Architecture Sale: Theory
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.
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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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 Materiality of Architecture Antoine Picon 2020 Fall
- A new paradigm combining architectural tradition with emerging technologies
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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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Design, Nature, and Revolution Toward a Critical Ecology Tomás Maldonado 2019 Spring
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Urban Revolution Henri Lefebvre 2003 Spring
- The first English translation of Lefebvre’s groundbreaking work on the urban experience