Architecture and Design
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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
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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
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Photographic Architecture in the Twentieth Century Claire Zimmerman 2014 Spring
- How photography shaped modern architecture
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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