Architecture and Design

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 Fall

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

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

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

Design, Nature, and Revolution Toward a Critical Ecology Tomás Maldonado 2019 Spring

Living on Campus An Architectural History of the American Dormitory Carla Yanni 2019 Spring

The Rent of Form Architecture and Labor in the Digital Age Pedro Fiori Arantes 2018 Fall

A critique of prominent architects’ approach to digitally driven design and labor practices over the past two decades

Graphic Assembly Montage, Media, and Experimental Architecture in the 1960s Craig Buckley 2018 Fall

An innovative look at the contribution of montage to twentieth-century architecture

Toward a Living Architecture? Complexism and Biology in Generative Design Christina Cogdell 2018 Fall

A bold and unprecedented look at a cutting-edge movement in architecture

Modernism’s Visible Hand Architecture and Regulation in America Michael Osman 2018 Spring

A groundbreaking history of the confluence of regulatory thinking and building design in the United States

Modernism as Memory Building Identity in the Federal Republic of Germany Kathleen James-Chakraborty 2017 Fall

Reexamining architecture and memory in postwar Berlin

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