Art & Photography Books

Book SynopsisTracing Rosenberg's trajectory from early paintings to more recent endeavors in photography, film, sculpture and installation New York– and Berlin-based artist Aura Rosenberg (born 1949) engages the many ways that images produce and reproduce conditions of everyday life, including notions of spectatorship, gender, normalized bodies, the family, history and legacy. For this reason, although she works in painting, sculpture, installation and performance, she most often deploys photography as her medium of choice. This catalog is published on the occasion of Rosenberg’s solo exhibitions at the Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY) and Pioneer Works. It pairs a selection of works spanning 50 years with 11 texts from notable writers such as director and actress Lena Dunham, curator and critic Robert Nickas, and curator Lumi Tan. This publication offers the first comprehensive overview of Rosenberg's work.

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Book SynopsisGorgeously produced and full of fascinating interviews, profiles, and recipes, Café Gitane: 30 Years tells the story of the vibrant downtown New York culture that thrived in the ''90s and 2000s through the lens of an iconic institution nestled at its heart. Through the voices of patrons, artists, and locals who have frequented the beloved Cafe Gitane, readers are sent back to an analog New York, when NoLIta was still Little Italy, a quiet neighborhood tucked between SoHo and the Lower East Side, and downtown hummed with creative energy. Here a tiny, cosmopolitan French Moroccan cafe evolved into a cultural nexus: a meeting place and playground for everyone, from the most talented emerging artists to out-of-town visitors. Cafe Gitane: 30 Years invites readers to savor the sights, sounds, and tastes of an establishment that has left an unusually lasting mark on an ever-shifting city. It chronicles not just a unique café, but a creative community—and a microcosm of New York itself. McNally Jackson Books, Nolita’s neighborhood bookstore since 2004, is honored to be publishing this celebratory scrapbook. Indeed, Café Gitane commemorates the enduring spirit and connection shared by two downtown institutions and gathering places, whose entwined histories and evolutions help define the fabric of the city.

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Book SynopsisBased in Buenos Aires and New York, Estudio Ramos has developed a distinctive style that relies on a well defined vision of modernism. Through 35 years of experience the firm has developed its work with a deep respect for architectures principles. Their goal is to encourage reflection through a simple, pure and honest architectural language. Through 35 years of experience the firm has developed it's work with a deep respect for architecture's principles. In their long trajectory of residential and commercial building they seek to understand and interpret each project's context, pursuing its ideal scale and sustainability. In their long trajectory of residential and commercial building they seek to understand and interpret each project's context pursuing its ideal scale and sustainability. The particular nature of Estudio Ramos work's is strongly conferred from the use of the exposed concrete. It evokes stone, which emphasizes its qualities of durability and hardness while being crafted in an artistic manner.

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Book SynopsisFeaturing an introduction by the renowned architecture critic Aaron Betsky as well as in-depth analysis, sumptuous photographic documentation and detailed plans and diagrams, this volume explores every stage of the design and building process, from its conception to the stunning end result. It thus offers valuable insight into how an award-winning residence like Field House came into being, showing how brilliant design, thoughtful landscaping and a harmonious philosophy can come together to create a subtle architectural masterpiece.

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Book SynopsisThis book captures the insights and moments of discovery gained from their encounters with the land. The Fields’ responsive approach and meticulous execution extends to every element of their architectural practice, from considering the way that a tree casts a shadow on a wall to carefully orchestrating a project to minimize the impact of construction on a site. The book includes a Q&A with Stan Field; an essay by Jess Field on his sources of inspiration; sketches and models that they use as design tools; and a portfolio of 10 exquisitely crafted houses shaped by the imprint of the natural world and beautifully documented by acclaimed photographers Joe Fletcher and Matthew Millman.

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Book Synopsis A survey of the career of one of America's most iconic living architects. Explores groundbreaking works of architecture and planning such as the Chicago Riverwalk, a range of different institutionsand sustainable McDonald's Chicago and Disney World. Charts a stellar career, from early schools and institutions to major city planning projects showing how Ross Barneystayed true to her principles throughout.

