Architecture and Urban Studies Book Sale 2023

Virtual space for attendees and those interested in the meetings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Society for Architectural Historians, and Vernacular Architecture Forum. Books on sale, info on University of Minnesota Press, and more.

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS: 40% OFF BOOKS

All books below are 40% off using code MNARCH23. Code expires June 15, 2023.

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BROWSE BOOKS:

ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY // THEORY // DESIGN

URBAN STUDIES // TECHNOLOGY, TOOLS, MODELING // MODERNISM

AESTHETICS // FILM // WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN

ENVIRONMENT // SOCIAL JUSTICE // MUSEUM STUDIES

NORTH AMERICA // EUROPE // ASIA // NEW YORK // CALIFORNIA

Spectacular Mexico Design, Propaganda, and the 1968 Olympics Luis M. Castañeda 2014 Fall: How Mexico used modern design to announce its arrival on the world stage
Bauhaus Weaving Theory From Feminine Craft to Mode of Design T’ai Smith 2014 Fall: Considers the role of the Bauhaus school’s weaving workshop in debates about craft and medium
Mediators Aesthetics, Politics, and the City Reinhold Martin 2015 Spring: Toward a theory of the city at the crossroads of aesthetics and politics
Saint John's Abbey Church Marcel Breuer and the Creation of a Modern Sacred Space Victoria M. Young 2014 Fall: The making of an architectural masterpiece in Minnesota, a church that helped to define modern religious design
The Folklore of the Freeway Race and Revolt in the Modernist City Eric Avila 2014 Spring: How urban minority communities devastated by the construction of the interstate highway reclaimed their place through cultural expression
More Than Shelter Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing Amy L. Howard 2014 Spring: Public housing projects in San Francisco reveal the power of community action
Photographic Architecture in the Twentieth Century Claire Zimmerman 2014 Spring: How photography shaped modern architecture
Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment Henri Lefebvre Lukasz Stanek, Editor 2014 Spring: The relationship between bodily pleasure, space, and architecture—from one of the twentieth century’s most important urban theorists
City Choreographer Lawrence Halprin in Urban Renewal America Alison Bick Hirsch 2014 Spring: How Lawrence Halprin’s choreographic design method mitigated the alienating effects of urban renewal and enriched contemporary urban design
The Social Project Housing Postwar France Kenny Cupers 2014 Spring: Maps the architectural, cultural, and intellectual history of suburbanization in postwar France
Architecture since 1400 Kathleen James-Chakraborty 2013 Fall: A sweeping global history of the built environment over six centuries, highlighting the social context in which buildings are commissioned, designed, and constructed
Mechanization Takes Command A Contribution to Anonymous History Sigfried Giedion 2013 Fall: One of the twentieth century’s best-known architectural theorists examines the impact of mechanization on daily life
Manhattan Atmospheres Architecture, the Interior Environment, and Urban Crisis David Gissen 2013 Fall: Examines the impact of New York City’s monumental late-modern architecture on the restructuring of the city
Pedestrian Modern Shopping and American Architecture, 1925–1956 David Smiley 2013 Spring: How the design of stores and shopping centers shaped modern architecture in the United States
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
Radiance from Halcyon A Utopian Experiment in Religion and Science Paul Eli Ivey 2013 Spring: A revealing history of a surprisingly influential and inventive theosophical utopian community
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
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
Utopia’s Ghost Architecture and Postmodernism, Again Reinhold Martin 2010 Spring: Unpacking architecture’s important—and continuing—role in postmodern thought
Urban Design Alex Krieger and William S. Saunders, Editors 2008 Fall: Highlights key issues in contemporary urban design through a discussion of its origins, current state, and future
The Architecture of Madness Insane Asylums in the United States Carla Yanni 2007 Spring: From Kirkbride buildings to cottages, a fascinating tour through America’s nineteenth-century mental hospitals
Architecture and Suburbia From English Villa to American Dream House, 1690-2000 John Archer 2008 Spring: An illustrated cultural history of the residential landscape of suburbia
The Urban Revolution Henri Lefebvre 2003 Spring: The first English translation of Lefebvre’s groundbreaking work on the urban experience