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Narrating the Globe
The Emergence of World Histories of Architecture
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
An Architecture for Industrialization, 1917–1945
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
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
The History of an Architectural Problem
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
Gregory Ain and the Construction of a Social Landscape
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
Power and Survival in Moscow
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
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
Frederick Kiesler and Design Research in the First Age of Robotic Culture
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
The Ghost of Mies
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
Le Corbusier and the Automobile
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.
Narrating the Globe
The Emergence of World Histories of Architecture
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
An Architecture for Industrialization, 1917–1945
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
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
The History of an Architectural Problem
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
Gregory Ain and the Construction of a Social Landscape
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
Power and Survival in Moscow
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
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
Frederick Kiesler and Design Research in the First Age of Robotic Culture
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
The Ghost of Mies
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
Le Corbusier and the Automobile
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.