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Book SynopsisCoral Gables became the vision of George Merrick, who along with his uncle, Denman Fink and the landscape architect Frank Button, created a layout based on the principles of the City Beautiful Movement.

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Book SynopsisIf you’re going to design a big house, make it gorgeously grand, fantastically executed, and in perfect, reciprocal balance with the landscape.

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Book SynopsisJohn L. Wong’s work with Stanford University both reclaims Leland Stanford and Frederick Law Olmsted’s 100-year-old vision while also building on that legacy to create a beautiful, resilient campus environment that facilitates learning in the 21st century.

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Book SynopsisA concise introduction to the later work of the self-taught American Surrealist artist and author American Surrealist artist Dorothea Tanning (1910–2012) worked across painting, sculpture, printmaking, installation and writing over the course of seven decades, producing one of the 20th century’s most enigmatic oeuvres. Tanning’s work conjures dreamlike worlds that straddle the hazy border between figuration and abstraction, pioneering a unique prismatic formal language that resonates keenly today. This fully illustrated catalog highlights Tanning’s works created between the 1950s and ’90s, a particularly fruitful period in the artist’s career, and traces her stylistic arc through over 20 significant paintings drawn from interrelated phases of the artist’s practice. Scholars Mary Ann Caws, Victoria Carruthers and Kate Conley contribute essays to the volume; additionally, it reproduces Tanning’s 1986 essay “To Paint,” a poetic and impassioned manifesto on painting and Surrealism. The catalog takes its title from the last line of this text.Trade ReviewIn this almost minute-by-minute account of picture making...Tanning dramatizes aesthetic choices as well as the sheer physicality of her process. -- Albert Mobilio * Hyperallergic *As Tanning took up midcentury painterly abstraction, key philosophical themes from her earlier phantasmal narrative paintings undergo transformations and reiterations. -- Tim Keane * Hyperallergic *

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Book SynopsisA photographic meditation on the empty spaces between time, inspired by Japanese aesthetics The Dutch-born photographer Martien Mulder’s (born 1971) new book of images springs from the Japanese concept of ma, which can be described as a pause in time, an interval, or emptiness in space. Teaming up with Amsterdam-based creatives Stef Bakker and Carsten Klein, Mulder embarked on an extensive quest to reveal the ma in her own images, editing from an archive of 25 years of photography. The images in this book are studies of the in-between; some center on details photographed at such close quarters that they lose their context, while others show only the negative space, inactivity or quiet nothingness. The viewing direction of the book is not dictated, nor is the beginning or the end, nor the pace: it can be opened to any page at any time, functioning as an object of contemplation.

