Princeton Architectural Press: 166 books
The Suburbanization of New York
Is the World's Greatest City Becoming Just Another Town?
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
The city that never sleeps also never stops changing. And while New Yorkers are renowned for their trendsetting, this thought-provoking book argues that New York City itself has become a follower rather than a leader. Once-distinctive streets and neighborhoods have become awash in generic stores,...
Letters to a Young Farmer
On Food, Farming, and Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
An agricultural revolution is sweeping the land. Appreciation for high-quality food, often locally grown, an awareness of the fragility of our farmlands, and a new generation of young people interested in farming, animals, and respect for the earth have come together to create a new agrarian community....
The Business of Creativity
How to Build the Right Team for Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Long known as the go-to management consultant of the design world, Keith Granet reveals more of his clear-eyed insights about running a creative business in this follow-up to his book The Business of Design. While aimed at creative enterprises, Granet's advice, quickly summarized as "know what...
The Chef Says
Quotes, Quips and Words of Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Compelling quotations from 150 chefs—including James Beard, Julia Child, Gordon Ramsay, April Bloomfield—to inspire and delight professional chefs, foodies, and anyone who's ever resolved a crisis by adding more butter.
"Clean plates don't lie."
—Dan Barber
Great chefs...
Fries!
An Illustrated Guide to the World's Favorite Food
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Imagine a plate of crisp, golden, salted fries, and you'll know why this is the world's favorite food. Who better to write the consummate cultural history and user's guide of the fry than Blake Lingle, whose fries were recently voted the best in America by U.S. News & World Report? In this lighthearted...
by Michael Beirut
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design brings together the best of designer Michael Bierut's critical writing—serious or humorous, flattering or biting, but always on the mark. Bierut is widely considered the finest observer on design writing today. Covering topics as diverse as Twyla Tharp and ITC...
Beautiful Users
Designing for People
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
In the mid-twentieth century, Henry Dreyfuss—widely considered the father of industrial design—pioneered a user-centered approach to design that focuses on studying people's behaviors and attitudes as a key first step in developing successful products. In the intervening years, user-centered design...
Paul Rand
Conversations with Students
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
As one of the most influential and inspirational graphic designers of the twentieth century, Paul Rand defined modern American graphic design. His iconic logo designs for IBM, UPS, and the ABC television network distilled the essences of modernity for his corporate patrons. His body of work includes...
by Dorothy Abbe
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
There has never been anyone in the design world like William Addison Dwiggins (1880–1956). The first American to call himself a graphic designer, he applied his prodigious talents in the fields of typography, calligraphy, illustration, and even puppeteering—a more fitting title might have been...
by Steven Peterman, Sara Elands Peterman
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Destined to go down as one of the era's most astonishing global art projects, the Brooklyn Art Library's Sketchbook Project has, in less than a decade, amassed more than thirty thousand sketchbooks submitted by people of all ages and artistic abilities from more than 130 countries. Bursting with color,...
Wright Sites
A Guide to Frank Lloyd Wright Public Places
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Frank Lloyd Wright's groundbreaking designs, innovative construction techniques, and inviting interiors continue to astound and inspire generations of architects and nonarchitects alike. The only comprehensive collection of Wright-designed buildings open to the public in the United States and Japan,...
You Are Here: NYC
Mapping the Soul of the City
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Maps are magical. Every graphic, like every story, has a point of view, and New York is rife with mapmaking possibilities, thick with mythology, and glutted with history. You Are Here: NYC assembles some two hundred maps charting every inch and facet of the five boroughs, depicting New Yorks of past...
by Joe Fig
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Inside an art gallery, it is easy to forget that the paintings there are the end products of a process involving not only creative inspiration, but also plenty of physical and logistical details. It is these "cruder," more mundane aspects of a painter's daily routine that motivated Brooklyn...
by Joe Fig
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
What was your earliest childhood artwork that received recognition? When did you first consider yourself a professional artist? How has your studio's location influenced your work? How do you choose titles? Do you have a favorite color?
Joe Fig asked a wide range of celebrated artists these...