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Sylvia Lavin is professor of architecture and urban design at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her books include Form Follows Libido: Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture.
Architecture's growing intimacy with new types of art
Kissing Architecture explores the mutual attraction between architecture and other forms of contemporary art. In this fresh, insightful, and beautifully illustrated book, renowned architectural...
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Otto Georg von Simson (1912–1993) was professor emeritus of art history at the Free University of Berlin. His books include Sacred Fortress: Byzantine Art and Statecraft in Ravenna (Princeton).
The classic work on Gothic religious architecture, now with added illustrations and a new section by the author on rose windows
No other monument of a culture so radically different from our own is as much a part of contemporary life as the Gothic cathedral....
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"Peter Eisenman, Winner of the Kanter Tritsch Medal for Excellence in Architecture and Environmental Design, University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design" Peter Eisenman is founder and principal of Eisenman Architects and visiting professor at the Yale School of Architecture. His many books include Written into the Void: Selected Writings, 1990–2004 and Tracing Eisenman. Elisa Iturbe is cofounder of the firm Outside Development and...
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Nathan Glazer is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Education at Harvard University. He was Coeditor of the Public Interest. His books include Beyond the Melting Pot, We Are All Multiculturalists Now, and The Public Face of Architecture.
Modernism in architecture and urban design has failed the American city. This is the decisive conclusion that renowned public intellectual Nathan Glazer has drawn from two decades of writing and thinking about...
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Amos Ih Tiao Chang (1916–98) was professor of architecture at Kansas State University. His books include China: Tao in Architecture. David Wang is professor of architecture in the School of Design and Construction at Washington State University. He is the author of A Philosophy of Chinese Architecture: Past, Present, Future.
Frank Lloyd Wright first noted the affinity between modern Western architecture and the philosophy of the ancient Chinese...
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Caroline Vout is Reader in Classics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College. Her books include Sex on Show: Seeing the Erotic in Greece and Rome, The Hills of Rome: Signature of an Eternal City, and Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome.
How did the statues of ancient Greece wind up dictating art history in the West? How did the material culture of the Greeks and Romans come to be seen as "classical" and as "art"? What does...
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Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet was born in Tehran, Iran. She completed her Ph.D. in history at Yale University.
In Frontier Fictions, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet looks at the efforts of Iranians to defend, if not expand, their borders in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and explores how their conceptions of national geography influenced cultural and political change. The "frontier fictions," or the ways in which the Iranians viewed their often...
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"Winner of the 2011 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies, South Asia Council" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009" Finbarr Barry Flood is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Art History and the Institute of Fine Arts, and founder-director of Silsila: Center for Material Histories at New York University. His books include Piety and Politics in the Early Indian...
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David P. Billington (1927–2018) was the Gordon Y. S. Wu Professor of Engineering Emeritus at Princeton University. His many books include Robert Maillart's Bridges and Power, Speed, and Form (both Princeton).
An essential exploration of the engineering aesthetics of celebrated structures from long-span bridges to high-rise buildings
What do structures such as the Eiffel Tower, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the concrete roofs of Pier Luigi Nervi have...
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"Winner of the Historians of British Art Book Prize, Pre-1600" "Shortlisted for the 2019 Wolfson History Prize, Wolfson Foundation" "One of History Today's Best Books of 2018" John Blair is Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at the University of Oxford and Fellow in History at The Queen's College. His books include The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society and The Anglo-Saxon Age: A Very Short Introduction.
A radical rethinking of the Anglo-Saxon...
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"Shortlisted for the 2018 DAM Architectural Book Award, Deutsches Architekturmuseum" Mari Lending is professor of architectural history and theory at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. Her books include, with Mari Hvattum, Modelling Time and, with Peter Zumthor, A Feeling for History.
We are taught to believe in originals. In art and architecture in particular, original objects vouch for authenticity, value, and truth, and require our protection...
12) After Art
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David Joselit is the Carnegie Professor of the History of Art at Yale University. His books include American Art Since 1945 (Thames & Hudson) and Feedback: Television against Democracy.
How digital networks are transforming art and architecture
Art as we know it is dramatically changing, but popular and critical responses lag behind. In this trenchant illustrated essay, David Joselit describes how art and architecture are being transformed in the...
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Fu Xinian is professor of Chinese architecture at Tsinghua University. This is his first full-length book in English. Works that have appeared in Chinese include Architectural History, Chinese Ancient Architecture, and Ancient Chinese Architectural History. Nancy S. Steinhardt is professor of East Asian art and curator of Chinese art at the University of Pennsylvania. Her books include Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil and China's Early Mosques....
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David P. Billington is Professor of Civil Engineering at Princeton University and the author of The Tower and the Bridge: The New Art of Structural Engineering (Princeton).
The description for this book, Robert Maillart's Bridges: The Art of Engineering, will be forthcoming. "Robert Maillart was one of the heroes of the 1930s; his Swiss bridges in reinforced concrete were among the most admired artifacts of those years. They combined structural...
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"Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in Architecture & Urban Planning, Association of American Publishers" "Winner of the 2016 Historic Preservation Book Prize, University of Mary Washington's Center for Historic Preservation" "Winner of the 2015 Athenaeum Literary Award (for Art and Architecture), The Athenaeum of Philadelphia" Barbara Miller Lane is Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritusin the Humanities and Research Professor in Growth and Structure of...
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Robert Geddes (1923–2023) was an architect, urbanist, and teacher. He was dean emeritus of the Princeton School of Architecture; Henry Luce Professor Emeritus of Architecture, Urbanism, and History at New York University; and a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities and the National Academy of Design. The American Institute of Architects honored his professional firm for its "design quality, respect for the environment, and social concern."...
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""Book Title of the Year," as selected for Curbed.com's Architecture in 2015: A Year in Review" Nicholas Dagen Bloom is professor of urban policy and planning at Hunter College, City University of New York. His books include Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century. Matthew Gordon Lasner is associate professor of urban studies and planning at Hunter College, City University of New York. He is the author of High Life: Condo Living...
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Michael J. Lewis is the Faison-Pierson-Stoddard Professor of Art History at Williams College. His books include Frank Furness: Architecture and the Violent Mind, The Gothic Revival, and American Art and Architecture. His essays and reviews have appeared in such publications as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
A fascinating exploration of the urbanism at the heart of Utopian thinking
The vision of Utopia obsessed the nineteenth-century...
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Mauro F. Guillén is director of the Lauder Institute and the Dr. Felix Zandman Professor of International Management and Sociology at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of TThe Limits of Convergence: Globalization and Organizational Change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain (Princeton), The Rise of Spanish Multinationals, and the coauthor of Building a Global Bank (Princeton).
The dream of scientific management...
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Timothy Hyde is associate professor in the history and theory of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Constitutional Modernism: Architecture and Civil Society in Cuba, 1933–1959. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Twitter @hyde_timothy
A novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social consequences of aesthetic judgment
When buildings are deemed ugly, what are the consequences? In Ugliness...
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