Publications

Books

Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, Design for the Crowd: Patriotism and Protest in Union Square, University of Chicago Press, 2019

Kent Kleinman, Joanna Merwood-Salisbury and Lois Weinthal Eds., After Taste: Expanded Practice in Interior Design, Princeton Architectural Press, 2012

Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, Chicago 1890: The Skyscraper and the Modern City, University of Chicago Press, 2009

Book chapters and articles

“The Architecture of the Leisure Class: Thorstein Veblen and the University of Chicago,” Journal

of the Society of Architectural Historians 82, no. 1 (March 2023), 7–22, ISSN 0037-9808, electronic ISSN 2150-5926

“Stones and Slaves: Labour, race and spatial exclusion in colonial Santo Domingo,” Urban

History (2021), 1–25 [with José R. Núñez Collado]

“On the Architecture of the Late Capitalist Museum: The Museum of Modern Art and the

Demolition of the American Folk Art Museum,” in Valuing Architecture: Heritage and the Economics of Culture, Ashley Paine, John Macarthur, Susan Holden Eds. (Amsterdam: Valiz, 2020)

“A Journey to the Experimental Nation: Henry Demarest Lloyd and the Search for Industrial

Democracy in New Zealand,” Fabrications vol. 3, no. 3 (November 2020)

“Architecture as Model and Standard: Modern Liberalism and Tenement House Reform in New

York City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” Architectural Theory Review (January 2020)

“‘The New Birth of Freedom’: The Gothic Revival of the Aesthetics of Abolitionism,” in Race and

Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present, Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis II, and Mabel O. Wilson Eds. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020)

“This is not a skyscraper: Helmut Jahn’s late, late entry to the Chicago Tribune Tower

competition,” AA Files (December 2017), 132-149

“Exterior Interiors: The Urban Living Room and Beyond,” (with Vanessa Coxhead) in Deborah

Schneiderman and Amy Campos Eds., Interiors Beyond Architecture (London: Routledge, 2017)

“Louis Sullivan’s Carson Pirie Scott Building,” in David Leatherbarrow and Alexander

Eisenschmidt Eds., Modern Architecture, vol. VI Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the

History of Architecture (London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017), 1-10

“The Gothic Revival and the Chicago School,” in Kevin Murphy and Lisa Reilly Eds., Skyscraper

Gothic: Medieval Style and Modernist Buildings (Charlottesville VA: University of Virginia Press, 2017)

“American Modern: The Chicago School and the International Style at the Museum of Modern

Art,” in Alexander Eisenschmidt and Jonathan Mekinda Eds. Chicagoisms: The City as Catalyst for Architectural Speculation (Chicago: Park Books/University of Chicago Press, 2014)

“The First Chicago School and the Ideology of the Skyscraper,” in Peggy Deamer Ed. Architecture

and Capitalism: 1845 to the Present (London: Routledge, 2013)

“Patriotism and Protest: Union Square as Public Space, 1832-1932,” Journal of the Society of
Architectural Historians vol. 68 no. 4 (December 2009), 540-559

“On Luxury,” AA Files, vol. 58  (2009), 20-27

“Western Architecture: Regionalism and Race in the Inland Architect,” in Katarina Ruedi-Ray

and Charles Waldheim Eds., Chicago Architecture: Histories, Revisions, Alternatives (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005)

“The Mechanization of Cladding: The Reliance Building and Narratives of Modern Architecture,” Grey Room, vol. 4 (Summer 2001), 52–69