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Annapurna Garimella, “The Contemporary Hindu Temple: Fragments for a History” (Marg Foundation, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Contemporary Hindu temples raise aesthetic, economic, political and philosophical questions about the role of architecture in making a place for the sacred in society. This book presents the Hindu ...
ListenJohn Lobell, "Louis Kahn: Architecture as Philosophy" (Monacelli Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
For everyone interested in the enduring appeal of Louis Kahn, this book demonstrates that a close look at how Kahn put his buildings together will reveal a deeply felt philosophy. Louis I. Kahn is ...
ListenNewton D'Souza, "The Multi-Skilled Designer" (Taylor and Francis, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Newton D'Souza's new book The Multi-Skilled Designer (Taylor & Francis, 2020) presents and analyzes different approaches to contemporary architectural design and interprets them through the theory ...
ListenPrita Meier, "Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere" (Indiana UP, 2016) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On the Swahili coast of East Africa, monumental stone houses, tombs, and mosques mark the border zone between the interior of the African continent and the Indian Ocean. In Swahili Port Cities: The...
ListenCarla Yanni, "Living on Campus: An Architectural History of the American Dormitory" (U Minnesota Press, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 residence hall has come to mark the threshold betw...
ListenDespina Stratigakos, "Hitler’s Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway" (Princeton UP, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In her new book Hitler’s Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway (Princeton University Press, 2020), Despina Stratigakos investigates the Nazi occupation of Norway. Between 1940 ...
ListenMariana Mogilevich, "The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay's New York" (U Minnesota Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
As suburbanization, racial conflict, and the consequences of urban renewal threatened New York City with “urban crisis,” the administration of Mayor John V. Lindsay (1966–1973) experimented with a ...
ListenEmily Anthes, "The Great Indoors" (Scientific American, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Modern humans are an indoor species. We spend 90 percent of our time inside, shuttling between homes and offices, schools and stores, restaurants and gyms. And yet, in many ways, the indoor world r...
ListenKaren Holl, "Primer of Ecological Restoration" (Island Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The pace, intensity, and scale at which humans have altered our planet in recent decades is unprecedented. We have dramatically transformed landscapes and waterways through agriculture, logging, mi...
ListenJoseph S. Cialdella, "Motor City Green: A Century of Landscapes and Environmentalism in Detroit" (U of Pittsburg Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Joseph S. Cialdella's Motor City Green: A Century of Landscapes and Environmentalism in Detroit (University of Pittsburg Press, 2020) is a history of green spaces in metropolitan Detroit from the l...
ListenJoy Knoblauch, "The Architecture of Good Behavior" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Inspired by the rise of environmental psychology and increasing support for behavioral research after the Second World War, new initiatives at the federal, state, and local levels looked to influen...
ListenT. Fischer and C.M. Herr, "Design Cybernetics: Navigating the New" (Springer, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Those who have followed this podcast in the past, and those who follow developments in cybernetics in the present, will be no strangers to the name Ranulph Glanville. This brilliant, multiple-PhD h...
ListenHank Dittmar, "DIY City: The Collective Power of Small Actions" (Island Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 Washington, DC. But these grand plans are the excepti...
ListenSasha Costanza-Chock, "Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need" (MIT Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (MIT Press, 2020), Sasha Costanza-Chock, an associate professor of Civic Media at MIT, builds the case for designers and resea...
ListenThomas Bishop, "Every Home a Fortress: Cold War Fatherhood and the Family Fallout Shelter" (UMass Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In Every Home a Fortress: Cold War Fatherhood and the Family Fallout Shelter (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020), Thomas Bishop details the remarkable cultural history and personal stories be...
ListenLaurie Olin, "Be Seated" (ORO Editions, 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Today I talked to Laurie Olin about his book Be Seated (ORO Editions, 2017). Olin’s interest in public outdoor seating in parks and civic spaces revolves around two poles: the first is a concern fo...
ListenR. Sroufe and S. Melnyk, "Developing Sustainable Supply Chains to Drive Value" (Business Expert Press, 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Robert Sroufe and Steven Melnyk's Developing Sustainable Supply Chains to Drive Value (Business Expert Press) provides a multi-perspective approach to sustainability and value chains to allow under...
ListenThaisa Way, "River Cities, City Rivers" (Dumbarton Oaks, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Today I talked to Thaisa Way, editor of River Cities, City Rivers (Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2018). Cities have been built alongside rivers throughout history. These rivers ca...
ListenLaurie Olin, "France Sketchbook" (ORO Editions, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
For centuries artists and designers have recorded places, people, and life in travel sketchbooks. Over a period of fifty years, Laurie Olin, one of America’s most distinguished landscape architects...
ListenRobert Sroufe, "Integrated Management: How Sustainability Creates Value for Any Business" (Emerald, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Integration has been a key theme across the general management, organizational behavior, supply chain management, strategy, information systems and the environmental management literature for decad...
ListenSam Roberts, "A History of New York in 27 Buildings: The 400-Year Untold Story of an American Metropolis" (Bloomsbury, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In his new book A History of New York in 27 Buildings: The 400-Year Untold Story of an American Metropolis (Bloomsbury, 2019), New York Times correspondent Sam Roberts tells the story of the city t...
