New! 'Jewel Box engages the buildings that the architect Louis Sullivan designed in the last years of his life. Though Sullivan is widely considered the father of modern architecture, he spent the last thirty years of his life struggling to find work: in part, because of his unwillingness to compromise with the Gilded Age capitalists who were his best clients and biggest supporters. In small towns across Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, Sullivan tried to develop an architecture of democracy, an architectural practice that would restore American democracy to its utopian promise. Jewel Box investigates both the accomplishment and the failures of Sullivan's architecture. The book revives Sullivan's design practice, recreating his ostentatious, ornate buildings as elaborate concrete poems that spill across the page. But, it also locates Sullivan's architecture in a colonial landscape, documenting the way that Sullivan's achievement relies on the genocidal erasure of native peoples-an erasure that Sullivan participated in, calling for an "indigenous" American architectural style, built by white architects. Jewel Box is the second volume in a proposed trilogy about the midwest, its architecture, history, and infrastructure. The previous volume in the series, Discipline Park, was published by Wendy's Subway in 2023; the final volume, Prairie School, is currently in progress.' ~ Publisher.

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Title

Jewel Box

Publisher

Essay Press

Publication Date

2026

Binding

Trade Paperback

Condition

New

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New & Recommended

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Arundel Books Seattle store is located Seattle's historic Pioneer Square. We have a select, diverse stock that is constantly changing and growing. Although we have an open store, we do the majority of our business over the Net and are committed to providing professional service. We began as a publishing company in 1984, and have been selling used and rare books through our stores and catalogues since 1987. Please visit our website: arundelbooks.com.

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Arundel Books
322 1st Avenue South, Seattle, WA, 98104, U.S.A.

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Arundel Books is a retail and internet bookstore operated by West Edge Media LLC (Washington State UBI #602387287) at the above address and phone number. Address inquiries to Phil Bevis. We pack carefully. Our shipping rates are based on books of average size and weight (up to 2.2 pounds/1 Kilogram packed weight). We may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required, particularly for international orders.

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