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Alan Dunn
The Cartoonist as Architectural Critic
ISBN: 9780262052597
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 28, 2026
The first in-depth study of American artist Alan Dunn (1900–1974), whose incisive cartoons mocked twentieth-century architecture and urban environments, expanding the field of architectural criticism.
Forms of Non-Belonging
ISBN: 9781915609755
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: January 27, 2026
Reflections on the conditions of contemporary exile, refugeehood, migration, and community building at the margins of society.
The Architect and the Animal
ISBN: 9780262049696
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 9, 2025
A spirited abecedarium-style book that shows how architects have engaged with animals as references and metaphors in modern and postmodern architecture.
Magic Architecture
The Story of Human Housing
ISBN: 9780262046749
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 18, 2025
The first publication of artist and architect Frederick Kiesler's epoch-spanning history of human architecture, largely unknown but still relevant.
Rewriting Alberti
ISBN: 9780262553711
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 30, 2025
A fresh, groundbreaking analysis of renowned Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti’s five built works, suggesting a new relationship of form to meaning.
Abundance Not Capital
The Lively Architecture of Anupama Kundoo
ISBN: 9780262553124
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 26, 2025
What if architecture were not an instrument of capital? How to imagine and build a non-extractivist and non-exploitative architecture.
Albert Kahn Inc.
Architecture, Labor, and Industry, 1905–1961
ISBN: 9780262049115
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 12, 2025
A study of Albert Kahn Incorporated—the architecture firm closely associated with the Ford Motor Company and other auto companies—that explores capitalism and political economy through the built environment of industry and culture.
Against Reason
Tony Smith, Architecture, and Other Modernisms
ISBN: 9780262551380
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 29, 2025
Original essays and visual arts projects that explore the understudied breadth and richness of American artist Tony Smith's work in architecture.
The Feeling of Space
ISBN: 9780262049368
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 31, 2024
A richly illustrated exploration of humanity's drive to shape life as a spatial project, from Plato's time to the digital era.
Design Things
ISBN: 9780262553773
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 17, 2024
A new perspective on design thinking and design practice: beyond products and projects, toward participatory design things.

Alan Dunn
The Cartoonist as Architectural Critic
ISBN: 9780262052597
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 28, 2026
The first in-depth study of American artist Alan Dunn (1900–1974), whose incisive cartoons mocked twentieth-century architecture and urban environments, expanding the field of architectural criticism.
Forms of Non-Belonging
ISBN: 9781915609755
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: January 27, 2026
Reflections on the conditions of contemporary exile, refugeehood, migration, and community building at the margins of society.
The Architect and the Animal
ISBN: 9780262049696
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 9, 2025
A spirited abecedarium-style book that shows how architects have engaged with animals as references and metaphors in modern and postmodern architecture.
Magic Architecture
The Story of Human Housing
ISBN: 9780262046749
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 18, 2025
The first publication of artist and architect Frederick Kiesler's epoch-spanning history of human architecture, largely unknown but still relevant.
Rewriting Alberti
ISBN: 9780262553711
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 30, 2025
A fresh, groundbreaking analysis of renowned Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti’s five built works, suggesting a new relationship of form to meaning.
Abundance Not Capital
The Lively Architecture of Anupama Kundoo
ISBN: 9780262553124
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 26, 2025
What if architecture were not an instrument of capital? How to imagine and build a non-extractivist and non-exploitative architecture.
Albert Kahn Inc.
Architecture, Labor, and Industry, 1905–1961
ISBN: 9780262049115
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 12, 2025
A study of Albert Kahn Incorporated—the architecture firm closely associated with the Ford Motor Company and other auto companies—that explores capitalism and political economy through the built environment of industry and culture.
Against Reason
Tony Smith, Architecture, and Other Modernisms
ISBN: 9780262551380
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 29, 2025
Original essays and visual arts projects that explore the understudied breadth and richness of American artist Tony Smith's work in architecture.
The Feeling of Space
ISBN: 9780262049368
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 31, 2024
A richly illustrated exploration of humanity's drive to shape life as a spatial project, from Plato's time to the digital era.
Design Things
ISBN: 9780262553773
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 17, 2024
A new perspective on design thinking and design practice: beyond products and projects, toward participatory design things.