Princeton Architectural Press: 166 books
Twenty Over Eighty
Conversations on a Lifetime in Architecture and Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Twenty Over Eighty is a collection of insightful, intimate, and often irreverent interviews with twenty architecture and design luminaries over the age of eighty. Revealing conversations with leaders from a variety of fields—including graphic designers Seymour Chwast, Milton Glaser, Lora Lamm, and...
From Russia With Doubt
The Quest to Authenticate 181 Would-Be Masterpieces of the Russian Avant-Garde
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In 2010 the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver director Adam Lerner did something unheard of in the museum world: he mounted a large exhibition of paintings without first knowing whether they were real or fakes. Painted in the Suprematist and Constructivist style of early twentieth-century Russian...
The Designer Says
Quotes, Quips, and Words of Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Whether musing about the creative process, the merits of failure and criticism, or the challenges of keeping the studio lights on, designers make good, and opinionated, copy. The Designer Says, the follow-up to our best-selling The Architect Says, is a compendium of quotations from more than one hundred...
Urban Composition
Developing Community Through Design
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Cities and towns are among humanity's greatest achievements, yet no single individual or organization creates them. The buildings, streets, and gardens of even a small town embody substantial investments of money, natural resources, and political capital. Much more than the sum of its parts, a settlement's...
Interactive Architecture
Adaptive World
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Recent technological developments in biology, computation, cybernetics, engineering, industrial design, materials, and robotics allow architecture to evolve beyond static functionality and become an active participant—with the capacity to perceive, react to, and connect—with humans and the natural...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Architecture and Film looks at the ways architecture and architects are treated on screen and, conversely, how these depictions filter and shape the ways we understand the built environment. It also examines the significant effect that the film industry has had on the American public's perception...
by Fred Lyon
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
With a landmark around every corner and a picture perfect view atop every hill, San Francisco might be the world's most picturesque city. And yet, the Golden City is so much more than postcard vistas. It's a town alive with history, culture, and a palpable sense of grandeur best captured by a man...
The Ghost Army of World War II
How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects, and Other Audacious Fakery
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
The Ghost Army of World War II describes a perfect example of a little-known, highly imaginative, and daring maneuver that helped open the way for the final drive to Germany. It is a riveting tale told through personal accounts and sketches along the way—ultimately, a story of success against great...
Mark Mothersbaugh
Myopia
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Mark Mothersbaugh is a legendary figure for fans of both street art and music culture. Cofounder of the seminal New Wave band DEVO, he was a prolific visual artist before the band's inception moving seamlessly between multiple mediums creating bold, cartoonish, strangely disturbed works of pop surrealism...
by Mark E. Hogancamp, Chris Shellen
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Welcome to Marwencol tells the story of Mark Hogancamp. Mark is the subject of the movie, Welcome to Marwen (December 2018) starring Steve Carrell
• Welcome to Marwencol is a hybrid art and storybook about Mark Hogancamp and his imaginary World War II—era town of Marwencol.
• Learn about...
Monument Man
The Life and Art of Daniel Chester French
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
The artist who created the statue for the Lincoln Memorial, John Harvard in Harvard Yard, and The Minute Man in Concord, Massachusetts, Daniel Chester French (1850–1931) is America's best-known sculptor of public monuments Monument Man is the first comprehensive biography of this fascinating figure...
by Arthur Schopenhauer, Philipp Otto Runge
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
During the first two decades of the nineteenth century, two of the most significant theoretical works on color since Leonardo da Vinci's Trattato della Pittura were written and published in Germany: Arthur Schopenhauer's On Vision and Colors and Philipp Otto Runge's Color Sphere. For Schopenhauer,...
by Verlyn Klinkenborg
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Verlyn Klinkenborg's regular column, The Rural Life, is one of the most read and beloved in the New York Times. Since 1997, he has written eloquently on every aspect, large and small, of life on his upstate New York farm, including his animals, the weather and landscape, and the trials and rewards...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Ordinary. Banal. Quotidian. These words are rarely used to praise architecture, but in fact they represent the interest of a growing number of architects looking to the everyday to escape the ever-quickening cycles of consumption and fashion that have reduced architecture to a series of stylistic...