News and Events

September 2010

How to find Monacelli author events!

To learn about upcoming events on your favorite Monacelli authors, search here: Author Events.

August 2010

Monday, August 16, 4-5pm
Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes - Judith B. Tankard

Lecture, followed by a tea and book signing
The Mount (Edith Wharton Restoration)
2 Plunkett Street
Lenox, Massachusetts

Please click here for fee information.

Saturday, August 7, 11 am
Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes - Judith B. Tankard

Beatrix Farrand Society Annual Meeting
followed by a free lecture by Judith Tankard

Beatrix Farrand Society
Garland Farm
Mt. Desert, Maine

July 2010

Thursday, July 8, 4-5pm
Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes - Judith B. Tankard

Lecture and book signing
Berkshire Botanical Garden
5 West Stockbridge Road
Stockbridge, Massachusetts

June 2010

June 30, 7:30-9 pm
Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes - Judith B. Tankard

Book talk/signing with Judith B. Tankard
The Polly Hill Arboretum
809 State Road
West Tisbury, Massachusetts

Click here for registration and fee information.

Wednesday, June 30, 6:30 pm
Ken Smith: Landscape Architect - Ken Smith

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Lecture and book signing with landscape architect Ken Smith

Havemeyer Hall, Room 309
Columbia University
2960 Broadway
New York, New York

Please click here for more information and to register.

May 2010

Sunday, May 23, 1-3:30 pm
Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes - Judith B. Tankard

Public lecture with Judith B. Tankard
Chicago Botanic Garden
Alsdorf Auditorium
1000 Lake Cook Road
Glencoe, Illinois

Click here for registration and fee information.

Wednesday, May 19, 6 pm
David Stark Design - David Stark

An Art Book - David Stark Design: Ordinary to Extraordinary
with David Stark

Margaret Liebman Berger Forum (Room 227)
New York Public Library
Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue
New York, New York

NEWS: All of Rem Koolhaas/OMA’s publications to go on display

A new exhibition—“OMA Book Machine: The Books of OMA”—offers, for the first time, the entire collection of books, including S,M,L,XL and Delirious New York, by Rem Koolhaas and his firm, Office for Metropolitan Architecture.

The exhibition, organized by the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, will be on display in the AA Gallery from May 7 to June 4. Please click here for more information.

Thursday, May 6, 6 pm
Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes - Judith B. Tankard

Book talk/signing with Judith B. Tankard
Mechanics’ Institute
57 Post Street
San Francisco, California

NEWS: Ken Smith: Landscape Architect receives a Communications Honor Award from ASLA

The 2010 Professional Awards Jury of the American Society of Landscape Architects says: “A lovely book, extremely informative, well photographed and shows the range of work. It’s more casual than a standard monograph. The format is what made it stand out.”

Click here to read more about the award and the making of this unique and beautiful book.

April 2010

Thursday, April 29, 6:30 pm
Counterpoint: Daniel Libeskind in Conversation with Paul Goldberger - Daniel Libeskind

Icons of Architecture
Lecture and book signing with Daniel Libeskind
Royal Geographical Society
1 Kensington Gore
London

This event marks the first in a series that features the leading architects of our time, by World Architecture News.

Please click here for further information and to purchase tickets.

Thursday, April 29, 5 - 7 pm
Designers Here and There: Inside the City and Country Homes of America’s Top Decorators - Michele Keith

Book signing with Michele Keith and designers Renea Abbott and Beverly Jacomini
River Oaks Bookstore
3270 Westheimer at River Oaks Boulevard
Houston, Texas

Tuesday, April 27, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Designers Here and There: Inside the City and Country Homes of America’s Top Decorators - Michele Keith

Book signing with author Michele Keith and designer John Phifer Marrs
East & Orient Company
1123 Slocum Street
Dallas, Texas

Please RSVP to John Phifer Marrs Interiors at derekv@johnmarrs.com or 214.352.4949.

Wednesday, April 21, 1-3 pm
Designers Here and There: Inside the City and Country Homes of America’s Top Decorators - Michele Keith

Book signing with Michele Keith
Sarlo
295 Kansas Street
San Francisco, California

Designers featured in the book including Stephen Shubel, Andrew Fisher, Jeffry Weisman, and Martha Angus will be present.

Please RSVP to info@gabriellasarlo.com or 415.863.1001.

Wednesday, April 14, 6:30 pm
Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes - Judith B. Tankard

Lecture and book signing with Judith B. Tankard
College Club of Boston
44 Commonwealth Avenue
Institute of Classical Architecture New England Chapter
Boston, Massachusetts

Click here for fee and RSVP information.

