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Art Architecture Design New Titles The MIT Press Picturing Science and Engineering Felice C. Frankel “As we create ever more sophisticated tools to explore the micro and macro universe, it’s easy to become detached from agape understanding and appreciation of what we can’t see, feel, and sense. Felice Frankel’s work brings those worlds within reach, so that we can appreciate not only the technical marvels but also the enormous beauty and infinite variety of creation, both natural and manmade.”—Yo-Yo Ma “With the clarity of an expert and the passion of a true aficionado, Frankel once again proves to be crucial in bridging scientific discovery and public consciousness.” —Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Architecture & Design, Director, Research & Development, The Museum of Modern Art One of the most powerful ways for scientists to document and communicate their work is through photography. In this book, celebrated science photographer Felice Frankel offers a guide for creating science images that are both accurate and visually stunning. Picturing Science and Engineering provides detailed instructions for making science photographs using the DSLR camera, the flatbed scanner, and the phone camera. The book includes a series of step-by-step case studies, describing how final images were designed for cover submissions and other kinds of visualizations. Lavishly illustrated in color throughout, the book encourages the reader to learn by doing, following Frankel as she recreates the stages of discovery that lead to a good science visual. Felice C. Frankel is an award-winning science photographer whose photographs have appeared in many publications. A research scientist in the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT, she is the author of Envisioning Science (MIT Press), No Small Matter (with G. M. White- sides), On the Surface of Things (with G. M. Whitesides), and Visual Strategies (with Angela H. DePace). Published with the generous support of Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund December 2018 | Hardcover |$39.95/£30.00 | 472 pp. | 9 x 10 | 508 color illus. | 9780262038553 Atlas of Poetic Atlas of Poetic Zoology Botany Emmanuelle Francis Hallé Pouydebat With Éliane Patriarca Translated by Erik Butler Translated by Erik Butler Pouydebat’s text, This Atlas invites the accompanied by reader to tour the striking color illus- farthest reaches of the trations by artist Julie rainforest in search of Terrazzoni, offers a exotic—poetic—plant catalog of wondrous life. Guided in these beings from walking botanical encounters fish to self-medicating by Francis Hallé, chimpanzees. who has spent forty Pouydebat years in pursuit of the describes the African bush elephant—the biggest land strange and beautiful plant specimens of the rainforest, the mammal of them all, but the evolutionary descendant of a reader discovers a plant with just one solitary, monumen- tiny animal that stood less than fifty centimeters (nineteen tal leaf; an invasive hyacinth; a tree that walks; a parasitic inches) high sixty million years ago; the scaly, toothless laurel; and a dancing vine. Further explorations reveal the pangolin, the world’s most endangered mammal—and Rafflesia arnoldii, the biggest flower in the world, with a perhaps its most atypical; the red-lipped batfish, which crown of stamens and pistils the color of rotten meat that walks, rather than swims, across the ocean floor; and the exude the stench of garbage in the summer sun; under- great black cockatoo, a gifted percussionist. Chimpanzees, ground trees with leaves that form a carpet on the ground she tells us, self-medicate with medicinal plants; the jellyfish, above them; and the biggest tree in Africa, which can under stress, reverts to juvenile polyp-hood; and the sweetly reach seventy meters (more than 200 feet) in height, with a named honey badger feeds on reptiles, termites, scorpions, four-meter (about 13 feet) diameter. Hallé’s drawings, many and earthworms. in color, provide a witty accompaniment. May 2019 | Hardcover | $24.95/£20.00 | 152 pp. | 7.5 x 10.5 | 36 color illus. Francis Hallé is a botanist and biologist who specializes in tropical 9780262039970 rainforests and tree architecture. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Montpellier. November 2018 | Hardcover | $24.95/£20.00 | 128 pp. | 7.5 x 10.5 42 color illus. | 9780262039123 mitpress.mit.edu 37 Bauhaus Bauhaus Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago Hans M. Wingler Available in a boxed hardcover edition: the defi nitive work on the Bauhaus. Documents in Bauhaus are taken from a wide array of sources —public manifestos, private letters, internal memoranda, jotted-down conversations, minutes of board and faculty meetings, sketches and schemata, excerpts from speeches and books, newspaper and magazine articles, azi polemics, o cial erman gov- ernment documents, court proceedings, budgets, and curricula. The illustrations include architectural plans and realizations, craft and industrial model designs (fur- niture, ceramics, metalwork, textiles, stained glass, typog- raphy, wallpaper), sculpture, paintings, drawings, etchings, woodcuts, posters, programs, advertising brochures, stage settings, and formal portraits of such Bauhaus masters as Walter ropius, Lyonel Feininger, Wassily andinsky, Paul lee, Lszl Moholy-agy, Josef Albers, Hebert Bayer, Marcel Breuer, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Hans Wingler (1920–1984) was a German art historian and founder of the Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum of Design. 1969 (reissued 2015) | Boxed Hardcover | Special anniversary prices $100.00/£77.00 || 658658 pp.pp. || 1010 xx 1414 || 97802622303399780262230339 Muriel Cooper David Reinfurt and Robert Wiesenberger Afterword by Nicholas Negroponte Foreword by Lisa Strausfeld Muriel Cooper (192199) was the pioneering designer who created the iconic MIT Press colophon (or logo)—seven bars that represent the lowercase letters “mitp” as abstracted books on a shelf. She designed a modernist monument, the encyclopedic volume The Bauhaus (199), and the graphically dazzling and controversial fi rst edition of Learning from Las Vegas (192). She used an off set press as an artistic tool, worked with a large-format Polaroid camera, and had an early vision of e-books. Cooper was the fi rst design director of the MIT Press, the cofounder of the isible Language Workshop at MIT, and the fi rst woman to be granted tenure at MIT’s Media Lab, where she developed software interfaces and taught a new generation of designers. She began her four-decade career at MIT by designing vibrant printed fl yers for the O ce of Publications; her fi nal projects were digital. This lavishly illustrated volume documents Cooper’s career in abundant detail, with prints, sketches, book covers, posters, mechanicals, student projects, and photographs, from her work in design, teaching, and research at MIT. A humanist among scientists, Cooper embraced dynamism, simultaneity, transparency, and expressiveness across all the media she worked in. More than two decades after her career came to a premature end, Muriel Cooper’s legacy is still unfolding. This beautiful slip-cased volume, designed by asuyo Iguchi, looks back at a body of work that is as contemporary now as it was when Cooper was experimenting with IBM Selectric typewriters. She designed design’s future. David Reinfurt, a graphic designer, is cofounder of Dexter Sinister and The Serving Library, an online and print publishing project, and a Lecturer at Princeton University. His work is in the permanent collections of Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Center, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Robert Wiesenberger is Critic at the Yale School of Art, where he teaches the history of graphic design, and a PhD candidate in art history at Columbia University. As the 2014–2016 Stefan Engelhorn Curatorial Fellow at the Harvard Art Museums, he was responsible for the museums’ Bauhaus collections.f September 2017 | Boxed Hardcover | $60.00/£47.00 | 240 pp. | 10 x 14 | 202 color illus., 137 b&w illus. | 9780262036504 mitpress.mit.edu/bauhaus 1 Bauhaus Gyorgy Kepes Haunted Undreaming the Bauhaus Bauhaus Occult Spirituality, John R. Blakinger Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, yorgy epes and Radical Politics (1902001) was the last disciple of Bau- Elizabeth Otto haus modernism, an In Haunted Bauhaus, acolyte of Lszl art historian Elizabeth Moholy-agy Otto liberates Bau- and a self-styled haus history, uncover- revolutionary artist. ing a movement that But by midcentu- is vastly more diverse ry, transplanted to and paradoxical than America, epes found previously assumed. he was trapped in the military-industrial-aesthetic complex. Otto traces the surprising trajectories of the school’s In this first book-length study of epes, John Blakinger engagement with occult spirituality, gender fluidity, ueer argues that epes, by opening the research laboratory to identities, and radical politics. The Bauhaus, she shows us, is the arts, established a new paradigm for creative practice: haunted by these untold stories. the artist as technocrat. First at Chicago’s ew Bauhaus and The Bauhaus is most often associated with a handful of then for many years at MIT, epes pioneered interdisci- famous artists, architects, and designers—notably Paul lee, plinary collaboration between the arts and sciences—what Walter ropius, Lszl Moholy-agy, and Marcel Breuer. he termed “interthinking” and “interseeing.” epes and Otto enlarges this narrow focus by reclaiming the histori- his colleagues—ranging from metallurgists to mathema-