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Book SynopsisAs featured in Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, The A.V. Club, Consequence, Mashable, Mental Floss, Book Riot and more!“Weird Al” Yankovic continues as one of our most beloved comedians, actors, and musicians. A skilled accordion player and lyricist, the California native not only crafts meticulous parodies, but also creates hilarious originals and pop culture-themed polkas. Now in his fifth decade of recording and performing, Al has maintained a career that has outlasted many of the artists that he has lampooned.Since 1980, Al’s drummer Jon “Bermuda” Schwartz has been by his side, photographing and documenting his career. Jon has taken more than 20,000 images of Al in his element: on tour, in the studio, on video sets, and backstage.Lights, Camera, Accordion! presents over 300 images of Al, culled from Jon’s personal collection of color photography, all restored from the original negatives. This exhaustive volume represents the 25 years that Jon shot Al on 35mm color film, from 1981 to 2006, before switching to digital photography. Jon additionally provides previously unheard stories and anecdotes throughout.From “Eat It” and “Like a Surgeon” to later classics such as “Smells Like Nirvana,” “Amish Paradise,” and the Star Wars parody “The Saga Begins,” Lights, Camera, Accordion! showcases a body of work that spans ten albums, five Grammys, and nearly 2,000 concerts to millions of fans – and is packed with the weirdness and fun that always surrounds the undisputed king of comedic music.Trade Review"One of the 10 books to read this month [November, 2022]. Longtime drummer and band archivist Jon 'Bermuda' Schwartz is back with a color counterpart to Black & White & Weird All Over, having whittled down the thousands of 35mm images he took over 25 years. Chapters, organized chronologically by album and tour, open with short contextualizing intros peppered with behind-the-scenes memories (the one touring rule: 'no number two' allowed on the bus!), followed by images of Al on tour, on set, on stage, backstage, and just generally hamming it up. As the pages turn, you see Al and the band grow into a national sensation." – The A.V. Club"Holiday Gift Guide selection / 2022. More than 300 color photos represent 25 years of touring, filming, and recording with Alfred Matthew Yankovic, aka Weird Al, taken by [Jon "Bermuda"] Schwartz, his longtime drummer. This is a treat for fans." – Publishers Weekly"An entertaining pictorial tribute to a one-of-a-kind musician by someone who knows him better than most [Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz]. It’s also proof that the weirdness doesn’t stop as soon as Weird Al leaves the stage.” – Mental Floss"Lights, Camera, Accordion is a visual Weird Al time machine." – Bleeding Cool“There are shots of Al in the studio. Eating pizza. Having fun with his friends. Recording the ‘Amish Paradise’ video. Performing ‘Like a Surgeon.’ When I first saw it, I thought ‘Wow. He looks like he’s having fun with his life.’ And because I know him just well enough to write the foreword to this book for free, I can tell you that he’s always like that. He IS the greatest.” – comedian Drew Carey“Jon ‘Bermuda’ Schwartz has been at Weird Al's side from the beginning and when not holding drumsticks has been holding a camera. Jon’s hobby and Al’s exercise in tolerance are now our joy.” – comedian, UHF co-star (and current tour opener) Emo PhilipsTable of ContentsChapter 1: DebutChapter 2: In 3-DChapter 3: That Stupid YearChapter 4: Polka Party/Even Worse/UHFChapter 5: Off The Deep EndChapter 6: AlapaloozaChapter 7: Bad Hair DayChapter 8: Running With ScissorsChapter 9: Poodle HatChapter 10: Straight Outta Lynwood

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Book SynopsisA critically acclaimed encounter between two American masters of threshold perception and color nuance This book brings together the work of abstract painter Ad Reinhardt (1913–67) and key figure of the Light and Space movement James Turrell (born 1943). Turrell first encountered Reinhardt at a lecture at Pasadena Museum in 1962, and paid homage to the influence Reinhardt had on his own work through the exhibition Ad Reinhardt: Color Out of Darkness, held at Pace Gallery in early 2022. As curator, Turrell designed the presentation and lighting concept to illuminate his chosen works from Reinhardt’s geometric, monochromatic “red,” “blue” and “black” paintings. This book documents this immersive exhibition through numerous installation photographs taken under different lighting conditions, accompanied by prose and poetry from a wide range of contributors, written in direct response to the visual experience of seeing the exhibition. Contemporary artists, writers, scientists and poets explore the experiential nature of both Reinhardt and Turrell’s work.

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Book SynopsisLate works from the abstract painter devoted to pictorial disruption and vivacious color work DC-based painter Sam Gilliam (1933–2022) paved a distinct course through abstraction by way of tireless formal, material and tonal experimentation. During the late 1960s, Gilliam advanced the processes and aesthetics employed by the Color Field painters while radically disrupting the Greenbergian ideal of the contained picture plane. This robust period of output yielded his canonical Beveled-edge and Drape series, which he spent decades elaborating upon. Sam Gilliam: The Last Five Years presents a suite of works created by the late artist in the final years of his life, encompassing arresting variations on his iconic tondos, drapes and beveled-edge paintings. Replete with photographs and foldouts as well as an essay by acclaimed art historian Lowery Stokes Sims, this volume offers an all-encompassing look at Gilliam’s dynamic, vibrant compositions.

