History of architecture Books
Princeton University Press The Power of Place
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Rollason's dazzling treasury of site descriptions and pictures is the product of years of exploration, on-site and in libraries... A well-guided and meticulously illustrated tour, of a good selection of medieval Europe's most striking palatial monuments."--Alexander Murray, Times Literary Supplement "A grand tour, without hassle of airports, passports, or buses, of a sophisticated selection of medieval Europe's most renowned and important monuments; a tour conducted by a well-read guide, whose language is invariably clear, and is rendered more vivid and instructive by its cortege of carefully placed and labelled illustrations."--Alexander Murray, Times Literary Supplement "This lavishly produced text, encyclopedic in its scope and bibliography, examines the representations of the power of the ruler in buildings, landscapes, and events of continental Europe from the Roman period to the early modern era. Rollason links the forms of palaces, their surrounding lands, cities, sacred items and spaces, and places of enthronement and burial to ideological and personal power, illustrating each point with cases ranging from Tara to Constantinople, Muslim Granada to the Gothic north."--ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface xix Chapter 1 Introduction 1 Part I Palaces 9 Chapter 2 The Power of Design 11 Chapter 3 The Power of Architectural Style and Decoration 59 Part II Landscapes 99 Chapter 4 Gardens, Parks, and Power 102 Chapter 5 The Power of Forests and the Hunt 136 Part III Cities 169 Chapter 6 Cities, Planning, and Power 171 Chapter 7 Triumphs and Entries: The City as Stage Set 202 Part IV Holy Places 241 Chapter 8 Power, Place, and Relics 242 Chapter 9 Churches, Mosques, and Power 273 Part V Inauguration Places and Burial Places 319 Chapter 10 The Inauguration of Rulers: Places and Rituals 320 Chapter 11 Death and Power: The Burial Places of Rulers 344 Chapter 12 Conclusion 387 Research and Reading 391 References 417 Illustration Credits 449 Index 451 Color plates follow page 168.
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Princeton University Press Trophies of Victory Public Building in Periklean
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In sum, this book is a valuable addition to the history of scholarship on Athenian public architecture in the second half of the 5th century. The study's scope and detail are impressive. Trophies of Victory will no doubt serve as a vital resource because of its thorough examination in a single volume of a wide array of varied evidence related to these very well-known structures."---Wendy E. Closterman, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface xvii Bibliographic Abbreviations xix Chapter 1 Introduction 1 Chapter 2 The Development of the Periklean Program 13 Chapter 3 The Builders of the Parthenon 41 Chapter 4 The Parthenon 79 Chapter 5 The Hephaisteion 137 Chapter 6 The Telesterion at Eleusis 161 Chapter 7 The Odeion 197 Chapter 8 Temples in the Countryside 229 Chapter 9 The Propylaia 273 Chapter 10 Two Ionic Temples 329 Chapter 11 The Periklean Legacy 359 Endnotes 393 Epigraphical Appendix 405 Chronological Table 429 Bibliography 431 Subject Index 455 Index Locorum 467
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Princeton University Press City of Refuge
Book SynopsisThe vision of Utopia obsessed the nineteenth-century mind, shaping art, literature, and especially town planning. In City of Refuge, Michael Lewis takes readers across centuries and continents to show how Utopian town planning produced a distinctive type of settlement characterized by its square plan, collective ownership of properties, and communaTrade Review"Few architectural historians today have Michael Lewis's skill and fluency in the language of built stuff. Precise, elegant descriptions of buildings and their elements, grounded in rigorous scholarship and motivated by the author’s obvious passion for his subject, make City of Refuge a pleasure to read. . . . This is a beautifully made book."---Kathy Edwards, ARLIS"Lewis's elegantly composed and lavishly illustrated work helps us to understand more clearly the how and why of these early modern utopian experiments, and . . . offers a reminder of historic communal values that seem to have little influence in contemporary culture."---Christopher Silver, Indiana Magazine of History"A timely contribution. . . . Lewis demonstrates convincingly how inspired groups linked urban form and community ideals in practice. . . . Elegantly composed and lavishly illustrated."---Christopher Silver, Indiana Journal of History"Impressive and fascinating. . . . Lewis treats us to not only a multifaceted history of the ideal city from fifteenth-century Italy to nineteenth century America, but has fashioned a thoroughly enjoyable and often-entertaining journey along the way. The book is exceptionally well written, and sumptuously illustrated. . . [A]n important contribution to our understanding of the evolution of the modern landscape, City of Refuge should be of interest to scholars of the history of architecture and city planning, as well those involved in religious, cultural, and intellectual studies."---Kenneth A. Breisch, Rennaissance Quarterly"Lewis offers a great deal that is original and often provocative."---Carl Abbott, Buildings & Landscapes"“Although it should have a place in every collection on cultural studies and architectural history, City of Refuge is too well researched, too elegantly written and too beautifully illustrated to be confined to a library shelf. It wants to be read, and read it should be. It reflects historic interests and informs current debate. Students and scholars of various disciplines alike—from utopian studies to urban design—will find it accessible, lucid, and very rewarding.”"---Jan Frohburg, Irish Journal of American Studies"A fascinating exploration of the synthesis of societal forces and architectural forms that created the utopian communities in the United States."---Ralph Muldrow, Sacred Architecture JournalTable of Contents1 The Idea of the City of Refuge 9 2 The Sacred Squareness of Cities 19 3 The Protestant Tempering of Utopia 33 4 Christianopolis 57 5 The Lord's Grove 95 6 Harmony 131 7 Economy 169 8 Conclusion 203 Notes 219 Selected Bibliography 239 Index 243 Illustration Credits 249 Acknowledgments 253
£42.00
Princeton University Press Designing San Francisco
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award for Architecture & Urban Planning, Association of American Publishers""Isenberg, a professor of history at Princeton University, dug deep to capture the transitional years when the city's establishment was on the verge of being altered by cultural forces that it could not control. . . . [Designing San Francisco] deepens our understanding of how today’s landscape came to be—and the bullets we dodged along the way."---John King, San Francisco Chronicle"Designing San Francisco is an outstanding contribution to the growing literature on the City by the Bay, and is indeed one of the finest books in recent memory about American city building in the postwar period."---Ocean Howell, American Historical Review"The urban historian Alison Isenberg’s Designing San Francisco is, among its many other virtues, a vital text for helping landscape architects think through this dilemma. . . . Isenberg is a clear and engaging writer who is both transparent and persuasive in presenting her own angle on the story. . . . Designing San Francisco is a vital critique of the standard narrative of design authorship."---Justin Parscher, Landscape Architecture Magazine"In Designing San Francisco: Art, Land, and Urban Renewal in the City by the Bay, the historian Alison Isenberg points to a shift around this time in the way San Francisco practiced its urban renewal. Instead of being designed from on high, in the style of Robert Moses in New York, the postwar city grew largely through collaborative planning. This didn’t mean that messy neighborhoods were left alone to find their internal order (as in Jane Jacobs’s preservationist ideal) but that artists, property managers, activists, and others all got involved."---Nathan Heller, The New Yorker
£34.20
Princeton University Press Luxury and Modernism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the WCGS Book Prize, Waterloo Centre for German Studies""A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""Robin Schuldenfrei’s smart and suggestive book Luxury and Modernism: Architecture and the Object in Germany 1900-1933 runs against the grain of what we would like to believe about our own aesthetic preferences, so often enshrined in our social formation, including in the professional education of architects. . . . Schuldenfrei’s book is likely to spur further insights into the degree to which the dissemination of Neues Bauen internationally was more closely tied to fashion than previous scholars have chosen to admit. At the same time, it may also help liberate us to create an architecture of true equality, something the Modern Movement seldom truly offered."---Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Architectural Review"In Luxury and Modernism, Robin Schuldenfrei punctures the idealistic, lofty, socialist rhetoric of the Bauhaus’s artist-craftsmen. The Bauhaus, she reveals, imposed an elitist, aristocratic notion of taste on the masses, who largely didn’t want it."---Christopher Turner, Apollo"Highly recommended."---L.E. Carranza, Choice"Schuldenfrei carefully analyses a key aspect of Modernism’s embrace of abstraction that has confounded previous historians. . . . By exposing through the notion of luxury the paradox of Modernism, Schuldenfrei has made an important contribution to Bauhaus scholarship. This learned, original, counterintuitive, unorthodox and occasionally witty book could not have been published at a more appropriate moment."---Ines Weizman, Burlington Magazine"In Luxury and Modernism, Schuldenfrei confronts the longstanding issue of modern architecture’s elitism, going to the heart of the canon and building up evidence in varied case studies."---Ani Kodzhabasheva, Architectural Histories"Schuldenfrei’s Luxury and Modernism provides a model for a materially grounded, critically reflective and argument-driven reassessment of a canonical field."---Deborah Lewer, Art History"Robin Schuldenfrei revisits the inconsistencies between modernism’s rhetoric and its accomplishments, offering a generous reassessment of its proponents’ proclivity for luxury . . . . Luxury and Modernism presents eloquent, well-researched, and courageous scholarship . . . . With her major contribution, Robin Schuldenfrei has given us much to reconsider."---Leslie Van Duzer, Journal of Architectural Education"Considering modernism as luxury enables Schuldenfrei to investigate German modernism’s material manifestations, but also its broader social, cultural, and economic implications on fresh terms. The book’s introduction, presenting key issues in original yet accessible ways, and confronting modernism’s compelling rhetoric with its less-known, more-conflicted lived realities, should be a required text for graduate courses on modern design, architecture, and related topics. . . . Between its creamy cotton covers, Luxury and Modernism gathers, synthesizes, and further problematizes many critical reassessments of modernism."---Freyja Hartzell, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
