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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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Plazas que cantan a la Revolución
Plazas que cantan a la Revolución te cuenta cómo surgió la primera de ellas —la de Bayamo—, cómo y en qué circunstancias el nombre se extendió y otras plazas florecieron en nuestro país para cantar y defender una revolución que comenzó el 10 de octubre de 1868, y sobre todo, te describe la riqueza patriótica y patrimonial de estas construcciones monumentarias. Sus autores te guía…
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New OrleansElegance and Decadence
* Second edition offers a look into the soulful homes and gardens of 1990s NOLA creatives, updated with a new layout, larger photos, and a narrative that includes the city's recent history * For everyone who fantasizes about interiors that evoke an artistic world of color, myth, and romance * The first edition sold more copies (90,000-plus) than any other photographic book about New Orleans i…
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The Secret Lives of BuildingsFrom the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Str…
A strikingly original, beautifully narrated history of Western architecture and the cultural transformations that it represents. Concrete, marble, steel, brick: little else made by human hands seems as stable, as immutable, as a building. Yet the life of any structure is neither fixed nor timeless. Outliving their original contexts and purposes, buildings are forced to adapt to each succeeding …
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Fallen GloryThe Lives and Deaths of History's Greatest Buildings
"A narrative that spans seven millennia, five continents and even reaches into cyberspace. . . . I savored each page." —Henry Petroski, Wall Street Journal In Fallen Glory, James Crawford uncovers the biographies of some of the world's most fascinating lost and ruined buildings, from the dawn of civilization to the cyber era. The lives of these iconic structures are packed with drama and i…
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