ListenErica Bauermeister, "House Lessons: Renovating a Life" (Sasquatch Books, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
From the New York Times, best selling author Erica Bauermeister comes House Lessons: Renovating a Life (Sasquatch Books, 2020). This memoir is about the power of home, and the transformative act of...
ListenAnne Godfrey, "Active Landscape Photography: Theoretical Groundwork for Landscape Architecture" (Routledge, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Photographs play a hugely influential but largely unexamined role in the practice of landscape architecture and design. Through a diverse set of essays and case studies, this seminal text unpacks t...
ListenSusie Hodge, "The Short Story of Architecture" (Laurence King Publishing, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
What makes a building’s design come alive as it helps shape our existence? Listen in as I discuss this and other questions with Susie Hodge, author of The Short Story of Architecture: A Pocket Guid...
ListenPablo Meninato, "Unexpected Affinities: The History of Type in Architectural Project from Laugier to Duchamp" (Routledge, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
While the concept of "type" has been present in architectural discourse since its formal introduction at the end of the eighteenth century, its role in the development of architectural projects has...
ListenBrian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Brian Greene is a Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Columbia University in the City of New York, where he is the Director of the Institute for Strings, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics, a...
ListenJane Hutton, "Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements" (Routledge, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
How are the far-away, invisible landscapes where materials come from related to the highly visible, urban landscapes where those same materials are installed? Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Mate...
ListenRobert Sroufe et al, "The Power of Existing Buildings" (Island Press, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Your building has the potential to change the world. Existing buildings consume approximately 40 percent of the energy and emit nearly half of the carbon dioxide in the US each year. In recognition...
ListenRichard Williams "Why Cities Look the Way They Do" (Polity, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
How should we understand our cities? In Why Cities Look the Way They Do (Polity, 2019), Richard Williams, Professor of Contemporary Visual Cultures in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh ...
ListenPatrick M. Condon, "Five Rules for Tomorrow’s Cities" (Island Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
How we design our cities over the next four decades will be critical for our planet. If we continue to spill excessive greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, we will run out of time to keep our global...
ListenLeslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies (University of Georgia Press, 2019), edited by Leslie M. Harris, James T. Campbell, and Alfred L. Brophy, is the first edited collection of schola...
ListenÜnver Rüstem, "Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul" (Princeton UP, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In Istanbul, there is a mosque on every hill. Cruising along the Bosphorus, either for pleasure, or like the majority of Istanbul’s denizens, for transit, you cannot help but notice that the city’s...
ListenPhoebe Lickwar and Roxi Thoren, "Farmscape: The Design of Productive Landscapes" (Routledge, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Phoebe Lickwar and Roxi Thoren's book Farmscape: The Design of Productive Landscapes (Routledge, 2020) situates agriculture as a design practice, using a wide range of international case studies an...
ListenPatrick Mooney, "Planting Design: Connecting People and Place" (Routledge, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Landscape designers have long understood the use of plants to provide beauty, aesthetic pleasure and visual stimulation while supporting a broad range of functional goals. However, the potential fo...
ListenTheodora Vardouli and Olga Touloumi, "Computer Architectures: Constructing the Common Ground" (Routledge, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Weaving together intellectual, social, cultural, and material histories, Theodora Vardouli and Olga Touloumi's book Computer Architectures: Constructing the Common Ground (Routledge, 2019) paints t...
ListenKristian Ly Serena, "Age-Inclusive Public Space" (Hatje Cantz, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Public spaces tend to over-represent facilities and spatial design for the young and the middle-aged, whereas elderly citizens are all too often neglected by contemporary urban design practice. Dom...
ListenJonathan Barnett, "Designing the Megaregion: Meeting Urban Challenges at a New Scale" (Island Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The US population is estimated to grow by more than 110 million people by 2050, and much of this growth will take place where cities and their suburbs are expanding to meet the suburbs of neighbori...
ListenMatt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick. A magician's purpose is to create the appearance of impossibility, to pull a rabbit from an empty hat. Yet paradox doesn't require tangibles, like ra...
ListenDiane Jones Allen, "Lost in the Transit Desert: Race, Transit Access, and Suburban Form" (Routledge, 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Increased redevelopment, the dismantling of public housing, and increasing housing costs are forcing a shift in migration of lower income and transit dependent populations to the suburbs. These sub...
ListenCole Roskam, "Improvised City: Architecture and Governance in Shanghai, 1843-1937" (U Washington Press, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Shanghai’s role in shaping modern China and indeed the very idea of what modernity is in China can hardly be overstated. Much of this long-lasting influence can be seen in how the city itself came ...
ListenThaïsa Way, "GGN: Landscapes 1999 to 2018" (Timber Press, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (GGN) is a landscape architecture firm based in Seattle, Washington. GGN was founded in 1999 by Jennifer Guthrie, Shannon Nichol, and Kathryn Gustafson, and it is world-ren...
ListenSteven Stolman, "Heirloom Houses: The Architecture of Wade Weissmann" (Gibbs Smith, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In Heirloom Houses : the Architecture of Wade Weissmann (Gibbs Smith, 2018), Steven Stolman explains how the houses designed by Wade Weissmann and his firm tell the stories of the homeowners. Like ...
ListenDavid Morton, "Age of Concrete: Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique" (Ohio UP, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Who built Africa’s cities? Going beyond the colonial archive and the planner’s gaze, David Morton’s Age of Concrete: Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique (Ohio Universit...
