Summer is the proper time to curve up with guide — and MIT authors have had a lot to supply previously yr. The following titles signify a number of books printed previously 12 months by MIT college and workers. In addition to hyperlinks for every guide from its writer, the MIT Libraries has compiled a useful list of the titles held in its collections.
Looking for extra literary works from the MIT group? Enjoy our guide lists from 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021.
Happy reading!
Fiction and poetry
“We (the People of the United States)” (Penguin Books, 2026)
By Joshua Bennett, the Distinguished Chair of the Humanities at MIT and professor of literature
Bennett marks the 250th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. with a book-length work of poetry concerning the nation and a few of its distinctive figures. The piece options exceptional individuals or innovations from every of the 50 states, meditating on their place within the nation’s cultural cloth.
“The Race for Daphne” (Finishing Line Press, 2026)
By Sarah C. Beckmann, communications and advertising and marketing affiliate within the MIT Media Lab
A poetry assortment structured as a crew race exploring girlhood, womanhood, and motherhood by means of the experiences of a rower and author. These poems subvert the historic dominance of male heroes by celebrating bizarre feminine heroism, whereas inspecting love, dwelling, and what it means to be an American girl immediately.
“Jezelle: Thief of Forks” (Self-published, 2026)
By Scott Austin Tirrell, director of administration and finance within the Art, Technology, and Culture Program
Abandoned by her father and raised by the streets of Grafton Notch, Jezelle survives by trusting nobody. When an odd magic awakens inside her, it affords greater than escape — it affords energy. But in a metropolis that preys on damaged kids, energy makes her beneficial, harmful, and hunted. To declare the life stolen from her, Jezelle should resolve what she is prepared to turn out to be.
Science and Engineering
“Phenomenal Moments: Revealing the Hidden Science Around Us” (Candlewick Press, 2025)
By Felice Frankel, analysis scientist within the Department of Chemical Engineering
Enlisting readers to “be the scientist” by means of vivid fine-art images, science photographer Felice Frankel zooms out and in on lovely and sensible moments throughout us to disclose the chemical, pure, or bodily processes — from viscosity and venation to chlorophyll and capillary motion — behind scientific phenomena.
“Syntax: A Cognitive Approach” (MIT Press, 2025)
By Edward A. F. Gibson, professor of mind and cognitive sciences
This guide lays out the grammar of a language from the attitude of a cognitive scientist, outlining the parts of language construction and the mannequin of syntax that Gibson advocates: dependency grammar, wherein a phrase is related to a different phrase by way of a dependency arc to kind a bigger compositional which means. This formalism can clarify quite a few elements of phrase order universals throughout languages.
“Birds Up Close: An Engineer Explores Their Hidden Wonders” (MIT Press, 2026)
By Lorna J. Gibson, professor post-tenure within the Department of Materials Science and Engineering
A famend engineer and lifelong birder, Gibson explores the hidden microscopic buildings and engineering ideas that hold birds aloft and alive — how an egg types, how a chook generates raise, how woodpeckers safely drill their holes, and way more. She additionally considers the longer view of birds of their habitats and pure historical past. Her up-close have a look at avian mysteries offers a perspective like no different, for the professional ornithologist and curious observer alike.
“Carbon Removal” (MIT Press, 2025)
By Howard J. Herzog, senior analysis engineer on the MIT Energy Initiative, and Niall Mac Dowell
In “Carbon Removal,” Herzog and MacDowell talk about how expertise and coverage can come collectively to assist us attain “net-zero” local weather targets. The authors discover the quickly evolving world of carbon dioxide elimination (CDR), presenting the technological pathways of enhancing the land sink, biomass-based carbon seize and storage, engineered elimination strategies, and ocean-based carbon elimination. They additionally talk about boundaries going through CDR in addition to moral implications of this course of.
“Climate Change, Drinking Water Security, and Public Health: Global Challenges and Solutions” (Springer Nature, 2026)
Chapters by Libby Hsu, affiliate director of lecturers at MIT D-Lab
In her chapter, “Drinking Water Status Around the World and Its Effect on Health,” Hsu discusses the Earth’s water sources, that are present in a wide range of settings. In her chapter, “Waterless and Low-Water Sanitation Technologies that Improve Quality of Life and Conserve Water Resources,” she shares her expertise with sanitation challenges within the Global South and the way that has bolstered the worth of waterless and low-water sanitation applied sciences which might be appropriate for scaling all over the world.