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Book SynopsisElegant monochrome glamour in Katz's new print series This handsome clothbound catalog gathers Alex Katz’s recent titular print portfolio. The series of 25 prints features close-up, black-and-white portraits that remove the subjects from any contextual backdrop, emphasizing instead subtle shifts in expression. Rendered in bold lineation and tightly framed, the women depicted recall the models and celebrities featured in mid-20th-century fashion imagery, underscoring Katz’s ongoing fascination with perceptions of beauty and glamour that permeate the public sphere. The portraits are bookended by a pair of meditations on beauty: Carter Ratcliff imagines a comedically philosophical dialogue between himself and beauty, and Jarrett Earnest shares 31 encounters with beauty in art and life. Alex Katz (born 1927) is one of America’s most iconic and prolific artists. His work has been the subject of more than 250 solo exhibitions and 500 group exhibitions since 1951 and can be found in over 100 public collections worldwide. Katz is best known for his large-scale canvases of flatly rendered figures cast against a monochrome background.Trade ReviewIf Katz is an artist of distillation, this volume may be the purest shot yet. -- David O'Neill * Bookforum *

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive book in more than a century dedicated entirely to Yosemite's remarkable wild animal world. Countless books have been written about Yosemite National Park's renowned scenery, yet as incredible as it is to us,Half Dome is also someone's home. Social media is flooded with people all over the world sharing their excitement about the antics of the park's distinctive residents: black bears causing traffic in bear jams, mule deer grazing in Ahwahnee Meadow, and coyotes sauntering in the shadow of El Capitan.Yosemite Wildlifegoes beyond the field guides and offers extensive portraits of the park's creaturesa remarkable new publication sure to be welcomed by the more than 4 million annual park visitors and anyone interested in the Sierra Nevada. Readers will discover:150+ species, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and insects300+ photographs and archival imagesCommonly and rarely seen animalsRewilding success storiesProfiles of the park scientists and others who protect wildlifeThis lively and accessible blend of storytelling, the latest research, natural history, and compelling wildlife photographs fills a 100-year gap in publishing that will deeply connect people to this world-renowned national park in California. Crafted over decades by writer and conservation leader Beth Pratt, the book continues the legacy ofGrinnell & Storer's landmark 1924 work, Animal Life in the Yosemite. Beth's writing is accompanied by the work of naturalist-photographer Robb Hirsch, whospent many years in the field photographing animals so as not to impact them by his presence; his photography tells a distinctstory of the park's dazzling wildlife at its most undisturbed.Yosemite Wildlifeshines a spotlight on species that not only make their homes in the park but also come with only-in-Yosemite stories such as those charismatic bears, the peregrine falcons brought back from the brink of extinction in part by big-wall rock climbers, and the tiny amphibians that persist on the tallest peaks. The book celebrates decades of conservation and observation, by visitors and professionals, through highlighting charming and nostalgic pieces from the park's Archive, such as reproductions of handwritten wildlife observation cards and articles excerpted from the beloved Yosemite Nature Notes magazine. Some of this archival material has never been published!This image-rich, engagingly readable volume is a feast for the eyes and has been crafted to appeal to anyone eager to dip in and find out more about Yosemite's enchanting wildlife. Yet the breadth and depth of information will also serve as an excellent reference for educators and scientists. Yosemite is one of America's most precious resources.Yosemite Wildlifedoes this distinction proud, showcasing the creatures of the park that are as captivating as the spray of Yosemite Falls, the dizzying heights of Glacier Point, or the iconic Half Dome.

