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“Terrestrial Not by Nature and Essence”: The Acclimatization Chamber as Surface Technology in South Africa, ca. 1958

Megan Eardley

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Weltgeist/Wildegeist: The Savage inside “World History”

Ginger Nolan

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A Black Carpet of Bitumen

Ateya Khorakiwala

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A Discussion on the Global and the Universal

The Editors, Daniel Bertrand Monk, Andrew Herscher, Miriam Ticktin, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Lucia Allais, M. Ijlal Muzaffar, Mark Jarzombek, Swati Chattopadhyay

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A Partly Vacated Historicism: Artifacts, Architecture, and Time in Nineteenth-Century Papal Rome

Richard Wittman

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Alberti, Ornament, Nature, and Law: A Reading of De re aedificatoria

Patricia Falguières

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Anthony Vidler, “All My Work Is Accidental”

Anthony Vidler

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Architecture Photographs

Wilhelm Lotz

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Architectures of Captivity

Kevin Lewis O'Neill

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Articulated Flatness: Document Culture and Modernism in the Mundaneum and Beyond

Michael Faciejew

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71

Building on Credit: Architecture and the Mississippi Bubble (1716–1720)

Jason Nguyen

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60

Catacoustic Enchantment: The Romantic Conception of Reverberation

Joseph L. Clarke

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78

Desktop Arenas: Magazine Pieces and the Professions of the Neo-Avant-Garde

Colby Chamberlain

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Doubling Time

Luis M. Castañeda

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Economies of the Interior: Thomas Hope and Interior Decoration

Tim Ainsworth Anstey

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60

Editor’s Introduction

Joseph L. Clarke

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Editor’s Introduction: The Costs of Architecture

Claire Zimmerman

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Envisioning Assembly: Archigram and the Light/Sound Workshop

Craig Buckley

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Envisioning Reform: The International Hotel in Postrevolutionary China, 1974-1990

Cole Roskam

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Fifty Cents a Foot, 14,500 Buckets: Concrete Numbers and the Illusory Shells of Mexican Economy

María González Pendás

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84

German Pavilion/German Exhibits: An Almost Forgotten Episode in the History of Modern Architecture

Laura Martínez de Guereñu

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How Slaves Indigenized Themselves: The Architectural Cost Logs of French Colonial Mauritius

Dwight Carey

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I.M. Pei’s JFK Library, in Poetry, Prose, and Meeting Minutes

Edward Eigen

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Inaugural Medical Disputation on Burning Fever

Nicholas Barbon

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Infrastructures of “Legitimate Violence”: The Prussian Settlement Commission, Internal Colonization, and the Migrant Remainder

Hollyamber Kennedy

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Interrelations: The CIAM Grid in 1949

Andreas Kalpakci

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61

Leaving Las Vegas, Again

Andrew Leach

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Liquid Crowds: Regulatory Discourse and the Architecture of People Flows in the Nineteenth Century

Moritz Gleich

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Liquid History: Millbank, London and the Thames Flood of 1928

Tobah Auckland-Peck

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Making the “World Spectacle Trial”: Design as Forensic Practice at the Nuremberg Trials

Alejandra Azuero-Quijano

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Metropolitan Architecture: Karl Schreffler and Alfred Messel’s Search for a New Urbanity

Alexander Eisenschmidt

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Modern Art, Inc.: The Museum of Modern Art v. Huntington Hartford

Sandra Zalman

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Multimedia Environments and Security Operations: Expo ‘70 as a Laboratory of Governance

Yuriko Furuhata

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Nation Building in the Philippines and the Racial Ordering of International Architecture

Diana Martinez

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Nicholas Barbon’s De febre ardente: Medico-philosophical Grounds of Fire Insurance?

Matthew C. Hunter, Mackenzie Zalin

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92

Notes for Lessons in Physics and Chemistry as Applied to the Arts

Louis Pasteur, Julie Rose

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Notes on Utopia, the City, and Architecture

Antoine Picon

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51

On “About Grey Room”

The Editors

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On Wires; or, Metals and Modernity Reconsidered

John Harwood

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Order for Profit: On the Architecture of a Nineteenth-Century French Agency

Cristóbal Amunátegui

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90

Pearce v. OMA: Architectural Authorship on the Courtroom Table

Ana Miljački

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Pollux’s Spears

Sarah Nichols

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Praxis and Action: Toward Building as a Collective Practice in Postwar Yugoslavia

Andjelka Badnjar Gojnić

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Prejudice and Pragmatism: The Commercial Architect in the Development of Postwar London

Amy Thomas

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Representing the American Welfare State

Daniel M. Abramson

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Risk Design

Jonathan Massey

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Self-Suggestion in the Tuskegee Machine: Technical Drawing under Jim Crow

Maura Lucking

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Spacing and Sounding Out

Peter Szendy

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Stacks, Shelves, and the Law: Restructuring the Library of Congress

Zeynep Çelik Alexander

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Standardization Reconsidered: Normierung in and after Ernst Neufert’s Bauentwurfslehre (1936)

Nader Vossoughian

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Strategies of Containment: Iron, Fire, and Labor Management

Jonah Rowen

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The Architectural Postcard: Photography, Cinema, and Modernist Mass Media

Thomas Elsaesser

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The Beauty of the Metropolis

August Endell

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The Cement Trust in Switzerland

Pollux

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The Dialectic of the University: His Master’s Voice

Reinhold Martin

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The Flying Proletarian: Soviet Citizens at the Thresholds of Utopia

Tijana Vujosevic

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The Giant’s Door of St. Stephen’s

Alois Riegl

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The Image of the (Inner) City: Frederic D. Moyer and Carceral Aesthetics in the Great Society

Steven Niedbala

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The Other End of the Trajectory: Danger Zones

John Harwood

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The Restoration of the Wall Paintings in the Holy Cross Chapel of the Wawel Cathedral in Kraków

Alois Riegl

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The Value of Enclosure and the Business of Banking

Alexandra Quantrill

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The West Berlin Staatsbibliothek and the Sound Politics of Libraries

Hannah Wiemer

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The World Solar Energy Project, ca. 1954

Daniel A. Barber

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