“A Pox on Fools: The True Believers, Grifters, and Cynics Who Convinced Us to Reject Vaccines” (Penguin Random House, 2026)
By Thomas Levenson, professor of science writing in MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing
In his newest guide, Levenson searches for the origins of the most typical arguments in opposition to vaccines: that they’re unnatural; that they’re extra harmful than the sicknesses they declare to forestall; and that they’re an affront to freedom. “A Pox on Fools” explores the human impulse to query and surprise — generally previous the purpose at which the very act of questioning turns lethal.
“The Shape of Wonder: How Scientists Think, Work, and Live” (Penguin Random House, 2025)
By Alan Lightman, professor of the observe of the humanities in MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing, and Martin Rees
Lightman and Rees pull again the curtain on the sector of science, revealing that scientists are pushed by the identical sense of curiosity, surprise, and accountability towards a future that shapes us all. They information us by means of the fascinating lives and minds of scientists all over the world and all through time, and supply an inside peek at what makes scientists tick — their each day lives, passions, and considerations concerning the societies they reside in.
“Uncertainty in Climate Change Research: An Integrated Approach” (Springer Nature, 2025)
Chapter by Jennifer Morris, principal analysis scientist on the MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy and the MIT Energy Initiative, and John Reilly, senior lecturer within the MIT Sloan School of Management
Understanding future emissions eventualities is important for getting ready for local weather change. The chapter “Emissions and Concentration Scenarios” examines how socioeconomic uncertainty contributes to general local weather change projections, and identifies key drivers of greenhouse fuel emissions. It evaluations the historical past of emissions eventualities and compares numerous approaches, together with IPCC strategies and formal uncertainty evaluation strategies. The chapter concludes with classes discovered from over 40 years of socioeconomic situation growth for local weather analysis.
“The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Affliction — and a Search for Relief” (Harper Collins, 2025)
By Tom Zeller Jr., managing editor of Undark, printed by the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT
From blinding migraines to extreme headache problems often known as “clusters,” persistent head ache impacts 40 % of the inhabitants, lots of them struggling in silence. Finally, “The Headache” reveals the science behind a gaggle of problems that’s as a lot a curse as a cultural punchline, and results in key insights into the character of ache itself. Guided by his personal decades-long battle with cluster complications, Zeller’s journey into headache science is directly intimate and panoramic.
Culture, humanities, and social sciences
“The People Can Fly: American Promise, Black Prodigies, and the Greatest Miracle of All Time” (Little, Brown, and Company, 2026)
By Joshua Bennett, the Distinguished Chair of the Humanities at MIT and professor of literature
In this work, Bennett affords a sequence of profiles, rigorously wrought to see how some outstanding figures have been capable of flourish from childhood ahead. He carefully reads their works for indications about how they understood the form of their very own lives. In so doing, Bennett underscores the importance of the social settings that prodigious skills develop up in. He additionally affords reflections on his personal profession trajectory and encounters with these artists, driving dwelling their affect and which means.
“Thinking Historically: A Guide to Statecraft and Strategy” (Yale University Press, 2025)
By Francis J. Gavin, analysis affiliate of the MIT Security Studies Program
It appears apparent that we must always use historical past to enhance coverage. If we’ve understanding of the previous, it ought to allow higher choices within the current, particularly within the extremely consequential worlds of statecraft and technique. But how will we acquire that information? How ought to historical past be used? In this guide, Gavin explains the various methods historic information will help us perceive and navigate the advanced, usually complicated world round us.
“The Economic Consequences of the Second Trump Administration: A Preliminary Assessment” (Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2025)
Edited by Gary Gensler, professor of the observe of worldwide economics and administration and finance within the MIT Sloan School of Management; Simon Johnson, the Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship and professor of worldwide economics and administration at MIT Sloan; Ugo Panizza; and Beatrice Weder di Mauro
How would possibly the financial and geopolitical positions of the Trump administration have an effect on development, commerce, funding, inflation, stability, and the function of the U.S. greenback? This quantity affords evidence-based, professional evaluation to assist choice makers perceive the influence of tariffs, breaks in world alliances, authorities downsizing, deregulation, threats to the rule of regulation, and extra.
