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Eric Mumford

Eric P. Mumford is professor of architecture at Washington University in St. Louis and author of Designing the Modern City: Urbanism Since 1850.

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Who is the City For

A Chicago Architecture Critic Interrogates the Role of Design in Constructing the City's History

Review: ‘Who is the City for? Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago’ by Blair Kamin
Eric Mumford
March 6, 2023
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Blair Kamin chronicles a recent urban history of Chicago architecture.
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Revisiting Anna Bokov's 'Avant-Garde as Method: Vkhutemas and the Pedagogy of Space, 1920–1930'

Eric Mumford
February 10, 2023
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With the Cooper Union exhibition on Vkhutemas now moving ahead in spring after being postponed under a cloud of controversy, we take a look back at the comprehensive volume published in 2021 that precedes the forthcoming show.


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Modern Architecture: A Critical History

Review of 'Modern Architecture: A Critical History (Fifth Edition)'

By Kenneth Frampton
Eric Mumford
September 12, 2021
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Kenneth Frampton’s quintessential survey of modern architecture has been updated and greatly expanded.
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Building a New World and Avant Garde as Method.

Review of 'Building a new New World: Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture' and 'Avant-Garde as Method: Vkhutemas and the Pedagogy of Space, 1920–1930'

By Jean-Louis Cohen; Anna Bokov
Eric Mumford
March 8, 2021
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Historians shed light on Soviet Design and pedagogy in two books.
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Chandigarh’s Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier Reconsidered

Two new books on the architect we love to hate
Eric Mumford
January 18, 2016
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Why do we need another book about Le Corbusier? Since well before his death in 1965, the prolific French-Swiss architect has been the center of a virtual industry of publications about his work.


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