Larry Busbea’s The Responsive Environment: Design, Aesthetics, and the Human in the 1970s is a serious and creative attempt to link twentieth-century architectural landscapes with object–oriented ontology and aesthetics theory.

Design History Beyond the Canon is a result of an institute held in July 2015 at Drexel University where a group of scholars and designers from the United States came together to discuss the topic Teaching the History of Modern Design: The Canon and Beyond.