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Frederick Kiesler
Vision Machines
ISBN: 9780262049269
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 21, 2025
An in-depth exploration of the work of Frederick Kiesler, the visionary architect, with a special focus on his Mobile Home Library.
On Arrows
Essays in British Architecture and Its Environment
ISBN: 9780262548991
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 21, 2025
A series of original essays on the history of British postwar architecture through the concept of performance—and the ubiquitous (but elusive) image of the arrow.
Albert Kahn Inc.
Architecture, Labor, and Industry, 1905–1961
ISBN: 9780262049115
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 24, 2024
A study of Albert Kahn Incorporated—the architecture firm closely associated with the Ford Motor Company and other auto companies—that explores capitalism and political economy through the built environment of industry and culture.
The Hero of Doubt
Selected Writings by Ernesto Nathan Rogers
ISBN: 9780262049047
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 12, 2024
The first English anthology of the writings of a critical figure in the history of modern architecture in Europe.
Graph Vision
Digital Architecture's Skeletons
ISBN: 9780262049016
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 15, 2024
How a protean mathematical object, the graph, ushered in new images, tools, and infrastructures for design and catalyzed a digital future for architecture.
Radio-Activities
Architecture and Broadcasting in Cold War Berlin
ISBN: 9780262048705
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 6, 2024
A historical and theoretical account of the city of Berlin from the intertwined perspectives of architecture, environmental, and media studies.
Wolkenbügel
El Lissitzky as Architect
ISBN: 9780262048781
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 9, 2024
How a visionary, never-realized architectural project, devised by one of the twentieth century's greatest artists, shaped architectural culture in Europe between the world wars.
Machine à Amuser
The Life and Death of the Beistegui Penthouse Apartment
ISBN: 9780262048774
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 9, 2024
A richly illustrated history of a single building, the celebrated and yet enigmatic penthouse of the wealthy playboy Charles de Beistegui, designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in late 1920s Paris.
Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern
Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern
Architecture and the Black American Middle Class
ISBN: 9780262048347
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 28, 2023
The extraordinary life and work of architect Amaza Lee Meredith, and the role modernism and material culture played in the aspiring Black American middle class of the early twentieth century.
Frederick Kiesler
Vision Machines
ISBN: 9780262049269
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 21, 2025
An in-depth exploration of the work of Frederick Kiesler, the visionary architect, with a special focus on his Mobile Home Library.
On Arrows
Essays in British Architecture and Its Environment
ISBN: 9780262548991
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 21, 2025
A series of original essays on the history of British postwar architecture through the concept of performance—and the ubiquitous (but elusive) image of the arrow.
Albert Kahn Inc.
Architecture, Labor, and Industry, 1905–1961
ISBN: 9780262049115
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 24, 2024
A study of Albert Kahn Incorporated—the architecture firm closely associated with the Ford Motor Company and other auto companies—that explores capitalism and political economy through the built environment of industry and culture.
The Hero of Doubt
Selected Writings by Ernesto Nathan Rogers
ISBN: 9780262049047
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 12, 2024
The first English anthology of the writings of a critical figure in the history of modern architecture in Europe.
Graph Vision
Digital Architecture's Skeletons
ISBN: 9780262049016
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 15, 2024
How a protean mathematical object, the graph, ushered in new images, tools, and infrastructures for design and catalyzed a digital future for architecture.
Radio-Activities
Architecture and Broadcasting in Cold War Berlin
ISBN: 9780262048705
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 6, 2024
A historical and theoretical account of the city of Berlin from the intertwined perspectives of architecture, environmental, and media studies.
Wolkenbügel
El Lissitzky as Architect
ISBN: 9780262048781
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 9, 2024
How a visionary, never-realized architectural project, devised by one of the twentieth century's greatest artists, shaped architectural culture in Europe between the world wars.
Machine à Amuser
The Life and Death of the Beistegui Penthouse Apartment
ISBN: 9780262048774
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 9, 2024
A richly illustrated history of a single building, the celebrated and yet enigmatic penthouse of the wealthy playboy Charles de Beistegui, designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in late 1920s Paris.
Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern
Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern
Architecture and the Black American Middle Class
ISBN: 9780262048347
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 28, 2023
The extraordinary life and work of architect Amaza Lee Meredith, and the role modernism and material culture played in the aspiring Black American middle class of the early twentieth century.