Architecture

Rewrites the history of architectural modernism for an age of environmental crisis and enduring colonialism.

How San Franciscans exploited natural resources such as redwood lumber to produce the first major metropolis of the American West.

The award-winning historian Mary P. Ryan offers a new vision of early American history that focuses on the contributions of cities and of West Coast Hispanic culture to the forging of an American system of democracy and capitalism.

Examines the role of architecture in the history of global development and decolonization.

An in-depth look at the diverging paths of Vietnamese American communities, or “Little Saigons,” in America’s built environment.

Thematically focused analaysis of modern architecture throughout Texas with gorgeous photographs illustrating works by famous and lesser-known architects.

A significant and deeply researched examination of the free nineteenth-century Black developers who transformed the cultural and architectural legacy of New Orleans.

An on-the-ground account of the design and evolution of West Bank settlements, showing how one of the world's most contested landscapes was produced by unexpected conflicts and collaborations among widely divergent actors.

How China’s borderlands transformed politically and culturally throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

How Mexican artists and intellectuals created a new identity for modern Mexico City through its ties to Aztec Tenochtitlan.