Architecture

Cover of "Border Fictions" featuring a blue and beige background with images of a landscape

Border Fictions

Subtitle
Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the United States

Claudia Sadowski-Smith

"Border Fictions" offers the first comparative analysis of multiethnic and transnational cultural representations about the United States' borders with Mexico and Canada. Blending…

Cover of "Developing Writing Strategies for Professionals" featuring an image of the tops of pencils' erasers

Developing Writing Strategies for Professionals

Subtitle
Meshing Value with Each Professional

John Guenther

The architect and the urban planner express ideas within conceptual and graphical frameworks but are constrained by a dearth of academic and generic composition training. Outside of…

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A Land Between

Subtitle
Owens Valley, California

Rebecca Fish Ewan

A unique landscape history, "A Land Between" explores the central idea of how people's preconceptions and perceptions of a place ― in this case, Owens Valley ― influence their…

The Routledge Handbook of Placemaking

Edited by Tom Borrup, Maria Rosario Jackson, Louise Platt, Kyle Legge, Jason Schupbach, Cara Courage and Anita McKeown

This handbook is the first to explore the emergent field of "placemaking" in terms of the recent research, teaching and learning, and practice agenda for the next few years. Offering…

Cover book for "Unplanned Visitors" featuring a man in bed

Unplanned Visitors

Subtitle
Queering the Ethics and Aesthetics of Domestic Space

Olivier Vallerand

Sexuality and gender have long been influential in understanding the construction of domestic space, its meanings, often revealing a binary division of private and public, female and…

Image of facade of the Seagram Building in New York City. With gold-paned windows and steel frame. Title "Unless: The Seagram Building Construction Ecology" and author Kiel Moe's name are superimposed on the image.

Unless

Subtitle
The Seagram Building Construction Ecology

Kiel Moe

This book presents a terrestrial description of the Seagram Building. It aims to describe how humans and nature interact with the thin crust of the planet. Architecture reorganizes…