History of architecture Books

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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Book SynopsisIn 1910 John Merven Carrère, a Paris-trained American architect, wrote, “Learning from Paris made Washington outstanding among American cities.” The five essays in Paris on the Potomac explore aspects of this influence on the artistic and architectural environment of Washington, D.C.,Trade Review“These essays are well researched, have ample footnotes, and are accompanied by many helpful black-and-white illustrations.” * CHOICE *“(Paris on the Potomac) is another consistently engaging and insightful collection of essays published as part of the Perspectives on the Art and Architectural History of the United States Capitol series.… As a whole, the collection underlies the importance of French-American amity and offers Washington, D.C.—as much a European city as an American one—as irrefutable evidence that space and place are occupied by politics and ideology as much as they are by people.” * The Journal of Southern History *“(Paris on the Potomac) responds to the question of how French architecture and decoration have affected the building of our nation’s capital from the days when George Washington and Pierre L’Enfant laid out a plan for the city’s design. For the reader who travels next to Washington, D.C., the quest to sight those French influences in city planning, architecture, and decoration will be inevitable.” * The French Review *”Beautifully produced, (Paris on the Potomac) is presumably offered as much to lovers of Washington, DC, as to a professional readership. Can it help general readers to ‘think historically’? Yes! The reader is immediately in good hands in the first essay.… Available in paperback for twenty-five dollars, this is a book I would buy for friends and family.” * Journal of the Early American Republic *

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection offers a unique perspective on twentieth-century architectural history, disputing the primacy placed on individuals in the design and planning process and instead looking to the larger influences of politics, culture, economics, and globalization to uncover the roots of how our built environment evolves.

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Book SynopsisArguing that the practice of architecture occupies not just a historical position between Stonborough-Wittgenstein's early and late philosophy, this book demonstrates that Wittgenstein's practice of architecture constitutes a fundamental component in the development of his philosophy of language from its early to late phases.Trade Review"This book opens new and unexpected vistas into the complex landscape - or perhaps I should say the complex architecture and spatiality - of Wittgenstein's philosophy. In that sense, it makes an important, dual contribution to the history of philosophy and to the history of modern architecture." -- -Mark Jarzombek Massachusetts Institute of Technology " ... An interesting and thought-provoking work, one that adds to the corpus of writings on Wittgenstein's ideas about architecture and aesthetics." -Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics "Accessible...Brings forward the virtues of applied abstraction through keen and historical treatment of both the writings and the Stonborough project." -- -Tom Conley Harvard University "A strikingly brilliant and lucid piece of work. Last shows how Wittgenstein's entanglements of philosophy and architecture become the necessary prologue to his accomplishment in the Investigations. Wittgenstein's House takes what is often considered a marginal or extraneous interlude in his work and demonstrates how it in fact forms the indispensable pivot of a major reorientation in Wittgenstein's thought." -- -Bruce Clarke Texas Tech University " ... Reveals heretofore unseen and unsuspected edifying relations between architecture and philosophy and their distinctive ways of seeing and thinking." -Postmodern Culture "A noteworthy synthesis of Wittgenstein's philosophy with the subject of architecture." -wittgenstein-news.org

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Book SynopsisArguing that the practice of architecture occupies not just a historical position between Stonborough-Wittgenstein's early and late philosophy, this book demonstrates that Wittgenstein's practice of architecture constitutes a fundamental component in the development of his philosophy of language from its early to late phases.Trade Review"This book opens new and unexpected vistas into the complex landscape - or perhaps I should say the complex architecture and spatiality - of Wittgenstein's philosophy. In that sense, it makes an important, dual contribution to the history of philosophy and to the history of modern architecture." -- -Mark Jarzombek Massachusetts Institute of Technology " ... An interesting and thought-provoking work, one that adds to the corpus of writings on Wittgenstein's ideas about architecture and aesthetics." -Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics "Accessible...Brings forward the virtues of applied abstraction through keen and historical treatment of both the writings and the Stonborough project." -- -Tom Conley Harvard University "A strikingly brilliant and lucid piece of work. Last shows how Wittgenstein's entanglements of philosophy and architecture become the necessary prologue to his accomplishment in the Investigations. Wittgenstein's House takes what is often considered a marginal or extraneous interlude in his work and demonstrates how it in fact forms the indispensable pivot of a major reorientation in Wittgenstein's thought." -- -Bruce Clarke Texas Tech University " ... Reveals heretofore unseen and unsuspected edifying relations between architecture and philosophy and their distinctive ways of seeing and thinking." -Postmodern Culture "A noteworthy synthesis of Wittgenstein's philosophy with the subject of architecture." -wittgenstein-news.org

