Architecture and Design

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

The Suburban Church Modernism and Community in Postwar America Gretchen Buggeln 2015 Fall

A richly illustrated history of midcentury modern suburban churches

John H. Howe, Architect From Taliesin Apprentice to Master of Organic Design Jane King Hession and Tim Quigley 2015 Spring

A richly illustrated biography of John H. Howe, “the pencil in Frank Lloyd Wright’s hand” and one of Minnesota’s premier architects

Making Suburbia New Histories of Everyday America John Archer, Paul J. P. Sandul and Katherine Solomonson, Editors 2015 Spring

Illustrates the astonishing complexity of American suburbia

Architectural Agents The Delusional, Abusive, Addictive Lives of Buildings Annabel Jane Wharton 2015 Spring

How buildings interact with—and manipulate—our world and ourselves

Impossible Heights Skyscrapers, Flight, and the Master Builder Adnan Morshed 2014 Fall

A rich exploration of the influence of skyscrapers, airplanes, and aerial vision on interwar American visual culture

Building Zion The Material World of Mormon Settlement Thomas Carter 2014 Fall

What the built environment shows us about the complex and evolving nature of nineteenth-century Mormon social and religious life

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