“The Colony and the Company: Haiti after the Mississippi Bubble” (Princeton University Press, 2025)
By Malick W. Ghachem, professor of historical past
Many issues account for Haiti’s fashionable troubles. An excellent perspective on them comes from going again in time to 1715 or so — and grappling with a far-flung narrative involving the French monarchy, a monetary speculator named John Law, and a stock-market crash known as the “Mississippi Bubble.” In “The Colony and the Company,” Ghachem examines the financial transformations and multi-sided energy struggles of that point.
“Retrench, Defend, Compete: Securing America’s Future Against a Rising China” (Cornell University Press, 2025)
By Charles L. Glaser, senior fellow within the MIT Security Studies Program
Many consider China’s ascent will drive it to conflict with the United States. Yet that is far from inevitable; geography and nuclear weapons ought to guarantee U.S. safety. The actual hazard, Glaser contends, lies in East Asia’s territorial disputes, particularly over Taiwan. To cut back the danger of conflict, Glaser makes a daring case for ending U.S. safety commitments to Taiwan and punctiliously calibrating its insurance policies on defending South China Sea maritime options.
“Trade in War: Economic Cooperation Across Enemy Lines” (Cornell University Press, 2025)
By Mariya Grinberg, affiliate professor of political science and MIT Security Studies Program affiliate
“Trade in War” is an pressing, insightful research of a puzzling wartime phenomenon: states doing enterprise with their enemies. To clarify why states commerce with their enemies, Grinberg examines the wartime business insurance policies of main powers throughout the Crimean War, the 2 World Wars, and a number of other post-1989 wars.
“Constructing Economic Nationalisms in Brazil and India” (Cambridge University Press, 2026)
By Jason Jackson, affiliate professor in political economic system and concrete planning within the Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Conventional approaches cite India’s leftist “socialism” and Brazil’s right-wing authoritarianism to clarify why India resisted international direct funding (FDI) whereas Brazil welcomed international companies. However, this ignores puzzling industry-level variation: India restricted FDI in auto manufacturing however allowed multinationals in oil, whereas Brazil welcomed international auto corporations however prohibited FDI in oil. This guide argues that FDI insurance policies have been formed by contrasting colonial experiences that generated distinct financial nationalisms and patterns of industrialization in each nations.
“Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry: How Capitalist Legitimacy Shaped Foreign Investment Policy in India” (Harvard University Press, 2025)
By Jason Jackson, affiliate professor in political economic system and concrete planning within the Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Is international capital an agent of financial development in creating nations or a automobile of extraction? Examining how Indian elites wrestled with this query within the late colonial and postcolonial intervals, Jackson argues that it displays a false binary. Instead of merely selecting between home and international capital, Indian policymakers have lengthy thought-about the enterprise ethics of particular person companies. Indian financial nationalism, in different phrases, has by no means been characterised by an easy desire for home over international capital.
“The Handbook of Social Protection: Evidence and New Directions for Low- and Middle-Income Countries” (MIT Press, 2026)
Edited by Benjamin A. Olken, the TEPCO Professor of Economics within the Department of Economics, and Rema Hanna
Over the previous a number of many years, social safety applications that present monetary help to the poor and insure in opposition to shocks for the weak have turn out to be widespread in low- and middle-income nations. These applications can play a vital function in society. This guide offers an outline of what we all know concerning the differing elements of social safety and highlights the open questions for analysis for the longer term.
“Argumentation: The Key Concepts” (Routledge, 2026)
By Edward Schiappa, the John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities in MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing
In this guide, Schiappa delves into the identification and evaluation of fallacies, the analysis of proof, and the essential roles of context, viewers adaptation, and argumentative model. It explores the moral dimensions of argument, the influence of cognitive bias, and the affect of cultural and discourse communities.
“American Independence in verse” (Pentameter Press, 2025)
By Brad Skow, the Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor within the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
“American Independence in verse,” printed by Pentameter Press, traces a narrative of America’s origins by means of a set of vignettes that includes some well-known characters, like politician and orator Patrick Henry, alongside some lesser-known however no much less necessary ones, like royalist and former chief justice of North Carolina Martin Howard. Each is rendered in clean verse, a nursery-style rhyme, or free verse.
