Architecture and Urban Studies Book Sale 2022
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS: 40% OFF BOOKS
All books below are 40% off using code MN89180. Code expires August 1, 2022.
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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
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The Architecture of Disability Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access David Gissen 2022 Fall
- A radical critique of architecture that places disability at the heart of the built environment
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Against the Commons A Radical History of Urban Planning Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago 2022 Fall
- An alternative history of capitalist urbanization through the lens of the commons
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Architecture and Objects Graham Harman 2022 Spring
- Thinking through object-oriented ontology—and the work of architects such as Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid—to explore new concepts of the relationship between form and function
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The Common Camp Architecture of Power and Resistance in Israel–Palestine Irit Katz 2022 Spring
- Seeing the camp as a persistent political instrument in Israel–Palestine and beyond
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Architecture of Life Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences Alla Vronskaya 2022 Spring
- Explores how Soviet architects reimagined the built environment through the principles of the human sciences
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Showroom City Real Estate and Resistance in the Furniture Capital of the World John Joe Schlichtman 2021 Fall
- A unique and engaging account of local urban decision-making within the globalizing world
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Plant Life The Entangled Politics of Afforestation Rosetta S. Elkin 2022 Spring
- How afforestation reveals the often-concealed politics between humans and plants
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Earthworks Rising Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts Chadwick Allen 2022 Spring
- A necessary reexamination of Indigenous mounds, demonstrating their sustained vitality and vibrant futurity by centering Native voices
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Accumulation The Art, Architecture, and Media of Climate Change Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Daniel A. Barber and Anton Vidokle, Editors 2022 Spring
- Examines how images of accumulation help open up the climate to political mobilization
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Building on Borrowed Time Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang Lukas Ley 2021 Fall
- A timely ethnography of how Indonesia’s coastal dwellers inhabit the “chronic present” of a slow-motion natural disaster
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Modelwork The Material Culture of Making and Knowing Martin Brückner, Sandy Isenstadt and Sarah Wasserman, Editors 2021 Fall
- How making models allows us to recall what was and to discover what still might be
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Louis Sullivan’s Idea Tim Samuelson 2021 Fall
- A visual compendium revealing the philosophy and life of America’s renowned architect
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Reconstructing the Garrick Adler & Sullivan’s Lost Masterpiece John Vinci, Editor 2021 Fall
- A beautifully designed and lavishly illustrated biography of one of Chicago’s greatest lost buildings
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Savage Mind to Savage Machine Racial Science and Twentieth-Century Design Ginger Nolan 2020 Fall
- An examination of how concepts of “the savage” facilitated technological approaches to modernist design
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The End of the Village Planning the Urbanization of Rural China Nick R. Smith 2021 Spring
- How China’s expansive new era of urbanization threatens to undermine the foundations of rural life
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The Global Shelter Imaginary IKEA Humanitarianism and Rightless Relief Daniel Bertrand Monk and Andrew Herscher 2021 Fall
- Examines how the humanitarian order advances a message of moral triumph and care while abandoning the dispossessed
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The Filing Cabinet A Vertical History of Information Craig Robertson 2021 Spring
- The history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information
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The Speculative City Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles Susanna Phillips Newbury 2021 Spring
- A forensic examination of the mutual relationship between art and real estate in a transforming Los Angeles
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Nuclear Suburbs Cold War Technoscience and the Pittsburgh Renaissance Patrick Vitale 2021 Spring
- From submarines to the suburbs—the remaking of Pittsburgh during the Cold War
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The Materiality of Architecture Antoine Picon 2020 Fall
- A new paradigm combining architectural tradition with emerging technologies
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How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900-1940 Thomas C. Hubka 2020 Spring
- The transformation of average Americans’ domestic lives, revealed through the mechanical innovations and physical improvements of their homes
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Trans Care Hil Malatino 2020 Fall
- A radical and necessary rethinking of trans care
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The Invention of Public Space Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay’s New York Mariana Mogilevich 2020 Spring
- The interplay of psychology, design, and politics in experiments with urban open space
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Modern Housing Catherine Bauer 2020 Spring
- The original guide on modern housing from the premier expert and activist in the public housing movement
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The Metabolist Imagination Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction William O. Gardner 2020 Spring
- Japan’s postwar urban imagination through the Metabolism architecture movement and visionary science fiction authors
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Elizabeth Scheu Close A Life in Modern Architecture Jane King Hession 2020 Spring
- An in-depth account of the life and career of Minnesota’s first modern architect
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Happiness by Design Modernism and Media in the Eames Era Justus Nieland 2019 Spring
- A cultural history of modern lifestyle viewed through film and multimedia experiments of midcentury designers Charles and Ray Eames
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Museums Inside Out Artist Collaborations and New Exhibition Ecologies Mark W. Rectanus 2020 Spring
- An ambitious study of what it means to be a museum in the twenty-first century
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Design Technics Archaeologies of Architectural Practice Zeynep Çelik Alexander and John May, Editors 2019 Fall