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Book SynopsisPay homage to the wonders of the world from above. Professional photographer Henry Do redefines how we view the world in a fearless perspective on aerial photography, from lush tropical paradises to the stark patterns of urban landscapes..Henry Do’s first experience with the power of aerial perspective was flying from Vietnam to the United States as a child while immigrating with his aunt. He still remembers the fear, exhilaration, and perspective he felt when looking at the world from the sky, and he has made it his life’s work to share the power of such images with hundreds of thousands of viewers across the world. From Above is the first book dedicated to Do’s stunning work, showing people the majesty of desolate landscapes and the arresting patterns of urban planning. This sweeping visual exploration circles the globe and finds beauty in concrete jungles, iconic landmarks, breathtaking landscapes, and perplexing architecture. With each image, Do aims to give his audience the same experience he had as a boy seeing the earth from above for the very first time, so that each one of these images evokes those same feelings for viewers, and reminds us that we are all part of something greater than ourselves.“I still remember the view from that plane, the beauty of the landscape, and the feeling that humanity is so small. In the middle of the biggest transition of my life, I discovered the catalyst for what would become my passion and my art.”—Henry Do

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Book SynopsisIconic celebrity photographer Greg Williams presents the release of his first book, illuminating the memorable stories and methodology behind the phenomenal photographs of 100 Hollywood stars.Have you ever wondered about the stories behind memorable photographs of some of the most famous people in the world? Why does Joaquin Phoenix look so relaxed eating a sandwich right after winning an Academy Award? Why was Cate Blanchett’s daughter running through her legs in a hotel at Cannes? Greg Williams Photo Breakdowns brings you behind the scenes of over 100 intimate and revealing images shot by one of today’s most in-demand photographers: Greg Williams.Learn the techniques of the master and draw on key tactics and skills Williams has accumulated throughout his extensive career. Whether describing how to frame a shot, leverage the lighting, or understand exposure, Williams emphasizes the importance of using photography as a means to tell stories, especially the stories that you want to tell. With a focus on authenticity, believability, and imperfection, Williams illuminates how he achieves these staggering shots.As the official photographer for the Oscars and a regular contributor to magazines such as Vanity Fair, Williams has unprecedented access to international celebrities, ranging from Brad Pitt and Daniel Craig to Beyoncé, Charlize Theron, and Adam Driver. And, more importantly, his rapport with his subjects results in singular photographs. See some of his favorite moments in Greg Williams Photo Breakdowns, and learn how he captured these incredible moments.Trade Review'[A] veritable who's who of music and showbiz, including Lady Gaga, Margot Robbie, Lupita Nyong'o, and Sean Penn. . . . Williams's explanations of his artistic process . . . prove accessible and illuminating, and add intriguing context to the images themselves. Photography buffs won't be able to look away.' * Publisher's Weekly *'[A] dazzling collection of photographs of the most celebrated performers of the day. . . . Whatever he does to win the trust of his subjects, paradoxically allergic to exposure as so many of them are, the secret ingredient that goes into his photos is clearly Williams' own personality.' * Alex Bilmes, Esquire UK *'It's not only a gorgeous collection of art, but a fascinating compilation of work from a singular talent.' * Town & Country *'One of today's most in-demand photographers, Greg Williams, brings you behind the scenes stories for over 100 intimate and revealing images he has shot. . . . [An] elegant and informative compendium.' * Midwest Book Review *'Williams emphasizes the importance of being ready for the moment, whether you're a professional like Williams, who's photographed virtually every A-list actor alive, or an amateur with an iPhone. . . The magic of Williams's photographs is often the level of intimacy with his subjects, photographing them in unguarded moments.' * Katey Rich, Vanity Fair *

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Book SynopsisThe third book in the Toppi Gallery series features the master’s non-sequential, stand-alone illustration work (as opposed to his graphic novel stories featured in The Collected Toppi series). This volume focuses on themes of masculinity and femininity, showcasing images of soldiers and beautiful women from the artist’s fifty-year career in the field of illustration in many newspapers, magazines, and books worldwide. Featuring both black and white and full color works with captions and text about various subjects throughout.

