Winner of the 2015 Abbott Lowell Cummings prize from the Vernacular Architecture Forum Winner of the2015Sprio Kostof Book Award from theSociety of Architectural Historians Winner of the2016 International Planning History Society Book Prize for European Planning History Honorable Mention:2016 Wylie Prize in French Studies In the three decades following World War II, the French government engag…
An intellectual history of architectural modernism for an age of rising global inequality and environmental crisis. The Earth That Modernism Built traces the rise of planetary design to an imperialist discourse about the influence of the earthly environment on humanity. Kenny Cupers argues that to understand how the earth became an object of design, we need to radically shift the terms of anal…
Architecture and urbanism have contributed to one of the most sweeping transformations of our times. Over the past four decades, neoliberalism has been not only a dominant paradigm in politics but a process of bricks and mortar in everyday life. Rather than to ask what a neoliberal architecture looks like, or how architecture represents neoliberalism, this volume examines the multivalent role o…