Architecture and Design

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

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

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

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

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

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