Architecture, Landscape, and American Culture
This series promotes historical scholarship that addresses the complex interplay among architecture, landscape, and American culture. By examining the social, political, economic, and cultural processes involved in the creation of buildings and environments, these books apply innovative methodologies and interdisciplinary approaches to inform the conception, production, and reception of American cultural landscapes.
Books in this Series
Fallout Shelter
Designing for Civil Defense in the Cold War
Tracing the partnership between architects and American civil defense officials during the Cold War
Women and the Everyday City
Public Space in San Francisco, 1890–1915
Women in the city in turn-of-the-century San Francisco
Manhood Factories
YMCA Architecture and the Making of Modern Urban Culture
How moral agendas shaped the look and feel of YMCAs
194X
Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Home Front
Rediscovering the visionary designs and idealistic rhetoric of American architecture during World War II
Medicine by Design
The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893–1943
Reveals the impact of hospital design on early twentieth-century medicine
The Architecture of Madness
Insane Asylums in the United States
From Kirkbride buildings to cottages, a fascinating tour through America’s nineteenth-century mental hospitals
A Manufactured Wilderness
Summer Camps and the Shaping of American Youth, 1890–1960
An engrossing look at American summer camps—from mess halls to tents to fire circles
The Suburban Church
Modernism and Community in Postwar America
A richly illustrated history of midcentury modern suburban churches
Building Zion
The Material World of Mormon Settlement
What the built environment shows us about the complex and evolving nature of nineteenth-century Mormon social and religious life
How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900-1940
The transformation of average Americans’ domestic lives, revealed through the mechanical innovations and physical improvements of their homes
California Mission Landscapes
Race, Memory, and the Politics of Heritage
How iconic American places cultivate and conceal contested pasts
Little White Houses
How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America
How the ordinary American house contributed to definitions of middle-class whiteness and an exclusionary housing market in the postwar era
Designing the Creative Child
Playthings and Places in Midcentury America
The construction of the “creative child” as Cold War America’s best hope for the future