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Architecture From the Outside In: Selected Essays by Robert ...

Architecture From the Outside In: Selected Essays by Robert ...

Robert Gutman

Marta Gutman Starting in the 19705, Robert Gutman argued that the substitution of criticism for advocacy narrowed architectural design, leading architects to see politics and economy as impediments rather than as inspirations for ...
People and Buildings

People and Buildings

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Robert Gutman. social architecture and a genuine architectural sociology? These are the questions that architects and sociologists should ask. Reprinted from Robert Gutman, “The Questions Architects Ask,” Transactions of the Bartlett Society, ...
Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York ...

Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York ...

Peter Eisenstadt

Caro's charges that he refused to heat the pools in white neighborhoods to keep blacks away have been effectively countered by Marta Gutman. See Marta Gutman, “Equipping the Public Realm: Rethinking Robert Moses and Recreation, ” and ...
A City for Children: Women, Architecture, and the Charitable ...

A City for Children: Women, Architecture, and the Charitable ...

Marta Gutman

But Marta Gutman shows that other forces played roles in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as cities responded to industrialization and the onset of modernity.
Mozart

Mozart

Robert Gutman

Mozart: A Cultural Biography is a fresh interpretation of a musical genius, meticulously researched and gracefully written.
Architectural Practice: A Critical View

Architectural Practice: A Critical View

Robert Gutman

"The best analysis of the troubling situation in which the profession now finds itself". -- Paul Goldberger, New York Times
Public Health and the Risk Factor: A History of an Uneven ...

Public Health and the Risk Factor: A History of an Uneven ...

William G. Rothstein

1 (Washington: U.S. GPO, 1913), 6, 6n; James H. Cassedy, American Medicine and Statistical Thinking, 1800–1860 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984), 203–4; Robert Gutman, Birth and Death Registration in Massachusetts, ...
Wrestling: Start Right and Wrestle Well

Wrestling: Start Right and Wrestle Well

Bill Gutman

Describes the history, current organization, including teams, leagues, and championships, and techniques of wrestling.
The Jews of Poland Between Two World Wars

The Jews of Poland Between Two World Wars

Yisrael Gutman

Original essays by distinguished scholars explore Jewish politics, religion, literature, and society in Poland from 1918 to 1939.
The Neighbors Respond: The Controversy over the Jedwabne ...

The Neighbors Respond: The Controversy over the Jedwabne ...

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... of the greatest tragedy of all time?8 These views are echoed in the most important scholarly investigation of the problem, that by Yisrael Gutman and Shmuel Krakowski,9 and are shared by the doyen of Holocaust historians, Yehuda Bauer.
Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp

Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp

Israel Gutman

The book addresses the history of the camp, the technology and dimensions of the genocide carried out there, profiles of the perpetrators and the lives of inmates, underground resistance and escapes, and what the outside world knew about ...
Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Israel Gutman

Note: Some of the photos and maps contained in the print edition of this book have been excluded from the e-book edition due to permissions issues.
Kidding Around: The Child in Film and Media

Kidding Around: The Child in Film and Media

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4 Ibid., 102; John R. Gillis, “Epilogue: The Islanding of Children – Reshaping the Mythical Landscapes of Childhood” in Marta Gutman and Ning De-ConinckSmith (eds), Designing Modern Childhoods (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press  ...
Newsletter

Newsletter

Society for Historical Archaeology

Short essays cover the buildings in West Oakland (by Marta Gutman), the adaptation of buildings by Greek Americans (by Karana Hattersley- Drayton), household-canning practices (by Regina George), insights from archaeologically  ...
Memory Effects: The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary ...

Memory Effects: The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary ...

Dora Apel

Lili Gutman and her nephews, Nick and Simon Goodman, the daughter and grandsons of two Holocaust victims, came to an agreement with the last owner of the painting, Daniel C. Searle, the pharmaceutical company heir, who had bought ...
Flight from Ein Sof

Flight from Ein Sof

W. E. Gutman

Satirical, politically incorrect, irreverent, Flight from Ein Sof is the fictional first-person account of a brief journey to and from a realm of nightmares and insanity.
Field hockey: start right and play well

Field hockey: start right and play well

Bill Gutman

Describes the history, current organization, including teams, leagues, and championships of field hockey and provides instruction on how to play the game.
Memory Unbound: Tracing the Dynamics of Memory Studies

Memory Unbound: Tracing the Dynamics of Memory Studies

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Ed. Yifat Gutman, Adam D. Brown, and Amy Sodaro. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 50–65. Leksana, Grace. “Reconciliation through History Education: Reconstructing the Social Memory of the 1965–66 Violence in Indonesia.
Cultural Memories of Nonviolent Struggles: Powerful Times

Cultural Memories of Nonviolent Struggles: Powerful Times

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Tamar Katriel and Yifat Gutman Introduction The violent conflict over the Occupied Palestinian Territories has gripped world attention for decades. In recent years, the daunting image of the Separation Barrier [hence, the Wall] built by Israel, ...
Design Book Review: DBR.

Design Book Review: DBR.

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Marta Gutman Regarding Broadway Ever since Jane Jacobs wrote The Death and Life of Great American Cities, American architects and planners have recognized that the gridiron street and its counterpart, the gridiron plan, are the primary ...
The Changing Place of Europe in Global Memory Cultures: ...

The Changing Place of Europe in Global Memory Cultures: ...

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32 As Yifat Gutman, Amy Sodaro, and Adam Brown argue, an awareness of this Janus-face of memory is essential for addressing the relationship between collective memory and issues such as “democratic politics; human rights and ...
Precis

Precis

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Redent Housing Chandler McCoy and Jennifer Ross Critics: Richard Plunz and Marta Gutman Fall 1983 Inherent in the idea of redent housing is the possibility of interweaving dwellings with exterior spaces of varying scale from intimate ...
The Mnemonic Imagination: Remembering as Creative Practice

The Mnemonic Imagination: Remembering as Creative Practice

E. Keightley

... MEMORY AND MIGRATION Perceptions ofthePastandthePolitics of Incorporation Yifat Gutman,Adam D. Brownand Amy Sodaro (editors) MEMORY AND THEFUTURE Transnational Politics, Ethics and Society Amy Holdsworth TELEVISION, ...
Preservation and National Belonging in Eastern Germany: ...

Preservation and National Belonging in Eastern Germany: ...

J. James

Anne Fuchs AFTER THE DRESDEN BOMBING Pathways of Memory, 1945 to the Present Irial Glynn and J. Olaf Kleist (editors) HISTORY, MEMORY ANDMIGRATION Perceptionsofthe Past andthe Politicsof Incorporation Yifat Gutman, Adam ...
Silence, Screen, and Spectacle: Rethinking Social Memory in ...

Silence, Screen, and Spectacle: Rethinking Social Memory in ...

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In Memory and the Future: Transnational Politics, Ethics, and Society, edited by Yifat Gutman, Adam Brown, and Amy Sodaro, 66–86. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Bilefsky, Dan. 2010. “Hungary: New Leader Assails Far-Right Party's Rise.

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