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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

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

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

The Materiality of Architecture Antoine Picon 2020 Fall

A new paradigm combining architectural tradition with emerging technologies

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

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

Things Worth Keeping The Value of Attachment in a Disposable World Christine Harold 2020 Spring

A timely examination of the attachments we form to objects and how they might be used to reduce waste

Modern Housing Catherine Bauer 2020 Spring

The original guide on modern housing from the premier expert and activist in the public housing movement

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

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

Happiness by Design Modernism and Media in the Eames Era Justus Nieland 2020 Spring

A cultural history of modern lifestyle viewed through film and multimedia experiments of midcentury designers Charles and Ray Eames

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

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

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

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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