Studying the craft on World Architecture Day
October 4, 2021
Books celebrating the architecture of bathing, gravesites, and more.
Tag: Architecture
The MIT Press launches new open access collection of 34 classic architecture and urban studies titles
March 31, 2021
An unprecedented digitization program makes out-of-print works by George L. Hersey, Richard Freedman, Mark Jarzombek, Moshe Safdie, Peter Rowe, Galen Cranz, Arthur Pulos, Gilbert Hubert, and others available as ebooks for the first time.
Overlooked histories of the Bauhaus: In conversation with Elizabeth Otto
May 26, 2020
A conversation with Elizabeth Otto, author of recent MIT Press book Haunted Bauhaus.
The MIT Press welcomes new Senior Acquisitions Editor for Art and Architecture
June 18, 2019
The MIT Press announces the appointment of Thomas Weaver as senior acquisitions editor for art and architecture, beginning in September 2019. Weaver, an architectural writer, teacher, and editor, succeeds Roger Conover, who served in the position from 1977 until his recent retirement.
Slippers and Wire, a crude episode of Plastic Capitalism
April 11, 2019
In “Plastic Capitalism: Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste,” Amanda Boetzkes, professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory, School of Fine Arts and Music, University of Guelph, links the increasing visualization of waste in contemporary art to the rise of the global oil economy and the emergence of ecological thinking. Often, when art is analyzed in relation to the political, scientific, or ecological climate, it is considered merely illustrative. Boetzkes argues that art is constitutive of an ecological consciousness, not simply an extension of it. The visual culture of waste is central to the study of the ecological condition. In the piece below, Boetzkes analyzes a new exhibition called Crude at the Jameel Art Center in Dubai.
Midcentury Visions of Christmas in New York
December 21, 2018
Jonathan Schroeder and Janet Borgerson describe midcentury record albums that showcase New York City as a destination for the holidays.
Imagine if Bricks Were Alive?
October 15, 2018
While many may not even think of gardens in relation to design, for the profession of landscape architecture, the raking of leaves also seems far away from what designers do: working in offices, designing “space.”