£51.00
Princeton University Press Plaster Monuments
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the 2018 DAM Architectural Book Award, Deutsches Architekturmuseum""An excellent book . . . about the desire on the part of nineteenth-century museums to collect reproductions at least as much as originals in order to demonstrate the history of art in as systematic and comprehensive way as possible [and] illustrated with wonderful images of cast collections."---Charles Saumarez Smith"It is timely amid new contexts for preservation and when reproduction technologies are advancing, that Lending’s analysis reveals the significance of their plaster precursors."---Olivia Horsfall Turner, Apollo"This is a marvellous book, an original contribution to our understanding of how plaster casts of sculpture and architectural elements were manufactured and displayed in museums throughout Europe and America, which makes important points concerning their cultural, political, educational and philosophical significance."---James Stevens Curl, Times Higher Education"As Lending argues, the plaster monument was a part of the separation of originals and copies in the nineteenth century, a topic that continues into the twenty-first century. . . . Despite new media, technical methods and intellectual frameworks, the cast monument remains a key part of our cultural context and our interaction with the past."---Matthew Wells, Burlington Magazine"The first history of the rise and fall of architectural casts. . . . Invaluable for students of museum history, not least for its excellent illustrations."---James Hall, The Art Newspaper"There is much to learn from this rich study—how buildings and their representations always form a strange symbiosis, the ways we encounter architecture, and how monuments are always in flux. . . . [The book] is superbly illustrated, including archival documents and evocative photographs of cast galleries as they originally appeared."---Lisa Godson, Journal of Design History"Lending weaves a vast scholarship around the objects at hand. . . . Plaster Monuments must be read cover to cover lest the reader risk missing brilliant insights offered in the most unexpected places."---Can Bilsel, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians"With impeccable scholarship and a sure sense of narrative, Mari Lending embarks her reader on a fascinating exploration of what these casts, once considered as precious and certainly expensive to produce, represented for their 19th-century sponsors. . . . Starting from an inquiry into a long-lost practice, Plaster Monuments: Architecture and the Power of Reproduction achieves much more than making its reader aware of what once was. It triggers important questions about architecture both as a discipline and as a mediated presence."---Antoine Picon, Architecture Histories"[A] fascinating exploration. . . . Lending’s evocative prose is accompanied by numerous well- chosen illustrations, many previously unpublished. These images, together with her exciting archival discoveries and rich interpretation, make a compelling argument for “the power of reproduction” to shape our understanding of buildings. Plaster Monuments is a welcome reminder that the auratic value of the monument’s absolute originality is as much a fiction as the idea of its unlimited, transparent reproducibility. The book also serves as a timely invitation to consider the contemporary forms of technical mediation without which our own discourses of architectural history and preservation would be unthinkable."---Joseph L. Clarke, Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation, History, Theory, and Criticism
£43.20
Princeton University Press Moscow Monumental
Book Synopsis"An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraper"--Trade Review"Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize""Shortlisted for the Best Book in Cultural Studies Prize, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages""One of Foreign Affairs' Best Books""Honorable Mention for the Alexander Nove Prize, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies""Impressive detail"---Anthony Paletta, Literary Review"Zubovich has done stellar work in the city’s archives, uncovering a trove of letters and petitions from ordinary Soviet citizens. . . This is a book which delves into the very human tensions created by a society forced into transition, and the effects on a city undergoing a seismic political, cultural, and architectural change."---Jennifer Eremeeva, The Moscow Times"A superb, sweeping account of the realization of a magnificent group of skyscrapers. Grounded in meticulous archival research, and highly readable, it will appeal to specialists and general readers alike interested in topics as wide ranging as Soviet-US relations, architecture, intellectuals, and everyday life under Stalin."---Christine Varga-Harris, American Historical Review"Russian and Soviet urban history has expanded and developed greatly in the last two decades by drawing attention to the built environment, lived experience, and aesthetic choices and meanings of buildings. In Katherine Zubovich’s Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin’s Capital we have an example of some of the best trends in recent years."---Karl Qualls, Russian Review"Drawing on extensive archival research, the book delineates an arc from early conceptualization of Moscow as the capital of Soviet Russia to infighting leading to the demise of monumentality as a dominant force in Soviet architecture during the 1950s. ... Recommended." * Choice *"Well researched and lucidly written, Moscow Monumental is a welcome contribution to the field of urban history. It will be a good addition to the reading lists for university courses on Russian social and cultural history. It will also be much appreciated by lovers of Russian history outside academe."---Elena V. Baraban, Ab Imperio Quarterly "A monumental story, pun intended. . . .Readers will find this highly refreshing."---Heather D. DeHaan, Contemporary European History"Zubovich gives us what the archives (and page limits) allow: a rich and thoughtful story of the ambition and contradiction that characterized the Soviet effort to create a lived utopia."---Diane P. Koenker, Journal of Modern History
£36.00
Princeton University Press Ugliness and Judgment
Book SynopsisTrade Review"As Hyde eloquently demonstrates in a compelling trajectory that arcs from Stonehenge to modern London, ugliness is more than a physical trait or quality assigned to an object. It has acted as a site and catalyst for debate on broader social circumstances."---Catherine Slessor, The Guardian"This book is a welcome break from good taste. . . . If you have ever wondered why a certain building seems ugly, this book will help you understand why you feel that way."---Lucy Watson, Financial Times"Hyde’s book confronts ugliness head on, using it as a way to interrogate British architectural discourse. . . . [His] research on the individual case studies is impeccable."---Richard J. Williams, Times Higher Education"The great achievement of this book is to show that, even if the language and opinions about taste change, debates about architecture have always had some common features. They are never just about buildings."---William Whyte, Church Times"Discussions such as those effectively summarised in Ugliness and Judgement are so instructive when we evaluate how to apply concepts of beauty and ugliness in architectural debates."---Alexander Adams, Salisbury Review"A fascinating book. In taking as a point of departure the limitations of aesthetics, Hyde invites readers to understand the assessment of aesthetic failure as a wedge that pries open conversations about inadequate, unresolved, or unsatisfying social and legal arrangements. Ugliness, in his telling, points to gaps in social, regulatory, urban, and institutional fabrics. The author implies that the value of listening to complaints about buildings lies in discerning the issues that encounters with 'ugly' buildings bring to the fore."---Kathryn O’Rourke, Rice Design Alliance"To call out ugliness, then, is a call to arms. While beauty basks lazily and uselessly in its own perfection, ugliness spurs us into action."---Igor Toronyi-Lalic, The Spectator
£31.50
Princeton University Press Watermarks
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title in Fine Arts""One cannot help admiring how, through her own fertile processes of thought and analogy, Geddes mirrors the astonishing liveliness of Leonardo’s creative imagination."---Francis Ames-Lewis, Burlington Magazine"Compelling. . . . an exciting addition to the new field of the environmental humanities." * Choice *"A timely invitation to a close reading of Leonardo’s drawings, not as a purely artistic medium but also as a versatile means of engaging with nature."---Anatole Tchikine, Renaissance Quarterly
£51.00
Princeton University Press Foundations
