Mitchell, William J. 1944-2010.

World's greatest architect : making, meaning, and network culture / William J. Mitchell. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008. - xvii, 146 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes index.

Kicking the bottle -- Paper wonders -- Viva Venturi -- Sin no more -- Loveliest of trees -- Alberti's anniversary -- The Net has a thousand eyes -- Surveillance cookbook -- Forget foreign wars -- Everyday low -- Texas chain store -- Right place at the wrong time -- Best practices -- Mama don't take my megapixels -- Instruments and algorithms -- Theory of black holes -- Elegy in a landfill -- Theory of everything -- Deep focus -- Dappled things --- Morphology of the biopic -- Little blue coupe -- Bicycle socialism -- Faux book -- Man of steel -- It's not easy -- Imagined Wall Street -- The eagle flies -- Architectural assassination -- Urban plastination -- Civic immunology -- World's greatest architect.

9780262633642 (pbk. : alk. paper)


Architecture and society--History--21st century.
Cities and towns.

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