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Book SynopsisA history of unrealized plans to expand New York City’s rapid transit and commuter rail systems.Trade Review"The New York subway is a source of basic mobility in the world's greatest city, but there remains much to be learned about why it came to be and how it functions. Raskin has given us a book that places all of our factual and historical narratives in a much larger context-what might have been, what could have been, and, perhaps, what should have been." -- -Brian J. Cudahy A Century of Subways: Celebrating 100 Years of New York's Underground Railways "In presenting lively...case studies of what he regards as the most important unbuilt lines, Mr. Raskin encourages his readers to think about the adaptable nature of the city." -Wall Street Journal "The Routes Not Taken is a fascinating look at what did not happen with the New York City subway system and why. Joseph Raskin provides detailed accounts of why several subway lines that have been long needed and desired-such as one in the northeast Bronx and one across Queens and Brooklyn-never got built. The stories are full of twists and turns as politicians, business interests, civic groups, transit advisors and engineers all argue over which line is needed, what the specifics of its route should be, and even if it should be done ahead of another line. The Routes Not Taken is engrossing but ultimately dispiriting. One comes away from reading Mr. Raskin's book with a sense of awe that New York City has a subway system of any kind and extent given the numerous competing forces that have cancelled each other out in the past." -- -Paul Shaw Author of Helvetica and the New York City Subway System: The True (Maybe) Story "Apart from sheer enjoyment, this book underscores how radically decisions about transit shape property values, commerce, neighborhoods, and people." -Choice Magazine "This is an extraordinary and magisterial book, the product of years of diligent research on a topic that has been almost completely ignored, but one central to the understanding of the evolution of New York City in the twentieth century." -- -Peter Eisenstadt author of Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing "Joseph B. Raskin's parents never owned a car, and so the New York subway system perhaps played an outsize role in shaping his worldview. In The Routes Not Taken: A Trip Through New York City's Unbuilt Subway System (Fordham University Press), Mr. Raskin draws on this perspective to provide an insightful look at the what-might-have-beens of urban mass transit. The first subway, the IRT from City Hall to West 145th Street, was built in four and a half years. That pace has rarely been equaled in the century since. Consider that the Second Avenue subway, the first segment of which is to open in 2016, was envisioned in 1929. Why were certain lines elevated - and later demolished - instead of buried? Mr. Raskin, the assistant director of government and community relations for New York City Transit, dusts off old blueprints of lines that were never built or never completed, explaining how the system shaped urban development and how political and economic forces conspired to create today's subways. If only the Transit Construction Commission's 1920 plan had been adopted: a $350 million, 20-year blueprint that would have provided a grid of subway lines covering all five boroughs and provided for a city with a population even bigger than today's." -- -Sam Roberts The New York TimesTable of ContentsContents 1. Building (and Not Building) New York City's Subway System 2. Sound to Shore - The Unbuilt Brooklyn Queens Crosstown Line 3. Why the No. 7 Line Stops in Flushing 4. The Battle of the Northeast Bronx - 1 5. Buy Land Now, Ride the Subway Later 6. Ashland Place and the Mysteries of 76th Street 7. To the City Limits and Beyond 8. The Battle of the Northeast Bronx - 2 9. Building the Line That Almost Never Was 10. Other Plans, Other Lines, Other Issues in the Postwar Years 11. What Happened to the Rest of the System??? Appendix 1. The 1944 Service Plan Appendix 2. The 1947 2nd Avenue Service Plan Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCounter Institution is a history of three re-purposed buildings in the Lower East Side--Peace Pentagon, ABC No Rio, and El Bohio--that have been used by activists as their headquarters to launch various actions over the past forty years.

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Book SynopsisArchitecturalized Asia explores built environments and visual narratives in Asia via cartography, icons, and symbols in different historical settings. It grows out of a three-year project focusing on cultural exchange in the making of Asia's boundaries as well as its architectural styles and achievements. The book consists of three sections. In Mapping Asia: Architectural Symbols from Medieval to Early Modern Periods, authors examine icons and symbols in maps and textual descriptions and other early evidence about Asian architecture. The second section, Conjugating Asia: The Long-Nineteenth Century and Its Impetus, explores the construction of the field of Asian architecture and the political imagination of Asian built environments in the nineteenth century. The third section, Manifesting Asia: Building the Continent with Architecture, addresses the physical realization of Asian geographic ideas within a set of specific local and regional contexts in the twentieth century. Regions

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Book SynopsisAuthorship critically examines emergent themes in contemporary architecture by revisiting the seemingly defunct notion of design authorship. As we revel in the death of the master architect, how do we come to terms with the shifting role of creativity in architecture's cultural production? In Authorship, a cross-disciplinary group of designers and

