{"product_id":"architecture-after-god-babel-resurgent-9783035624991","title":"Architecture After God: Babel Resurgent","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArchitecture after God \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA\u003cbr\u003e vivid retelling of the biblical story of Babel leads from the contested\u003cbr\u003e site of Babylon to the soaring towers of the modern metropolis, and \u003cbr\u003esets the bright hopes of early modernism against the shadows of \u003cbr\u003egathering war. Dealing in structural metaphor, utopian aspiration, and \u003cbr\u003egeopolitical ambition, Dugdale exposes the inexorable architectural \u003cbr\u003eimplications of the event described by Nietzsche as the death of God. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Exploring Architecture\u003cbr\u003e series makes architectural scholarship accessible, introduces the \u003cbr\u003elatest research methods, and covers a wide range of periods, regions, \u003cbr\u003eand topics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCritical reappraisal of early modernism \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBased on the fable The Emperor and the Architect (1924) by Uriel Birnbaum \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew volume in the Exploring Architecture series\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eKyle\u003cbr\u003eDugdale\u003c\/b\u003e teaches history, theory, and design at Yale School of Architecture. He\u003cbr\u003eholds an undergraduate degree from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, a\u003cbr\u003eprofessional degree from Harvard's Graduate School of Design, and a doctoral\u003cbr\u003edegree from Yale. A resident of New York City and a licensed architect, he has\u003cbr\u003ealso taught at Columbia and at the City College of New York. He is a Senior\u003cbr\u003eFellow in the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography. His\u003cbr\u003eresearch has been supported by the Society of Architectural Historians, the\u003cbr\u003eBibliographical Society of America, and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript\u003cbr\u003eLibrary, and his work has been published in journals including Perspecta, Thresholds, \u003cbr\u003eUtopian Studies, and Wolkenkuckucksheim.  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Birkhauser","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50388875706642,"sku":"9783035624991","price":66.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f4079426-d40a-47af-9076-146b0b4919ee.jpg?v=1728910781","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/architecture-after-god-babel-resurgent-9783035624991","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}