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Curve Culture, Volume 1 documents a genre of curvilinear architecture projects. The projects are sorted based on the broader cultures with which they were affiliated: machine technology, corporate identity, pop art and psychedelia, and alternative culture. Collectively, they figure a history that begins in the 1920s—an era when the fillet, or rounded corner, became a feature of the modern plan—and ends with the rise of spline based geometry in the 1990s. Written by Paul Andersen and graduate students at the UIC School of Architecture.