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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.
        Barbarian Architecture

        Barbarian Architecture

        Barbarian Architecture

        Thorstein Veblen's Chicago

        by Joanna Merwood-Salisbury

        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

        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.
        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: 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

        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.
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        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.
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