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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.
Architecture and Abstraction
ISBN: 9780262545235
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 3, 2023
A landmark study of abstraction in architectural history, theory, and practice that challenges our assumptions about the meaning of abstract forms.
Detroit–Moscow–Detroit
An Architecture for Industrialization, 1917–1945
ISBN: 9780262047982
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 19, 2023
Ideologically opposed, technologically cooperative—an original account of US and USSR industrialization between the world wars.
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.
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 between...
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.
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
Architecture and Abstraction
ISBN: 9780262545235
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 3, 2023
Detroit–Moscow–Detroit
An Architecture for Industrialization, 1917–1945
ISBN: 9780262047982
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 19, 2023
Narrating the Globe
The Emergence of World Histories of Architecture
ISBN: 9780262047975
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 12, 2023
Style and Solitude
The History of an Architectural Problem
ISBN: 9780262545006
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 6, 2023
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
Stalin's Architect
Power and Survival in Moscow
ISBN: 9780262046862
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 14, 2022
The Roundabout Revolutions
ISBN: 9783956790980
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: March 26, 2019
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
Manifesto Architecture
The Ghost of Mies
ISBN: 9783956790003
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: April 4, 2014