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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?

The Interface IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945–1976 John Harwood 2016 Fall

How a cast of superstars at IBM altered the face of corporate culture and design in America

The Rule of Logistics Walmart and the Architecture of Fulfillment Jesse LeCavalier 2016 Spring

How the world’s largest retailer is redefining architecture by organizing flows of merchandise and information across space and time

Designing Our Way to a Better World Thomas Fisher 2016 Spring

How design thinking can help create a sustainable, equitable future

John Vassos Industrial Design for Modern Life Danielle Shapiro 2016 Spring

The first biography of a renowned industrial designer and illustrator who shaped the look of modern technology

Airport Urbanism Infrastructure and Mobility in Asia Max Hirsh 2016 Spring

The first book on infrastructure and migration to focus on the Asian transportation boom

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