- Leading scholars historicize and theorize technology’s role in architectural design
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The Responsive Environment Design, Aesthetics, and the Human in the 1970s Larry D. Busbea 2019 Fall
- How new conceptions of human–environment interaction became central to design theories and practices in the 1970s
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Avant-Garde in the Cornfields Architecture, Landscape, and Preservation in New Harmony Ben Nicholson and Michelangelo Sabatino, Editors 2019 Spring
- A close examination of an iconic small town that gives boundless insights into architecture, landscape, preservation, and philanthropy
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Vital Forms Biological Art, Architecture, and the Dependencies of Life Jennifer Johung 2019 Fall
- Shows how the intersection of biotech, art, and architecture are transforming the world we live in
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Architectures of the Unforeseen Essays in the Occurrent Arts Brian Massumi 2019 Spring
- A beautifully written study of three pioneering artists, entwining their work and our understanding of creativity
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The Decorated Tenement How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age Zachary J. Violette 2019 Spring
- A reexamination of working-class architecture in late nineteenth-century urban America
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Design, Nature, and Revolution Toward a Critical Ecology Tomás Maldonado 2019 Spring
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Living on Campus An Architectural History of the American Dormitory Carla Yanni 2019 Spring
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The Rent of Form Architecture and Labor in the Digital Age Pedro Fiori Arantes 2018 Fall
- A critique of prominent architects’ approach to digitally driven design and labor practices over the past two decades
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Constructing Imperial Berlin Photography and the Metropolis Miriam Paeslack 2018 Fall
- How photography and a modernizing Berlin informed an urban image—and one another—in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
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Graphic Assembly Montage, Media, and Experimental Architecture in the 1960s Craig Buckley 2018 Fall
- An innovative look at the contribution of montage to twentieth-century architecture
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DIA-LOGOS Ramon Llull's Method of Thought and Artistic Practice Amador Vega, Peter Weibel and Siegfried Zielinski, Editors 2018 Fall
- The life and work of the outstanding Catalan-Majorcan philosopher, logician, and mystic Ramon Llull continues to fascinate thinkers, artists, and scholars worldwide
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Toward a Living Architecture? Complexism and Biology in Generative Design Christina Cogdell 2018 Fall
- A bold and unprecedented look at a cutting-edge movement in architecture
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Metropolitan Dreams The Scandalous Rise and Stunning Fall of a Minneapolis Masterpiece Larry Millett 2018 Fall
- The story of one of Minnesota’s most famous and most mourned buildings, set against the history of downtown Minneapolis
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Nazi Exhibition Design and Modernism Michael Tymkiw 2018 Spring
- A new and challenging perspective on Nazi exhibition design
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Modernism’s Visible Hand Architecture and Regulation in America Michael Osman 2018 Spring
- A groundbreaking history of the confluence of regulatory thinking and building design in the United States
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Carving Out the Commons Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C. Amanda Huron 2018 Spring
- An investigation of the practice of “commoning” in urban housing and its necessity for challenging economic injustice in our rapidly gentrifying cities
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Modernism as Memory Building Identity in the Federal Republic of Germany Kathleen James-Chakraborty 2017 Fall
- Reexamining architecture and memory in postwar Berlin
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Superhumanity Design of the Self Nick Axel, Beatriz Colomina, Nikolaus Hirsch, Anton Vidokle and Mark Wigley, Editors 2018 Spring
- A wide-ranging and challenging exploration of design and how it engages with the self
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Spectacle of Property The House in American Film John David Rhodes 2017 Fall
- A fascinating and unprecedented look at our relationship with the house in cinema
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Historic Capital Preservation, Race, and Real Estate in Washington, D.C. Cameron Logan 2017 Fall
- A chronicle of historic preservation’s profound impact on Washington, D.C., highlighting the major changes urban revitalization has made on American cities
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Building Access Universal Design and the Politics of Disability Aimi Hamraie 2017 Fall
- Rich with archival images, the first critical history of the Universal Design movement
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Code and Clay, Data and Dirt Five Thousand Years of Urban Media Shannon Mattern 2017 Fall
- A breathtaking tour through thousands of years of urban life and its attendant technologies, rewriting the history of our cities
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The Construction of Equality Syriac Immigration and the Swedish City Jennifer Mack 2017 Fall
- A compelling case study that traces the transformation of a Swedish city by an active and engaged immigrant community
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Seizing Jerusalem The Architectures of Unilateral Unification Alona Nitzan-Shiftan 2017 Spring
- Reveals the ways architectural modernism and Zionism have intertwined to imagine and reshape the city
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Shopping Town Designing the City in Suburban America Victor Gruen Anette Baldauf, Editor 2017 Spring
- For the first time in English, the “father of the shopping mall” tells his life story
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From Light to Dark Daylight, Illumination, and Gloom Tim Edensor 2017 Spring
- A fascinating and unprecedented look at how illumination and darkness shape our experiences across history and space
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Curated Decay Heritage beyond Saving Caitlin DeSilvey 2017 Spring
- A bold new approach to heritage conservation that embraces change and accommodates decay
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California Mission Landscapes Race, Memory, and the Politics of Heritage Elizabeth Kryder-Reid 2016 Fall
- How iconic American places cultivate and conceal contested pasts
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Marxist Thought and the City Henri Lefebvre 2016 Fall
- For the first time in English, Lefebvre’s essential work on how Marx and Engels conceptualized the development of the city
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The Urban Apparatus Mediapolitics and the City Reinhold Martin 2016 Fall
- What is a city, today?