ListenSteven Higashide, "Better Buses, Better Cities : How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit" (Island Press, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Buses can and should be the cornerstone of urban transportation. They offer affordable mobility and can connect citizens with every aspect of their lives. But in the US, they have long been an afte...
ListenPhillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
How does the world of book reviews work? In Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times (Princeton University Press, 2020), Phillipa Chong, assistant professor in sociology at McM...
ListenSimon Bell, "Elements of Visual Design in the Landscape" (Routledge, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Elements of Visual Design in the Landscape (Routledge, 2019) presents a vocabulary of visual design, structured in a logical and easy to follow sequence. It is profusely illustrated using both abst...
ListenJulian Bolleter, "Desert Paradises: Surveying the Landscapes of Dubai’s Urban Model" (Routledge, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Desert Paradises: Surveying the Landscapes of Dubai’s Urban Model (Routledge, 2019) explores how designed landscapes can play a vital role in constructing a city’s global image and legitimizing its...
ListenK. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change. However, if you’ve spent the last several years work...
ListenIan Wray, "No Little Plans: How Government Built America’s Wealth and Infrastructure" (Routledge, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Is planning for America anathema to the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness? Is it true, as thinkers such as Friedrich Von Hayek, Milton Friedman, and Ayn Rand have claimed, that planning leads ...
ListenDarius Sollohub, "Millennials in Architecture: Generations, Disruption, and the Legacy of a Profession" (U Texas Press, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Much has been written about Millennials, but until now their growing presence in the field of architecture has not been examined in depth. In an era of significant challenges stemming from explosiv...
ListenThomas Yarrow, "Architects: Portraits of a Practice" (Cornell UP, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
What is creativity? What is the relationship between work life and personal life? How is it possible to live truthfully in a world of contradiction and compromise? These deep and deeply personal qu...
ListenMichael R. Boswell, "Climate Action Planning: A Guide to Creating Low-Carbon, Resilient Communities" (Island Press, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Climate Action Planning: A Guide to Creating Low-Carbon, Resilient Communities (Island Press, 2019) is designed to help planners, municipal staff and officials, citizens and others working at local...
ListenAlberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at? Social media has made charts, infographics, and diagrams ubiquitous?and easier to sh...
ListenKathryn Holliday, "The Open-Ended City: David Dillon on Texas Architecture" (U Texas Press, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
It may only be a slight exaggeration to say that one of David Dillon's career accomplishments was to put the words "Dallas" and "architecture" in the same sentence again. After a screed in 1980 ent...
ListenMalcolm Woollen, "Erik Gunnar Asplund: Landscapes and Buildings" (Routledge, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, weaving together art, philosophy, history, and literature, this book investigates the landscapes and buildings of Swedish architect Erik Gunnar Asplund. Throug...
ListenGary Meisner, "The Golden Ratio: The Divine Beauty of Mathematics" (Race Point Press, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
From the pyramids of Giza, to quasicrystals, to the proportions of the human face, the golden ratio has an infinite capacity to generate shapes with exquisite properties. This book invites you to t...
ListenDewey Thorbeck, "Agricultural Landscapes: Seeing Rural Through Design" (Routledge, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dewey Thorbeck's new book Agricultural Landscapes: Seeing Rural Through Design (Routledge, 2019) follows on from the author’s previous books, Rural Design and Architecture and Agriculture, to encou...
ListenR. Cervero, E. Guerra, S. Al, "Beyond Mobility: Planning Cities for People and Places" (Island Press, 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Beyond Mobility: Planning Cities for People and Places (Island Press, 2017) by Robert Cervero, Erick Guerra and Stefan Al is about prioritizing the needs and aspirations of people and the creation ...
ListenEddie Chau, "Random Imaginations: A Collection of Illustrated Musings" (ORO Editions, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Today I talked to Eddie Chau about his new book Random Imaginations: A Collection of Illustrated Musings (ORO Editions, 2018). The book is a reproduction of thousands of graphic images from a singl...
ListenThaisa Way, "The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag: From Modern Space to Urban Ecological Design" (U Washington Press, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Today I talked to Thaisa Way about her new books The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag: From Modern Space to Urban Ecological Design (University of Washington Press, 2019). Haag is best known ...
ListenKathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
As you may know, university presses publish a lot of good books. In fact, they publish thousands of them every year. They are different from most trade books in that most of them are what you might...
ListenMarc Treib, "Doing Almost Nothing: The Landscapes of Georges Descombes" (ORO Edition, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Today I talked to Marc Treib about his new book Doing Almost Nothing: The Landscapes of Georges Descombes (ORO Editions, 2019). Until now, writings about the architect/landscape architect Georges D...
ListenJ. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The things that make people academics -- as deep fascination with some arcane subject, often bordering on obsession, and a comfort with the solitude that developing expertise requires -- do not nec...
ListenKate Baker, “Captured Landscape: Architecture and the Enclosed Garden” (Routledge, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In her book Captured Landscape: Architecture and the Enclosed Garden (Routledge, 2018; 2nd edition), Kate Baker discusses the continuing relevance of the typology of the enclosed garden to contempo...
