Architecture:

Crib Sheets
Notes on Contemporary Architectural Conversation
Edited by Sylvia Lavin, Helene Furjan and Penelope Dean

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2005
Price: $40.00

Architectural discourse today is characterized by an overlapping conversation between architects and academics, teachers and students, theorists and practitioners. Certain terms -- "diagram, " "extreme form, " "autonomy, " and "the generic, " among others -- capture the moment in architecture in definition and in operation. Crib Sheets is a guide... Read more >

Whereabouts
New Architecture with Local Identities
Written by Michael Sorkin
Edited by Susanna Sirefman

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 3, 2004
Price: $45.00

Whereabouts is a study of eight prominent young North American architecture firms. For the most part working within a vocabulary of late modernism, these firms -- two from each point of the compass -- have been strongly influenced by regional concerns. Shim/Sutcliffe of Toronto and Brian MacKay-Lyons of Nova Scotia stand... Read more >

Vitruvius on Architecture

Written by Thomas Gordon Smith

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: January 5, 2004
Price: $40.00

Approximately 2,025 years ago, an aged Roman architect named Vitruvius wrote down on ten scrolls everything he knew about architecture. He presented this work, known today as "Ten Books on Architecture," to Emperor Augustus in the hope of changing what he perceived as a rampant lack of professionalism and educational rigor... Read more >

Blurred Zones
Eisenman Architects, 1988-1998
Written by Peter Eisenman
Contribution by Luis Galiano and K. Michael Hays

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2003
Price: $75.00

In the late 1980s, the New York-based office Eisenman Architects, led by architect and educator Peter Eisenman, shifted from an investigation of "artificial excavations" as an architectural tool to a conscious pursuit of a concept he called "blurring." Blurring is not a visual effect but rather deals with affect, that is... Read more >

The Next Jerusalem
Sharing the Divided City
Written by Michael Sorkin

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: December 2, 2002
Price: $40.00

This important collection brings together noted Israeli, Palestinian, and American architects and urbanists to consider the physical future of Jerusalem and to offer specific proposals for making the city functional, beautiful, and physically generous to its inhabitants' needs. The essays focus on issues of ecology, preservation, neighborhood development, and open space... Read more >

CAC Investigation
Yale 2000 Zaha Hadid
Written by Nina Rappaport

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2001
Price: $29.95

In spring 2000, as the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor at Yale University, Zaha Hadid led an intense and wildly creative studio on the topic of the contemporary art center. Such centers are proliferating across the United States and around the world; yet their architectural form remains abstract and open-ended, subject to... Read more >

Work/Life
Portfolio
Written by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2000
Price: $60.00

We see architecture as an act of profound optimism. Its foundation lies in believing that it is possible to make places on the earth that can give a sense of grace to life—and in believing that it matters.
—Tod Williams and Billie Tsien

The New York City studio of Tod Williams Billie... Read more >