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Center Publications

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CENTER: Architecture and Design in America

The Center's proudest production is the award-winning book series, CENTER:Architecture and Design in America. Each volume is a forward-looking, serious exploration of current themes in architecture by some of the country's top authors and architects. 

CENTER 17: Space & Psyche
ISBN: 978-0-934951-17-3

April 2013

CENTER 17 cover

Buildings are inert objects, but our experience of them transcends the physical realm and extends into our deepest consciousness. Architecture, in particular, which moves beyond mere building, strives to enhance the human condition and promote emotional well-being through the manipulation of space, light, material, and form. Psychoanalysis is concerned with many things, among them, the means by which places enter our psyches and become a part of who we are. Both psychoanalysts and architects care about people?s identities and memories, hopes and dreams. These human constructs are replete with spatial, architectural images?images of safety, danger, permanence, enclosure, and reflection?as well as with a full range of emotions. Within the overlap of psychoanalytic and architectural discourses lies the emotional tonus of real and imagined places?whether at the scale of the city or the scale of the house?and it is this area of mutual concern that inspired the current volume of CENTER.

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Centerline 6: buildingstudio — BUILDING

Centerline 6

buildingstudio—BUILDING is the latest issue in our Centerline book series, a purely academic, non-profit publication with a circulation of under 1000. Each volume is a forward-looking, serious exploration of current themes in architecture and design by contemporary and practicing architects and theoreticians and is of a high production value.

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Previous CENTER volumes

The CENTERLINE series

With volumes alike only in format (8" x 8"), the Centerline series prints essays on and around architecture, too good to be published commercially, important maybe, and interesting always.

The O'Neil Ford Monograph Series

Discovering and rediscovering fine modern architecture around the world, the architecture discussed in both of the O'Neil Ford series are documented with rigor, commented upon with insight, and designed with clarity.

The O'Neil Ford Duograph Series

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