Princeton Architectural Press: 166 books
by Alannah Moore
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
The advantages of selling your products online are many—low overhead, global markets, twenty-four-hour shopping—but perhaps most important is the level playing field offered by the internet. With a distinctive product and professional-looking website, you stand as much of a chance at success as...
War Plan Red
The United States' Secret Plan to Invade Canada and Canada's Secret Plan to Invade the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
It's known as the world's friendliest border. Five thousand miles of unfenced, unwalled international coexistence and a symbol of neighborly goodwill between two great nations: the United States and Canada. But just how friendly is it really? In War Plan Red, the secret "cold war" between...
by Camille Seaman
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Our culture is addicted to weather: hourly forecasts, apps, radio, TV channels, alerts, warnings, and watches. And understandably—our food, clothing, livelihoods, and, increasingly, safety are tied directly to the weather and climate change. In The Big Cloud, photographer Camille Seaman stands in...
The Musician Says
Quotes, Quips, and Words of Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The Musician Says is an all-access backstage pass to the world of singers, songwriters, composers, and instrumentalists—all those who have a relationship with the Muse and have experienced the sacrifices, satisfactions, and frustrations it brings. You'll hear from an eclectic group that spans centuries...
Outside the Box
Hand-Drawn Packaging from Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
In an age of slick, computer-generated type and Photoshopped perfection, hand-drawn packing is enjoying a global resurgence. As shorthand for something more authentic, homegrown, handmade, or crafted, hand-drawn packaging is found on everything from supermarket eggs to Chipotle drink cups. In this...
Terminal Bar
A Photographic Record of New York's Most Notorious Watering Hole
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
In 1972 Shelly Nadelman began a ten-year run bartending at one of New York City's most notorious dives: the Terminal Bar, located across the street from the Port Authority Bus Terminal near Times Square. For ten years, right up until the bar closed for good in 1982, he shot thousands of black-and-white...
Printing Architecture
Innovative Recipes for 3D Printing
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Although 3D printing promises a revolution in many industries, primarily industrial manufacturing, nowhere are the possibilities greater than in the field of product design and modular architecture. Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello, of the cutting-edge San Francisco–based design firm Emerging...
Balancing Acts
Three Prima Ballerinas Becoming Mothers
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
There are few jobs more rarefied or as physically and mentally demanding as prima ballerina. And yet, despite very real professional risks, three dancers from the world-class San Francisco Ballet all decided to have children at the pinnacle of their careers. In Balancing Acts, photographer Lucy Gray...
Pamphlet Architecture 26
Thirteen Projects for the Sheridan Expressway
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
The thirteen projects take as their subject a site of contested transportation infrastructure--the Sheridan Expressway. By proposing new typologies for this site, these studies seek to mediate the spaces in the city where local and regional meet. Referencing the introduction of the modern parkway...
by Michael Bierut
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
"Design is a way to engage with real content, real experience," writes celebrated essayist Michael Bierut in this follow-up to his best-selling Seventy-Nine Short Essays on Design (2007). In more than fifty smart and accessible short pieces from the past decade, Bierut engages with a fascinating...
Pamphlet Architecture 30
Coupling: Strategies for Infrastructural Opportunism
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Participants in the Pamphlet Architecture 30 competition were asked to respond to the theme "Investigations in Infrastructure," and propose new directions for architecture, transportation, energy, cities, and agriculture at a continental scale. The winning entry, Coupling, imagined six daring...
Come Together
The Rise of Cooperative Art and Design
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
The past twenty years have seen a new generation of artists working together in small groups and large collectives to explore new avenues of art, design, performance, and commerce. In Come Together, author and visual artist Francesco Spampinato assembles an international roster of forty of today's...
Victor Lundy
Artist Architect
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
If you're looking for something new under the midcentury sun, Victor Lundy (born 1923) is a real find, an important yet underappreciated figure in the history of American architecture. Trained in both the Beaux Arts and Bauhaus traditions, he built an impressive practice ranging from small-scale residential...
Veterans
Faces of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Ichiro Sudan trained to be a kamikaze. Roscoe Brown was a commander in the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American military aviators. Charin Singh, a farmer from Delhi, spent seven years as a Japanese prisoner of war and was not sent home until four years after the war ended. Uli John lost an...