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion, Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain""Winner of the Historians of British Art Book Prize, Contemporary Subject""[A] brilliant new history. . . . A highly convincing book, with the sort of clarity and panoramic scope that is too often, in books on this subject, lost in architectural and decorative minutiae."---Owen Hatherley, Tribune Magazine"Elegantly written. . . . [A] timely contribution."---Alistair Fair, Architectural History"An academic modernist sees opportunity in disruption."---John Gapper, Financial Times"[A] scintillating and thoroughly engaging book, which rightly urges us to pay closer attention to the built environment in our understanding of how modern Britain came to be."---Phil Child, Journal of Contemporary History"Foundations is a fascinating contribution . . . illuminating fluently and engagingly the still-hidden history of the mundane spaces that Britons have inherited, many of which they continue to inhabit."---Simon Gunn, Journal of British Studies"An excellent book. It is deeply researched, thoughtfully argued, and beautifully written."---Erika Hanna, American Historical Review
£31.50
Princeton University Press Hitlers Northern Utopia Building the New Order
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Spiro Kostof Book Award, Society of Architectural Historians""Shortlisted for the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Association""Azure Magazine's Gift Guide: Seven Books for Distanced Design Lovers""Drawing from a staggering trove of archival letters, maps, plans and diaries, Stratigakos’s Hitler’s Northern Utopia gracefully juxtaposes the oppressor’s dream with Norway’s brutal reality as she examines the country’s occupation and the labor force that worked on building the Nazi fantasy state that never was."---Lucy Tiven, Washington Post"As well as being a fascinating account of an unfamiliar but important aspect of the Second World War, this book is an exemplary model of scholarship. . . . It is a remarkable achievement, compelling in its originality and fascination, and a vital addition to the huge literature on the most horrific war in modern history."---Simon Heffer, The Telegraph"A fascinating archival study, Hitler’s Northern Utopia is the result of meticulous sleuthing through newspapers and old documents written in three different languages."---Johanne Elster Hanson, Times Literary Supplement"Among a younger generation of scholars unafraid to confront such once-taboo material, none has surpassed Despina Stratigakos. . . . In her latest book, Hitler’s Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway, Stratigakos . . . demonstrates a keen understanding of how Hitler’s perversion of architecture reflected that thwarted master builder’s ideological values, even beyond the German fatherland. Not the least of the surprises in this admirable but unsettling new study is that among the twenty or so countries subjugated in whole or in part by the Nazis, Norway was unique because Germany spent more on development there than it extracted in booty."---Martin Filler, New York Review of Books"If you thought (as I did) that, 75 years on from Hitler's death, there could surely be nothing new to learn about him, then this book by U.S. architectural historian Despina Stratigakos is an eye-opener."---Tony Rennell, Daily Mail"Unusual and provocative. . . . A special strength of the book is Stratigakos's attention to the fate of POWs—some Serbian, but mostly Russian. . . . Norwegian historians are coming to terms with both the occupation and their country's response in the 1950s and 60s. Hitler's Northern Utopia should be high on their must-read list. Nor will non-specialist readers be disappointed in it."---Jonathan Beard, Michigan War Studies Review"Architectural historian Despina Stratigakos mines a little-known chapter in 20th century history with insight, clarity and encyclopedic rigour. From the vision to re-fashion Trondheim into a new cultural capital to the scheme for an imposing super-highway linking the new city to Berlin, the book chronicles a darkly fascinating saga. It’s a chilling vision of the world as it could have been — and a reminder of architecture’s role in creating it." * Azure Magazine *"The reader gets an enormous amount of information about Norway in this beautiful and well-written book. Professor Stratigakos deserves much gratitude for a book which combines clear-headed precision and richness of detail with an understanding for the human cost of history."---Lars Baerentzen, Krigshistorisk Tidsskrift"Despina Stratigakos’s book compellingly engages with a lesser-known aspect of Nazi planning and spatial logistics – the occupation of Norway. . . . With skilful narration Stratigakos propels the reader from Hitler’s 1934 visit to the Norwegian fjords towards the 1940 German invasion. . . . The book is an accessible yet multidimensional assessment of space and ideology, wrapped up in a rich narrative of archival materials. Despina Stratigakos undoubtedly contributes to studies of landscape and memory."---Tereza E. Valny, History: Journal of the Historical Association"[A] fascinating new study. ... Highly recommended."" * Choice *"We all remember the image: a would-be Viking 'shaman' clad in horns, fur, feathers, and Norse tattoos storming the U.S. Capitol on 6 January 2021. Hundreds of White supremacists waving Confederate flags and brandishing Nazi insignia joined him in attempting to hunt down legislators in an effort to halt the certification of the results of the 2020 presidential election. In her riveting new study Hitler’s Northern Utopia, Despina Stratigakos takes us beyond the noxious theatrics of the Capitol insurrection to the horrifying reality of policies and plans imagined and partly realized by the regime of Adolf Hitler as it too indulged fantasies of connection to the Nordic past."---Barbara McCloskey, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians"“Hitler’s Northern Utopia provides an original and fascinating perspective on a lesser-known aspect of the Third Reich’s vision to create a thousand-year empire during the Second World War. Lavishly illustrated with black-and-white photos that effectively accompany its lively prose, Hitler’s Northern Utopia presents a unique view of Germany’s attempt to incorporate a neighbor with which it shared deep-rooted racial and social ties. The book’s accessibility and unique perspective from an architectural historian will no doubt be of interest to students of World War II, the Third Reich, the history of its occupied countries, and the use of art and architecture as instruments of the state.”"---Mark Montesclaros, H-Net"Well-written, assiduously researched. . . . A fascinating case study, based on original documents." * Journal of Modern History *"Thorough and informed."---Alexander Adams, Alexander Adams Art
£22.50
Princeton University Press The Closet
Book SynopsisA literary and cultural history of the intimate space of the eighteenth-century closet-and how it fired the imaginations of Pepys, Sterne, Swift, and so many other writers Long before it was a hidden storage space or a metaphor for queer and trans shame, the closet was one of the most charged settings in English architecture. This private roomTrade Review"Finalist for the Mavis Gallant Award for Non-Fiction, Quebec Writers’ Federation""The Closet is a major accomplishment that promises to be the definitive word on its subject."---Beth Kowaleski Wallace, Eighteenth-Century Studies"Bobker’s study succeeds in illuminating a fascinating topic with a wealth of detail pulled from various disciplines. . . it also shows the way monographs may go beyond a reconstruction of the past to include examining what this version of the past means for the present."---Rachel Ramsey, Eighteenth-Century Fiction"Providing a careful look at 18th-century historical and fictional texts, Bobker expands contemporary and commonplace ideas of the closet, its early use, and how it was initially developed. . . . Recommended." * Choice Reviews *"[This book] is a kind of cabinet of curiosities in itself, a curated collection to delight, educate and intrigue the reader and including in its wide scope both architectural and social history, queer theory and classic English literature."---Sue Nicholson, pepysdiary.com"Smart, enjoyable, and ground-breaking."---Mary Peace, ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
£42.50
Princeton University Press A Wonder to Behold Craftsmanship and the
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Princeton University Press When Eero Met His Match
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Fast Company Best Design Book of the Year""Hagberg’s book is bold and original, both in subject matter and structure. The author’s investment in the entanglement of love and professional drive, of language and form, does not fight for the inclusion of Aline Louchheim Saarinen in the existing canon but rather builds a new category all its own."---Mariana Janowicz, New York Review of Architecture"Hagberg gives the discreet and specialised world of the architectural publicist an aura of romance and intrigue. Though its task is confined, When Eero Met His Match is an expansive, candid, insightful and oddly sexy book. As a tribute to Louchheim, it is impressive; as a portrait of an overlooked profession, it is revealing, funny and moving."---Will Wiles, Apollo Magazine"A unique piece of media criticism. . . . [Hagberg] shines a light on the deep connection between words and visuals, media and memory, and how our experiences of the built world are filtered through the stories being told to us."---Jarrett Fuller, Fast Company"Combining biography, history, personal narrative, and cultural criticism, and sweetened with a dash of epistolary romance, When Eero Met His Match brings Louchheim — and an entire branch of architectural practice and production — out of the shadows."---Sophia Stewart, Hyperallergic"Hagberg’s exploration of their relationship foregrounds the woman whose powerful mythmaking created the lasting impression of Saarinen’s singular creative genius."---Sarah Holder, City Lab"[An] important book."---John J. Parman, Arcade Magazine"When Eero Met His Match dives into the rarely seen lives of those behind the curtain of newspaper clippings and magazine articles. Part historical account, part personal memoir, Eva Hagberg's latest book unpacks the often secret and sometimes omniscient world of architectural publicity."---Kate Mazade, Madame Architect"[An] unconventional biography. . . . the book’s true intellectual centre is the exploration of how architectural form is translated into — and shaped by — the stories we tell. . . . An accessible, elegant and exquisitely polymathic meditation on a complicated subject."---Stefan Novakovic, Azure Magazine"When Eero Met His Match is at once a personal journey for its author as it is an impeccably researched reconstruction of two important figures in modern architecture, sure to appeal to architects, students, and architectural historians alike."---Sean Ruthen, Spacing National"[An] excellent book. . . . Hagberg . . . uses When Eero Met His Match to correct the diminished role attributed to Aline in Eero's career, as portrayed in articles at the time but also in monographs published decades later."---John Hill, A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books"It is a fascinating behind-the-scenes exposé of the relationship between architectural practice and the media which exploded after the war and continues to form the basis of how architecture works today. It’s also about fame, ambition, insecurity, love and lust (it would make a terrific movie)."---Stephen Parnell, RIBA Journal
