], economic considerations of forest rotation length with carbon taxes or subsidies [22, 23], theoretical projects [24], partial aspects of forestry such as carbon removal versus timber [25, 26] and bioenergy production [27, 28], or agricultural land versus afforestation at global scale [29].
Dr. Porfiri had been planning a more theoretical project, but when he and his wife moved to Park Slope, Brooklyn, more than a year ago and heard about the canal's Superfund status, he decided the project could have a more practical application.
Among many others, Jessica Benjamin (whose work will be discussed below) seems to share the mistaken view that Irigaray's theoretical project is premised upon valorizing "female genitals as a starting point for a different desire" (Benjamin 1988, 276).
