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live human so the post wouldn't be taken for machine-made spam.
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commecial junk by a putative non-profit angling, as ever for a free ride,
to increase by nickles and dimes one of America's most bloated
endowments (thanks to national defense myrrh). Jud asked that
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Hi,
I wanted to let you know about some new books from The MIT Press which you
might find of interest. For more information, please visit the URLs listed
below.
Jud
The Drive-In, the Supermarket, and the Transformation of Commercial Space
in Los Angeles, 1914-1941
Richard Longstreth
http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/LONDHS99
Richard Longstreth explores the early development of two kinds of retail
space that have become ubiquitous in the United States in the second half
of the twentieth century. He focuses on Los Angeles, the principal center
for the development of both kinds of space, during the period from the
mid-1910s to the early 1940s. This study integrates architectural,
cultural, economic, and urban factors to describe the evolution of
retailing and how it has affected the urban landscape.
7 1/2 x 11, 304 pp., 164 illus., cloth 0-262-12214-6
The Anaesthetics of Architecture
Neil Leach
http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/LEAAPS99
In this short, intentionally polemical book, Neil Leach draws on the ideas
of philosophers and cultural theorists such as Walter Benjamin and Jean
Baudrillard to develop a novel and highly incisive critique of the
consequences of the growing preoccupation with images and image-making in
contemporary architectural culture.
6 x 9, 120 pp., 30 illus., paper ISBN 0-262-62126-6
Urban Conservation
Nahoum Cohen
http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/COHUPS99
In cities around the world, urban culture is threatened as commercial
pressures overwhelm concerns for architectural integrity. Recognizing that
isolated efforts at architectural renovation do not automatically restore
the historic integrity of cities, planners are seeking new methods and
tools to save the structure and history of cities. In this book Nahoum
Cohen establishes the emerging discipline of urban conservation as crucial
to the future of urban planning and to the survival of cities in the
twenty-first century.
8 3/4 x 9 1/2, 380 pp., 600 color illus.
paper ISBN 0-262-53161-5
cloth ISBN 0-262-03268-6
The Architecture of Red Vienna, 1919-1934
Eve Blau
http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/BLAOHF98
In 1919 the Social Democrat city council of Vienna initiated a radical
program of reforms designed to reshape the city's infrastructure along
socialist lines. The centerpiece and most enduring achievement of "Red"
Vienna was the construction of the Wiener Gemeindebauten, 400 communal
housing blocks, distributed throughout the city, in which workers'
dwellings were incorporated with kindergartens, libraries, medical clinics,
theaters, cooperative stores, and other public facilities. Throughout this
socialist building campaign, however, Austria was ruled by a conservative,
clerical, and antisocialist political majority. Thus the architecture of
Red Vienna took shape in the midst of highly charged, and often violent,
political conflict between left and right.
In this book, Eve Blau looks at how that ideological conflict shaped the
buildings of Red Vienna--in terms of their program, spatial conception,
language, and use--as well as how political meaning itself is manifested in
architecture.
Published with the assistance of the Getty Grant Program.
10 x 10, 500 pp., 299 illus., 27 color, cloth ISBN 0-262-02451-9
Architecture and Modernity
A Critique
Hilde Heynen
http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/HEYAHF98
Critical theories such as those of the Frankfurt School of the twenties and
thirties gave rise to a complex and sophisticated critique of modernity and
modernism. The history and theory of twentieth-century architecture, which
developed rather independently of this tradition, appear naive and
unbalanced in comparison. In this exploration of the relationship between
modernity, dwelling, and architecture, Hilde Heynen attempts to bridge this
gap between the discourse of the modern movement and cultural theories of
modernity.
7 x 10 1/2, 240 pp., 103 illus.
cloth ISBN 0-262-08264-0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| Jud Wolfskill
||||||| Associate Publicist Phone: (617) 253-2079
||||||| MIT Press Fax: (617) 253-1709
||||||| Five Cambridge Center E-mail: wolfskil@xxxxxxx
| Cambridge, MA 02142-1493 http://mitpress.mit.edu
send this her/himself as I requested and to introduce her/himself as a
live human so the post wouldn't be taken for machine-made spam.