£25.20
Princeton University Press Visualizing Dunhuang
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Bei Shan Tang Catalogue Prize, Association for Asian Studies""Spectacular. . . . Impressive [and] important. . . . The nine volumes deliver brilliantly on the promise to assist the reader in visualizing Dunhuang and invite further research."---Sarah E. Fraser, Archives of Asian Art
£1,140.00
Princeton University Press Alloys
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year"
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Princeton University Press The Eternal Present Volume II
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Giedion] relates the great monuments that greet us at the outset with the great spaces of the Aurignacian caves and with the ancient cult of the animal treated as a sacred object. One of his most original intuitions is that ‘the religious structure of the first high civilizations was founded upon the discovery of the human form and the human face’ and the appreciation of the naked body."---Lewis Mumford, The New Yorker"[Giedion’s] long preoccupation with what it feels like to frequent spaces controlled by the buildings of men permits him to illuminate data long familiar. We have stared for years at drawings of Greek temples without realizing the meaning of the fact that they were not buildings to go into. These windowless cells surrounded by stone columns were the focal points of ceremonious processions, for if the gods no longer wandered the people did, on ritual visits to majestic images."---Hugh Kenner, National Review"Giedion’s vision dominates the entire book: it is so absolute and conclusive that the book emerges as a general philosophy rather than mere architectural history."---Paul Zucker, Progressive Architecture"Eloquent."---John Canaday, New York Times Book Review
£46.75
Cornell University Press The Empire State Building The Making of a
Book SynopsisA landmark book on one of the world’s most notable landmarks.Trade ReviewThe Empire State Building is a methodically researched, richly informative account of the raising of the world's most famous skyscraper. * Chicago Tribune *A building that is a movie star unto itself deserves a writer of such contagious enthusiasm as Tauranac. This book is a fascinating, self-propelling, and definitive history of the building. * Booklist *Although the Empire State Building is no longer the tallest building in the world (or even in New York City), it remains mythical, iconic. This entrancing book is at once an appreciation of the structure as a practical work of art and an exploration of the building's role in the city and the world. * New Yorker *Tauranac combines fine scholarship with a storyteller's gift for entertainment. The Empire State Building is a basic reference on twentieth-century architecture and urban development. * Journal of American History *Tauranac knows the architecture and buildings of New York as few do. He takes us through the story of the skyscraper as a form, the zoning that emerged to control the tall buildings, the real-estate boom of the twenties, the history of the site, the careers of John J. Raskob and Al Smith and the architects and builders who designed and erected the building, and the building's subsequent career. * New York Times Book Review *Tauranac's book is a vivid characterization of the skyscraper as romantic phenomenon. As such it demonstrates unfailingly why the Empire State Building has yet to relinquish its grip on the imagination. * Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians *When the 1250-foot Empire State Building opened in the Depression year of 1931, it was the world's tallest building. Today, it retains a special place in the heart of New Yorkers. Tauranac has written an informative and exciting biography of Manhattan’s most famous building. * Publishers Weekly *Table of Contents1. The Building 2. The Skyscraper 3. Zoning the City 4. The Boom of the Twenties 5. The Odd Couple 6. The Firm 7. The Site 8. The Style 9. The Design 10. The Contractors 11. The Mooring Mast 12. Building the Building 13. The Opening 14. The Staff and the Tenants 15. The Bust of the Thirties 16. The War 17. Since the War Epilogue: After 9/11Bibliography Index
£18.99
Johns Hopkins University Press The Rational Factory
Book SynopsisHer interdisciplinary study draws from the fields of business history, engineering, technology, architecture, and theories of modernity. Why did some people want to rationalize the factory, she asks, and how did the system impact those who worked under it?Trade ReviewTraditional business history at its best, essential reading for anyone interested in the history of efficiency, technology, and work in the United States. -- William Roy Journal of American History Enhances our understanding of the shift away from a more romantic nineteenth-century artisanal world to the rational, machine- and factory-based, mass production of the twentieth century. Science, Technology, and Society This interdisciplinary study aptly illustrates how buildings are much more than silent historical witnesses; they are in fact central, active components within the process of social change. Michigan Historical Review An important addition to the literature of industrial development. -- Paul Israel American Historical Review The Rational Factory is a substantial contribution to the history of industrial engineering and industrial architecture in the 19th and 20th centuries. -- Charles K. Hyde Industrial Archeology
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Johns Hopkins University Press Worthy of the Nation Washington D.C. from
Book SynopsisIllustrated with plans, maps, and new and historic photographs, the second edition of Worthy of the Nation provides researchers and general readers with an appealing and authoritative view of the planning and evolution of the federal district.Trade ReviewThis account clearly makes the case that the city would never have emerged in its present (and strikingly beautiful) form without the strong hand of planners who were politically empowered to run roughshod over the desires of various commercial developers and private interests. -- Francis Fukuyama American Interest 2007 New life for a classic. Planning 2007
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University of Pennsylvania Press Liang and Lin
Book SynopsisWilma Fairbank documents, from both a historical and a uniquely personal perspective, the professional and personal achievements of the first historians of Chinese architecture.Trade Review"Liang and Lin is the story of a romance and of a heroic struggle against great odds. . . . Wilma Fairbank, who is the only person . . . who could have written this story, has created an affecting portrait of the final years of an epoch when Old China faded away and New China took its place." * New York Times *"No one who reads it will forget it." * Boston Globe *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Frank Furness
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] brilliant study by the architectural and cultural historian George E. Thomas, who contends that the unprecedented mechanization of the Victorian Era was central to the advance of architecture . . . Thomas further secures his reputation as our leading authority on the architect, and places his subject squarely in a social setting too often missing when researchers obsess over stylistic and formal matters . . . [H]alf a century after the rediscovery of the fiery Furness, the impassioned advocacy of George Thomas continues to reveal the genius of this magnificent misfit."" * The New York Review of Books *"Through his examination of Furness, Thomas provides an important reminder of the narrowness of the existing historiography of American architecture (as opposed to that of modern architecture more broadly), which continues to draw on a limited cast of characters and locales . . . >Frank Furnessshould provide us with incentive to rediscover the architects and cities that together created a more complex and nuanced architectural and historical landscape." * Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians *"George Thomas' book is a useful corrective to [Furness'] popular image. His Furness is not a rogue architect, but a product of the distinctive culture of Philadelphia architecture . . . [An] original and imaginative study of architectural patronage, which significantly enhances our understanding of Furness, of Philadelphia, and of American architecture." * Pennsylvania Heritage *"Frank Furness's architecture brought together two seemingly opposed realms: one derived from the newly developing industrial machine, the other from nature. There is a fantastical juxtaposition of ferocious hissing, steam-driven piston power coupled with lyrically delicate ornament derived from leaves and stems of plant life (and, almost paradoxically, implanted in stone by the then newly invented steam-powered chisel). George Thomas's book places Furness's architecture in the apocalyptic climax of this moment when nature and industry could be thought of as one organic, dynamic whole." * Turner Brooks, Yale School of Architecture *"By returning Frank Furness to his central position at the birth of Modern architecture in America, George Thomas helps us understand the depth of the American roots of Modernism . . . [and] reminds us of how many significant turning points occurred when insights into contemporary life, culture, and technology became a spring board for creative design. His Modernism-and Frank Furness's-is not merely a theory but a mirror held up to society." * Alan Hess, from the Foreword *Table of ContentsForeword. The American Creativity of Frank Furness —Alan Hess Prologue. A Revolutionary Generation Chapter 1. "Buildings Out of His Head" Chapter 2. The Philadelphia Client: Industry and the Future Chapter 3. Two Competitions: Boston's Trinity Church and Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Chapter 4. Buildings as Machines: The Mature Architect Epilogue. Sullivan, Price, and Howe Notes Selected Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Medici Gardens
