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American Bridge
Reinventing Building, Making History
ISBN: 9780262552110
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 20, 2026
Why a world-transforming invention remained an untold story—until now.
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.
Sick Architecture
ISBN: 9780262049689
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 21, 2025
A thought-provoking essay collection about how architecture and sickness are surprisingly interwoven—from Ancient Greece to present-day New York City.
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.
Architecture Follows Fish
An Amphibious History of the North Atlantic
ISBN: 9780262049108
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 29, 2024
A highly original exploration of the history of architecture in relation to fish, shedding light on the connection between marine environments and terrestrial landscapes.
Perspecta 56
Not Found
ISBN: 9780262547819
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 23, 2024
Exploring architecture as a form of concealment and obfuscation in engendering new ways of understanding, conceptualizing, and reshaping the world.
Things That Move
A Hinterland in Architectural History
ISBN: 9780262547505
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 23, 2024
A history of architecture, not as the art of what stays but of what changes and moves.
Barbarian Architecture
Thorstein Veblen’s Chicago
ISBN: 9780262547413
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 2, 2024
A richly visual architectural history and theory of modernity that reexamines Thorstein Veblen's classic text The Theory of the Leisure Class through the lens of Chicago in the 1890s.
Origins, Imitation, Conventions
Origins, Imitation, Conventions
Representation in the Visual Arts
ISBN: 9780262551519
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 19, 2024
Twelve studies by eminent art historian James S. Ackerman.
Architecture and Abstraction
ISBN: 9780262545235
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 7, 2023
A landmark study of abstraction in architectural history, theory, and practice that challenges our assumptions about the meaning of abstract forms.
American Bridge
Reinventing Building, Making History
ISBN: 9780262552110
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 20, 2026
Why a world-transforming invention remained an untold story—until now.
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.
Sick Architecture
ISBN: 9780262049689
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 21, 2025
A thought-provoking essay collection about how architecture and sickness are surprisingly interwoven—from Ancient Greece to present-day New York City.
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.
Architecture Follows Fish
An Amphibious History of the North Atlantic
ISBN: 9780262049108
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 29, 2024
A highly original exploration of the history of architecture in relation to fish, shedding light on the connection between marine environments and terrestrial landscapes.
Perspecta 56
Not Found
ISBN: 9780262547819
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 23, 2024
Exploring architecture as a form of concealment and obfuscation in engendering new ways of understanding, conceptualizing, and reshaping the world.
Things That Move
A Hinterland in Architectural History
ISBN: 9780262547505
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 23, 2024
A history of architecture, not as the art of what stays but of what changes and moves.
Barbarian Architecture
Thorstein Veblen’s Chicago
ISBN: 9780262547413
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 2, 2024
A richly visual architectural history and theory of modernity that reexamines Thorstein Veblen's classic text The Theory of the Leisure Class through the lens of Chicago in the 1890s.
Origins, Imitation, Conventions
Origins, Imitation, Conventions
Representation in the Visual Arts
ISBN: 9780262551519
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 19, 2024
Twelve studies by eminent art historian James S. Ackerman.
Architecture and Abstraction
ISBN: 9780262545235
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 7, 2023
A landmark study of abstraction in architectural history, theory, and practice that challenges our assumptions about the meaning of abstract forms.