Architecture and Design
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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
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California Mission Landscapes Race, Memory, and the Politics of Heritage Elizabeth Kryder-Reid 2016 Fall
- How iconic American places cultivate and conceal contested pasts
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The Urban Apparatus Mediapolitics and the City Reinhold Martin 2016 Fall
- What is a city, today?
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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
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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
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Designing Our Way to a Better World Thomas Fisher 2016 Spring
- How design thinking can help create a sustainable, equitable future
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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
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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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The Suburban Church Modernism and Community in Postwar America Gretchen Buggeln 2015 Fall
- A richly illustrated history of midcentury modern suburban churches
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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
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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
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Architectural Agents The Delusional, Abusive, Addictive Lives of Buildings Annabel Jane Wharton 2015 Spring
- How buildings interact with—and manipulate—our world and ourselves
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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
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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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Spectacular Mexico Design, Propaganda, and the 1968 Olympics Luis M. Castañeda 2014 Fall
- How Mexico used modern design to announce its arrival on the world stage