Newton D'Souza, "The Multi-Skilled Designer" (Taylor and Francis, 2020)
Newton D'Souza's new book The Multi-Skilled Designer (Taylor & Francis, 2020) presents and analyzes different approaches to contemporary architectural...
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Prita Meier, "Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere" (Indiana UP, 2016)
On the Swahili coast of East Africa, monumental stone houses, tombs, and mosques mark the border zone between the interior of the African continent an...
Carla Yanni, "Living on Campus: An Architectural History of the American Dormitory" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
Every fall on move-in day, parents tearfully bid farewell to their beloved sons and daughters at college dormitories: it is an age-old ritual. The res...
Despina Stratigakos, "Hitler’s Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway" (Princeton UP, 2020)
In her new book Hitler’s Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway (Princeton University Press, 2020), Despina Stratigakos investigat...
Mariana Mogilevich, "The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay's New York" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
As suburbanization, racial conflict, and the consequences of urban renewal threatened New York City with “urban crisis,” the administration of Mayor J...
Emily Anthes, "The Great Indoors" (Scientific American, 2020)
Modern humans are an indoor species. We spend 90 percent of our time inside, shuttling between homes and offices, schools and stores, restaurants and ...
Karen Holl, "Primer of Ecological Restoration" (Island Press, 2020)
The pace, intensity, and scale at which humans have altered our planet in recent decades is unprecedented. We have dramatically transformed landscapes...
Joseph S. Cialdella, "Motor City Green: A Century of Landscapes and Environmentalism in Detroit" (U of Pittsburg Press, 2020)
Joseph S. Cialdella's Motor City Green: A Century of Landscapes and Environmentalism in Detroit (University of Pittsburg Press, 2020) is a history of ...
Joy Knoblauch, "The Architecture of Good Behavior" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
Inspired by the rise of environmental psychology and increasing support for behavioral research after the Second World War, new initiatives at the fed...
Hank Dittmar, "DIY City: The Collective Power of Small Actions" (Island Press, 2020)
Some utopian plans have shaped our cities —from England’s New Towns and Garden Cities to the Haussmann plan for Paris and the L’Enfant plan for Washin...