Graham Foundation / MIT Press Series in Contemporary Architectural Discourse
This series featured books by authors whose research was supported by Graham Foundation grants. This series is no longer active, and the MIT Press is no longer accepting proposals for books in the series.
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The Cultivated Wilderness
Or, What is Landscape?
ISBN: 9780262691949
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 22, 1997
Paul Shepheard's previous book, What is Architecture?, was about making real, material things in the world—landscapes, buildings, and machines. The Cultivated Wilderness is about those landscapes,...
The Secret Life of Buildings
An American Mythology for Modern Architecture
ISBN: 9780262631181
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 6, 1988
Not since the 1920s has American architecture undergone such fundamental changes as those which are revitalizing the profession today. But in this period of great artistic fertility and unrest, there...
The Springboard in the Pond
An Intimate History of the Swimming Pool
ISBN: 9780262720328
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 28, 2000
A dazzling reflection on the American swimming pool as an icon of modernism and a social, architectural, and psychological phenomenon.
Thirteen Ways
Theoretical Investigations in Architecture
ISBN: 9780262581707
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 31, 1998
In this book, Robert Harbison offers a novel interpretation of what architectural theory might look like. The title is an echo of Wallace Stevens's "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." Like the...
Evictions
Art and Spatial Politics
ISBN: 9780262540971
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 31, 1998
Since the 1980s a great deal has been written on the relationship between art, architecture, and urban planning and design, on the one hand, and the politics of space on the other. In Evictions Rosalyn...
Inside Architecture
ISBN: 9780262571159
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 4, 1996
Inside Architecture is a concise, insightful examination of the role the modernist project has played in late twentieth-century building, as well as an attempt to reconcile the dilemmas and shortcomings...
Road that Is Not a Road and the Open City, Ritoque, Chile
Road that Is Not a Road and the Open City, Ritoque, Chile
ISBN: 9780262660990
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 29, 1996
Foreword by Joseph Rykwert Several thousand miles south of the equator along the Pacific coast of South America, is the site of the Open City Amereida. It is a laboratory for thought and work, conceived...
Achtung Architektur!
Image and Phantasm in Contemporary Austrian Architecture
ISBN: 9780262161596
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 3, 1996
"Beware Architecture!" Architecture that entails surprise, even danger, is the subject of this exciting discourse on a body of work that has gained increasing international attention since the late...
The Cultivated Wilderness
Or, What is Landscape?
ISBN: 9780262691949
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 22, 1997
Paul Shepheard's previous book, What is Architecture?, was about making real, material things in the world—landscapes, buildings, and machines. The Cultivated Wilderness is about those landscapes,...
The Secret Life of Buildings
An American Mythology for Modern Architecture
ISBN: 9780262631181
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 6, 1988
Not since the 1920s has American architecture undergone such fundamental changes as those which are revitalizing the profession today. But in this period of great artistic fertility and unrest, there...
The Springboard in the Pond
An Intimate History of the Swimming Pool
ISBN: 9780262720328
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 28, 2000
A dazzling reflection on the American swimming pool as an icon of modernism and a social, architectural, and psychological phenomenon.
Thirteen Ways
Theoretical Investigations in Architecture
ISBN: 9780262581707
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 31, 1998
In this book, Robert Harbison offers a novel interpretation of what architectural theory might look like. The title is an echo of Wallace Stevens's "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." Like the...
Evictions
Art and Spatial Politics
ISBN: 9780262540971
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 31, 1998
Since the 1980s a great deal has been written on the relationship between art, architecture, and urban planning and design, on the one hand, and the politics of space on the other. In Evictions Rosalyn...
Inside Architecture
ISBN: 9780262571159
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 4, 1996
Inside Architecture is a concise, insightful examination of the role the modernist project has played in late twentieth-century building, as well as an attempt to reconcile the dilemmas and shortcomings...
Road that Is Not a Road and the Open City, Ritoque, Chile
Road that Is Not a Road and the Open City, Ritoque, Chile
ISBN: 9780262660990
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 29, 1996
Foreword by Joseph Rykwert Several thousand miles south of the equator along the Pacific coast of South America, is the site of the Open City Amereida. It is a laboratory for thought and work, conceived...
Achtung Architektur!
Image and Phantasm in Contemporary Austrian Architecture
ISBN: 9780262161596
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 3, 1996
"Beware Architecture!" Architecture that entails surprise, even danger, is the subject of this exciting discourse on a body of work that has gained increasing international attention since the late...