Architecture and Design

The Aesthetics of Equity Notes on Race, Space, Architecture, and Music Craig L. Wilkins 2007 Spring

A provocative examination of how and why African Americans have been excluded from the study and practice of architecture.

America Town Building the Outposts of Empire Mark L. Gillem 2007 Spring

How the United States has exported the suburban way of life through the design of its military bases

Building a Century of Progress The Architecture of Chicago’s 1933–34 World’s Fair Lisa D. Schrenk 2007 Spring

The first in-depth look at the architecture of the second Chicago World’s Fair

The Architecture of Madness Insane Asylums in the United States Carla Yanni 2007 Spring

From Kirkbride buildings to cottages, a fascinating tour through America’s nineteenth-century mental hospitals

Judging Architectural Value A Harvard Design Magazine Reader William S. Saunders, Editor 2007 Spring

Architects, critics, and scholars debate what makes architecture bad, good, and great

The New Downtown Library Designing with Communities Shannon Mattern 2006 Fall

How libraries became urban America’s signature buildings

Noise Orders Jazz, Improvision, and Architecture David P. Brown 2005 Fall

An interdisciplinary look at the implications of improvisation in jazz on modern design

Bauhaus Culture From Weimar to the Cold War Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Editor 2006 Spring

Provides fresh insights on the Bauhaus from a historical perspective

Urban Planning Today A Harvard Design Magazine Reader William S. Saunders, Editor 2006 Spring

A provocative and practical consideration of what works, and what does not, in American urban planning

In the Scheme of Things Alternative Thinking on the Practice of Architecture Thomas R. Fisher 2006 Spring

One of the field’s most innovative thinkers reconsiders the purpose and practice of architecture

Else/Where New Cartographies of Networks and Territories Janet Abrams and Peter Hall, Editors 2005 Fall

The new role of maps in the information age

Commodification and Spectacle in Architecture A Harvard Design Magazine Reader William S. Saunders, Editor 2005 Fall

Diverse points of view on the relationship between design and capitalism

Sprawl and Suburbia A Harvard Design Magazine Reader William S. Saunders, Editor 2005 Fall

Combating sprawl through alternative visions of design and community

Salmela Architect Thomas Fisher 2005 Spring

A stunning and informative portrait of one of today’s most honored architects

Architecture and Suburbia From English Villa to American Dream House, 1690-2000 John Archer 2008 Spring

An illustrated cultural history of the residential landscape of suburbia

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