Book SynopsisMedici Gardens challenges the common assumption that such gardens as Trebbio, Cafaggiolo, Careggi, and Fiesole were the products of an established design practice whereby one client commissioned one architect or artist. The book suggests that in the case of the gardens in Florence garden making preceded its theoretical articulation.Trade Review"The book will be of great interest to those in the garden/landscape field and to those concerned with the period and early Renaissance architecture. Its publication will put an important tool into the hands of teachers and students of the history of landscape art." * James Ackerman, Harvard University *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Historic Landmarks of Philadelphia
Book SynopsisIn Historic Landmarks of Philadelphia Roger Moss and Tom Crane feature nationally significant sites. This lavishly illustrated book celebrates Philadelphia's evolution from modest mercantile outpost of a colonial power, to capital of a proud new nation, to a robust world-renowned cosmopolitan city.Table of ContentsIntroduction COLONIAL AND FEDERAL PHILADELPHIA Fort Mifflin Independence Hall Congress Hall Old City Hall Carpenters' Hall Philosophical Hall Pennsylvania Hospital First Bank of the United States New Market CLASSICAL PHILADELPHIA Fairmount Water Works Second Bank of the United States Eastern State Penitentiary Dorrance Hamilton Hall, University of the Arts Walnut Street Theatre United States Naval Home Merchants' Exchange Founder's Hall, Girard College Atwater Kent Museum Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire Philadelphia Club VICTORIAN PHILADELPHIA Athenæum of Philadelphia Laurel Hill Cemetery Freedom Theatre Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital Academy of Music Wagner Free Institute of Science of Philadelphia Union League of Philadelphia Masonic Temple Philadelphia City Hall Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts Victory Building Memorial Hall Boathouse Row Philadelphia Zoological Gardens Gatehouses Anne and Jerome Fisher Fine Arts Library, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Terminal Head House and Shed TWENTIETH-CENTURY PHILADELPHIA The Bellevue John Wanamaker Department Store Historical Society of Pennsylvania Racquet Club of Philadelphia Benjamin Franklin Bridge Thirtieth Street Station United States Custom House Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Building Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia Museum of Art Insurance Company of North America Building Free Library of Philadelphia Rodin Museum Board of Education Administration Building and Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Building Bibliography and Sources Index
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Monster in the Garden The Grotesque and the
Book SynopsisIn The Monster in the Garden, Luke Morgan develops a new conceptual model of Renaissance landscape design, arguing that the monster was a key figure in Renaissance culture and that the incorporation of the monstrous into gardens was not incidental but an essential feature.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reframing the Renaissance Garden Chapter 1. The Legibility of Landscape: From Fascism to Foucault Chapter 2. The Grotesque and the Monstrous Chapter 3. A Monstruary: The Excessive, the Deficient, and the Hybrid Chapter 4. "Rare and Enormous Bones of Huge Animals": The Colossal Mode Chapter 5. "Pietra Morta, in Pietra Viva": The Sacro Bosco Conclusion: Toward the Sublime Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Center of Dreams
Book SynopsisDiscover how one spectacular building project transformed Miami from a fractious tropical city to a cultural capital of the Americas. In Center of Dreams, New York Times bestselling author Les Standiford tells the inspiring story of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts.
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Rutgers University Press Hollywood on Location An Industry History
Book SynopsisProvides the first comprehensive history of location shooting in the American film industry, showing how this mode of filmmaking changed Hollywood business practices, production strategies, and visual style from the silent era to the present. The contributors explore how location filmmaking supplemented and later, supplanted production on the studio lots.Trade Review“Joshua Gleich and Lawrence Webb have edited an exemplary book of essays on Hollywood location filming. It is chronologically comprehensive in its covering the US film industry from the silent era to contemporary productions, as well as unfailingly astute and insightful. This is a book that all who are interested in US commercial film should read--scholars, students, and fans alike.”— Stanley Corkin, author of Starring New York: Filming the Grime and Glamour of the Long 1970s “Location filmmaking evokes a wide range of contradictory meanings—from the roughness of the handheld action scene to the technical polish of the runaway production, from the specific rendering of place in the regional drama to the anonymous depiction of the generic modern city in the contemporary international production. Drawing on archival research and close readings of dozens of films, Hollywood on Location offers a new history of location filmmaking, doing full justice to this complexity. Carefully distinguishing Hollywood location work from various alternatives, such as Neorealism and the New Wave, the authors show how the economics, technology, aesthetics, and logistics of location filmmaking developed over the course of a century—before, during, and after the studio system.”— Patrick Keating, editor of Cinematography "This is a work that should be cited in any subsequent analysis of Hollywood location filmmaking and would be an appropriate assignment for any undergraduate or graduate classes on the subject."— Journal of Popular Culture "The individual voices in Hollywood on Location come together to provide a consistent, succinct and enlightening history of location shooting."— Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsContents Introduction Joshua Gleich and Lawrence Webb 1. The Silent Era, 1895-1927 Jennifer Peterson 2. Classical Hollywood, 1928-1945 Sheri Chinen Biesen 3. Postwar Hollywood, 1945-1967, Part 1: Domestic Location Shooting Joshua Gleich 4. Postwar Hollywood, 1945-1967, Part 2: Foreign Location Shooting Daniel Steinhart 5. The Auteur Renaissance, 1968-1979 Lawrence Webb 6. The New Hollywood, 1980-1999 Noelle Griffis 7. The Modern Entertainment Marketplace, 2000-Present Julian Stringer Notes on Contributors
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Rutgers University Press Hollywood on Location An Industry History
Book SynopsisHollywood on Location is the first comprehensive history of location shooting in the American film industry, showing how this mode of filmmaking changed Hollywood business practices, production strategies, and visual style from the silent era to the present. The contributors explore how major studios came to embrace location shooting as a standard procedure. Trade Review“Location filmmaking evokes a wide range of contradictory meanings—from the roughness of the handheld action scene to the technical polish of the runaway production, from the specific rendering of place in the regional drama to the anonymous depiction of the generic modern city in the contemporary international production. Drawing on archival research and close readings of dozens of films, Hollywood on Location offers a new history of location filmmaking, doing full justice to this complexity. Carefully distinguishing Hollywood location work from various alternatives, such as Neorealism and the New Wave, the authors show how the economics, technology, aesthetics, and logistics of location filmmaking developed over the course of a century—before, during, and after the studio system.” -- Patrick Keating * editor of Cinematography *“Joshua Gleich and Lawrence Webb have edited an exemplary book of essays on Hollywood location filming. It is chronologically comprehensive in its covering the US film industry from the silent era to contemporary productions, as well as unfailingly astute and insightful. This is a book that all who are interested in US commercial film should read--scholars, students, and fans alike.” -- Stanley Corkin * author of Starring New York: Filming the Grime and Glamour of the Long 1970s *"This is a work that should be cited in any subsequent analysis of Hollywood location filmmaking and would be an appropriate assignment for any undergraduate or graduate classes on the subject." * Journal of Popular Culture *"The individual voices in Hollywood on Location come together to provide a consistent, succinct and enlightening history of location shooting." * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsContents Introduction Joshua Gleich and Lawrence Webb 1. The Silent Era, 1895-1927 Jennifer Peterson 2. Classical Hollywood, 1928-1945 Sheri Chinen Biesen 3. Postwar Hollywood, 1945-1967, Part 1: Domestic Location Shooting Joshua Gleich 4. Postwar Hollywood, 1945-1967, Part 2: Foreign Location Shooting Daniel Steinhart 5. The Auteur Renaissance, 1968-1979 Lawrence Webb 6. The New Hollywood, 1980-1999 Noelle Griffis 7. The Modern Entertainment Marketplace, 2000-Present Julian Stringer Notes on Contributors
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Visuality for Architects Architectural
Book SynopsisDramatic breakthroughs in philosophy and psychology over the past two decades have shown us that human visuality functions for the most part independently of conceptual thinking and language. This book examines the ways in which new theories of human visuality create a different understanding of architectural design, practice, and education.
