Architecture and Design

Architecture of Life Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences Alla Vronskaya 2022 Spring

Explores how Soviet architects reimagined the built environment through the principles of the human sciences

The Common Camp Architecture of Power and Resistance in Israel–Palestine Irit Katz 2022 Spring

Seeing the camp as a persistent political instrument in Israel–Palestine and beyond

Accumulation The Art, Architecture, and Media of Climate Change Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Daniel A. Barber and Anton Vidokle, Editors 2022 Spring

Examines how images of accumulation help open up the climate to political mobilization

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 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

Modern Housing Catherine Bauer 2020 Spring

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

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

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

The Decorated Tenement How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age Zachary J. Violette 2019 Spring

A reexamination of working-class architecture in late nineteenth-century urban America

University of Minnesota Press