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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.
Detroit–Moscow–Detroit

Detroit–Moscow–Detroit

Detroit–Moscow–Detroit

An Architecture for Industrialization, 1917–1945

Edited by Jean-Louis Cohen, Christina E. Crawford and Claire Zimmerman

ISBN: 9780262047982

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: July 25, 2023

Ideologically opposed, technologically cooperative—an original account of US and USSR industrialization between the world wars.
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.
Style and Solitude

Style and Solitude

Style and Solitude

The History of an Architectural Problem

by Mari Hvattum

ISBN: 9780262545006

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: June 6, 2023

How modern notions of architectural style were born—and the debates they sparked in nineteenth-century Germany.
Notes from Another Los Angeles

Notes from Another Los Angeles

Notes from Another Los Angeles

Gregory Ain and the Construction of a Social Landscape

Edited by Anthony Fontenot

ISBN: 9780262046657

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: July 19, 2022

The first book to focus on California architect Gregory Ain's housing projects, which featured open kitchens, movable walls, and other design innovations.
Stalin’s Architect

Stalin's Architect

Stalin's Architect

Power and Survival in Moscow

by Deyan Sudjic

ISBN: 9780262046862

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: June 14, 2022

The story of Boris Iofan—designer of the iconic but unbuilt Palace of the Soviets—whose buildings came to define the language of Soviet architecture.
The Roundabout Revolutions

The Roundabout Revolutions

The Roundabout Revolutions

by Eyal Weizman

With Blake Fisher and Samaneh Moafi

ISBN: 9783956790980

Publisher: Sternberg Press

Pub Date: March 26, 2019

One common feature of the wave of recent revolutions and revolts around the world is not political but rather architectural: many erupted on inner-city roundabouts. In thinking about the relation...
Elastic Architecture

Elastic Architecture

Elastic Architecture

Frederick Kiesler and Design Research in the First Age of Robotic Culture

by Stephen J. Phillips

ISBN: 9780262035736

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 7, 2017

Twentieth-century architect Frederick Kiesler's innovative multidisciplinary practice responded to the ever-changing needs of the body in motion, anticipating the research-oriented practices of contemporary art and architecture.
Manifesto Architecture

Manifesto Architecture

Manifesto Architecture

The Ghost of Mies

by Beatriz Colomina

ISBN: 9783956790003

Publisher: Sternberg Press

Pub Date: April 4, 2014

A history of the modern architectural manifesto, with a focus on Mies van der Rohe.
Voiture Minimum

Voiture Minimum

Voiture Minimum

Le Corbusier and the Automobile

by Antonio Amado

Translated by Penelope Hierons and Barbara E Duffus

ISBN: 9780262015363

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 11, 2011

A colorful account of Le Corbusier's love affair with the automobile, his vision of the ideal vehicle, and his tireless promotion of a design that industry never embraced.
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