The Mit Press imprint: 939 books
by Paolo Belardi
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
An architect's defense of drawing as a way of thinking, even in an age of electronic media.
Why would an architect reach for a pencil when drawing software and AutoCAD are a click away? Use a ruler when 3D-scanners and GPS devices are close at hand? In Why Architects Still Draw, Paolo Belardi...
by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, William Kentridge, Andreas Huyssen
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Critical texts and interviews that explore the drawings, animations, and theatrical work of the South African artist William Kentridge.
Since the 1970s, the South African artist William Kentridge has charted the turbulent terrain of his homeland in both personal and political terms. With erudition,...
Parallel Presents
The Art of Pierre Huyghe
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Over the past two decades, French artist Pierre Huyghe has produced an extraordinary body of work in constant dialogue with temporality. Investigating the possibility of a hypothetical mode of timekeeping--"parallel presents"-- Huyghe has researched the architecture of the incomplete, directed a puppet...
What Is Architecture?
An Essay on Landscapes, Buildings, and Machines
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
British architect and critic Paul Shepheard is a fresh new voice in current postmodern debates about the history and meaning of architecture. In this wonderfully unorthodox quasi-novelistic essay, complete with characters and dialogue (but no plot), Shepheard draws a boundary around the subject of...
Sifting the Trash
A History of Design Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
How product design criticism has rescued some products from the trash and consigned others to the landfill.
Product design criticism operates at the very brink of the landfill site, salvaging some products with praise but consigning others to its depths through condemnation or indifference....
Soft is Fast
Simone Forti in the 1960s and After
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
An innovative analysis of Simone Forti's interdisciplinary art, viewing her influential 1960s “dance constructions” as negotiating the aesthetic strategies of John Cage and Anna Halprin.
Simone Forti's art developed within the overlapping circles of New York City's advanced visual art,...
by David E. Nye
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
From the Model T to today's "lean manufacturing": the assembly line as crucial, yet controversial, agent of social and economic transformation.
The mechanized assembly line was invented in 1913 and has been in continuous operation ever since. It is the most familiar form of mass production....
The Future of Europe
Reform or Decline
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
A provocative argument that unless Europe takes serious action soon, its economic and political decline is unavoidable, and a clear statement of the steps Europe must take before it's too late.
Unless Europe takes action soon, its further economic and political decline is almost inevitable,...
Down Detour Road
An Architect in Search of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
A young architect's search for new architectural values in a time of economic crisis.
I paused at the stoop and thought this could be the basis of a good book. The story of a young man who went deep into the bowels of the academy in order to understand architecture and found it had been on...
Information and Intrigue
From Index Cards to Dewey Decimals to Alger Hiss
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
An account of Herbert Field's quest for a new way of organizing information and how information systems are produced by ideology as well as technology.
In Information and Intrigue Colin Burke tells the story of one man's plan to revolutionize the world's science information systems and how...
Fighting Corruption Is Dangerous
The Story Behind the Headlines
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
A frontline account of how to fight corruption, from Nigeria's former finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
In Fighting Corruption Is Dangerous, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has written a primer for those working to root out corruption and disrupt vested interests. Drawing on her experience as Nigeria's...
American Urban Form
A Representative History
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
An illustrated history of the American city's evolution from sparsely populated village to regional metropolis.
American Urban Form—the spaces, places, and boundaries that define city life—has been evolving since the first settlements of colonial days. The changing patterns of houses, buildings,...
The Producer as Composer
Shaping the Sounds of Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
The evolution of the record producer from organizer to auteur, from Phil Spector and George Martin to the rise of hip-hop and remixing.
In the 1960s, rock and pop music recording questioned the convention that recordings should recreate the illusion of a concert hall setting. The Wall of Sound...
Sonic Warfare
Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
An exploration of the production, transmission, and mutation of affective tonality—when sound helps produce a bad vibe.
Sound can be deployed to produce discomfort, express a threat, or create an ambience of fear or dread—to produce a bad vibe. Sonic weapons of this sort include the “psychoacoustic...