Architecture and Design
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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
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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