
The director of the Mississippi State University School of Architecture’s Jackson Center, Associate Professor Jassen Callender, recently published his first book, Architecture History and Theory in Reverse: From an Information Age to Eras of Meaning.
The publisher, Routledge, describes the book as follows: “Architecture History and Theory in Reverse looks at architecture history in reverse, in order to follow chains of precedents back through time to see how ideas alter the course of civilization in general and the discipline of architecture in particular. Part I begins with present-day attitudes about architecture and traces them back to seminal ideas from the beginning of the twentieth century. Part II examines how pre-twentieth-century societies designed and understood architecture, how they strove to create communal physical languages and how their disagreements set the stage for our information age practices. The book includes 45 black-and-white images and will be useful to students of architecture and literature.”
“All of this research aims at deepening our understanding of how meaning is constructed and shared in and through the built environment,” said Callender.
Architecture History and Theory in Reverse is now available for purchase online and can be found at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Books a Million, among others.