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Architecture Follows Fish
An Amphibious History of the North Atlantic
ISBN: 9780262049108
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 29, 2024
A highly original exploration of the history of architecture in relation to fish, shedding light on the connection between marine environments and terrestrial landscapes.
Perspecta 56
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ISBN: 9780262547819
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 23, 2024
Exploring architecture as a form of concealment and obfuscation in engendering new ways of understanding, conceptualizing, and reshaping the world.
Things That Move
A Hinterland in Architectural History
ISBN: 9780262547505
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 23, 2024
A history of architecture, not as the art of what stays but of what changes and moves.
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.
Origins, Imitation, Conventions
Origins, Imitation, Conventions
Representation in the Visual Arts
ISBN: 9780262551519
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 19, 2024
Twelve studies by eminent art historian James S. Ackerman.
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Unpublished Colin Rowe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.
Architecture Follows Fish
An Amphibious History of the North Atlantic
ISBN: 9780262049108
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 29, 2024
A highly original exploration of the history of architecture in relation to fish, shedding light on the connection between marine environments and terrestrial landscapes.
Perspecta 56
Not Found
ISBN: 9780262547819
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 23, 2024
Exploring architecture as a form of concealment and obfuscation in engendering new ways of understanding, conceptualizing, and reshaping the world.
Things That Move
A Hinterland in Architectural History
ISBN: 9780262547505
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 23, 2024
A history of architecture, not as the art of what stays but of what changes and moves.
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.
Origins, Imitation, Conventions
Origins, Imitation, Conventions
Representation in the Visual Arts
ISBN: 9780262551519
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 19, 2024
Twelve studies by eminent art historian James S. Ackerman.
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.