Manifestos by artists, authors, editors, publishers, designers, zinesters explore publishing as artistic practice. Independent publishing, art publishing, publishing as artistic practice, publishing counterculture, and ...
The career of the pioneering designer Muriel Cooper, whose work spanned media from printed book to software interface; generously illustrated in color. Muriel Cooper ...
More than 1,000 representations of the human figure in architectural drawings by architects ranging from Aalto to Zumthor, removed from their architectural context. Michael ...
How to confront, embrace, and learn from the unavoidable failures of creative practice; with case studies that range from winemaking to animation. Failure is ...
A call for landscape architects to leave the office and return to the garden. Addressing one of the most repressed subjects in landscape architecture, ...
We cannot predict future cities, but we can invent them. Cities are largely unpredictable because they are complex systems that are more like organisms ...
Engaging essays that roam across uncertain territory, in search of sunken forests, unclassifiable islands, inflammable skies, plagiarized tabernacles, and other phenomena missing from architectural ...
In Flintstone Modernism, Jeffrey Lieber investigates transformations in postwar American architecture and culture. He considers sword-and-sandal films of the 1950s and 1960s'including forgotten gems ...
How Americans adapted European royal illuminations for patriotic celebrations, spectacular expositions, and intensely bright commercial lighting to create the world's most dazzling and glamorous ...
Why urban design is larger than architecture: the foundational qualities of urban design, examples and practitionersUrban design in practice is incremental, but architects imagine ...
Explorations of spatial, cultural, and social divides in the city.Globalization promised an interconnected world, yet our cities are increasingly divided. In the past decade, ...
Leading neuroscientists and architects explore how the built environment affects our behavior, thoughts, emotions, and well-being. Although we spend more than ninety percent of ...
The first digital turn in architecture changed our ways of making; the second changes our ways of thinking.Almost a generation ago, the early software ...
A fascimile edition of the long-out-of-print large-format edition designed by design icon Muriel Cooper. Upon its publication by the MIT Press in 1972, Learning ...
The philosophical significance of place--in Heidegger's work and as the focus of a distinctive mode of philosophical thinking.The idea of place--topos--runs through Martin Heidegger's ...
A call to redefine mobility so that it is connected, heterogeneous, intelligent, and personalized, as well as sustainable, adaptable, and city-friendly.The twentieth century was ...