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Narrating the Globe

Narrating the Globe

Narrating the Globe

The Emergence of World Histories of Architecture

Edited by Petra Brouwer, Martin Bressani and Christopher Drew Armstrong

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

Design for Resilience

Design for Resilience

Making the Future We Leave Behind

by Stuart Walker

ISBN: 9780262048095

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 1, 2023

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Architecture and Abstraction

Architecture and Abstraction

Architecture and Abstraction

by Pier Vittorio Aureli

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

Architecture's Theory

Architecture's Theory

by Catherine Ingraham

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

Perspecta 55

Perspecta 55

Futures Index

Edited by Ethan Zisson, Lani Barry and Matthew Wagstaffe

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

I Almost Forgot

I Almost Forgot

Unpublished Colin Rowe

Edited by Daniel Naegele

With Zhengyang Hua

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Unpublished writings of Colin Rowe—letters, essays, lectures, and a postcard—clarify his thinking on key concepts while revealing his wit and erudition.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

Marseille Mix

Marseille Mix

by William Firebrace

ISBN: 9780262544078

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 4, 2022

A journey through the history, cultures, and societies of Marseille.
Zickzack

Zickzack

Zickzack

by William Firebrace

ISBN: 9780262544061

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 4, 2022

Zigzagging through six locations on the edges of the German-speaking world, exploring them through politics, architecture, literature, film, art, music, food, and history.
Memo for Nemo

Memo for Nemo

Memo for Nemo

by William Firebrace

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

Perspecta 54

Perspecta 54

Atopia

Edited by Melinda Agron, Timon Covelli, Alexis Kandel and David Langdon

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.
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