University of Minnesota Press

The filing cabinet was critical to the information infrastructure of 20th-century nation states and financial systems. Like most infrastructure, it was usually overlooked or forgotten.

In Japanese architecture and science fiction from the 1960s through the 1990s, we can trace an enduring question: “how to make substantial architecture when substantial things are losing their meaning.”

What does the filmmaking of Charles and Ray Eames tell us about happiness in postwar America — and in our own age of informatic abundance?

On the relations between race, property, and spectacle in Gone with the Wind and To Kill a Mockingbird.

From the late ’70s to mid ’80s, in an era of entrenched homophobia, a group of gay suburbanites formed an organization that mixed pride and defiance, political rallies and Tupperware parties.

The introduction of stereophonic sound systems, in the postwar decades, transformed the American house.

On the complex architectural and social legacy of postwar public housing in the banlieues that ring contemporary Paris.

Much U.S. infrastructure is “fracture critical” — vulnerable to catastrophic and systemic failure; so too are our finance, housing, and energy systems.