“Rwanda’s Genocide Heritage: Between Justice and Sovereignty” (Duke University Press, 2025)
By Delia Wendel, affiliate professor of city research and worldwide growth within the Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Drawing from oral histories and a visible archive of reminiscence work after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, Wendel explores the human rights and authorities priorities that preserved killing websites and victims’ stays for public show. Rwanda’s genocide memorials exemplify a worldwide phenomenon that Wendel phrases “trauma heritage,” whereby hidden or unrecognized violence is made seen in public area to demand justice and recognition. Wendel argues that trauma heritage innovates on the shape histories take by “writing” them into landscapes, constituting a reparative historiography from the Global South.
Technology and society
“Computing in the Age of Decolonization: India’s Lost Technological Revolution” (Princeton University Press, 2026)
By Dwaipayan Banerjee, affiliate professor of science, expertise, and society
In this guide, Banerjee examines India’s pursuit of technological self-sufficiency, and the worldwide forces that prevailed in opposition to this imaginative and prescient. He describes why the nation is “the world’s leading provider of inexpensive outsourcing and offshoring services, yet enjoys minimal benefits from more profitable advances in research, manufacturing, and development.”
“Auditing AI” (MIT Press, 2026)
By Karrie G. Karahalios, professor of media arts and sciences on the MIT Media Lab; Marc Aidinoff PhD ’22; Nathan Matias SM ’13, PhD ’17; Christian Sandvig; Alondra Nelson; Kristen Vaccaro; Esha Bhandari; Ellery Roberts Biddle; Lena Armstrong; Motahhare Eslami; and Danaé Metaxa
This guide serves as a first-of-its-kind roadmap for auditing synthetic intelligence methods to forestall decision-making failures in well being care, policing, and employment. Using canonical examples of AI gone incorrect — from misidentified facial recognition to biased hiring algorithms — this guide explains why sturdy audits are important and the way they drive concrete coverage and company change.
“Shape Computation: Fifty Years, 1972-2022” (Springer Nature, 2025)
Edited by Sotirios Kotsopoulos SM ’00, PhD ’05, a analysis affiliate within the Department of Architecture, with a chapter by Terry W. Knight, the William and Emma Rogers Professor of Design and Computation within the Department of Architecture
This guide offers a panorama of “shape computation” and “shape grammars,” a computational idea that has, from its inception 50 years in the past, been directed towards the “how” of design. Knight’s chapter, “How is that? Computing the Temporality of Drawing,” describes how course of and time are key to learning, appreciating, designing, and making issues. She notes that in artistic manufacturing it isn’t solely necessary to ask, “What is that?” but in addition “How is that?” — in different phrases, how did or how can a factor come to be? As a course of carried out over time, computation affords a method for rethinking, representing, and elevating the “how” in designing and making actions.
“The Remote Revolution: Drones and Modern Statecraft” (Cornell University Press, 2025)
By Erik Lin-Greenberg, affiliate professor within the Department of Political Science
In “The Remote Revolution,” Erik Lin-Greenberg reveals that drones are rewriting the foundations of worldwide safety — however not in methods one would count on. Leveraging numerous varieties of proof from unique wargames, survey experiments, and circumstances of U.S. and Israeli drone operations, Lin-Greenberg explores how drone operations decrease dangers of escalation.
“The Comedy of Computation: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Obsolescence” (Stanford University Press, 2025)
By Benjamin Mangrum, affiliate professor of literature
We usually cope with our doubts and fears about computing by means of humor, whether or not reconciling ourselves to machines or critiquing them. In truth, this dynamic turns up all through fashionable tradition, in films, tv, fiction, and the theater. Mangrum analyzes this phenomenon in “The Comedy of Computation,” digging into a number of aspects of recent tradition and expertise.
“Rubrique Technologie / Tech Section” (Printed Matter, 2026)
By Nick Montfort, professor of digital media in MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing, and Patsy Baudoin
This work is predicated on a textual content generator that produces French and English information gadgets that think about a number of the methods expertise will influence us within the close to future. Most of the generated information includes individuals getting struck by autonomous automobiles and even plane. Others describe labor disputes, hostile takeover makes an attempt, innovations, and the termination of on-line companies. What is imagined in “RT/TS” just isn’t apocalyptic or discontinuous however truly options lots of the similar issues we face immediately; the strategies of manufacturing the texts are immediately’s as nicely.