ListenStephen Hamnett, "Planning Singapore: The Experimental City" (Routledge, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this episode, we talk with Stephen Hamnett about Planning Singapore: The Experimental City(Routledge, 2019), a book he edited with Belinda Yuen. Two hundred years ago, Sir Stamford Raffles estab...
ListenKathryn E. O’Rourke, "O’Neil Ford on Architecture" (U Texas Press, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
O’Neil Ford on Architecture (University of Texas Press, 2019) brings together Ford’s major professional writings and speeches for the first time. Revealing the intellectual and theoretical underpin...
ListenPaul McClean, "McClean Design: Creating the Contemporary House" (Rizzoli, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Paul McClean grew up in Irelands where he studied architecture before moving to Southern California and establishing McClean Design. Over the past 18 years it has grown into one of the leading cont...
ListenJacky Bowring, "Melancholy and the Landscape: Locating Sadness, Memory, and Reflection in the Landscape" (Routledge, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Written as an advocacy of melancholy’s value as part of landscape, experience, Melancholy and the Landscape: Locating Sadness, Memory, and Reflection in the Landscape(Routledge, 2018) situates the ...
ListenKenneth Olwig, "The Meanings of Landscape: Essays on Place, Space, Nature and Justice" (Routledge, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In The Meanings of Landscape: Essays on Place, Space, Nature and Justice (Routledge, 2019), Kenneth Olwig presents explorations in landscape geography and architecture from an environmental humanit...
ListenSusan Jaques, "The Caesar of Paris: Napoleon Bonaparte, Rome, and the Artistic Obsession That Shaped An Empire" (Pegasus Books, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In her book, The Caesar of Paris: Napoleon Bonaparte, Rome, and the Artistic Obsession That Shaped An Empire (Pegasus Books, 2018), Susan Jaques offers up a richly detailed and researched account ...
ListenPhilip D. Plowright, "Making Architecture Through Being Human: A Handbook of Design Ideas" (Routledge, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Architecture can seem complicated, mysterious or even ill-defined, especially to a student being introduced to architectural ideas for the first time. One way to approach architecture is simply as ...
ListenKapila D. Silva and Amita Sinha, "Cultural Landscapes of South Asia : Studies in Heritage Conservation, and Management" (Routledge, 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The book today is Cultural Landscapes of South Asia : Studies in Heritage Conservation, and Management (Routledge, 2017) edited by Kapila D. Silva and Amita Sinha. It's the Winner of the Environmen...
ListenDouglas Kelbaugh, "The Urban Fix: Resilient Cities in the War Against Climate Change, Heat Islands and Overpopulation" (Routledge, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Cities are one of the most significant contributors to global climate change. The rapid speed at which urban centers use large amounts of resources adds to the global crisis and can lead to extreme...
ListenChris Reed and Nina-Marie Lister, "Projective Ecologies" (HGSD, 2014) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Chris Reed and Nina-Marie Lister's book Projective Ecologies (Harvard Graduate School of Design 2014) is about how landscape architecture can move forward in the design field beyond garden landsca...
ListenErin-Marie Legacey, "Making Space for the Dead: Catacombs, Cemeteries, and the Reimagining of Paris, 1780-1830" (Cornell UP, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In Making Space for the Dead: Catacombs, Cemeteries, and the Reimagining of Paris, 1780-1830 (Cornell University Press, 2019), Dr. Erin-Marie Legacey, Assistant Professor of History at Texas Tech U...
ListenElizabeth Otto, "Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics" (MIT Press, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this segment of New Books in History, Jana Byars talks with Elizabeth “Libby” Otto, Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Studies and Executive Director of the Humanities Institute at th...
ListenNadia Amoroso, "Representing Landscapes: Analogue" (Routledge, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Nadia Amoroso's last book Representing Landscapes: Analogue (Routledge, 2019) focuses the art of hand drawings and why they are still relevant and important in our digital age. Nadia takes us on a ...
ListenStefan Al, "Adapting Cities to Sea Level Rise: Green and Gray Strategies" (Island Press, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Stefan Al, PhD, is a native of the Netherlands, a low-lying county that would not exist without flood protection, is an architect, urban designer, and infrastructure expert at global design at Kohn...
ListenSandra L. Albro, "Vacant to Vibrant: Creating Successful Green Infrastructure Networks" (Island Press, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Vacant lots, so often seen as neighborhood blight, have the potential to be a key element of community revitalization. As manufacturing cities reinvent themselves after decades of lost jobs and pop...
ListenEdward Hutchison, "Drawing for Landscape Architecture: Sketch to Screen to Site" (Thames and Hudson, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Today’s guest hails to us from England. Mr. Edward Hutchison’s new book is Drawing for Landscape Architecture: Sketch to Screen to Site (Thames & Hudson, 2019). Can you draw? The answer is yes and ...
ListenNancy S. Steinhardt, "Chinese Architecture: A History" (Princeton UP, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
If there’s one thing that conjures up the – rightly contested – idea of a ‘civilisation’, it is grand palatial or religious buildings, and many such structures are foremost in how China is imagined...
ListenRaymond Jungles, “The Cultivated Wild: Gardens and Landscapes by Raymond Jungles” (The Monacelli Press, 2015) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Raymond Jungles is the founder of the Miami based Landscape Architecture firm Raymond Jungles Inc. He graduate from the University of Florida with honors in 1981. And, was elected as a Fellow in 20...
