William J. Mitchell is the Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr., Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences and directs the Smart Cities research group at MIT's Media Lab. He is the author of many books, including The World's Greatest Architect (2008) and Placing Words: Symbols, Space, and the City (2005), both published by the MIT Press.
World's Greatest Architect Making, Meaning, and Network Culture William J. Mitchell Paper / September 2008 Function and meaning in architecture and elsewhere, from tongue-in-cheek instructions for creating a surveillance state to reflections on the architecture of the potato chip. Price $16.95 | ADD TO CART
Imagining MIT Designing a Campus for the Twenty-First Century William J. Mitchell Cloth / April 2007 The story of the decade long, billion-dollar building boom at MIT and how it produced major works of architecture by Charles Correa, Frank Gehry, Steven Holl, Fumihiko Maki, and Kevin Roche. Price $26.95 | ADD TO CART
Placing Words Symbols, Space, and the City William J. Mitchell Paper / September 2005 Reflections on architecture and the exchange of information in the spaces and places of the city, from the necessity of skyscrapers in an age of Web sites to cities as talent magnets, from architectural bling to the neo-minimalism of the new MoMA. Price $18.95 | ADD TO CART
Me++ The Cyborg Self and the Networked City William J. Mitchell Paper / October 2004 How the transformation of wireless technology and the creation of an interconnected world are changing our environment and our lives. Price $18.95 | ADD TO CART
Architecture's New Media Principles, Theories, and Methods of Computer-Aided Design Yehuda E. Kalay Cloth / May 2004 A comprehensive examination of computer-aided architectural design and its potential effect on architectural design practice; for practitioners, educators, students, and researchers. Price $58.00 | ADD TO CART
Building Stata The Design and Construction of Frank O. Gehry's Stata Center at MIT Nancy Joyce Paper / May 2004 The evolution of a Frank Gehry building, from planning and design and architect-client interaction to construction; with color illustrations throughout. Price $34.00 | ADD TO CART
Building Stata The Design and Construction of Frank O. Gehry's Stata Center at MIT Nancy Joyce Cloth / May 2004 The evolution of a Frank Gehry building, from planning and design and architect-client interaction to construction; with color illustrations throughout. Price $70.00 | ADD TO CART
Me++ The Cyborg Self and the Networked City William J. Mitchell Cloth / October 2003 How the transformation of wireless technology and the creation of an interconnected world are changing our environment and our lives. Price $29.95 | ADD TO CART
e-topia "Urban Life, Jim--But Not As We Know It" William J. Mitchell Paper / August 2000 In this lucid, invigorating book, William Mitchell examines this new urban infrastructure of the global digital network and its implications for our future daily lives. Price $19.95 | ADD TO CART
e-topia "Urban Life, Jim--But Not As We Know It" William J. Mitchell Cloth / September 1999 In this lucid, invigorating book, William J. Mitchell examines the new urban infrastructure of the global digital network and its implications for our future daily lives. Price $45.00 | ADD TO CART
Amercan Architects and Texts A Computer-Aided Analysis of the Literature Juan Pablo Bonta Cloth / July 1996 In American Architects and Texts, Juan Pablo Bonta
analyzes the indexes of nearly 400 architectural books and
articles published over the past century and a half to
reveal changing societal preferences in architecture and
to literally measure the reputations of individual
architects. OUT OF STOCK
The Poetics of Gardens Charles W. Moore, William J. Mitchell and William Turnbull Paper / August 1993 This is an entirely different garden book: a pattern book in which a score of landscapes and gardens are drawn, described, and analyzed not just as a bouquet of pleasures but as sources, lodes to be mined for materials, shapes and relationships, and ideas for transforming our own backyards. Price $36.00 | ADD TO CART
The Reconfigured Eye Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era William J. Mitchell Paper / July 1992 Continuing William Mitchell's investigations of how we understand, reason about, and use images, The Reconfigured Eye provides the first systematic, critical analysis of the digital imaging revolution. Price $37.00 | ADD TO CART
The Logic of Architecture Design, Computation, and Cognition William J. Mitchell Paper / April 1990 The Logic of Architecture is the first comprehensive, systematic, and modern treatment of the logical foundations of design thinking. OUT OF STOCK
The Logic of Architecture Design, Computation, and Cognition William J. Mitchell Cloth / April 1989 The Logic of Architecture is the first comprehensive, systematic, and modern treatment of the logical foundations of design thinking. OUT OF PRINT