“Shared Wisdom: Cultural Evolution in the Age of AI” (MIT Press, 2025)
By Alex “Sandy” Pentland, the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and professor of knowledge expertise within the MIT Media Lab
How can we construct a flourishing society through the use of human nature to design expertise fairly than letting expertise form society? Pentland explores how cultural innovations — from civilizations to the Enlightenment — accelerated innovation and collective knowledge. He argues that understanding these key components in cultural evolution is important for fixing world challenges like local weather change and pandemics, and reveals how AI and digital media can help fairly than substitute human deliberation.
“Priority Technologies: Ensuring US Security and Shared Prosperity” (MIT Press, 2026)
Edited by Elisabeth B. Reynolds, professor of the observe of city research and planning, with a foreword by Simon Johnson, the Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship and professor of worldwide economics and administration
A brand new world order is rising, and inside it, U.S. priorities are shifting. For the nation to flourish in addition to defend and safe its pursuits, it should construct on its many years of expertise in creating frontier applied sciences and globally aggressive industries by means of investments into precedence applied sciences for the twenty first century. This quantity presents an introduction to a number of the key areas the place the U.S. should lead with a purpose to guarantee each nationwide and financial safety: vital minerals, semiconductors, biomanufacturing, quantum computing, drones, and superior manufacturing.
Education, work, finance, and social influence
“The Meritocracy Paradox: Where Talent Management Strategies Go Wrong and How to Fix Them” (Columbia University Press, 2025)
By Emilio J. Castilla, the NTU Professor of Management and professor of labor and group research within the MIT Sloan School of Management
Organizations usually hail meritocracy as a good and environment friendly option to establish, advance, and reward expertise. But efforts to create a stage taking part in discipline may be held again by expertise administration methods that confer rewards primarily based on particular person efficiency evaluations. In observe, these merit-based methods “may actually reinforce or create advantages for certain groups,” Castilla contends.
“The Art of Monetary Policy: Lessons from Sun Tzu for Central Banks” (MIT Press, 2026)
By Kristin J. Forbes, the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management and professor of worldwide economics and administration within the MIT Sloan School of Management
Central banks are navigating a world of upper debt, tightly interconnected markets, and rising geopolitical tensions. How would possibly they reply successfully? In “The Art of Monetary Policy,” Forbes attracts on the writings of Chinese army strategist Sun Tzu to recommend fashionable ideas for central banks, together with getting ready for the subsequent monetary battle, establishing a powerful tactical place, combining weapons and strategies, and modifying and ranging techniques to keep up flexibility.
“Launching from the Lab: Building a Deep-Tech Startup” (MIT Press, 2026)
By Lita Nelsen, former director of the MIT Technology Licensing Office, and Maureen Stancik Boyce, mentor for the MIT Sandbox program
“Launching from the Lab” offers a much-needed framework for brand new entrepreneurs who’re founding corporations primarily based on “deep technology” — groundbreaking improvements rising from new discoveries in basic analysis. Nelsen and Stancik Boyce cowl the steps to launch and fund such corporations, starting with emergence from the laboratory and buying mental property by means of the intensive analysis of buyer wants, constructing a staff, and elevating capital.
“There’s Got to Be a Better Way: How to Deliver Results and Get Rid of the Stuff That Gets in the Way of Real Work” (Hachette, 2025)
By Nelson Repenning, professor of administration, and Donald Kieffer
The chaos of on a regular basis enterprise forces individuals into an exhausting, ineffective, seemingly unending cycle of work-arounds, firefighting, and Whac-a-Mole. The irritatingly pressing crowds out the lastingly necessary. In this guide, Repenning and Kieffer describe the game-changing self-discipline of dynamic work design, which improves productiveness, reduces prices, and will increase effectivity, making certain that each one elements of an organization can work in live performance.
“Bayesian Entrepreneurship” (MIT Press, 2026)
Edited by Erin L. Scott, senior lecturer of technological innovation, entrepreneurship, and strategic administration within the MIT Sloan School of Management; and Scott Stern, the David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology and professor of technological innovation, entrepreneurship, and strategic administration at MIT Sloan
This edited quantity introduces and explores the idea of Bayesian entrepreneurship, a novel framework for understanding entrepreneurial decision-making below uncertainty. It brings collectively contributions from main students to look at how entrepreneurs kind beliefs about alternatives, be taught by means of experimentation, and make strategic choices.