ListenAlexander Garvin, "The Heart of the City: Creating Vibrant Downtowns for a New Century" (Island Press, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Downtowns are more than economic engines: they are repositories of knowledge and culture and generators of new ideas, technology, and ventures. They are the heart of the city that drives its future...
ListenJason Dewees, "Designing with Palms" (Timber Press, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Jason Dewees is the staff horticulturist at Flora Grubb Gardens and East West Trees in San Francisco. Responsible for the Tree Canopy Succession Plan for the San Francisco Botanical Garden, he serv...
ListenBradley Cantrell and Adam Mekies, "Codify: Parametric and Computational Design in Landscape Architecture" (Routledge, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Bradley Cantrell and Adam Mekies' new book Codify: Parametric and Computational Design in Landscape Architecture(Routledge, 2018) Bradley Cantrell and Adam Mekies, "Codify: Parametric and Computati...
ListenChip Sullivan, “Cartooning the Landscape” (U Virginia Press, 2016) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This is a magically journey about the mystery of the design process. Chip Sullivan's Cartooning the Landscape (University of Virginia Press, 2016) is about using your drawing skills to exercise and...
ListenCaitlín Eilís Barrett, "Domesticating Empire: Egyptian Landscapes in Pompeian Gardens" (Oxford UP, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Domesticating Empire: Egyptian Landscapes in Pompeian Gardens (Oxford University Press, 2019) is the first contextually-oriented monograph on Egyptian imagery in Roman households. Caitlín Eilís Bar...
ListenKenneth I. Helphand, "Lawrence Halprin" (Library of American Landscape History, 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
During a career spanning six decades, Lawrence Halprin (1916–2009) became one of the most prolific and outspoken landscape architects of his generation. He took on challenging new project types, de...
ListenChristof Spieler, "Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit" (Island Press, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Christof Spieler, PE, LEED AP, is a Vice President and Director of Planning at Huitt-Zollars and a lecturer in Architecture and Engineering at Rice University. He was a member of the board of direc...
ListenHarold Holzer, "Monument Man: The Life and Art of Daniel Chester French" (Princeton Architectural Press, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Harold Holzer has written a biography of one of America’s greatest public artists of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, Daniel Chester French. In Monument Man: The Life and Art of Daniel ...
ListenAnne Cheng, "Second Skin: Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface" (Oxford UP, 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On this episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)--Asst. Prof. of Rhetoric at SUNY Geneseo--interviews Dr. Anne Cheng (she/hers)--Professor of English and Director of the Program ...
ListenK. Kennen and N. Kirkwood, "Phyto: Principals and Resources for Site Remediation and Landscape Design" (Routledge, 2015) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Environmental crises are making headlines in the news everyday. As public awareness increases about brownfields, pollutants, and water quality, Phyto: Principals and Resources for Site Remediation ...
ListenDiscussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic. How can publishers and authors contri...
ListenSeth Bernard, "Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy" (Oxford UP, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy (Oxford University Press, 2018), offers a holistic treatment of the development of the Mid-Republican city from 396 to 168 B...
ListenAdrienne Brown, "The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race" (John Hopkins UP, 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Adrienne Brown joins the New Books Network this week to talk about her fascinating 2017 book, The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race (John Hopkins University Press, 2017), wh...
ListenNadia Amoroso, "Representing Landscapes: A Visual Collection of Landscape Architectural Drawings" (Routledge, 2012) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Nadia Amoroso’s Representing Landscapes: A Visual Collection of Landscape Architectural Drawings (Routledge, 2012) is a collaboration between landscape architecture professors and practitioners lea...
ListenSun-Young Park, "Ideals of the Body: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We know quite a bit about the physical signatures of urban “modernity” foisted upon Paris by Baron Haussmann in the late nineteenth century — the broad boulevards, networked infrastructures, connec...
ListenElizabeth Macaulay-Lewis. "Classical New York: Discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham" (Empire States Editions, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A new book explores how and why New York City became a showcase for the art and architectural styles of ancient Greece and Rome. Classical New York: Discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham (Empire St...
ListenRobert C. Trumpbour and Kenneth Womack, "The Eighth Wonder of the World: The Life of Houston's Iconic Astrodome" (U Nebraska Press, 2016) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
It rose against the Texas sun in all its architectural audacity: a domed stadium big enough to cover a baseball field. When it opened in 1965, the Houston Astrodome defied engineering precedent and...
ListenMcKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who are worth your attention. The chapters of General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty...
ListenRonald Rael, “Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary” (U California Press, 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
With the passage of the Secure Fence Act in 2006, the U.S. Congress authorized funding for what has become the largest domestic construction project in twenty-first century America. The result? App...
ListenPamela Woolner, ed., “School Design Together” (Routledge, 2014) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Pamela Woolner, senior lecturer in education at Newcastle University, joins us in this episode to discuss her edited volume, School Design Together (Routledge, 2014). Pam is an expert in understand...
ListenLaura Neitzel, “The Life We Longed for: Danchi Housing and the Middle Class Dream in Postwar Japan” (MerwinAsia, 2016) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Laura Neitzel’s The Life We Longed for: Danchi Housing and the Middle Class Dream in Postwar Japan (MerwinAsia, 2016) is a chronicle of the large, government-sponsored housing projects called danch...
