Architecture and Urban Studies Book Sale 2022
Virtual space for attendees and those interested in the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and the Society for Architectural Historians. 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 MN89180. Code expires August 1, 2022.
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LISTEN: Dianne Harris (Little White Houses) in conversation with Mabel O. Wilson.
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
- 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