Books for the budding new grad: Design and architecture
May 9, 2023
Inspiring reads to help you infuse deeper meaning into the work you do.
Category: Architecture
Cover story: Architectures of Spatial Justice by Dana Cuff
April 14, 2023
Cuff’s latest book demonstrates how architects are breaking with professional conventions to design more equitable spaces.
Revisiting the classics in open access for World Architecture Day
October 3, 2022
Our Open Architecture and Urban Studies series makes classic out-of-print architecture texts freely available online.
Studying the craft on World Architecture Day
October 4, 2021
Books celebrating the architecture of bathing, gravesites, and more.
The MIT Press welcomes new Senior Acquisitions Editor for Art and Architecture
June 18, 2019
The MIT Press announces the appointment of Thomas Weaver as senior acquisitions editor for art and architecture, beginning in September 2019. Weaver, an architectural writer, teacher, and editor, succeeds Roger Conover, who served in the position from 1977 until his recent retirement.
Slippers and Wire, a crude episode of Plastic Capitalism
April 11, 2019
In “Plastic Capitalism: Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste,” Amanda Boetzkes, professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory, School of Fine Arts and Music, University of Guelph, links the increasing visualization of waste in contemporary art to the rise of the global oil economy and the emergence of ecological thinking. Often, when art is analyzed in relation to the political, scientific, or ecological climate, it is considered merely illustrative. Boetzkes argues that art is constitutive of an ecological consciousness, not simply an extension of it. The visual culture of waste is central to the study of the ecological condition. In the piece below, Boetzkes analyzes a new exhibition called Crude at the Jameel Art Center in Dubai.