ListenRichard S. Hopkins, “Planning the Greenspaces of Nineteenth-Century Paris” (LSU Press, 2015) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Beginning in the mid-1800s, Paris experienced an unprecedented growth in the development of parks, squares, and gardens. This greenspace was part of Napoleon III’s plan for a new, modern Paris and ...
ListenRoss King, “Seoul: Memory, Reinvention and the Korean Wave” (University of Hawaii Press, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Seoul, as any listener who has visited will recognize, can be a pretty overwhelming place. This is well recognized by Ross King, Professorial Fellow in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Pla...
ListenToufoul Abou-Hodeib, “A Taste for Home: The Modern Middle Class in Ottoman Beirut” (Stanford UP, 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Toufoul Abou-Hodeib‘s A Taste for Home: The Modern Middle Class in Ottoman Beirut (Stanford University Press, 2017) is a welcome addition to the scholarship on the urban history of Beirut precisely...
ListenJoseph Sciorra, “Built with Faith: Italian American Imagination and Catholic Material Culture in NYC” (U Tennessee Press, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Folklore scholar Joseph Sciorra is the Director for Academic and Cultural Programs at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute in Queens College which is part of the City University of New Y...
ListenCaitlin DeSilvey, “Curated Decay: Heritage Beyond Saving” (U Minnesota Press, 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In Curated Decay: Heritage Beyond Saving (University of Minnesota Press, 2017), geographer Caitlin DeSilvey offers a set of alternatives to those who would assign a misplaced solidity to historic b...
ListenAimi Hamraie, “Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability” (U Minnesota Press, 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The Americans with Disability Act passed in 1990, but it was just one moment in ongoing efforts to craft the meaning and practice of “good design” that put people with disabilities at the center. I...
ListenAlison B. Hirsch, “City Choreographer: Lawrence Halprin in Urban Renewal America” (U Minnesota Press, 2014) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Lawrence Halprin, one of the central figures in twentieth-century American landscape architecture, is well known to city-watchers for his work on San Francisco’s Ghirardelli Square, Seattle’s Freew...
ListenJo Farb Hernandez, “Singular Spaces: From the Eccentric to the Extraordinary in Spanish Art Environments” (Raw Vision, 2013) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Singular Spaces: From the Eccentric to the Extraordinary in Spanish Art Environments (Raw Vision, 2013) is an audacious tome. A comprehensive survey of 45 art environments on the Spanish mainland, ...
ListenJames Reston, Jr., “A Rift in the Earth: Art, Memory and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial” (Arcade Publishing, 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
My students don’t remember Vietnam. That’s hard to believe, for someone born in 1968. But it’s true, nonetheless. High school history courses rarely make it past World War Two. The Cold War and th...
ListenMolly Wright Steenson, “Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape” (MIT Press, 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
For most people the field of architecture is not what they think about when discussing artificial intelligence as we describe it today. Yet, architects are a part of the historic foundations of wha...
ListenJason Herbeck, “Architextual Authenticity: Constructing Literature and Literary Identity in the French Caribbean” (Liverpool UP, 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
What do gingerbread houses in Haiti teach us about the construction of identity in the French Caribbean? How do hurricanes and earthquakes reveal the connections between the tangible built environm...
ListenLiss C. Werner, “Cybernetics: State of the Art” (Tech Uni of Berlin Press, 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
It’s no secret that we continue to live in the midst of digital revolution that continues to unfold in a rapidly accelerating fashion. Digital connectivity and the Internet of Things make possible ...
ListenMike Wallace, “Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898-1919” (Oxford UP, 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In 1898, a new metropolis emerged from the consolidation of New York City with East Bronx, Brooklyn, Staten Island and the western part of Queens County. In Greater Gotham: A History of New York Ci...
ListenBruce R. Berglund, “Castle and Cathedral in Modern Prague” (CEU Press, 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
As Bruce R. Berglund, points out in his terrific book Castle and Cathedral in Modern Prague: Longing for the Sacred in a Skeptical Age (CEU Press, 2017), the Czech Republic is an odd place, religio...
ListenJeffrey Kidder, “Parkour and the City: Risk, Masculinity, and Meaning in a Postmodern Sport” (Rutgers UP, 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The meaning assigned to architecture is complex and varied. Urban architecture is often stripped of meaning when people abandon the neighborhoods or are absent of meaning at the time of their incep...
ListenJamin Creed Rowan, “The Sociable City: An American Intellectual Tradition” (U. Penn Press, 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Jamin Creed Rowan is an assistant professor of English and American Studies at Brigham Young University. His book The Sociable City: An American Intellectual Tradition (University of Pennsylvania P...
ListenAlexia Yates, “Selling Paris: Property and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siecle Capital” (Harvard UP, 2015) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
What comes to mind when you think of Paris in the nineteenth century? For me, its revolutionary politics, the circulation of increasing numbers of people and goods, a range of spectacular cultural ...
ListenBrigitte Le Normand, “Designing Tito’s Capital: Urban Planning, Modernism, and Socialism in Belgrade” (U. Pittsburgh Press, 2014) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
NB: An earlier version of this podcast has been replaced with a new file in which the the technical problems of the first were corrected. -NBn, 7/11/17 At the end of World War II, Belgrade, the ca...