Wednesday, April 14, 6 pm
SOM: Architecture of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill 1950-2008

Architectural Explorations in Books
Partners Roger Duffy, FAIA, and T.J. Gottesdiener, FAIA,
in conversation with New York Magazine architecture critic Justin Davidson

Margaret Liebman Berger Forum (Room 227)
New York Public Library
Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue
New York, New York

Saturday, April 3, 9 am - 3 pm
Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes - Judith B. Tankard

Divas of Design: Celebrating Women Landscape Architects
Montag Center, Willamette University
Salem, Oregon

Author and landscape historian Judith B. Tankard will present “Designing Women: Beatrix Farrand and Ellen Shipman.”

Click here for registration and fee information.

March 2010

Wednesday, March 24, 6:30-8 pm
A History of the Future - Donna Goodman

Book talk with author Donna Goodman
The Skyscraper Museum
39 Battery Place
New York, New York

Please click here for more information.

Saturday, March 20, 8:30 am - 4 pm
Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes - Judith B. Tankard

Northwest Horticultural Society 2010 Spring Symposium
American Garden Design from Dumbarton Oaks to Living Roofs
Bastyr University Auditorium
14500 Juanita Drive NE
Kenmore, Washington

Author and landscape historian Judith B. Tankard will present “Designing Women: Beatrix Farrand and Ellen Shipman.”

Click here for registration and fee information.

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Saturday, March 13, 8 am - 4 pm
Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes - Judith B. Tankard

Farm Faithfully, Garden Gratefully:
Progressive Women and their Influence in the Landscape 1900-1940
Temple University Ambler
Learning Center Auditorium
580 Meetinghouse Road
Ambler, Pennsylvania

This one-day symposium will highlight the role of American women who designed and maintained significant landscapes during the beginning of the 20th century. Symposium speakers include author and landscape historian Judith B. Tankard.

To register (fee applies) and for more information, please click here. Advanced registration required.

Saturday, March 13, 1-3 pm
A Common Destiny: A Photographic Journey Through a Changing World - Cédric Delsaux

Book signing with photographer Cédric Delsaux
at his new solo exhibition:

Cédric Delsaux: Nous resterons sur Terre
Bonni Benrubi Gallery, Inc.
41 East 57th Street
New York, New York

The exhibition runs from March 11 to May 8. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 6 pm.

February 2010

Tuesday, February 23, 6-7:30 pm; doors open at 5:30 pm
Ken Smith: Landscape Architect - Ken Smith, Introduction by John Beardsley

Architectural Explorations in Books
with Ken Smith and John Beardsley
Margaret Liebman Berger Forum (Room 227)
New York Public Library
Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue
New York, New York

January 2010

Thursday, January 28, 6:30 pm
Jim Olson Houses - Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen, Introduction by Michael Webb

Designing for Collections: The Houses of Jim Olson
Museum of Arts and Design
2 Columbus Circle
New York, New York
Free with Thursday night Pay-What-You-Wish admission

Tuesday, January 26, 6-7:30 pm; doors open at 5:30 pm
Only in New York: Photographs from LOOK Magazine - Donald Albrecht and Thomas Mellins

Architectural Explorations in Books
with Donald Albrecht and Thomas Mellins
Margaret Liebman Berger Forum (Room 227)
New York Public Library
Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue
New York, New York

December 2009

See you in the new year!

We would like to wish everyone a safe and happy holiday season and best wishes for the new year. We look forward to sharing more news and events with you in 2010!

Tuesday, December 15, 7 p.m.
Building Up and Tearing Down

Paul Goldberger in conversation with James Russell
Strand Bookstore
828 Broadway (at 12th Street)
New York, New York

Tuesday, December 15, 2:30 p.m.
Star Pieces: The Enduring Beauty of Spectacular Furniture

Lecture and book signing with David Linley
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street)
New York, New York

Tickets are $23. Click here to purchase now from the Met.

Wednesday, December 9, 6-7:30 p.m.
Space Project

Photographer Lynn Davis in dialogue with Alan Weisman, author of The World Without Us
The New York Public Library
Berger Forum, 2nd Floor
Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue
New York, New York

Wednesday, December 2, 6-7:30 p.m.
Building Up and Tearing Down

Paul Goldberger in dialogue with Michael Sorkin
and book signing
“Architectural Explorations in Books”
The New York Public Library
Berger Forum, 2nd Floor
Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue
New York, New York

Tuesday, December 1, 6 p.m.
Selldorf Architects

Lecture and book signing with Annabelle Selldorf
The Grolier Club
47 East 60th Street (between Park and Madison Avenues)
New York, New York

Admission is $35. Click here to purchase tickets through Potterton Books.

November 2009

Happy Thanksgiving

The Monacelli Press would like to wish everyone a safe and happy Thanksgiving!