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Unbounded Practice Women and Landscape
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Louis Kahn A Life in Architecture
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Models and World Making
Book SynopsisFrom climate change forecasts and pandemic maps to Lego sets and Ancestry algorithms, models encompass our lives. In this engaging book, Annabel Wharton begins with a definition drawn from the quantitative sciences and the philosophy of science but holds that history and critical cultural theory are essential to a fuller understanding of modeling.Trade ReviewHighly original, provocative, and timely, informing discussions of models not only in the history of art and architecture but also in media studies, public health, engineering, and the social sciences. The result is lively, even surprising, and the writing balances technical discussions with conversational, occasionally irreverent, commentary." - Alan Plattus, Yale University, coeditor of Re-Reading Perspecta: The First Fifty Years of the Yale Architectural Journal"An extraordinary command of the history of illustration, of architecture, of religion, especially in the medieval and modern worlds, underlies Wharton’s enterprise. She is also alert to a great range of relevant philosophical thinking and is adroit in its use. A compelling text, presented in a lively fashion, at a bold clip, that will be absorbing to any reader." - Terry Smith, University of Pittsburgh, author of The Architecture of Aftermath
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Models and World Making Bodies Buildings Black
Book SynopsisFrom climate change forecasts and pandemic maps to Lego sets and Ancestry algorithms, models encompass our lives. In this engaging book, Annabel Wharton begins with a definition drawn from the quantitative sciences and the philosophy of science but holds that history and critical cultural theory are essential to a fuller understanding of modeling.Trade ReviewHighly original, provocative, and timely, informing discussions of models not only in the history of art and architecture but also in media studies, public health, engineering, and the social sciences. The result is lively, even surprising, and the writing balances technical discussions with conversational, occasionally irreverent, commentary." - Alan Plattus, Yale University, coeditor of Re-Reading Perspecta: The First Fifty Years of the Yale Architectural Journal"An extraordinary command of the history of illustration, of architecture, of religion, especially in the medieval and modern worlds, underlies Wharton’s enterprise. She is also alert to a great range of relevant philosophical thinking and is adroit in its use. A compelling text, presented in a lively fashion, at a bold clip, that will be absorbing to any reader." - Terry Smith, University of Pittsburgh, author of The Architecture of Aftermath
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University of Virginia Press War Diaries
Book SynopsisFocusing on regions where planners, architects, and artists are involved in concrete initiatives on the ground, War Diaries looks at complex postwar settings to illuminate design responses to urban warfare and violence against the built environment.Trade ReviewSharing voices across disciplines, this interesting and important collection foregrounds the designer’s role in the political conversations that dominate postconflict work."- Emily Gunzburger Makaš, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, author of Urban and National Identities and the Rebuilding of MostarTable of Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction: Critical Themes of Design after Destruction 1. On Urban Postconflict Development: Toward a Practice-Oriented Research Agenda 2. Ivan Štraus: War Diary and Design Intentions of an Architect in Postwar Sarajevo 3. Normalizing War: The Aesthetics of National Resilience 4. Scars of War and Reconstruction in Lebanon 5. ""Simple Plans"" and Complex Lives: A Dialogue about Planning and Designing Emergency Settlements 6. Designing Emergency Architecture 7. Teaching Culturally Sensitive Design Conclusion: Reconceptualizing Design after Destruction Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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University of Virginia Press The Transatlantic Design Network
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Wayne State University Press MovieMade Los Angeles
Book SynopsisLos Angeles was a cinematic city long before the rise of Hollywood. By the dawn of the twentieth century, photography, painting, and tourist promotion in Southern California provided early filmmakers with a template for building a myth-making business and envisioning ideal moviegoers. These art forms positioned California as a land of transformative experiences and catapulted the dusty backwater town of Los Angeles to the largest city on the west coast by 1915. Photography aided the Southern Pacific Railroad Company in opening the region to the rest of nation. Painters gave traditions that were fading in Europe a new lease on life in the California sun, with signature colors and techniques that would be adopted by L.A. real estate companies, agribusiness, and health retreats. Tourism infused the iconography and signature styles of art with cultural mythology of the state''s colonial past, offering proto-cinematic experiences to those who ventured west. Author John Trafton explores how
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University of Minnesota Press Mediterranean Crossroads
Book SynopsisExamining Marseille as a significant center for the evolution of architectural and urban modernism.Trade Review"In Mediterranean Crossroads, Sheila Crane offers a freshly inventive form of narrative about modern architecture and planning, one that reveals the intertwining of regional and national politics, imperialist/colonialist imaginaries, and popular images of the city." —Nancy Stieber, author of Housing Design and Society in Amsterdam: Reconfiguring Urban Order and Identity, 1900-1920 "Sheila Crane’s book masterfully weaves together episodes that have put Marseille in the center of a series of extraordinary developments for 20th century art, architecture and urban design. Mediterranean Crossroads unweaves a tangled web of representations, policies, and designs, that were to this day excised from the main narrative of modern architectural history." —Jean-Louis Cohen, Institute of Fine Art/New York UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Marseille’s Absent Presence in Modern Architecture 1. The View from the Bridge: Photography, Planning, and Urban Physiognomy 2. The City in the World: Marseille’s Mediterraneanisms 3. Urban Gynecology and Engineered Destruction: Spatial Politics in the City at War 4. Spectacles of Ruin: From a New Monumentality to Urban Purification 5. Imperial Façades: Postwar Rebuilding and the Battle for the Old Port 6. Excavating Past and Present: Recovering the Ancient Port of Massalia Conclusion: Afterimages of Marseille Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Minnesota Press Ottoman Izmir
Book SynopsisA revelatory examination of the multiple constructions of urban modernization Trade Review"Late Ottoman Izmir provides a fascinating case study for Sibel Zandi-Sayek’s book. Her analysis of the physical settings and her use of architecture and urban forms as primary documents to understand the social fabric make her approach particularly intriguing." —Zeynep Celik, Distinguished Professor, New Jersey Institute of TechnologyTable of ContentsContentsAuthor’s NoteIntroduction: A World in Flux1. Defining Citizenship: Property, Taxation, and Sovereignty2. Ordering the Streets: Public Space and Urban Governance3. Shaping the Waterfront: Public Works and the Public Good4. Performing Community: Rituals and IdentityEpilogue: The View from IzmirAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press A Joint Enterprise
Book SynopsisAn in-depth look at the urban history of British Bombay.Trade Review"A Joint Enterprise is an ambitious, original, and interesting book on a valuable topic. Preeti Chopra provides unique interpretations of, among other things, the Indian reception and interpretation of the neo-Gothic architecture of the colonial regime." —Anthony King, author of Spaces of Global Cultures: Architecture, Urbanism, Identity"A Joint Enterprise is an extremely able and well-informed survey of an interesting subject." —The Times Literary Supplement"Chopra’s monograph is a true contribution to bringing architectural practice and perception into the history of Bombay city." —Journal of Asian Studies"Offers a skillfully crafted and nuanced reading of the colonial experience that challenges the polemics of racial and cultural segregation while articulating far more complex hierarchies of power." —Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History"A Joint Enterprise provides a fabulous history of colonial domination and resistance through architectural and urban development in colonial Bombay." —South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies"One ends Chopra’s engaging book wondering if the first major dents to colonial Bombay’s famed cosmopolitanism came from these segregating medical and housing policies rather than events like the Hindu-Muslim Riots of 1893." —Hamazor "Offers a new perspective on urban social history." —Enterprise and Society "Vital to understanding the architectural genealogy of the city."— Buildings & Landscape"This book is a valuable addition to the literature on South Asian urbanism. The ‘joint public realm’ is a useful effort to conceptualize the manner in which Indians engaged with notions like the public." —Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient"Preeti Chopra’s A Joint Enterprise is a detailed, well-researched, illuminating work that makes a clear argument: ‘colonial’ cities are far less ‘colonial’ than we imagine. [It] is a major accomplishment, clearly the product of intensive research over many years by a scholar deeply committed to and knowledgeable in her chosen field." —Interventions"As ambitious as it is imaginative, this book combines critical perspectives on the materiality and visibility of the modern city with an insightful examination of the agency of both colonial rulers and indigenous subjects. Elegantly presented and effectively developed." —Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsAuthor’s Note Introduction 1. A Joint Enterprise 2. Anglo-Indian Architecture and the Meaning of Its Styles 3. The Biography of an Unknown Native Engineer 4. Dividing Practices in Bombay’s Hospitals and Lunatic Asylums 5. An Unforeseen Landscape of Contradictions 6. Of Gods and Mortal Heroes: Conundrums of the Secular Landscape of Colonial Bombay Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Minnesota Press Constitutional Modernism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a major book on Cuba. It is the best history of modern Havana ever written, unlikely to be surpassed. Timothy Hyde is a thorough, scrupulous historian with a sophisticated grasp of architectural history and theory, as well as of the political and artistic history of Cuba. He chronicles in dramatic detail the vigorous debates around the question of cubanidad that led to the proclamation of the 1940 constitution, and to the formulation and execution of plans for the development of Havana: its plazas, boulevards, public buildings, and monuments. These deliberations, which included prominent intellectuals such as Fernando Ortiz and Jorge Mañach, came to an end with the advent of Castro’s regime."