ListenJordan Lacey, “Sonic Rupture: A Practice-led Approach to Urban Soundscape Design” (Bloomsbury, 2016) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Sonic Rupture: A Practice-led Approach to Urban Soundscape Design (Bloomsbury 2016) by Jordan Lacey offers a practice-led alternative approach to urban soundscape design. Rather than understanding ...
ListenMarilyn Palmer and Ian West, “Technology and the Country House” (Historic England Publishing/U.Chicago, 2016) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
For the aristocracy in Britain and Ireland, country house living was dependent upon the labors of men and women who performed innumerable chores involving cooking, cleaning, and the basic operation...
ListenSerhat Unaldi, “Working Towards the Monarchy: The Politics of Space in Downtown Bangkok” (U. of Hawaii Press, 2016) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In Working Towards the Monarchy: The Politics of Space in Downtown Bangkok (University of Hawaii Press, 2016), Serhat Unaldi offers a provocative and original interpretation of the relationship bet...
ListenElana Shapira, “Style and Seduction: Jewish Patrons, Architecture, and Design in Fin de Siecle Vienna” (Brandeis UP, 2016) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In Style and Seduction: Jewish Patrons, Architecture, and Design in Fin de Siecle Vienna (Brandeis University Press, 2016), Elana Shapira, Lecturer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, examine...
ListenJose Sanchez, "Architecture for the Commons: Participatory Systems in the Age of Platforms" (Routledge, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Architecture for the Commons: Participatory Systems in the Age of Platforms (Routledge, 2020) dives into an analysis of how the tectonics of a building is fundamentally linked to the economic organ...
ListenSharon Rotbard, “White City, Black City: Architecture and War in Tel Aviv and Jaffa” (MIT Press, 2015) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In White City, Black City: Architecture and War in Tel Aviv and Jaffa (MIT Press, 2015), Sharon Rotbard, Senior Lecturer in the Architecture Department at Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem, examines the...
ListenDiana Darke, "Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe" (Hurst, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Visitors around the world have travelled to Europe to see the tall spires and stained glass windows of the continent’s Gothic cathedrals: in Cologne, Chartres, Milan, Florence, York and Paris. The ...
ListenGretchen Buggeln, “The Suburban Church: Modernism and Community in Postwar America” (U. Minnesota Press, 2015) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
After World War II, America’s religious denominations spent billions on church architecture as they spread into the suburbs. Gretchen Buggeln’s latest monograph, The Suburban Church: Modernism and ...
ListenFederica Goffi, “Time Matter(s): Invention and Reimagination in Built Conservation” (Routledge, 2013) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Assistant Professor Federica Goffi fills a blind spot in current architectural theory and practice with this book, Time Matter(s): Invention and Re-Imagination in Built Conservation: The Unfinished...
ListenAhmed Ragab, “The Medieval Islamic Hospital: Medicine, Religion, Charity” (Cambridge UP, 2015) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In his shining new book The Medieval Islamic Hospital: Medicine, Religion, and Charity (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Ahmed Ragab, Assistant Professor of Religion and Science at Harvard Divini...
ListenJade Doskow, “Lost Utopias” (Black Dog Publishing, 2016) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Since 2007, American photographer Jade Doskow has been documenting the remains of World’s Fair sites, once iconic global attractions that have often been repurposed for less noble aspirations or ne...
ListenJon Stobart and Mark Rothery, “Consumption and the Country House” (Oxford UP, 2016) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
During the 18th century English country houses served an important function in their society as stages for the display of the status and power of the landed aristocracy. As Jon Stobart and Mark Rot...
ListenPatricia McCarthy, “Life in the Country House in Georgian Ireland” (Paul Mellon Centre, 2016) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In the early 18th century, country houses in Ireland underwent a dramatic physical transformation. In her book Life in the Country House in Georgian Ireland (Paul Mellon Centre, 2016), Patricia McC...
ListenSaskia Coenen Snyder, “Building a Public Judaism” (Harvard UP, 2013) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In Building a Public Judaism: Synagogues and Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Harvard University Press, 2013), Saskia Coenen Snyder, Associate Professor of History at the University of...
ListenNicole Rudolph, “At Home in Postwar France: Modern Mass Housing and the Right to Comfort” (Berghahn Books, 2015) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Nicole Rudolph‘s At Home in Postwar France: Modern Mass Housing and the Right to Comfort (Berghahn Books, 2015) contributes to a growing body of scholarship on the three decades after 1945 known as...
ListenPeter L. Laurence, “Becoming Jane Jacobs” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Peter L. Laurence is an associate professor of urban design, history and theory at Clemson University School of Architecture. His book Becoming Jane Jacobs (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) ...
ListenKishwar Rizvi, “The Transnational Mosque: Architecture and Historical Memory in the Contemporary Middle East” (UNC Press, 2015) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In her excellent new book The Transnational Mosque: Architecture and Historical Memory in the Contemporary Middle East (UNC Press, 2015), Kishwar Rizvi, Associate Professor of the History of Art at...
ListenDerek Sayer, “Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History” (Princeton UP 2013) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Prague, according to Derek Sayer, is the place “in which modernist dreams have time and again unraveled.” In this sweeping history of surrealism centered on Prague as both a physical location and t...
