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World of Variation
World of Variation is a verbal/visual essay exploring existing conditions in both long-established and emerging societies from local, national, and global perspectives.
The book's contents are divided into three parts:
Part I A Framework of Ideas
Part II Architecture on a Social Scale
Part III Architecture Beyond Cities
To avoid the cultural baggage inherent in realistic photographs and other realistic imagery, the authors developed an abstract visual language to convey the conceptual ideas in World of Variation.
The 23 sketches included in the book are shown their original color on this website, as well as 139 visuals relating to but not included in the book. The final selection of visuals in the original World of Variation edition was made by George Braziller’s staff.
The reader/viewer can use the website display to reference the contents in World of Variation and find further interconnections.
Part I A Framework of Ideas
Part II Architecture on a Social Scale
Part III Architecture Beyond Cities
-Mary Otis Stevens
The Ideal Communist City
Cited by Metropolis magazine, this new edition updates the essays by the original group of authors. Contains new and updated commentaries.
The new edition features a preface by Ana Miljački.
Ana Miljački is a critic, curator and Professor of Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she teaches history, theory and design. She has previously taught studios and seminars at Columbia University, City College in New York and Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She holds a Ph.D. (2007) in history and theory of architecture from Harvard University, an M.Arch. from Rice University and a B.A. from Bennington College. Her research interests range from the role of architecture and architects in the Cold War era Eastern Europe, through the theories of postmodernism in late socialism to politics of contemporary architectural production.
Miljački is the author of The Optimum Imperative: Czech Architecture for the Socialist Lifestyle 1938-1968 (Routledge, 2017), co-editor of the OfficeUS series of books, guest editor of Praxis 14: True Stories, the editor of Terms of Appropriation: Modern and Architecture and Global Exchange with Amanda Reeser Lawrence (Routledge, 2018).
