Midcentury: Architecture, Landscape, Urbanism, and Design – serie
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Indoor America
The Interior Landscape of Postwar Suburbia
Inbunden, 2018
670 kr
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Cars, single-family houses, fallout shelters, air-conditioned malls—these are only some of the many interiors making up the landscape of American suburbia. Indoor America explores the history of suburbanization through the emergence of such spaces in the postwar years, examining their design, use, …
Environmental Design
Architecture, Politics, and Science in Postwar America
Häftad, 2021
383 kr
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Much of twentieth-century design was animated by the creative tension of its essential duality: is design an art or a science? In the postwar era, American architects sought to calibrate architectural practice to evolving scientific knowledge about humans and environments, thus elevating the …
Architecture of Suspense
The Built World in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Häftad, 2022
325 kr
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The inimitable, haunting films of Alfred Hitchcock took place in settings, both exterior and interior, that deeply impacted our experiences of his most unforgettable works. From the enclosed spaces of Rope and Rear Window to the wide-open expanses of North by Northwest, the physical worlds …
Environmental Design
Architecture, Politics, and Science in Postwar America
Inbunden, 2018
540 kr
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Much of twentieth-century design was animated by the creative tension of its essential duality: is design an art or a science? In the postwar era, American architects sought to calibrate architectural practice to evolving scientific knowledge about humans and environments, thus elevating the …
American Autopia
An Intellectual History of the American Roadside at Midcentury
Inbunden, 2019
670 kr
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Early to mid-twentieth-century America was the heyday of a car culture that has been called an "automobile utopia." In American Autopia, Gabrielle Esperdy examines how the automobile influenced architectural and urban discourse in the United States from the earliest days of the auto industry to the …
Traces of J.B. Jackson
The Man Who Taught Us to See Everyday America
Inbunden, 2020
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J. B. Jackson transformed forever how Americans understand their landscape, a concept he defined as land shaped by human presence. In the first major biography of the greatest pioneer in landscape studies, Helen Horowitz shares with us a man who focused on what he regarded as the essential American …
Monumental Jesus
Landscapes of Faith and Doubt in Modern America
Inbunden, 2020
670 kr
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The American landscape is host to numerous works of religious architecture, sometimes questionable in taste and large, if not titanic, in scale. In her lively study of satire and religious architecture, Margaret Grubiak challenges how we typically view such sites by shifting the focus from …
