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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/972019
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1930s Shanghai was a vibrant global metropolis that attracted merchants, tradespeople, refugees, and sojourners from both in and beyond China. The city was rich with features that would slake the thirst of any urban sophisticate. Swanky high-rise hotels, global banks and trading companies, naval yards, warehouses, and factories dominated the banks of the Huangpu River. In the heart of the city, skyscrapers peered over leafy, tree-lined boulevards. On buzzing Nanjing Road, modern department stores advertised goods from in and beyond China. Streets, roads, bridges, tramways, and other infrastructure connected three separately governed municipalities with a population of close to four million—and growing.1 Buses
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/838/image/coversmallModern Sketch and the Visual Politics of Urban Margins in 1930s Shanghai2025-10-16text/htmlen-USModern Sketch and the Visual Politics of Urban Margins in 1930s Shanghai2025-10-162025TWOProject MUSE®1084142026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002025-10-16Cosmovisions and Architectures in Andean Territory: The Management of the Qhapaq Ñan Heritages in Argentina
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/972020
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The Qhapaq Ñan (“main road” in Quechua) is an extensive Andean road system consolidated by the Incas that reached its maximum expansion in the fifteenth century. It crosses six South American countries: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, and Argentina. It is an extensive communication, trade, and defense network of roads and associated archaeo-logical structures that covers over 30,000 kilometers of one of the world’s most extreme and diverse geographical terrains, linking exceptionally diverse landscapes including vast deserts, high peaks, coasts, rainforests, and fertile valleys (Figure 1).Now recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Qhapaq Ñan is the focus of collaborative, transnational
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/838/image/coversmallCosmovisions and Architectures in Andean Territory: The Management of the Qhapaq Ñan Heritages in Argentina2025-10-16text/htmlen-USCosmovisions and Architectures in Andean Territory: The Management of the Qhapaq Ñan Heritages in Argentina2025-10-162025TWOProject MUSE®301032026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002025-10-16Preserving the Vanishing City: Historic Preservation amid Urban Decline in Cleveland, Ohio by Stephanie Ryberg-Webster (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/972021
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Stephanie Ryberg-Webster’s Preserving the Vanishing City: Historic Preservation amid Urban Decline in Cleveland, Ohio, is a valuable contribution to scholarship on historic preservation in the United States. The book also offers insight into the development and planning challenges facing legacy cities. Ryberg-Webster, an associate professor in the Levin School of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University, had a front-row seat for the devastating effects of the 2008 mortgage crisis in Cleveland and the resultant reliance on widespread demolition as a policy solution. This perspective motivated her research into the emergence of preservation advocacy in Cleveland. Relying on interviews and exhaustive research in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/838/image/coversmallPreserving the Vanishing City: Historic Preservation amid Urban Decline in Cleveland, Ohio by Stephanie Ryberg-Webster (review)2025-10-16text/htmlen-USPreserving the Vanishing City: Historic Preservation amid Urban Decline in Cleveland, Ohio by Stephanie Ryberg-Webster (review)2025-10-162025TWOProject MUSE®86892026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002025-10-16The Architecture of Influence: The Myth of Originality in the Twentieth Century by Amanda Reeser Lawrence (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/972022
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For readers who started their academic or professional careers in the 1970s, Amanda Reeser Lawrence’s account of late twentieth-century architectural discourse will be less a scholarly history than a retelling of events that many of us witnessed at the time. That questions about influence and authorship from five decades or more ago can hold our attention today lends timeliness to Lawrence’s argument.Lawrence discusses over thirty projects, mostly from the decades following World War II, and claims made about them by architects, historians, and critics. The author’s aim is to question one of the central tenets of the Modern Movement—the “myth of originality” that bans imitation of pre-modern architecture and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/838/image/coversmallThe Architecture of Influence: The Myth of Originality in the Twentieth Century by Amanda Reeser Lawrence (review)2025-10-16text/htmlen-USThe Architecture of Influence: The Myth of Originality in the Twentieth Century by Amanda Reeser Lawrence (review)2025-10-162025TWOProject MUSE®99022026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002025-10-16The Transatlantic Design Network: Thomas Jefferson, John Soane, and Agents of Architectural Exchange by Danielle S. Willkens (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/972023
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In The Transatlantic Design Network: Thomas Jefferson, John Soane, and Agents of Architectural Exchange, Danielle S. Willkens examines Thomas Jefferson and Sir John Soane as part of a larger network, countering “the view of Soane and Jefferson as autonomous innovators” (7). Viewing Soane and Jefferson in this manner offers an intriguing perspective on both their work and those who influenced it. The two men never met in person and did not exchange correspondence directly. They shared, however, a common friend, the artist Maria Hadfield Cosway (1753–1837), with whom ideas about art, architecture, and politics traveled via hundreds of letters, visits, and small gifts. Willkens has explored this correspondence in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/838/image/coversmallThe Transatlantic Design Network: Thomas Jefferson, John Soane, and Agents of Architectural Exchange by Danielle S. Willkens (review)2025-10-16text/htmlen-USThe Transatlantic Design Network: Thomas Jefferson, John Soane, and Agents of Architectural Exchange by Danielle S. Willkens (review)2025-10-162025TWOProject MUSE®118622026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002025-10-16“Splendor on the Expressway”: Taliesin Associated Architects’ Design for the Lincoln Income Life Insurance Company Building in Louisville, Kentucky, 1962–1966
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/972024
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In March 1966, the completion of the Lincoln Income Life Insurance Company Building in Louisville, Kentucky, marked the beginning of a new chapter in the history of organic architecture (Figure 1). As the first independent commission by Taliesin Associated Architects (TAA) to receive widespread attention, the Lincoln Building made a statement about the future of organic design, the variety of modern architecture championed by Frank Lloyd Wright during his long and influential career. TAA is well known as the firm that Wright’s apprentices, the Taliesin Fellows, established upon his death in April 1959. Initially, TAA focused on completing Wright’s unfinished projects. Soon, however, the firm began accepting new
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/838/image/coversmall“Splendor on the Expressway”: Taliesin Associated Architects’ Design for the Lincoln Income Life Insurance Company Building in Louisville, Kentucky, 1962–19662025-10-16text/htmlen-US“Splendor on the Expressway”: Taliesin Associated Architects’ Design for the Lincoln Income Life Insurance Company Building in Louisville, Kentucky, 1962–19662025-10-162025TWOProject MUSE®2124202026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002025-10-16Archiving Ohio Valley Architecture at the Filson Historical Society
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/972025
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The Filson Historical Society in Louisville, Kentucky, is a leading private research institution with collections renowned for their importance in the history of the Ohio Valley and the Upper South. Founded in 1884, the Filson is one of the nation’s oldest and largest historical societies. In the 1970s, the Filson expanded its collecting scope to include architectural records. The Filson holds collections relating to architecture and landscape design with materials ranging from project drawings and photographs to business files and personal papers of architects. This body of material documents the careers of many Louisville-area designers and firms.The geographic strength of the collection centers on Louisville
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/838/image/coversmallArchiving Ohio Valley Architecture at the Filson Historical Society2025-10-16text/htmlen-USArchiving Ohio Valley Architecture at the Filson Historical Society2025-10-162025TWOProject MUSE®311332026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002025-10-16