New Books in Architecture

Marshall Poe

Interviews with Scholars of Architecture about their New Books

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Nadir Lahiji, "Architecture, Philosophy, and the Pedagogy of Cinema: From Benjamin to Badiou" (Routledge, 2021)

Philosophers on the art of cinema mainly remain silent about architecture. Discussing cinema as ‘mass art’, they tend to forget that architecture, before cinema, was the only existing ‘mass art’. In …

00:28:13 | Fri 11 Mar 2022

Michael Merrill, "Louis Kahn: The Importance of Drawing" (Lars Muller Publishers, 2021)

“The importance of a drawing is immense, because it’s the architect’s language,” said the architect Louis Kahn to his masterclass in 1967. While most studies of Kahn focus on his built works or theor…

00:25:55 | Thu 03 Mar 2022

Architecture, Climatic Privilege, and Migrant Labour in Singapore

Migration and architecture have emerged as a new topic of research at a global level. Migrant worker dormitories in Singapore, for example, are sites where structural inequities in architecture and l…

00:20:31 | Thu 03 Mar 2022

Kerry Dean Carso, "Follies in America: A History of Garden and Park Architecture" (Cornell UP, 2021)

Follies in America: A History of Garden and Park Architecture (Cornell UP, 2021) examines historicized garden buildings, known as "follies," from the nation's founding through the American centennial…

00:24:03 | Wed 23 Feb 2022

Kristina Wilson, "Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design" (Princeton UP, 2021)

In the world of interior design, mid-century Modernism has left an indelible mark still seen and felt today in countless open-concept floor plans and spare, geometric furnishings. Yet despite our con…

01:03:37 | Tue 22 Feb 2022

Kian Goh, "Form and Flow: The Spatial Politics of Urban Resilience and Climate Justice" (MIT Press, 2021)

Cities around the world are formulating plans to respond to climate change and adapt to its impact. Often, marginalized urban residents resist these plans, offering “counterplans” to protest unjust a…

00:34:08 | Thu 17 Feb 2022

Keller Easterling, "Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the World" (Verso, 2021)

How do we formulate alternative approaches to the world’s unresponsive or intractable dilemmas, from climate change, to inequality, to concentrations of authoritarian power? Keller Easterling argues …

00:49:50 | Thu 17 Feb 2022

Randall Whitehead and Clifton S. Lemon, "Beautiful Light: An Insider’s Guide to LED Lighting in Homes and Gardens" (Routledge, 2021)

Beautiful Light: An Insider’s Guide to LED Lighting in Homes and Gardens (Routledge, 2021) by internationally acclaimed lighting designer Randall Whitehead and lighting industry expert and educator C…

00:34:52 | Wed 09 Feb 2022

Carla Yanni, "The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States" (U Minnesota Press, 2007)

Elaborately conceived, grandly constructed insane asylums—ranging in appearance from classical temples to Gothic castles—were once a common sight looming on the outskirts of American towns and cities…

00:33:38 | Fri 28 Jan 2022

Aleksandra Prica, "Decay and Afterlife: Form, Time, and the Textuality of Ruins, 1100 to 1900" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

Western ruins have long been understood as objects riddled with temporal contradictions, whether they appear in baroque poetry and drama, Romanticism’s nostalgic view of history, eighteenth-century p…

00:58:03 | Fri 21 Jan 2022

Ginger Nolan, "Savage Mind to Savage Machine: Racial Science and Twentieth-Century Design" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

Attempting to derive aesthetic systems from natural structures of human cognition, designers looked toward the “savage mind”—a way of thinking they associated with a racialized subaltern. In Savage M…

00:22:40 | Tue 18 Jan 2022

James Tait, "The Architecture Concept Book" (Thames and Hudson, 2018)

Inspired by the complexity and heterogeneity of the world around us, and by the rise of new technologies and their associated behavior, The Architecture Concept Book (Thames and Hudson, 2018) seeks t…

00:25:39 | Tue 11 Jan 2022

David Karmon, "Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance: The Varieties of Architectural Experience" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance: The Varieties of Architectural Experience (Cambridge UP, 2021) is the first study of Renaissance architecture as an immersive, multisensory exp…

00:26:21 | Fri 07 Jan 2022

Malika Maskarinec, "The Forces of Form in German Modernism" (Northwestern UP, 2018)

The late 19th and early 20th centuries in Europe were times of intense technological, social and political change and transformation, and so it’s no surprise that much of the art and literature of th…

01:12:48 | Wed 05 Jan 2022

D. Fairchild Ruggles, "Tree of Pearls: The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of the 13th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen Shajar Al-Durr" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Shajar al-Durr--known as "Tree of Pearls"--began her remarkable career as a child slave, given as property to Sultan Salih of Egypt. She became his concubine, was manumitted, became his wife, served …

00:55:51 | Wed 05 Jan 2022

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