—Roberto González Echevarría, Yale University"Constitutional Modernism is both a work of great length and great scholarship. It is well written and makes an important contribution to the study of modernism in a peripheral country with a long architectural tradition."—Journal of Architectural Education"Enhanced by a careful selection and iconology of images—evident from the book’s very opening—Hyde’s erudite discourse about Cuba’s constitutional modernism, both in architecture and urbanism, stands out not only as a bibliographic contribution to the emergence of those professions in the island’s political and institutional framework, but also helps to understand such processes in other Latin American countries."—Planning Perspectives"Constitutional Modernism succeeds in reading the consequential effects of architecture in the political circumstances of the Cuban nation in the early twentieth century. It contributes to a growing body of scholarship dealing with variations on architectural modernism in ex-colonial cities and countries, such as the work of Tom Avermaete, Serhat Karakayali, and Marion von Osten on Algeria and Morocco and that of Swati Chattopadhyay on Calcutta. Moreover, it opens the door for future studies looking more deeply at the lived experiences of the Cuban citizens during that time period. Given this thorough foundation in the study of architecture as a form of civic possibility, future scholars can now flesh out the social dynamics of these spaces through studies of the intricacies of Cuban culture, ranging from Afro-Cuban religious customs to the everyday life of the working-class poor."—Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians"Timothy Hyde has compiled a tour de force in his examination of architectural and urban design practices that were socially construed when Cuban civil society and statesmen aimed to redefine the nation’s identity."—New West Indian GuideTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Constitutionalism and Civil SocietyI. Constitution1. The Idealized Republic: The Constitution of 19402. Better Cities, Better Citizens: The Political Function of Planning3. A Perfect Structuring: Representing the Nation as Plan and PurposeII. City4. Public Works: Constructing the Urban Spaces of Civil Society5. Master Plans: The Retrospective Order of the Plan Piloto de la Habana6. Historic Districts: The Regulation of the Past in Habana ViejaIII. Monument7. The Experience of Civic Conscience: Designs for the Monumento a Martí8. The Prospect of cubanidad: Figural Forms and the Palacio de las PalmasEpilogue: Futures of Constitutional ModernismAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndexAbbreviations
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University of Minnesota Press Designing the Creative Child
Book SynopsisTrade Review"At a time when the news media is again concerned about a crisis in American creativity, schools are cutting funding for arts education, major foundations are modeling ways that students and teachers might ‘play’ with new media, and museums worry about declining youth attendance, Designing the Creative Child makes an important intervention, reminding us that these debates build upon a much longer history of efforts to support and enhance the creative development of American youth. I admire this fascinating, multidisciplinary account which couples close attention to the design of everyday cultural materials with an awareness of the debates in educational theory, public policy, children’s literature, and abstract art which informed them." —Henry Jenkins, Editor, The Children's Culture Reader"Amy Ogata’s Designing the Creative Child is an exceptionally interesting book on the development of both child psychology and playthings in America during the baby boom years following World War II. A delightfully educational book."—Life Long Dewey (blog)"Amy Ogata . . . argues that American worries about conformity—as well as the nation’s Cold War rivalry with the totalitarian Soviet Union—persuaded parents that their children’s creative impulses could, and should, be encouraged."—Boston Globe"This well-researched and clearly written history of the responses of designers and architects to advice from psychologists on ways to encourage creativity in young children in Cold War America is a welcome addition to cultural history, architectural and design history, the study of material culture, and child psychology. [Ogata’s] broad knowledge of art and architecture contributes to the success of her foray into the history of toys, playrooms, playgrounds, schoolrooms, and children’s museums."—Journal of American History"An insightful investigation into the development and marketing of objects and spaces for children aimed at satisfying parental desires to promote creativity in the children of mid-century America."—Art Libraries Society of North America"Featuring extensive illustrations of toy advertisements, product designs, and blueprints, this highly informative book has an extensive bibliography and notes."—CHOICE"Designing the Creative Child is a valuable and inspiring resource for scholars and professionals in child related research."—The Architect’s Newspaper"Ogata’s book is well researched, well written, and beautifully illustrated—and truly innovative in its depiction of how a generation of toy designers, architects, and museum curators gave shape to their faith in youthful creativity."—American Journal of Play"Lucid and engaging, Ogata’s assiduously researched study sheds a much-needed light on its origins and development and contributes significantly to our understanding of everyday design in the dynamics of postwar cultural change."—Buildings & Landscapes"Ogata brings her research together in an exciting way by examining childhood creativity as an idealized attribute developed in the multi-faceted dimensionality of material culture—from television programming and toy design to suburan homes, school buildings and museum exhibition design. The book is richly illustrated and is in conversation with other multi-disciplinary books that address aspects of the post-war era, consumerism, architecture, suburbia and school design."—Journal of Design History"This study offers us innovative ways of understanding efforts to shape childhood that we might consider adopting more fully."—Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth"A tight, timely study."—Art Review"An important contribution."—Winterthur Portfolio"Beautifully illustrated and superbly written."—Daniella On DesignTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Object Lessons1. Constructing Creativity in Postwar America2. Educational Toys and Creative Playthings3. Creative Living at Home4. Building Creativity in Postwar Schools5. Learning Imagination in Art and ScienceEpilogue: The Legacy of Consuming CreativityAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Manhattan Atmospheres Architecture the Interior
Book SynopsisDuring Manhattan's crisis years between the 1960s and early 1980s, the city's great park networks, sanitarian projects of light, air, and water, and its monumental public works were falling apart. Images of flooded streets, blackened air, collapsed highways, and burning buildings characterize our understanding of the city's landscape throughTrade Review"Drawing on the theoretical concepts of assemblages and socio-natures, David Gissen uses a number of important case studies to reflect transformations in New York City’s urban environment, focusing squarely on shifts in power during the city’s post-industrial context. By mixing architecture with geography, his keen eye makes a convincing, innovative argument about the importance of ‘maintenance.’" —Julie Sze, author of Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental JusticeTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: From Urban Nature to the Maintenance Environment1. Protection: Megastructures and Environmental Gentrification2. Growth: Corporate Atriums and the Cultivation of Urban Nature3. Preservation: Territories of Culture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art4. Exchange: The Communication Environments of FinanceEpilogue: Re-imagining MaintenanceNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The Social Project
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A tour de force on the French suburbs and the utopian imaginaries that made them into the twentieth century's largest social experiment. The Social Project is a must-read for anyone interested in the ‘other Paris’ of the suburban periphery and a brilliant contribution to the urban and architectural history of the French suburbs and to understanding the social ambitions of architecture."—Rosemary Wakeman, Fordham University"The Social Project does important work in uncovering and making available the complex projects, motives, dreams, and politics that made possible the vast expansion of urbanism in postwar France. It reminds us with force and insight that today’s despair and gloominess about such projects was not always the case nor were the current dreary outcomes inevitable."—Paul Rabinow, University of California, Berkeley"A thorough history of the development of post-World War II mass housing in France."—The Culture MachineTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Building the Banlieue1950s: Projects in the Making1. Streamlining Production2. A Bureaucratic Epistemology1960s: Architecture Meets Social Science3. Animation to the Rescue4. The Expertise of Participation5. Programming the Villes Nouvelles1970s: Consuming Contradictions6. Megastructures in Denial7. The Ultimate ProjectsConclusion: Where Is the Social Project?NotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press How the WorkingClass Home Became Modern 19001940
