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The Early Architecture Of Western Pennsylvania
A new edition of this long unavailable classic reproduces photographic prints made from original negatives and features an extensive analytical introduction by the noted architectural historian Dell Upton.Before the 1936 publication of The Early Architecture of Western Pennsylvania, the architectual heritage of a region prominent in the history of early America had been almost totally neglected…
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Building Schools, Making DoctorsArchitecture and the Modern American Physician
In the late nineteenth century, medical educators intent on transforming American physicians into scientifically trained, elite professionals recognized the value of medical school design for their reform efforts. Between 1893 and 1940, nearly every medical college in the country rebuilt or substantially renovated its facility. In Building Schools, Making Doctors, Katherine Carroll reveals how …
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Writing Architectural HistoryEvidence and Narrative in the Twenty-First Century
Over the past two decades, scholarship in architectural history has transformed, moving away from design studio pedagogy and postmodern historicism to draw instead from trends in critical theory focusing on gender, race, the environment, and more recently, global history, connecting to revisionist trends in other fields. With examples across space and time—from medieval European coin trials a…
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Sites UnseenLandscape and Vision
Sites Unseen challenges conventions for viewing and interpreting the landscape, using visual theory to move beyond traditional practices of describing and classifying objects to explore notions of audience and context. While other fields, such as art history and geography, have engaged poststructuralist theory to consider vision and representation, the application of such inquiry to the natural…
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Spaces of ImmigrationAmerican Ports, Railways, and Settlements
By transporting waves of newly arrived immigrants along rail lines from both coasts, railway companies played an active role in repopulating the interior of the country. Spaces of Immigration follows the travel routes of immigrants during a foundational period of American infrastructure—from ports of arrival to train cars and depots to settlements—showing how the built environment of the ra…
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Model Schools in the Model CityRace, Planning, and Education in the Nation’…
Finalist for the 2026 ASALH Book Award Access to educational resources has been a tool of liberation for Black Americans from the antebellum period to the present. With this book, Amber N. Wiley emphasizes the value of education as a means for social equality—Black Americans wanted the American Dream to apply to them, and equal opportunity for quality education was at the forefront of making…
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A Territory in ConflictEras of Development and Urban Architecture in Gaza
A Territory in Conflict explores Israeli and Palestinian projects of modernization and development in the Gaza Strip, from the outset of Israel's military occupation in 1967 to the Oslo Accords of 1993. Rather than reduce the Gaza Strip to an arena of war and violence, Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat resurrects the urban and architectural history of Gaza's cities and the varied perspectives and identiti…
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World ObservationEmpire, Architecture, and the Global Archive of Itō Chūta
World Observation explores the archives and architecture of It? Ch?ta (1867–1954), the eminent architectural thinker of the Japanese empire, who traveled across Asia, Europe, and North America to create the first world history of architecture in Japanese from a truly global set of encounters. In his mission to integrate Japan into existing world histories, legitimate Japanese colonial expansi…
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Spatial Theories for the AmericasCounterweights to Five Centuries of Eurocent…
Longlist, 2025 Architecture Book Awards – Architectural Theory To study the built environment of the Americas is to wrestle with an inherent contradiction. While the disciplines of architecture, urban design, landscape, and planning share the fundamental belief that space and place matter, the overwhelming majority of canonical knowledge and the vernacular used to describe these disciplines …
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La consolidación de la injusticia - Tomo 1Un relato que da voz a los vencido…
La consolidación de la injusticia examina la historia del Estado español y su transición de la dictadura a la democracia. En sus páginas se argumenta, con un estilo crítico y sensible, que esta transición fue superficial y que las estructuras del régimen franquista permanecen intactas.Tomando en cuenta el extenso periodo histórico (1935-1979), el autor analiza eventos cruciales como la …
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