ListenJonathan M. Reynolds, “Allegories of Time and Space: Japanese Identity in Photography and Architecture” (U of Hawaii Press, 2015) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Jonathan M. Reynolds‘s new book looks carefully at how photographers, architects, and others wrestled with a postwar identity crisis as they explored and struggled with new meanings of tradition, h...
ListenZoe Thompson, ‘Urban Constellations: Spaces of Cultural Regeneration in Post-industrial Britain’ Ashgate 2015 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
What is the fate of culture and urban regeneration in the era of austerity? In Urban Constellations: Spaces of Cultural Regeneration in Post-industrial Britain (Ashgate, 2015), Zoe Thompson applies...
ListenDavid Smiley, “Pedestrian Modern: Shopping and American Architecture, 1925-1956” (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Most of us have been to strip malls–lines of shops fronted by acres of parking–and most of us have been to closed malls–massive buildings full of shops and surrounded by acres of parking. Fewer of ...
ListenAnastasia Karandinou, “No Matter: Theories and Practices of the Ephemeral in Architecture” (Ashgate, 2013) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The intersection of empirical research and critical theory is the basis for Anastasia Karandinou‘s new book No Matter: Theories and Practices of the Ephemeral in Architecture (Ashgate, 2013). The...
ListenGregory Heller, “Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Gregory Heller is the author of Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013). Heller is Senior Advisor at Econsult Solutions, Inc. ...
ListenJeffrey Balmer and Michael Swisher, “Diagramming the Big Idea: Methods for Architectural Composition” (Routledge, 2012) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In their new book Diagramming the Big Idea (Routledge, 2012), Jeffrey Balmer and Michael Swisher offer some new insights into the eternal problem of how creativity works. As you will hear in our i...
ListenJini Kim Watson, “The New Asian City: Three-Dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Jini Kim Watson‘s book links literature, architecture, urban studies, film, and economic history into a wonderfully rich account of the fictions of urban transformation in Singapore, South Korea, a...
ListenIgor Marjanovic, “Marina City: Bertrand Goldberg’s Urban Vision” (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Anyone who has visited downtown Chicago will remember seeing the dazzling round towers of Bertrand Goldberg’s Marina City on the north bank of the river. Often photographed, always a curiosity, the...
ListenJohn Harwood, “The Interface: IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945-1976” (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Philip Kretsedemas is the author of Migrants and Race in the US: Territorial Racism and the Alien/Outside (Routledge, 2014). Kretsedemas is associate professor of sociology at University of Massach...
ListenKimberly Zarecor, “Manufacturing a Socialist Modernity: Housing in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960” (Pittsburgh UP, 2011) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
When I first went to the Soviet Union (in all my ignorance), I was amazed that everyone in Moscow lived in what I called “housing projects.” The Russians called them “houses” (doma), but they weren...
ListenSamuel Zipp, “Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York” (Oxford UP, 2010) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
If you’ve ever lived in New York City, you know exactly what a “pre-war building” is. First and foremost, it’s better than a “post-war building.” Why, you might ask, is that so? Well part of the r...
ListenGreg Castillo, “Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design” (Minnesota UP, 2009) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
If you grew up in the 1960s or 1970s in suburbia, you probably lived in a smallish ranch house that looked like this. That house probably had an “ultra modern” kitchen that probably looked like thi...
ListenYasser Megahed, "Practiceopolis: Stories from the Architectural Profession" (Routledge, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Practiceopolis: Stories from the Architectural Profession (Routledge, 2020) is a graphic novel about the contemporary architectural profession, in which it acts as the protagonist in the form of an...
ListenDaniel A. Barber, "Modern Architecture and Climate: Design Before Air Conditioning" (Princeton UP, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Modern Architecture and Climate explores how leading architects of the twentieth century incorporated climate-mediating strategies into their designs, and shows how regional approaches to climate a...
ListenJodi Rios, "Black Lives and Spatial Matters: Policing Blackness and Practicing Freedom in Suburban St. Louis" (Cornell UP, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In Black Lives and Spatial Matters: Policing Blackness and Practicing Freedom in Suburban St. Louis (Cornell University Press, 2020), Dr. Jodi Rios examines relationships between blackness, space, ...
ListenJennifer S. Light, "States of Childhood: From the Junior Republic to the American Republic, 1895-1945" (MIT Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A number of curious communities sprang up across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: simulated cities, states, and nations in which children played the roles of le...
ListenEric Reinholdt, "Architect and Entrepreneur" (Design Workshop Press, 2015) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Today I talked to Eric Reinholdt about two excellent books: Architect + Entrepreneur Volume 1: A Field Guide (Design Workshop Press, 2015) and Architect + Entrepreneur Volume 2: A How-To Guide (Des...
ListenGreg Castillo, “Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design” (Minnesota UP, 2009) from 2010-05-07T18:04:34
If you grew up in the 1960s or 1970s in suburbia, you probably lived in a smallish ranch house that looked like this. That house probably had an “ultra modern” kitchen that probably looked like thi...
ListenGreg Castillo, “Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design” (Minnesota UP, 2009) from 2010-05-07T18:04:34
If you grew up in the 1960s or 1970s in suburbia, you probably lived in a smallish ranch house that looked like this. That house probably had an “ultra modern” kitchen that probably looked like thi...
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