Princeton Architectural Press: 166 books
Pamphlet Architecture 29
Ambiguous Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Ambiguous Spaces, the newest installment in the Pamphlet Architecture series and a return to Pamphlet's own progressive roots, features the architectural fictions "The Pregnant Island" and "Nuclear Breeding." These two projects develop alternative urban concepts that address the...
Network Practices
New Strategies in Architecture and Design
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
The twin revolutions of the global economy and omnipresent Internet connectivity have had a profound impact on architectural design. Geographical gaps and, in many cases, architecture's tie to the built world itself have evaporated in the face of our new networked society. Form is now conceptualized...
Pamphlet Architecture 32
Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
The competition for Pamphlet Architecture 32 centered on the theme of resilience. By addressing the capacity to cope, the ability to bounce back, and the mitigation and management of risk, participants were asked to showcase a fresh understanding of the architectural opportunities found in resilience....
Thinking with Type
A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Our all-time best selling book is now available in a revised and expanded second edition. Thinking with Type is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication, from the printed page to the computer screen. This revised edition includes forty-eight pages of new content, including...
by Douglas Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
It's everywhere, including the moon (on the commemorative plaque left by Apollo 11 astronauts), Nike sneakers, the artworks of Barbara Kruger, Ed Ruscha, and Jenny Holzer, 2001: A Space Odyssey credits, Domino's Pizza boxes, Absolut Vodka bottles, and Red Bull cans. Richard Nixon used it for his presidential...
Finding Home
Shelter Dogs and Their Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Bold, retiring, serious, sparkling, quirky, or lovable—the dogs in Traer Scott's remarkable photographs regard us with humor, dignity, and an abundance of feeling. Scott began photographing these dogs in 2005 as a volunteer at animal shelters. Her first book, Shelter Dogs, was a runaway success,...
Graphic Design Theory
Readings from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Graphic Design Theory is organized in three sections: "Creating the Field" traces the evolution of graphic design over the course of the early 1900s, including influential avant-garde ideas of futurism, constructivism, and the Bauhaus; "Building on Success" covers the mid- to...
Type on Screen
A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Developers, and Students
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
The long awaited follow-up to our all-time bestseller Thinking with Type is here. Type on Screen is the definitive guide to using classic typographic concepts of form and structure to make dynamic compositions for screen-based applications. Covering a broad range of technologies—from electronic...
by Giorgia Lupi, Stefanie Posavec
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Equal parts mail art, data visualization, and affectionate correspondence, Dear Data celebrates "the infinitesimal, incomplete, imperfect, yet exquisitely human details of life," in the words of Maria Popova (Brain Pickings), who introduces this charming and graphically powerful book. For...
Writing About Architecture
Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Extraordinary architecture addresses so much more than mere practical considerations. It inspires and provokes while creating a seamless experience of the physical world for its users. It is the rare writer that can frame the discussion of a building in a way that allows the reader to see it with...
by Adrian Shaughnessy
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2006
Published to instant acclaim in 2005, our best selling-áHow to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul-áhas become a trusted resource for graphic designers around the world, combining practical advice with philosophical guidance to help young professionals embark on their careers. This new,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
On the heels of our groundbreaking books in landscape architecture, James Corner's Recovering Landscape and Charles Waldheim's Landscape Urbanism Reader, comes another essential reader, . Examining our shifting perceptions of nature and place in the context of environmental challenges and how these...
Five Flights Up
and Other New York Apartment Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
A flop house, a pumping station, a maid's room, a homeless center, a former brothel, a Richard Meier building, a circus trailer, a sail boat, a skyscraper, buildings named Esther and Loraine—just a few of the places New Yorkers call home. For the past eight years writer Toni Schlesinger has been...
The Smith Tapes
Lost Interviews with Rock Stars & Icons 1969-1972
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
The 1960s were a period of radical cultural, social, and political upheaval in the United States and around the globe; yet in just three years, between 1969 and 1972, Village Voice "Scenes" columnist, WPLJ FM radio host, and cult figure Howard Smith got to the heart of it all by talking...