Princeton Architectural Press: 166 books
by Emily Spivack
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Everyone has a memoir in miniature in at least one piece of clothing. In Worn Stories, Emily Spivack has collected over sixty of these clothing-inspired narratives from cultural figures and talented storytellers. First-person accounts range from the everyday to the extraordinary, such as artist Marina...
Designed for the Future
80 Practical Ideas for a Sustainable World
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
In Designed for the Future, author Jared Green asks eighty of today's most innovative architects, urban planners, landscape architects, journalists, artists, and environmental leaders the same question: what gives you the hope that a sustainable future is possible? Their imaginative answers—covering...
The Toaster Project
Or A Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2007
Hello, my name is Thomas Thwaites, and I have made a toaster. So begins-áThe Toaster Project, the author's nine-month-long journey from his local appliance store to remote mines in the UK to his mother's backyard, where he creates a crude foundry. Along the way, he learns that an ordinary toaster...
Souvenir Nation
Relics, Keepsakes, and Curios from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Buried within the collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History exists an astonishing group of historical relics from the pre-Revolutionary War era to the present day, many of which have never been on display. Donated to the museum by generations of souvenir collectors,...
by Fred Lyon
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Following in the footsteps of classic films like The Maltese Falcon and The Lady from Shanghai, veteran photographer Fred Lyon creates images of San Francisco in high contrast with a sense of mystery. In this latest offering from the photographer of San Francisco: Portrait of a City 1940–1960, Lyon...
Michael Graves
Design for Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
One of the most prominent and prolific designers and architects of the late twentieth century, Michael Graves is best known for his popular product designs, including the world-famous Alessi whistling-bird teakettle, and controversial buildings, such as the Portland Building in Oregon, Humana Building...
The Electric Pencil
Drawings from Inside State Hospital No. 3
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Deeds's subtle, meticulous, and wildly imaginative pencil and crayon drawings portray an unusual cast of characters: nineteenth-century dandies, Civil War soldiers, antique cars, fantastic boats and trains, country landscapes dotted with roaming animals, and fanciful architecture. None of these existed...
Pen to Paper
Artists' Handwritten Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Even in this age of emails, texts, and tweets, there is an ongoing fascination with the simple act of putting pen to paper. Associations such as the International Association of Master Penmen and the Society for Italic Handwriting keep the traditions of calligraphy and penmanship alive, hand-writing...
Joan Miró
I Work Like a Gardener
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
In 1958, artist Joan Miró and critic Yvon Taillandier sat down for an in-depth discussion on Miró's life and work. Their conversation, one of the most illuminating and insightful looks into Miró's philosophy and creative process, was first published in a limited edition of seventy five copies in...
The Filmmaker Says
Quotes, Quips, and Words of Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Inspiring everything from pop culture earthquakes to popular revolutions, filmmakers have demonstrated an uncanny ability to move the masses. But the drama they project on screen is only half the picture. Stretching from its earliest days of two-reel silent films to the latest 3-D digital blockbusters,...
Graphic Design Discourse
Evolving Theories, Ideologies, and Processes of Visual Communication
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
If the aim of graphic design is to communicate meaning clearly, there's an irony that the field itself has struggled between two contradictory opposites: rote design resulting from a rigorous, fixed set of rules, and eccentric design that expresses the hand of the artist but fails to communicate with...
by Patrick Dougherty
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Using minimal tools and a simple technique of bending, interweaving, and fastening together sticks, artist Patrick Dougherty creates works of art inseparable with nature and the landscape. With a dazzling variety of forms seamlessly intertwined with their context, his sculptures evoke fantastical...
People Knitting
A Century of Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
People Knitting is a charming tribute in vintage photographs and printed ephemera to the ever-popular, often all-consuming, craft of knitting. When women posed with their knitting in the earliest nineteenth-century photographs, it demonstrated their virtue and skill as homemakers. Later, knitting...
From Here to There
A Curious Collection from the Hand Drawn Map Association
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
From Here to There celebrates these ephemeral documents--usually forgotten or tossed aside after having served their purpose--giving them their due as artifacts representing stories from people's lives around the world. There is the young woman suffering from juvenile rheumatoid arthritis who created...