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Utopias Ghost: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again
Architectural postmodernism had a significant impact on the broader development of postmodern thought: Utopia’s Ghost is a critical...
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Architecture's Historical Turn: Phenomenology and the Rise of the Postmodern
Architecture’s Historical Turn traces the hidden history of architectural phenomenology, a movement that reflected a key turning point in...
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Manhood Factories: YMCA Architecture and the Making of Modern Urban Culture
Between the Civil War and the Great Depression, the Young Men's Christian Association built more than a thousand community centers across the...
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Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design
An illustrated history of the persuasive impact of model homes, appliances, and furniture in cold war propaganda Amid a display of sunshine-yellow...
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Skyscraper Cinema: Architecture and Gender in American Film
Whether tall office buildings, high-rise apartments, or lofty hotels, skyscrapers have been stars in American cinema since the silent era. Cinemas...
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Urban Design
Fifty years ago a landmark conference at Harvard University established urban design as a distinct architectural and planning practice. Today, with...
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Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities
From the destruction of Sodom to the selling of Gay Street and from Tales of the City to The L Word, urban life and homosexuality have been made...
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Relearning from Las Vegas
Immediately on its publication in 1972, Learning from Las Vegas, by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour, was hailed as a...
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A Women's Berlin: Building the Modern City
Around the beginning of the twentieth century, women began to claim Berlin as their own, expressing a vision of the German capital that embraced...
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Medicine by Design
Drawing on a wide range of visual and textual sources, Adams uses the Montreals landmark Royal Victoria Hospital - along with other hospitals built...
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The New Architectural Pragmatism: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader Series. Volume 5
The New Architectural Pragmatism collects the most provocative, penetrating, and influential attempts by leading theorists and practitioners in the...
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The Aesthetics of Equity: Notes on Race, Space, Architecture and Music
Architecture is often thought to be a diary of a society, filled with symbolic representations of specific cultural moments. However, as Craig L...
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Sprawl and Suburbia
Sprawl is the single most significant and urgent issue in American land use at the turn of the twenty-first century. Efforts to limit and reform...
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The Singular Objects of Architecture
A revelatory conversation between two major figures in visual culture.What is a singular object? An idea, a building, a color, a sentiment, a human...
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Architecture and Suburbia: From English Villa to American Dream House, 1690-2000
The American suburban dream house - a single-family, detached dwelling, frequently clustered in tight rows and cul-de-sacs - has been attacked for...
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The Urban Revolution
Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre's first sustained critique of urban society, a work in which he pioneered...
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In the Metro
In this book, Marc Aug takes readers below Paris in a work that is both an ethnography of the city and a personal narrative. Guiding us through...
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The Singular Objects of Architecture
Now available!What is a singular object? An idea, a building, a colour, a sentiment, a human being. Each in turn comes under scrutiny in this...
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