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        Alan Dunn

        Alan Dunn

        Alan Dunn

        The Cartoonist as Architectural Critic

        by Gabriele Neri

        Foreword by Barry Bergdoll

        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

        Forms of Non-Belonging

        Forms of Non-Belonging

        by Pelin Tan

        Preface by Eyal Weizman

        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

        The Architect and the Animal

        The Architect and the Animal

        Edited by Kostas Tsiambaos

        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

        Magic Architecture

        Magic Architecture

        The Story of Human Housing

        by Frederick Kiesler

        Edited by Spyros Papapetros and Gerd Zillner

        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

        Rewriting Alberti

        Rewriting Alberti

        by Peter Eisenman

        With Pier Vittorio Aureli, Mario Carpo and Daniel Sherer

        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

        Abundance Not Capital

        Abundance Not Capital

        The Lively Architecture of Anupama Kundoo

        Edited by Angelika Fitz, Elke Krasny and Architekturzentrum Wien

        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.

        Albert Kahn Inc.

        Albert Kahn Inc.

        Architecture, Labor, and Industry, 1905–1961

        by Claire Zimmerman

        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

        Against Reason

        Against Reason

        Tony Smith, Architecture, and Other Modernisms

        Edited by James Voorhies

        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

        The Feeling of Space

        The Feeling of Space

        by Christopher Bardt

        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

        Design Things

        Design Things

        by Thomas Binder, Giorgio De Michelis, Pelle Ehn, Giulio Jacucci, Per Linde and Ina Wagner

        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.
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