Series (usually a week long each) of excerpts and discussion of books about preservation, architectural history, and Mississippi architecture

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Death and Life of the Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs
(March 2009)

• Jane Jacobs on City Planning
• Jane Jacobs on Streets
• Jane Jacobs on Gentrification
• Jane Jacobs on Old Buildings
• Jane Jacobs on the Environment and Suburbia

From Bauhaus to Our House, by Thomas Wolfe
(April 2009)

• Book Quotes: From Bauhaus to Our House
• Wolfe Does Not ♥ Gropius
• Architectural Education Overthrown
• The Destruction of Craftsmanship
• Apostates and Post-Modernists
• Mies, Mies, van der roh-ha

How Buildings Learn, by Stewart Brand
(May 2009)

• Book Quotes: How Buildings Learn
• From High Road to Unreal Estate
• Preservationists Are Soooo Cool
• Preservation, Part 2
• Defining Vernacular
• Some Closing Thoughts

The International Style, by Henry Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson
(Aug 2009)

• Book Quotes: The International Style
• Volume, not Mass
• Regularity, not Symmetry
• Conformity, not Individualism

Mississippi: WPA Guide to the Magnolia State
(April 2010)

• Book Quotes: WPA Guide to the Magnolia State
• No Such Thing as “Southern Colonial”
• Let’s Just Forget 1865-1920
• But the Depression is Great!

Southern Mantel and Tile Catalog
(Jul 2010)

• Book Quotes: Southern Mantel and Tile Catalog
• The Secret’s in the Lumber
• Selling Mantels and Mantel Accessories
• Mission Furniture Too!

The History of Art in Mississippi

• Book Quotes: History of Art in Mississippi
• Modern Office Structures
• Seats of Government
• County Court Houses
• Lauren Rogers Library and Museum (Laurel)