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Book SynopsisThe fourth release from Clover Press’ new line of THE MARVEL ART OF stunning new coffee table books! Russell Dauterman is an illustrator and character designer, best known for his work on the Marvel comic book series THE MIGHTY THOR, X-MEN, and SCARLET WITCH. Since Russell first saw X-MEN: THE ANIMATED SERIES as a kid, he’s loved the X-Men. That show led him to a nearly lifelong love of comics and to a career as a comic book artist. His work includes design, interior art, and cover art across the Marvel Universe. Russell has designed for the X-Men’s HELLFIRE GALA events, and designed superhero costumes for Storm, Jean Grey, Scarlet Witch, and more. Russell’s Eisner-nominated run on THOR debuted at #1 on The New York Times Bestseller List for graphic novels, and his work has been adapted into video games and film. The Marvel Art of Russell Dauterman collects his hand-picked and fan-favorite pieces representing his 10 years of working at Marvel! 

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Book SynopsisMonochrome collects the platinum prints of celebrated photographer Peter Dazeley. These images of plants, animals, and flowers are produced by hand and made with the original Platinotype method devised by William Willis in 1876. Platinum prints have a distinctively rich, luminous quality with great shadow detail and warmth.Printed on high-quality paper with metallic inks and casebound with a ribbon, Monochrome is the perfect gift for the photography, art, or nature lover.Trade ReviewPraise for Peter Dazeley's Unseen London:"A thrilling tour behind the closed doors of the capital city's buildings." -- Daily Telegraph"Dazeley captures the atmosphere of each building to perfection." -- Daily Express"Fascinating." -- Fabric magazine"A joy." -- Evening Standard

