Architecture and Design

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

Little White Houses How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America Dianne Harris 2012 Fall

How the ordinary American house contributed to definitions of middle-class whiteness and an exclusionary housing market in the postwar era

Unlearning the City Infrastructure in a New Optical Field Swati Chattopadhyay 2012 Fall

A new way to describe the city—through the lens of popular culture and street life

The Modern Architectural Landscape Caroline Constant 2012 Spring

Examines the overlooked contributions of modern architects to landscape design

Ottoman Izmir The Rise of a Cosmopolitan Port, 1840-1880 Sibel Zandi-Sayek 2011 Fall

A revelatory examination of the multiple constructions of urban modernization

Henri Lefebvre on Space Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of Theory Łukasz Stanek 2011 Spring

Shows how Lefebvre’s theory of space developed out of direct engagement with architecture, urbanism, and urban sociology

Coming soon

University of Minnesota Press

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