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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

Louis Sullivan’s Idea Tim Samuelson 2021 Fall

A visual compendium revealing the philosophy and life of America’s renowned architect

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

Savage Mind to Savage Machine Racial Science and Twentieth-Century Design Ginger Nolan 2021 Spring

An examination of how concepts of “the savage” facilitated technological approaches to modernist design

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

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 2019 Spring

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

OPIOID RECKONING lecture series with the St. Thomas Selim Center for Lifelong Learning and Amy Sullivan Oct 13, 2021 10:00 AM
(US/Central) — Hybrid (more details below)
OPIOID RECKONING hybrid launch event at Macalester College with Amy Sullivan Oct 25, 2021 07:00 PM
(US/Central) — John B. Davis Lecture Hall, Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus Center, Macalester College, 3 Snelling Ave. S, St. Paul, MN 55105
SCAMMER'S YARD event at the University of California, Berkeley with Jovan Scott Lewis Oct 27, 2021 04:00 PM
(US/Central) — University of California, Berkeley, Latinx Research Center, 2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
REELING event at Next Chapter Booksellers with Sarah Stonich Oct 27, 2021 05:30 PM
(US/Central) — Next Chapter Booksellers, 38 Snelling Ave. S, St. Paul, MN 55105
FOR THE LOVE OF COD event at Ingebretsen's with Eric Dregni Oct 30, 2021 11:00 AM
(US/Central) — Ingebretsen's, 1601 E Lake St., Minneapolis, MN 55407

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