Architecture and Design

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

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

Superhumanity Design of the Self Nick Axel, Beatriz Colomina, Nikolaus Hirsch, Anton Vidokle and Mark Wigley, Editors 2018 Spring

A wide-ranging and challenging exploration of design and how it engages with the self

Historic Capital Preservation, Race, and Real Estate in Washington, D.C. Cameron Logan 2017 Fall

A chronicle of historic preservation’s profound impact on Washington, D.C., highlighting the major changes urban revitalization has made on American cities

Building Access Universal Design and the Politics of Disability Aimi Hamraie 2017 Fall

Rich with archival images, the first critical history of the Universal Design movement

Seizing Jerusalem The Architectures of Unilateral Unification Alona Nitzan-Shiftan 2017 Spring

Reveals the ways architectural modernism and Zionism have intertwined to imagine and reshape the city

Shopping Town Designing the City in Suburban America Victor Gruen Anette Baldauf, Editor 2017 Spring

For the first time in English, the “father of the shopping mall” tells his life story

California Mission Landscapes Race, Memory, and the Politics of Heritage Elizabeth Kryder-Reid 2016 Fall

How iconic American places cultivate and conceal contested pasts

The Urban Apparatus Mediapolitics and the City Reinhold Martin 2016 Fall

What is a city, today?

University of Minnesota Press

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