Monday, November 23, 6:30 p.m.
Building Up and Tearing Down

Lecture and book signing with Paul Goldberger
The Skyscraper Museum
39 Battery Place (near Rector Street)
New York, New York

Monday, November 23, 6:30 p.m.
Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes

Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America
20 West 44th Street, 3rd floor
[between Fifth and Sixth Avenues]
New York, New York

Sunday, November 22, 2 p.m.
Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes

Lecture and book signing with author Judith Tankard
Old Westbury Gardens
71 Old Westbury Road
Old Westbury, New York

Saturday, November 21, 3 p.m.
Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes

Book signing with author Judith Tankard
The New York Botanical Garden
Shop in the Garden

Bronx River Parkway at Fordham Road
The Bronx, New York

Thursday, November 19, 6-8 p.m.
Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes

Lecture, book signing, and reception with author Judith Tankard
The Horticultural Society of New York
148 West 37th Street, 13th Floor
New York, New York

This event benefits the Horticultural Society’s library. Admission is $100, and a guest is free. To register, call (212) 757-0915 x100

Wednesday, November 18, 6-8 p.m.
Living West: New Residential Architecture in Southern California

Book talk and signing with The Architect’s Newspaper’s Sam Lubell
AIA New York
The Center for Architecture
536 La Guardia Place
[between Bleecker and 3rd Streets]
New York, New York

Click here to RSVP.

NEWS: Listen now to Paul Goldberger on WNYC

If you missed Paul Goldberger on WNYC’s The Leonard Lopate show Tuesday, click here to listen now!

Tuesday, November 17, 6:30 p.m.
Building Up and Tearing Down

Lecture and book signing with Paul Goldberger
The Tenement Museum
108 Orchard Street (on the corner of Delancey Street)
New York, New York

NEWS: Our biggest publishing day of the year!

Today marks the release of thirteen new titles. We’re very proud and excited to see these books hit the shelves as we near the end of our fall season. Here they are (in no particular order):

A Common Destiny: A Photographic Journey Through a Changing World
Photographs by Cédric Delsaux, Introduction by Bill McKibben, Contributions by James Lovelock and Wangari Maathai

The Art of Living
Photographs by Bärbel Miebach

Star Pieces: The Enduring Beauty of Spectacular Furniture
David Linley, Charles Cator, Helen Chislett

Space Project
Photographs by Lynn Davis, Foreword by Alan Wesiman

SOM: Architecture of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
a five-volume monograph:
1950-1962
Introduction by Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Commentaries by Ernst Danz
1963-1973
Introduction by Arthur Drexler, Commentaries by Axel Menges
1973-1983
Introduction by Albert Bush-Brown
1984-1996
Introduction by Detlef Mertins
1997-2008
Introduction by Kenneth Frampton

Picasso
Philippe Dagen

Ken Smith: Landscape Architect
Ken Smith, Introduction by John Beardsley

Juan Montoya
Juan Montoya

Jim Olson Houses
Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen, Introduction by Michael Webb

Click on each title to find excerpts, tables of contents, additional images, and more!

As always, make sure to follow us on Twitter (@MonacelliPress) and keep checking back for the latest updates and events!

Monday, November 16, 11:30 p.m. (10:30c)
NEWS: Paul Goldberger to appear on The Colbert Report

Paul Goldberger will appear on The Colbert Report in an interview with Stephen Colbert. The Colbert Report airs on Comedy Central. Please check your local listings (or click here) for channel information.

If you miss the first airing, full episodes can be viewed from ColbertNation—click here.

Saturday, November 14, 3 p.m.
Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes

Lecture and book signing with Judith Tankard
Tuxedo Park Library
227 Route 17
Tuxedo Park, New York

Monday, November 2, 6:30 p.m.
Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes

Lecture with author Judith Tankard
Harkness Memorial State Park
275 Great Neck Road
Waterford, Connecticut

October 2009

Friday, October 30, 6-8:30 p.m.
White on White: Churches of Rural New England

Opening reception and book signing with photographer Steve Rosenthal
Cape Ann Museum
27 Pleasant Street
Gloucester, Massachusetts

Tuesday, October 27, 6:30-8 p.m.
Counterpoint: Daniel Libeskind in Conversation with Paul Goldberger

Lecture and book signing with architect Daniel Libeskind
Poland: The Post-War Cultural Paradigm
Royal Institute of Architects
RIBA
66 Portland Place
London

Click here to register.

Thursday, October 22, 6 p.m.
Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes

Lecture and Book Signing with Judith B. Tankard
Longue Vue House & Gardens
7 Bamboo Road
New Orleans, Louisiana

Thursday, October 22, 7 p.m.
Night/Shift

Lecture and Book Signing with photographer Lynn Saville
School of Visual Arts & Camera Club of New York
209 East 23rd Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenue), 3rd floor Amphitheatre
New York, New York

Admission: Free to CCNY members and SVA students, faculty, and staff; General: $10; Students with valid student ID: $5.

Wednesday, October 21, 7 p.m.
Building Up and Tearing Down

Lecture and book signing with architecture critic Paul Goldberger
Barnes and Noble
150 East 86th Street [at Lexington Avenue]
New York, New York