Bøker av Annabel Jane Wharton

From climate change forecasts and pandemic maps to Lego sets and Ancestry algorithms, models encompass our lives. In this engaging book, Annabel Wharton begins with a definition drawn from the quantitative sciences and the philosophy of science but holds that history and critical cultural theory are essential to a fuller understanding of modeling.

Architectural Agents makes the case that buildings act in the world independently of their makers, patrons, owners, or occupants. And often they act badly. Treating buildings as bodies, Annabel Jane Wharton writes biographies of symptomatic structures in order to diagnose their pathologies.

In post-war Europe and the Middle East, Hilton Hotels were constructed for profit and political impact to show 'the other side of the coin' to those countries exposed to Communism. This text examines the architectural means by which this vision was executed.