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Seth Bernard, “Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy” (Oxford UP, 2018)

Seth Bernard
Building Mid-Republican Rome
Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy
Oxford University Press, 2018

New Books in Archaeology New Books in Architecture New Books in Art New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in European Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network March 14, 2019 Ryan Tripp

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 BCE. As Romans established imperial control over Italy and beyond, the city itself radically transformed from an ambitious central Italian settlement into the capital... Read More

Adrienne Brown, “The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2017)

Adrienne Brown
The Black Skyscraper
Architecture and the Perception of Race
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017

New Books in African American Studies New Books in American Studies New Books in Architecture New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in History New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network February 25, 2019 James West

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 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017), which was a recent recipient of the Modern Studies Association’s First Book prize. Tracing the interconnected histories of the skyscraper and... Read More

Nadia Amoroso
Representing Landscapes
A Visual Collection of Landscape Architectural Drawings
Routledge, 2012

New Books in Architecture New Books in Art New Books in Arts & Letters New Books Network February 22, 2019 Tricia Keffer

Nadia Amoroso’s Representing Landscapes: A Visual Collection of Landscape Architectural Drawings (Routledge, 2012) is a collaboration between landscape architecture professors and practitioners leading the field today. The inspiration for the book came from her design studios. She wanted to demonstrate to students how they too could produce beautiful graphics by... Read More

Sun-Young Park, “Ideals of the Body: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris” (U Pittsburgh Press, 2018)

Sun-Young Park
Ideals of the Body
Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018

New Books in Architecture New Books in Art New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in French Studies New Books in Geography New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network February 1, 2019 Peter Ekman

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, connected apartment houses, and assorted monuments — but little scholarship has seized on its precursors in the half-century prior. In Ideals... Read More

Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis, “Classical New York: Discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham” (Empires State Editions, 2018)

Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis and Matthew McGowan, eds.
Classical New York
Discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham
Empire State Editions, 2018

New Books in American Studies New Books in Archaeology New Books in Architecture New Books in Art New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network January 30, 2019 Beth Harpaz

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 State Editions, 2018), co-edited by Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis and Matthew McGowan (Fordham University Press, 2018), examines the Greco-Roman influence on buildings,... Read More