“Disciplined Entrepreneurship for Climate and Energy Ventures: 24 Steps to Build Solutions for People and the Planet” (Wiley, 2025)
By Ben Soltoff, entrepreneur in residence at MIT Sloan; Bill Aulet, Ethernet Inventors Professor of the Practice; Tod Hynes, senior lecturer of local weather and vitality ventures; Francis O’Sullivan, senior lecturer in technological innovation, entrepreneurship, and strategic administration; and Libby Wayman, senior lecturer of local weather and vitality ventures
Climate and vitality entrepreneurs face challenges that conventional startup playbooks don’t handle. Their ventures can require large capital and take years to achieve market, all whereas striving to realize a constructive influence on individuals, planet, and revenue. This guide adapts the MIT-born “Disciplined Entrepreneurship” framework particularly for local weather and vitality ventures, recognizing that founders on this area want their very own strategy.
Arts and design, structure, city research and planning
“Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present, and Future of the Self-Provisioning City” (W.W. Norton, 2026)
By Kate Brown, the Thomas M. Siebel Distinguished Professor in History of Science
Nurturing well being, hope, and group, gardeners in cities and suburbs are reclaiming misplaced commons, reworking vacant heaps into vibrant plots, turning waste into compost, and recreating what was as soon as the best agriculture in recorded human historical past. In a guide with world scope, ranging from Estonia to Amsterdam and Washington, Brown contends that city gardening has many constructive spillover results, from well being and environmental advantages to community-building — aside from intervals of pushback when others try to get rid of it.
“Small-Town Renaissance: Bridging Technology, Heritage, and Planning in Shrinking Italy” (Springer Nature, 2025)
Edited by Brent D. Ryan, vice provost and professor of city design and public coverage within the Department of Urban Studies and Planning; Carmelo Ignaccolo PhD ’24; and Giovanna Fossa
This guide explores the transformative energy of digitization in rural areas — the place expertise isn’t only a device, however a lifeline for native tradition, financial resilience, and future growth. Born from a novel analysis collaboration between the MIT and Politecnico di Milano, this guide brings collectively scholarly work on shrinking cities, financial growth, and digital innovation. The challenge tackled a number of the most urgent challenges going through rural Italy — from inhabitants decline to financial stagnation — by means of the lens of digital transformation.
“Blanking: An Annotated Archive of Projects and Thoughts on Architecture” (Park Books / University of Chicago Press, 2026)
By Rosalyn Shieh, assistant professor within the Department of Architecture, and Troy Schaum
Based on the work and imaginative and prescient of their structure agency Schaum/Shieh, this guide shares what is alleged and what may be heard in a studio. So a lot of architectural considering and information is offered, formulated, and traded in spoken phrases: pinups, conferences, walkthroughs. Those exchanges inform this guide, wherein concepts and information which might be often solely spoken are made accessible to readers.
“Design Before Disaster: Japan’s Culture of Preparedness” (University of Virginia Press, 2026)
By Miho Mazereeuw, affiliate professor within the departments of Architecture and Urban Studies and Planning
Few nations have confronted as many environmental disasters as Japan, which has endured typhoons, cyclones, floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis. Japanese residents have responded to their precarious circumstances by creating a novel tradition of catastrophe preparedness, equipping the island nation to plan for future emergencies and to drastically cut back their influence. Mazereeuw affords an in depth framework to design and put together for anticipated disasters and describes efficient interventions in city panorama and structure.
“Reconstruction as Violence in Assad’s Syria” (American University in Cairo Press, 2025)
Edited by Nasser Rabbat, professor of structure and director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT, and Deen Sharp, with a foreword by Hashim Sarkis, dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning
This guide delves into the advanced interaction of post-conflict reconstruction in Syria, difficult the historically held dichotomy between the top of violence and the graduation of rebuilding. The contributors to this quantity — architects, urbanists, geographers, and historians — make use of vital ideas resembling urbicide, domicide, and “civilian crisis architecture” to argue in opposition to the traditional theoretical frameworks that assist a neat separation of phases.