Architecture and Design
- Designing the Creative Child Playthings and Places in Midcentury America Amy F. Ogata 2013 Spring
- The construction of the “creative child” as Cold War America’s best hope for the future
- House, but No Garden Apartment Living in Bombay’s Suburbs, 1898–1964 Nikhil Rao 2012 Fall
- The emergence of apartment living in the suburbs in mid-twentieth-century Bombay
- Constitutional Modernism Architecture and Civil Society in Cuba, 1933–1959 Timothy Hyde 2012 Fall
- How architecture, law, and urbanism shaped the premises of civil society in Cuba
- Little White Houses How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America Dianne Harris 2012 Fall
- How the ordinary American house contributed to definitions of middle-class whiteness and an exclusionary housing market in the postwar era
- Unlearning the City Infrastructure in a New Optical Field Swati Chattopadhyay 2012 Fall
- A new way to describe the city—through the lens of popular culture and street life
- The Modern Architectural Landscape Caroline Constant 2012 Spring
- Examines the overlooked contributions of modern architects to landscape design
- Ottoman Izmir The Rise of a Cosmopolitan Port, 1840-1880 Sibel Zandi-Sayek 2011 Fall
- A revelatory examination of the multiple constructions of urban modernization
- Henri Lefebvre on Space Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of Theory Łukasz Stanek 2011 Spring
- Shows how Lefebvre’s theory of space developed out of direct engagement with architecture, urbanism, and urban sociology
- Architecture of Thought Andrzej Piotrowski 2011 Spring
- An innovative examination of how material practices and constructed environments have shaped cultures
- Fallout Shelter Designing for Civil Defense in the Cold War David Monteyne 2011 Spring
- Tracing the partnership between architects and American civil defense officials during the Cold War
- Mediterranean Crossroads Marseille and Modern Architecture Sheila Crane 2011 Spring
- Examining Marseille as a significant center for the evolution of architectural and urban modernism
- A Joint Enterprise Indian Elites and the Making of British Bombay Preeti Chopra 2011 Spring
- An in-depth look at the urban history of British Bombay
- Women and the Everyday City Public Space in San Francisco, 1890–1915 Jessica Ellen Sewell 2010 Fall
- Women in the city in turn-of-the-century San Francisco
- Utopia’s Ghost Architecture and Postmodernism, Again Reinhold Martin 2010 Spring
- Unpacking architecture’s important—and continuing—role in postmodern thought
- A Manufactured Wilderness Summer Camps and the Shaping of American Youth, 1890–1960 Abigail A. Van Slyck 2010 Spring
- An engrossing look at American summer camps—from mess halls to tents to fire circles