So lifeless spam it is, educational as bad example, peddling worthless
commecial junk by a putative non-profit angling, as ever for a free ride,
to increase by nickles and dimes one of America's most bloated
endowments (thanks to national defense myrrh). Jud asked that
we include her/his address for subscribers to let her/him know what
they think of her/him, MIT, MIT Press and their captive authors'
bloated mewlings.
Jud will not go away, will not cease spamming, s/he's a publicist.
Quote:
Hi,
I wanted to let you know about some new books from The MIT Press which you
might find of interest. For more information, please visit the URLs listed
below.
Jud
The Drive-In, the Supermarket, and the Transformation of Commercial Space
in Los Angeles, 1914-1941
Richard Longstreth
http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/LONDHS99
Richard Longstreth explores the early development of two kinds of retail
space that have become ubiquitous in the United States in the second half
of the twentieth century. He focuses on Los Angeles, the principal center
for the development of both kinds of space, during the period from the
mid-1910s to the early 1940s. This study integrates architectural,
cultural, economic, and urban factors to describe the evolution of
retailing and how it has affected the urban landscape.
7 1/2 x 11, 304 pp., 164 illus., cloth 0-262-12214-6
The Anaesthetics of Architecture
Neil Leach
http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/LEAAPS99
In this short, intentionally polemical book, Neil Leach draws on the ideas
of philosophers and cultural theorists such as Walter Benjamin and Jean
Baudrillard to develop a novel and highly incisive critique of the
consequences of the growing preoccupation with images and image-making in
contemporary architectural culture.
6 x 9, 120 pp., 30 illus., paper ISBN 0-262-62126-6
Urban Conservation
Nahoum Cohen
http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/COHUPS99
In cities around the world, urban culture is threatened as commercial
pressures overwhelm concerns for architectural integrity. Recognizing that
isolated efforts at architectural renovation do not automatically restore
the historic integrity of cities, planners are seeking new methods and
tools to save the structure and history of cities. In this book Nahoum
Cohen establishes the emerging discipline of urban conservation as crucial
to the future of urban planning and to the survival of cities in the
twenty-first century.
8 3/4 x 9 1/2, 380 pp., 600 color illus.
paper ISBN 0-262-53161-5
cloth ISBN 0-262-03268-6
The Architecture of Red Vienna, 1919-1934
Eve Blau
http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/BLAOHF98
In 1919 the Social Democrat city council of Vienna initiated a radical
program of reforms designed to reshape the city's infrastructure along
socialist lines. The centerpiece and most enduring achievement of "Red"
Vienna was the construction of the Wiener Gemeindebauten, 400 communal
housing blocks, distributed throughout the city, in which workers'
dwellings were incorporated with kindergartens, libraries, medical clinics,
theaters, cooperative stores, and other public facilities. Throughout this
socialist building campaign, however, Austria was ruled by a conservative,
clerical, and antisocialist political majority. Thus the architecture of
Red Vienna took shape in the midst of highly charged, and often violent,
political conflict between left and right.
In this book, Eve Blau looks at how that ideological conflict shaped the
buildings of Red Vienna--in terms of their program, spatial conception,
language, and use--as well as how political meaning itself is manifested in
architecture.
Published with the assistance of the Getty Grant Program.
10 x 10, 500 pp., 299 illus., 27 color, cloth ISBN 0-262-02451-9
Architecture and Modernity
A Critique
Hilde Heynen
http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/HEYAHF98
Critical theories such as those of the Frankfurt School of the twenties and
thirties gave rise to a complex and sophisticated critique of modernity and
modernism. The history and theory of twentieth-century architecture, which
developed rather independently of this tradition, appear naive and
unbalanced in comparison. In this exploration of the relationship between
modernity, dwelling, and architecture, Hilde Heynen attempts to bridge this
gap between the discourse of the modern movement and cultural theories of
modernity.
7 x 10 1/2, 240 pp., 103 illus.
cloth ISBN 0-262-08264-0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| Jud Wolfskill
||||||| Associate Publicist Phone: (617) 253-2079
||||||| MIT Press Fax: (617) 253-1709
||||||| Five Cambridge Center E-mail: wolfskil@xxxxxxx
| Cambridge, MA 02142-1493 http://mitpress.mit.edu