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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.
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.
The Additional Element in Architecture
The Additional Element in Architecture
On Kazimir Malevich’s Arkhitektons and Planits
ISBN: 9780262548908
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 13, 2025
An ingenious reconstruction—and revealing analysis through “visual archaeology”—of avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich's lost arkhitektons.
Tony Smith Architecture
Catalogue Raisonné Volume 2
ISBN: 9780262049511
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 29, 2025
Documenting the extraordinary breadth of architectural production by American artist Tony Smith (1912–1980), this comprehensive book reveals the depth and complexity of Smith's work in architecture.
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 Architecture of the Wire
Infrastructures of Telecommunication
ISBN: 9780262551632
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 22, 2025
A visually inspiring architectural history of the wire and its representations that illuminates the relationship between telecommunications, technology, and architecture.
On Arrows
Essays in British Architecture and Its Environments
ISBN: 9780262548991
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 21, 2025
A series of original essays on the history of British postwar architecture through the concept of performance—and the ubiquitous (but elusive) image of the arrow.
The Hero of Doubt
Selected Writings by Ernesto Nathan Rogers
ISBN: 9780262049047
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 21, 2025
The first English anthology of the writings of a critical figure in the history of modern architecture in Europe.
Graph Vision
Digital Architecture’s Skeletons
ISBN: 9780262049016
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 12, 2024
How a protean mathematical object, the graph, ushered in new images, tools, and infrastructures for design and catalyzed a digital future for architecture.
Radio-Activities
Architecture and Broadcasting in Cold War Berlin
ISBN: 9780262048705
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 6, 2024
A historical and theoretical account of the city of Berlin from the intertwined perspectives of architecture, environmental, and media studies.
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.
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.
The Additional Element in Architecture
The Additional Element in Architecture
On Kazimir Malevich’s Arkhitektons and Planits
ISBN: 9780262548908
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 13, 2025
An ingenious reconstruction—and revealing analysis through “visual archaeology”—of avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich's lost arkhitektons.
Tony Smith Architecture
Catalogue Raisonné Volume 2
ISBN: 9780262049511
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 29, 2025
Documenting the extraordinary breadth of architectural production by American artist Tony Smith (1912–1980), this comprehensive book reveals the depth and complexity of Smith's work in architecture.
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 Architecture of the Wire
Infrastructures of Telecommunication
ISBN: 9780262551632
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 22, 2025
A visually inspiring architectural history of the wire and its representations that illuminates the relationship between telecommunications, technology, and architecture.
On Arrows
Essays in British Architecture and Its Environments
ISBN: 9780262548991
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 21, 2025
A series of original essays on the history of British postwar architecture through the concept of performance—and the ubiquitous (but elusive) image of the arrow.
The Hero of Doubt
Selected Writings by Ernesto Nathan Rogers
ISBN: 9780262049047
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 21, 2025
The first English anthology of the writings of a critical figure in the history of modern architecture in Europe.
Graph Vision
Digital Architecture’s Skeletons
ISBN: 9780262049016
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 12, 2024
How a protean mathematical object, the graph, ushered in new images, tools, and infrastructures for design and catalyzed a digital future for architecture.
Radio-Activities
Architecture and Broadcasting in Cold War Berlin
ISBN: 9780262048705
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 6, 2024
A historical and theoretical account of the city of Berlin from the intertwined perspectives of architecture, environmental, and media studies.