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Narrating the Globe
The Emergence of World Histories of Architecture
ISBN: 9780262047975
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 12, 2023
How notions of progress, beauty, and cultural superiority structured the genre of nineteenth-century world histories of architecture—and shaped the discipline as we know it today.
Design for Resilience
Making the Future We Leave Behind
ISBN: 9780262048095
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 1, 2023
Forthcoming from the MIT Press
Architecture and Abstraction
ISBN: 9780262545235
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 25, 2023
A landmark study of abstraction in architectural history, theory, and practice that challenges our assumptions about the meaning of abstract forms.
Architecture's Theory
ISBN: 9780262544979
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 18, 2023
A collection of illuminating essays exploring what theory makes of architecture and what architecture makes of theory in philosophical and materialized contexts.
Perspecta 55
Futures Index
ISBN: 9780262545464
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 28, 2023
A collection that explores how architecture ought to negotiate the future, when the future is anything but certain.
I Almost Forgot
Unpublished Colin Rowe
ISBN: 9780262047128
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 10, 2023
Unpublished writings of Colin Rowe—letters, essays, lectures, and a postcard—clarify his thinking on key concepts while revealing his wit and erudition.
Marseille Mix
ISBN: 9780262544078
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 4, 2022
A journey through the history, cultures, and societies of Marseille.
Memo for Nemo
ISBN: 9780262544085
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 4, 2022
A cultural history of living in the undersea, both fictional and real, from Jules Verne's Captain Nemo to NASA's ECC02 project.
Perspecta 54
Atopia
ISBN: 9780262543811
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 15, 2022
Atopia as both the site of architecture's critical confrontation with hegemonic systems and the theoretical space in which its own processes can be challenged.
Narrating the Globe
The Emergence of World Histories of Architecture
ISBN: 9780262047975
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 12, 2023
How notions of progress, beauty, and cultural superiority structured the genre of nineteenth-century world histories of architecture—and shaped the discipline as we know it today.
Design for Resilience
Making the Future We Leave Behind
ISBN: 9780262048095
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 1, 2023
Forthcoming from the MIT Press
Architecture and Abstraction
ISBN: 9780262545235
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 25, 2023
A landmark study of abstraction in architectural history, theory, and practice that challenges our assumptions about the meaning of abstract forms.
Architecture's Theory
ISBN: 9780262544979
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 18, 2023
A collection of illuminating essays exploring what theory makes of architecture and what architecture makes of theory in philosophical and materialized contexts.
Perspecta 55
Futures Index
ISBN: 9780262545464
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 28, 2023
A collection that explores how architecture ought to negotiate the future, when the future is anything but certain.
I Almost Forgot
Unpublished Colin Rowe
ISBN: 9780262047128
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 10, 2023
Unpublished writings of Colin Rowe—letters, essays, lectures, and a postcard—clarify his thinking on key concepts while revealing his wit and erudition.
Marseille Mix
ISBN: 9780262544078
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 4, 2022
A journey through the history, cultures, and societies of Marseille.
Memo for Nemo
ISBN: 9780262544085
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 4, 2022
A cultural history of living in the undersea, both fictional and real, from Jules Verne's Captain Nemo to NASA's ECC02 project.
Perspecta 54
Atopia
ISBN: 9780262543811
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 15, 2022
Atopia as both the site of architecture's critical confrontation with hegemonic systems and the theoretical space in which its own processes can be challenged.