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Radio-Activities

Architecture and Broadcasting in Cold War Berlin

by Alfredo Thiermann Riesco

ISBN: 9780262048705

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 28, 2024

A historical and theoretical account of the city of Berlin from the intertwined perspectives of architecture, environmental, and media studies.

Prior Art

Patents and the Nature of Invention in Architecture

by Peter H. Christensen

ISBN: 9780262048958

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 7, 2024

A groundbreaking text on the history of the use of patents in architecture.

Machine à Amuser

The Life and Death of the Beistegui Penthouse Apartment

by Wim van den Bergh

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.

Wolkenbügel

El Lissitzky as Architect

by Richard Anderson

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.

Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern

Architecture and the Black American Middle Class

by Jacqueline Taylor

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.

Architecture and Abstraction

by Pier Vittorio Aureli

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

Edited by Petra Brouwer, Martin Bressani and Christopher Drew Armstrong

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.