Subject: Architecture / History / Contemporary (1945-)

Subject: Architecture / History / Contemporary (1945-)

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All Eyes on Space

|9780822968122|An Architectural History of Television|All Eyes on Space examines television as a form of modern architecture—and how its material conditions have shaped contemporary ideas of space, place, and distance. Analog television was more than a novel way of transmitting images and sounds for commercial entertainment; it brought with it new ways of producing and perceiving space itself. With this innovative study, Samuel Dodd explores the history of television’s physical architecture, attributing its technological momentum to modern design and construction. As Dodd explains, television’s delivery of easy and endless imagery was only possible because of a concerted building boom, starting in…

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All Eyes on Space

|9780822948681|An Architectural History of Television|All Eyes on Space examines television as a form of modern architecture—and how its material conditions have shaped contemporary ideas of space, place, and distance. Analog television was more than a novel way of transmitting images and sounds for commercial entertainment; it brought with it new ways of producing and perceiving space itself. With this innovative study, Samuel Dodd explores the history of television’s physical architecture, attributing its technological momentum to modern design and construction. As Dodd explains, television’s delivery of easy and endless imagery was only possible because of a concerted building boom, starting in…

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Spatial Solidarities

|9780822968313|Architecture and Resistance in 1970s Chile|Between 1973 and 1990, the authoritarian military dictatorship of Chile maintained its control through a network of detention and torture centers designed to create fear and isolation. With this book, Ana María Leon examines how architects, artists, activists, and other political agents resisted the Chilean regime through spatial practices. Within these spaces, prisoners responded creatively: producing drawings, performances, and architectural projects; rearranging their bodies and living areas; and connecting through songs, shadows, and mutual care. They collected resources, created systems of mutual aid, and smuggled out site plans and names to expose the regime’s crimes….

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Spatial Solidarities

|9780822949213|Architecture and Resistance in 1970s Chile|Between 1973 and 1990, the authoritarian military dictatorship of Chile maintained its control through a network of detention and torture centers designed to create fear and isolation. With this book, Ana María Leon examines how architects, artists, activists, and other political agents resisted the Chilean regime through spatial practices. Within these spaces, prisoners responded creatively: producing drawings, performances, and architectural projects; rearranging their bodies and living areas; and connecting through songs, shadows, and mutual care. They collected resources, created systems of mutual aid, and smuggled out site plans and names to expose the regime’s crimes….

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Model Schools in the Model City

|9780822968320|Race, Planning, and Education in the Nation’s Capital| Finalist for the 2026 ASALH Book AwardFinalist for the 2026 Association of American Publishers PROSE Award in the Social Sciences Access to educational resources has been a tool of liberation for Black Americans from the antebellum period to the present. With this book, Amber N. Wiley emphasizes the value of education as a means for social equality—Black Americans wanted the American Dream to apply to them, and equal opportunity for quality education was at the forefront of making that dream a reality. Model Schools in the Model City chronicles how Black Washingtonians…

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