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        Things That Move

        Things That Move

        Things That Move

        A Hinterland in Architectural History

        by Tim Anstey

        ISBN: 9780262547505

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 16, 2024

        A history of architecture, not as the art of what stays but of what changes and moves.
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        by Guillermo Acosta Navarrete, Gabriel Gutierrez Huerta and Mari Kroin

        ISBN: 9780262547819

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 9, 2024

        How architecture conceals, obscures, or camouflages itself in plain sight, and how such hiding functions as a form of power.
        Machine à Amuser

        Machine à Amuser

        Machine à Amuser

        The Life and Death of the Beistegui Penthouse Apartment

        by Wim van den Bergh

        ISBN: 9780262048774

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 9, 2024

        A richly illustrated history of a single building, the celebrated and yet enigmatic penthouse of the wealthy playboy Charles de Beistegui, designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in late 1920s Paris.
        Cultures of Assembly

        Cultures of Assembly

        Cultures of Assembly

        Studio Miessen

        Edited by Federica Bueti and Markus Miessen

        ISBN: 9783956792786

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: April 2, 2024

        A comprehensive overview of Studio Miessen's spatial designs and architectural projects.
        Rage in Harlem

        Rage in Harlem

        Rage in Harlem

        June Jordan and Architecture

        by Nikil Saval

        Introduction by Sarah M. Whiting

        ISBN: 9783956796296

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: February 6, 2024

        Pennsylvania State Senator Nikil Saval tells the story of an unlikely partnership between June Jordan and R. Buckminster Fuller, and their attempt to reimagine Harlem in the wake of the 1964 riots.
        Agonistic Assemblies

        Agonistic Assemblies

        Agonistic Assemblies

        On the Spatial Politics of Horizontality

        by Markus Miessen

        ISBN: 9781915609144

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: February 6, 2024

        A curatorial approach towards deliberative cultures of assembly and a realistic scenario of decentralized power and decision-making.
        The Monster Leviathan

        The Monster Leviathan

        The Monster Leviathan

        Anarchitecture

        by Aaron Betsky

        ISBN: 9780262546331

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 9, 2024

        Visionary proposals for a mythic and strange architecture—or anarchitecture—through which we can imagine other and better worlds.
        Architecture and Abstraction

        Architecture and Abstraction

        Architecture and Abstraction

        by Pier Vittorio Aureli

        ISBN: 9780262545235

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 7, 2023

        A landmark study of abstraction in architectural history, theory, and practice that challenges our assumptions about the meaning of abstract forms.
        Atrium

        Atrium

        Atrium

        by Charles Rice

        ISBN: 9780262048330

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 17, 2023

        How the rise of the large-scale atrium space in the 1970s and '80s changed the way buildings could be designed, constructed, regulated, and occupied.
        God’s Own Language

        God's Own Language

        God's Own Language

        Architectural Drawing in the Twelfth Century

        by Karl Kinsella

        ISBN: 9780262047746

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: June 13, 2023

        How modern architectural language was invented to communicate with the divine—challenging a common narrative of European architectural history.
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