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this groundbreaking study, Thomas C. Hubka examines the surprisingly ill-equipped houses of the broad middle class at the beginning of the twentieth century, charting the changes to the floor plan and the introduction of new technologies. Amply illustrated, Hubka’s study redefines the middle class and reinterprets its housing, offering a new understanding of how most Americans became modern."—Alison K. Hoagland, author of Mine Towns: Buildings for Workers in Michigan's Copper Country"This book is the most important study of common American houses to appear in the past half century. Thomas C. Hubka draws on a lifetime’s investigation of working-class houses in the decades before World War II to show us how and why the single-family houses of the contemporary ‘middle-majority’ sprung from these modest dwellings. Hubka has established an agenda that should engross architectural historians for years."—Dell Upton, author of American Architecture: A Thematic History "Architects, historians, housing advocates, and other people interested in the houses most Americans live in should find much to like in How the Working Class Became Modern."—Daily Dose of Architecture "This lavishly illustrated book takes the reader on a visual journey of all types of common houses belonging to America’s ‘middle majority.’"—Technology and Culture "Hubka’s book becomes the new bible of this architecture for material culture studies, architectural historians, and sociologists. "—CHOICE "Hubka rises to the challenge of analyzing such a large number of structures (somewhere upwards of 80 million houses) on a national level."—Winterthur Portfolio "Collectors will find the book illuminating for its contextual factors: the space and the place where collections reside."—New York-Pennsylvania Collector Table of ContentsContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Housing and Domestic Reform from a Middle-Majority Perspective1. Headwinds to Researching Common Houses: Eleven Prevailing Themes2. Two Worlds Apart: Domestic Conditions at the Turn of the Twentieth Century3. Modern Houses for a New Middle Class: New Standards of Living4. The Dwellings of Modern Domestic Reform: Cottages, Duplexes, Multi-Units, and Remodeled Houses5. Domestic Life Transformed: How the Working Class Became Middle-Class in HousingEpilogue: Response to Working-Class ImprovementNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press How the WorkingClass Home Became Modern 19001940
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this groundbreaking study, Thomas C. Hubka examines the surprisingly ill-equipped houses of the broad middle class at the beginning of the twentieth century, charting the changes to the floor plan and the introduction of new technologies. Amply illustrated, Hubka’s study redefines the middle class and reinterprets its housing, offering a new understanding of how most Americans became modern."—Alison K. Hoagland, author of Mine Towns: Buildings for Workers in Michigan's Copper Country"This book is the most important study of common American houses to appear in the past half century. Thomas C. Hubka draws on a lifetime’s investigation of working-class houses in the decades before World War II to show us how and why the single-family houses of the contemporary ‘middle-majority’ sprung from these modest dwellings. Hubka has established an agenda that should engross architectural historians for years."—Dell Upton, author of American Architecture: A Thematic History "Architects, historians, housing advocates, and other people interested in the houses most Americans live in should find much to like in How the Working Class Became Modern."—Daily Dose of Architecture "This lavishly illustrated book takes the reader on a visual journey of all types of common houses belonging to America’s ‘middle majority.’"—Technology and Culture "Hubka’s book becomes the new bible of this architecture for material culture studies, architectural historians, and sociologists. "—CHOICE "Hubka rises to the challenge of analyzing such a large number of structures (somewhere upwards of 80 million houses) on a national level."—Winterthur Portfolio "Collectors will find the book illuminating for its contextual factors: the space and the place where collections reside."—New York-Pennsylvania Collector Table of ContentsContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Housing and Domestic Reform from a Middle-Majority Perspective1. Headwinds to Researching Common Houses: Eleven Prevailing Themes2. Two Worlds Apart: Domestic Conditions at the Turn of the Twentieth Century3. Modern Houses for a New Middle Class: New Standards of Living4. The Dwellings of Modern Domestic Reform: Cottages, Duplexes, Multi-Units, and Remodeled Houses5. Domestic Life Transformed: How the Working Class Became Middle-Class in HousingEpilogue: Response to Working-Class ImprovementNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press John Vassos
Book SynopsisBased on the author's dissertation (Ph. D.)--Department of Art History and Communications Studies at McGill University. 2005.Trade Review"Danielle Shapiro makes a convincing case for John Vassos's formerly unheralded, but highly significant, early contributions to the field now known as user interface (UI) design. The chapters about Vassos's design of knobs, dials, displays, and casings for RCA radios and studio recording machinery are especially illuminating. Furthermore, the book is beautifully written; the illustrations, almost all 'new', are aptly chosen; and the footnotes are a rich source of information not only about Vassos but also about twentieth-century design in general."—Carma Gorman, The University of Texas at Austin "John Vassos is a complex portrait of an artist and designer whose early illustration work criticized the tempo and commercialism of modern life but whose later design work took for granted those same qualities and attempted to accommodate people to them."—Jeffrey L. Meikle, University of Texas at Austin"In the first complete picture of John Vassos, Danielle Shapiro definitively captures an industrial designer of the first rank."—Russell Flinchum, North Carolina State University"John Vassos energized the flow of products, people, and media with his streamlined designs for everything from kitchen appliances to turnstiles and radios. Danielle Shapiro has created an original portrait of this important designer and this key period in American design and popular culture."—Ellen Lupton, senior curator of contemporary design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum"A compelling account."—The Art Bulletin"John Vassos, Industrial Design for Modern Life is not only an essential book for designers, but for those who love the history of design."—The Arts Fuse"Not simply the first biography of a designer who was a major contributor to the design of consumer electronics but also a solid examination of the evolution of consumer and industrial design during Vassos’s lifetime."—CHOICE"An expertly researched biography."—Journal of Design HistoryTable of ContentsContentsPreface Introduction: Creating Design We Can Live With 1. Drawing Modernity: Advertising and Book Illustrations 2. Becoming an Industrial Designer3. Modernizing the Home through Radio4. Designed for Electricity: Vassos’s Architectural Interiors5. Vassos and RCA: Money, Media, and Modernism6. The TRK-12: RCA’s First Mass-Marketed Television Receiver7. John Vassos in Postwar AmericaConclusion: The Legacy of John VassosAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Seizing Jerusalem The Architectures of
Book SynopsisThe first architectural history of post-1967 Jerusalem, revealing the ways architectural modernism and Zionism have intertwined to imagine and reshape the cityTrade Review"A rigorous and insightful analysis of the historical, intellectual, and aesthetic encounters and intersections between the two modernisms-in-transition: architectural modernism and national modernism."—Uri Ram, Ben Gurion University of the Negev"With Seizing Jerusalem, Alona Nitzan-Shiftan has succeeded in establishing a breathtaking chronicle of the use made by plans, designs, and buildings to implement an agenda of hegemony. This book contributes masterfully to the renewed discussion about the political uses of architecture in the contemporary period."—Jean-Louis Cohen, New York University"Among the best of the many books released to mark the 50th anniversary of Jerusalem’s unification."—Moment Magazine "Alona Nitzan-Shiftan’s Seizing Jerusalem: The Architectures of Unilateral Unification is without a doubt a masterpiece. This brilliantly written book is among the most interesting, insightful, beautifully written, and important books about Jerusalem. Taking readers on a detailed voyage across the urban landscape, the book offers substantial new insights, intelligent analysis, and original interpretations on the making of modern Jerusalem during its most transformative period—the first years following the Six Day War, also known as the 1967 war." —Journal of Planning Education and ResearchTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction1. Encounters: Modern Architecture and Israeli Nationalism2. Profession: East Jerusalem and the Emergence of the Sabra Architects3. State: Facts on the Ground4. City: Urban Beautification5. Frontier: A Holy Testing Ground for a Discipline in Crisis 6. Project: The Western Wall PlazaConclusionNotesIndex
£27.90
University of Minnesota Press The Suburban Church
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Gretchen Buggeln’s The Suburban Church beautifully recovers the life and cultural significance of a post-1945 American regional architecture so ubiquitous we’ve hardly noticed it. Focused on the prodigious output of three prominent Midwest architects, The Suburban Church pops their sanctuaries into view so forcefully that readers will never drive by again without stopping—a transforming and deft cultural reconstruction."—Jon Butler, Yale University"There’s value in [Buggeln’s] documentation, especially as many of those involved in building the churches have passed away. It’s no small compliment to say that her enthusiasm for the individuals in this movement is winning."—TheNew Republic"Intended for graduate students and their professors, the book might nonetheless gain some attention from pastors and those appointed to building committees."—Catholic Library World"Buggeln’s thorough study of the suburban American church is a great read, full of detail delivered through superb architectural historical story-telling."—Art and Christianity"A fascinating account of the philosophical and practical origins of these churches and a paean to the vibrant communities that built and used them."—Marginalia "Preservationists, church members, historians, and students of suburbs should all rely on this essential work."—David R. Bains, The Annals of Iowa"This is an excellent and detailed account of the postwar growth in Protestant church building and architecture in the Midwest. A passionate story."—Journal of American Culture"Buggeln's well-written, engaging, and detailed text will be of great use to historians of architecture, as well as religion. She has conducted exhaustive research from a wide variety of sources including church memorabilia and records, oral histories, architectural drawings, and contemporary newspapers and periodicals, in addition to the essential secondary texts."—Buildings & LandscapesTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. New Times, New Architecture: Making a Place for Religion in Postwar Suburbia1. The Modern Church Movement2. The “Form-Givers” of Suburban Religion: Three Midwestern Architects3. From Dream to Dedication: The Shared Work of Church Building4. The A-frame Church: Symbol of an Era5. The Suburban Sanctuary: A House for the Worshipping Community6. Living and Learning as a Suburban Church Family: Modern Spaces for Education and Fellowship7. Religion, Architecture, and Community in the Celebrated Suburb of Park Forest, Illinois8. The Afterlife of the Postwar Suburban ChurchAppendix A: National Council of Churches of Christ List of Eighteen “Outstanding” New Churches, 1956Appendix B: Statement on Architecture and the Church, International Conference on Architecture and the Church, Bossy, Switzerland, 1959Appendix C: Working List of Stade Churches and Religious BuildingsAppendix D: List of Dart ChurchesAppendix E: List of Sovik Churches 1949-70NotesSources for ResearchIndex
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