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Review

"Intellectually challenging and ground-breaking, "A House Deconstructed" is a remarkably detailed, seminally ground-breaking study that is a unique, thought-provoking, and unreservedly recommended addition to personal, professional, community, and academic library Architectural Studies collections and of particular value to students, academia, anyone with an interest in residential architecture, architectural materials, and architectural criticism." --Midwest Book Review

"While grounded in architectural theory, A House Deconstructed speaks to a broad audience. It is a vital resource for anyone interested in thinking critically about how we build—and why. The book doesn’t demand technical expertise; it calls for ethical curiosity.

Ultimately, A House Deconstructed isn’t about perfecting buildings. It’s about exposing the systems behind them—and imagining a more honest, equitable, and reflective architectural practice. In a world built so often on erasure, this book is a call to remember—and to rebuild with care." —Spacing

About the Author

Mark Jarzombek is Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture at MIT . He is Diplom Architekt, ETH (1980) and received his PhD. From MIT in 1986. He works on a wide range of topics – both historical and theoretical. He has published books and articles on the 13th century churches at Lalibela to the crisis of contemporary architectural education. He is one of the country’s leading advocates for global history and has published several books and articles on that topic, including the ground-breaking textbook entitled A Global History of Architecture (Wiley Press, 2006) with co-author Vikramaditya Prakash and with the noted illustrator Francis D.K. Ching. Jarzombek recently published a book that interrogates the digital/global imaginaries that shape our lives: Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age (University of Minnesota Press, 2016).Vikramaditya Prakash is Professor of Architecture at the University of Washington with adjunct appointments in Landscape Architecture, Urban Design and Planning, and Digital Arts and Media. He received his B. Arch. From India and his M.A. and PhD from Cornell University. His books include Chandigarh’s Le Corbusier: The Struggle for Modernity in Postcolonial India, Colonial Modernities (co-edited with Peter Scriver), The Architecture of Shivdatt Sharma, Chandigarh: An Architectural Guide, and One Continuous Line: Art, Architecture and Urbanism of Aditya Prakash. His most recent publication is Rethinking Global Modernism: Architectural Historiography and the Postcolonial (co-edited with Maristella Casciato and Daniel Coslett). He is also the host of the ArchitectureTalk podcast.

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“A house is like a Black Hole. It sucks a huge amount of energy, creativity, materials, labor, and molecules into its orbit. But in the end what does it tell us? The decisiveness of the final building, its gravitational hold on the earth, belies the tangled web of realities that made it happen.”