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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

Saint John's Abbey Church Marcel Breuer and the Creation of a Modern Sacred Space Victoria M. Young 2014 Fall

The making of an architectural masterpiece in Minnesota, a church that helped to define modern religious design

The Folklore of the Freeway Race and Revolt in the Modernist City Eric Avila 2014 Spring

How urban minority communities devastated by the construction of the interstate highway reclaimed their place through cultural expression

Photographic Architecture in the Twentieth Century Claire Zimmerman 2014 Spring

How photography shaped modern architecture

Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment Henri Lefebvre Lukasz Stanek, Editor 2014 Spring

The relationship between bodily pleasure, space, and architecture—from one of the twentieth century’s most important urban theorists

City Choreographer Lawrence Halprin in Urban Renewal America Alison Bick Hirsch 2014 Spring

How Lawrence Halprin’s choreographic design method mitigated the alienating effects of urban renewal and enriched contemporary urban design

The Social Project Housing Postwar France Kenny Cupers 2014 Spring

Maps the architectural, cultural, and intellectual history of suburbanization in postwar France

Architecture since 1400 Kathleen James-Chakraborty 2013 Fall

A sweeping global history of the built environment over six centuries, highlighting the social context in which buildings are commissioned, designed, and constructed

Manhattan Atmospheres Architecture, the Interior Environment, and Urban Crisis David Gissen 2013 Fall

Examines the impact of New York City’s monumental late-modern architecture on the restructuring of the city

New Architecture on Indigenous Lands Joy Monice Malnar and Frank Vodvarka 2013 Spring

Tribal architecture gets back to its Native roots—and becomes something new

Pedestrian Modern Shopping and American Architecture, 1925–1956 David Smiley 2013 Spring

How the design of stores and shopping centers shaped modern architecture in the United States

Commemorating and Forgetting Challenges for the New South Africa Martin J. Murray 2013 Spring

Reshaping the past for a livable present through “landscapes of remembrance” composed of art and architecture, museums and memorials

Designing the Creative Child Playthings and Places in Midcentury America Amy F. Ogata 2013 Spring

The construction of the “creative child” as Cold War America’s best hope for the future

House, but No Garden Apartment Living in Bombay’s Suburbs, 1898–1964 Nikhil Rao 2012 Fall

The emergence of apartment living in the suburbs in mid-twentieth-century Bombay

Constitutional Modernism Architecture and Civil Society in Cuba, 1933–1959 Timothy Hyde 2012 Fall

How architecture, law, and urbanism shaped the premises of civil society in Cuba

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