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Ian Wray, “No Little Plans: How Government Built America’s Wealth and Infrastructure” (Routledge, 2019)
Ian Wray
No Little Plans
How Government Built America’s Wealth and Infrastructure
Routledge, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in ArchitectureNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in EconomicsNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books Network January 23, 2020 Tricia Keffer

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 to dictatorship, that the state is economically  inefficient, and that prosperity is owed primarily to the workings... Read More
Darius Sollohub, “Millennials in Architecture: Generations, Disruption, and the Legacy of a Profession” (U Texas Press, 2019)
Darius Sollohub
Millennials in Architecture
Generations, Disruption, and the Legacy of a Profession
University of Texas Press, 2019

New Books in ArchitectureNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network December 24, 2019 Tricia Keffer

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 explosive population growth, climate change, and the density of cities, Darius Sollohub, Millennials in Architecture: Generations, Disruption, and the... Read More
Thomas Yarrow, “Architects: Portraits of a Practice” (Cornell UP, 2019)
Thomas Yarrow
Architects
Portraits of a Practice
Cornell University Press, 2019

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in ArchitectureNew Books in ArtNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network December 12, 2019 Prue Chiles

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 questions spring to the fore in Thomas Yarrow‘s vivid exploration of the life of architects. Yarrow takes us... Read More
Michael R. Boswell, “Climate Action Planning: A Guide to Creating Low-Carbon, Resilient Communities” (Island Press, 2019)
Michael R. Boswell, Adrienne I. Greve, Tammy L. Seale
Climate Action Planning
A Guide to Creating Low-Carbon, Resilient Communities
Island Press, 2019

New Books in ArchitectureNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network December 6, 2019 Tricia Keffer

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 levels to develop and implement plans to mitigate a community’s greenhouse gas emissions and increase the resilience of communities against climate change... Read More
Kathryn Holliday, “The Open-Ended City: David Dillon on Texas Architecture” (U Texas Press, 2019)
Kathryn Holliday
The Open-Ended City
David Dillon on Texas Architecture
University of Texas Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in ArchitectureNew Books in BiographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in the American SouthNew Books Network December 2, 2019 Nathan Bierma

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 entitled “Why Is Dallas Architecture So Bad?” launched his career as an architecture critic, Dillon took... Read More
Malcolm Woollen, “Erik Gunnar Asplund: Landscapes and Buildings” (Routledge, 2018)
Malcolm Woollen
Erik Gunnar Asplund
Landscapes and Buildings
Routledge, 2018

New Books in ArchitectureNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in BiographyNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network November 29, 2019 Tricia Keffer

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, weaving together art, philosophy, history, and literature, this book investigates the landscapes and buildings of Swedish architect Erik Gunnar Asplund. Through critical essays and beautiful illustrations focusing on four projects, the Woodland Cemetery, the Stockholm Public Library, the Stockholm Exhibition and Asplund’s own house at Stennäs,... Read More
Gary Meisner, “The Golden Ratio: The Divine Beauty of Mathematics” (Race Point Press, 2018)
Gary Meisner
The Golden Ratio
The Divine Beauty of Mathematics
Race Point Press, 2018

New Books in ArchitectureNew Books in ArtNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in MathematicsNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network November 22, 2019 Tricia Keffer

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 take a new look at this timeless topic, with a compilation of research and information worthy of a... Read More
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