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The Interface IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945–1976 John Harwood 2016 Fall
- How a cast of superstars at IBM altered the face of corporate culture and design in America
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The Rule of Logistics Walmart and the Architecture of Fulfillment Jesse LeCavalier 2016 Spring
- How the world’s largest retailer is redefining architecture by organizing flows of merchandise and information across space and time
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Designing Our Way to a Better World Thomas Fisher 2016 Spring
- How design thinking can help create a sustainable, equitable future
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John Vassos Industrial Design for Modern Life Danielle Shapiro 2016 Spring
- The first biography of a renowned industrial designer and illustrator who shaped the look of modern technology
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Airport Urbanism Infrastructure and Mobility in Asia Max Hirsh 2016 Spring
- The first book on infrastructure and migration to focus on the Asian transportation boom
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DIY Detroit Making Do in a City without Services Kimberley Kinder 2016 Spring
- When public services fail, neighbors step in to keep a city alive
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The Suburban Church Modernism and Community in Postwar America Gretchen Buggeln 2015 Fall
- A richly illustrated history of midcentury modern suburban churches
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Minnesota Modern Architecture and Life at Midcentury Larry Millett 2015 Fall
- An expert, illustrated guide through the style that defined midcentury Minnesota
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Barnstorming the Prairies How Aerial Vision Shaped the Midwest Jason Weems 2015 Fall
- How flight led to a new view of the Midwest, making it the center of the nation in more ways than one
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Avant-Garde Museology e-flux classics Arseny Zhilyaev, Editor 2015 Fall
- Avant-Garde Museology is the Press’s first title in e-flux classics
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Martin Heidegger Saved My Life Grant Farred 2015 Fall
- Could there be a bigger paradox than the black man using Martin Heidegger to repel the white woman's racism?
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John H. Howe, Architect From Taliesin Apprentice to Master of Organic Design Jane King Hession and Tim Quigley 2015 Spring
- A richly illustrated biography of John H. Howe, “the pencil in Frank Lloyd Wright’s hand” and one of Minnesota’s premier architects
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Deep Mapping the Media City Shannon Mattern 2015 Spring
- Examines the material spaces in which our networks entangle themselves
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Architectural Agents The Delusional, Abusive, Addictive Lives of Buildings Annabel Jane Wharton 2015 Spring
- How buildings interact with—and manipulate—our world and ourselves
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Impossible Heights Skyscrapers, Flight, and the Master Builder Adnan Morshed 2014 Fall
- A rich exploration of the influence of skyscrapers, airplanes, and aerial vision on interwar American visual culture
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No Speed Limit Three Essays on Accelerationism Steven Shaviro 2015 Spring
- Proposes a vision of survival and flourishing in the face of economic and environmental catastrophe
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Building Zion The Material World of Mormon Settlement Thomas Carter 2014 Fall
- What the built environment shows us about the complex and evolving nature of nineteenth-century Mormon social and religious life
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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
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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
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Mediators Aesthetics, Politics, and the City Reinhold Martin 2015 Spring
- Toward a theory of the city at the crossroads of aesthetics and politics
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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
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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
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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
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Photographic Architecture in the Twentieth Century Claire Zimmerman 2014 Spring
- How photography shaped modern architecture
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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
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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
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The Social Project Housing Postwar France Kenny Cupers 2014 Spring
- Maps the architectural, cultural, and intellectual history of suburbanization in postwar France
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Utopia’s Ghost Architecture and Postmodernism, Again Reinhold Martin 2010 Spring
- Unpacking architecture’s important—and continuing—role in postmodern thought
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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
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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
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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
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The Urban Revolution Henri Lefebvre 2003 Spring
- The first English translation of Lefebvre’s groundbreaking work on the urban experience
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