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Things That Move
A Hinterland in Architectural History
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.
Perspecta 56
Not Found
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.
Barbarian Architecture
Thorstein Veblen's Chicago
ISBN: 9780262547413
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 2, 2024
A richly visual architectural history and theory of modernity that reexamines Thorstein Veblen's classic text The Theory of the Leisure Class through the lens of Chicago in the 1890s.
Architecture and Abstraction
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.
Narrating the Globe
The Emergence of World Histories of Architecture
ISBN: 9780262047975
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 24, 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.
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Unpublished Colin Rowe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Unpublished writings of Colin Rowe—letters, essays, lectures, and a postcard—clarify his thinking on key concepts while revealing his wit and erudition.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.

Things That Move
A Hinterland in Architectural History
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.
Perspecta 56
Not Found
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.
Barbarian Architecture
Thorstein Veblen's Chicago
ISBN: 9780262547413
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 2, 2024
A richly visual architectural history and theory of modernity that reexamines Thorstein Veblen's classic text The Theory of the Leisure Class through the lens of Chicago in the 1890s.
Architecture and Abstraction
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.
Narrating the Globe
The Emergence of World Histories of Architecture
ISBN: 9780262047975
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 24, 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.
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.