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Book SynopsisStarting with the dawn of human society, through early civilizations, to the pre-Columbian American tribes, Architecture of First Societies: A Global Perspective traces the different cultural formations that developed in various places throughout the world to form the built environment.Trade Review“This entry-level textbook will suit beginning students and general readers interested in architecture, anthropology, agricuulture, ecology, history and geography. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and general readers.” (Choice, 1 May 2014)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction ix Part One: Foundations 1 Chapter 1: The Human World 3 Chapter 2: Late Pleistocene—Early Holocene Societies 49 Chapter 3: Savanna and Forest Peoples Today 87 Chapter 4: The Great Northern Continuum: Part I 117 Chapter 5: The Great Northern Continuum: Part II 151 Chapter 6: The Mound and Plaza Societies of the Americas 191 Chapter 7: Plants, Animals, and Rituals 225 Chapter 8: The First Agro-Pastoral Perspectives 263 Part Two: Transitions 297 Chapter 9: Village and Chiefdom Worlds 299 Chapter 10: Expansion into Europe 315 Chapter 11: Emergence of Central and South American Agriculture Societies 397 Chapter 12: Cattle-Tending Societies 451 Chapter 13: The World of Portable Architecture 477 Chapter 14: The Oceanic Horticultural Continuum 515 Chapter 15: African Transformations 549 Chapter 16: Agro-Centrism in North America 575 Coda: Encounters with Modernity 637 Index 643

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Hive of Education: Reflections on a Model of Architectural Education Chapter 2 Evolution Over Revolution: Eliel Saarinen as Architect and Educator Chapter 3 Provoking the Outliers: Trajectories for the Near Future Drawn from the Enigmatic Past Chapter 4 ‘The Unmeasurable’: Lessons from Cranbrook Chapter 5 Schooling Fishy Knowledge Chapter 6 Postgraduate Architectural Education In Situ Chapter 7 Unprompted: Open-ended Investigations in the Choreography of Construction Chapter 8 Building A Dream: Fertile Ground for Social Good Chapter 9 Unbuilding and the Recovery of Craft in Architecture: Cranbrook Department of Architecture 1986–1996 Chapter 10 An Architecture of Marks: Reading Histories and Writing Futures Chapter 11 Methods of Inspiration: A Pedagogical Approach Based on Singularity Chapter 12 The Interior Within Hand's Reach: Tactile Proximity Chapter 13 Arrows: The Long Lines of Influence in Architecture Chapter 14 Forming Action: The Subject in the Object Chapter 15 The Agency of Making: An Anatomy of Practice-based Pedagogy Chapter 16 From Another Perspective – Adept and Apprentices: Contributors About Architectural Design

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction The Golden State: California's Architectural Soul Chapter 2 Backlot Suburbia: A California Story Chapter 3 Californian, The Third Way Chapter 4 Material Imageability: The Architecture of Façades and Envelopes Chapter 5 Printing the Picture Plane: Imaging Scales Up Chapter 6 California Burning: Architecture's Pyrocene Future Chapter 7 Do Dream Landscapes Have Earthquakes? Chapter 8 Extra-disciplinary Dreams: Journeys Into the Foothills Chapter 9 The Picture and the Frame: Understanding a Contested Landscape Chapter 10 A Hands-on Conceptual Rigour: A Multi-scalar Approach Chapter 11 There's Something in the Air: Authorship, the Hand and the Machine Chapter 12 Housing the Unhoused: Los Angeles Architects Rise to the Challenge Chapter 13 Skin and Bones: Pushing the Event Horizon Chapter 14 In the Mood for Love: Chromophilia Unbound Chapter 15 From Another Perspective – Morphosis Modelling: A Golden Anniversary Contributors About Architectural Design

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Book SynopsisThe global boom in skyscraperswhy it's happening now, how they're made, and what they do to cities and peopleTrade Review"Lighter concrete, faster elevators, and even faster-growing cities are part of the formula architect Stefan Al lays out in this foundational book. Rather than describing the latest supertall skyscrapers, he shows us what makes them possible and why cities and companies think they are necessary. Mixing personal experience, history lessons, and explanations of technology that are clear and simple, Al's book shows how and why a new generation of skyscrapers is now under construction around the world." -- Aaron Betsky, author of Architecture Matters"Stefan Al’s Supertall is a thoughtful inquiry into the new generation of skyscrapers, which are taller and more ubiquitous than their predecessors... There is a lot of rich history here, well and concisely told (and illustrated with superb line drawings, a refreshing change from the big, splashy photographs of coffee-table books)." -- Paul Goldberger - New York Times Book Review"The sheer volume of calculation required to build and keep [supertalls] aloft and functioning is astounding. Al...explains these esoteric technical challenges in lucid fashion...[T]he story of what’s come about in the age of the supertall is gripping." -- Anthony Paletta - The Wall Street Journal

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