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Book SynopsisCurtis Cuffie (19552002) was an artist who lived and worked in and around the East Village from the mid-1980s until his untimely death in the early 2000s. He moved to New York from Hartsville, South Carolina, as a teenager and lived unhoused for long stretches of his adult life. Cuffie found local notoriety for the way he adorned the streets of downtown New York, collecting what the city provided, often sifting trash to stage on-the-spot sculptures along the Bowery and Cooper Square. His arrangements took the form of impossibly balanced towers, delicate shrines, and unwieldy processions up to thirty-feet in length installed along the walls, fences, and sidewalks of the Lower East Side. Nearly without fail they were removed by the police, inclement weather, the department of sanitation, or the grounds team at Cooper Union, which would later employ him. An enduring presence in the East Village, Cuffie staged sprawling tableaux outside the Village Voice offices that were admired by students and venerable artists alike. He was profiled by scene reporters, political writers, and folk-art journalists, all the while exhibiting in the neighborhood's famed alternative art spaces. While few of his sculptures remain today, a trove of photographs from the 1990s taken by Cuffie and his companion Katy Abel preserve the work he made in the city. This photobook, the first publication about Cuffie, seeks to honor the artist by collecting the efforts of two of his partners: Carol Thompson, who lived with Cuffie from 1996 to 2001 and archived a great number of his 35mm photographs, and Abel, a Cooper Square resident who took hundreds of snapshots of his art. Curtis Cuffie is designed by Julie Peeters, edited by Scott Portnoy and Robert Snowden with Ciarán Finlayson, and additionally includes writing by the artist, Finlayson, and critic Alan Moore, and images taken by Tom Warren and Margaret Morton. CURTIS CUFFIE (19552002) was an artist based in New York City's East Village. Originally from Hartsville, South Carolina, he moved to Brooklyn at fifteen and eventually settled in Manhattan, first near Bryant Park and later around the Bowery. Homeless for long stretches of time, Cuffie became well-known in the 1990s for the sculptures he made using found materials, which he installed in public spaces downtown. Artforum, the New York Times, and the Village Voice all profiled and reviewed his work. and he held solo exhibitions at Flamingo East, Tribes, and 4th Street Photo Gallery, all in the Lower East Side. In his lifetime, Cuffie was featured in nearly a dozen group shows across the US at venues including Exit Art, American Primitive, and the Jamaica Art Center in New York, and the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. Most recently his work was included in Souls Grown Diaspora, curated by Sam Gordon, at Apexart in 2020 and Greater New York at MoMA PS1 in 202122, both in New York. New York City's East Village. Originally from Hartsville, South Carolina, he moved to Brooklyn at fifteen and eventually settled in Manhattan, first near Bryant Park and later around the Bowery. Homeless for long stretches of time, Cuffie became well-known in the 1990s for the sculptures he made using found materials, which he installed in public spaces downtown. Artforum, the New York Times, and the Village Voice all profiled and reviewed his work. and he held solo exhibitions at Flamingo East, Tribes, and 4th Street Photo Gallery, all in the Lower East Side. In his lifetime, Cuffie was featured in nearly a dozen group shows across the US at venues including Exit Art, American Primitive, and the Jamaica Art Center in New York, and the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. Most recently his work was included in Souls Grown Diaspora, curated by Sam Gordon, at Apexart in 2020 and Greater New York at MoMA PS1 in 202122, both in New York. KATY ABEL is a New York City native. She became friends with Curtis Cuffie in 1994 and photographed his artwork for the next several years. CIARA?N FINLAYSON is a writer and editor from Houston, Texas. He is the managing editor of Blank Forms Editions and his long-form essay Perpetual Slavery is forthcoming from Floating Opera Press. ALAN WILLARD MOORE lived in New York City for thirty years. He worked with the artists' groups Colab and the cultural center ABC No Rio, and ran the MWF Video Club distribution project. He received a PhD in art history from the City University of New York in 2000 and has lived in Madrid since 2009. Moore is the author of Art Gangs: Protest and Counterculture in New York City (Autonomedia, 2011), Occupation Culture: Art & Squatting in the City from Below (Minor Compositions/Autonomedia, 2015), and the memoir Art Worker: Doing Time in the New York Artworld (JoAAP, 2022), and a coeditor of Making Room: Cultural Production in Occupied Spaces (JoAAP/Other Forms, 2015). He blogs at Art Gangs and Occupations & Properties. MARGARET MORTON (19482020) was a professor of photography and design at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York. In 1989, she began to document the lives of homeless people in New York. Her photos are the subjects of multiple books including The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Yale University Press, 1995) and Fragile Dwelling (Aperture, 2000). CAROL THOMPSON is a Harlem-based curator and historian of the ancient and contemporary art of Africa and the African diaspora. She has authored numerous publications and taught at Vassar, City College in Harlem, New York University, the Fashion Institute of Technology, and other institutions. From 198796, she was an integral member of staff at New York's Center for African Art, and from 2001 to 2019 she served as the Fred and Rita Richman Curator of African Art at the High Museum in Atlanta. Since July of 2019 Thompson has been an art adviser to the executor and curator of the Thomas G. B. Wheelock Collection of Art of Burkina Faso. TOM WARREN is a photographer from Lakewood, Ohio, who has lived in New York City since 1979. In the 1980s he became a portraitist of the downtown art scene, known for his contributions to the East Village Eye and artistic interventions into the neighborhood's vacant spaces. Warren is the author of The 1980s Art Scene in New York (Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2022)

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Book SynopsisThis book weaves a much needed and transformational narrative about making architecture through paying close attention to cross-laminated timber as a material for today. The material becomes the site of experimentation, innovation, and research in search of specific meanings of CLT in architecture at various scales by selecting the “CLT Blank” as the building unit. The structure of the book brings together work and texts from a diverse group of theorists and practitioners, who make material central to their inquiry, to suggest design approaches that will broaden the cultural, spatial, and technological significance for architecture, education, engineering, and industry. The outcome focuses on materiality through fast slippages between art, architecture, and science, that we hope will invigorate and expand new discourse to act as an antidote to the current conversations about the material, that is fixated on its making and mass production, disappointingly portraying it as a bland and lifeless product—a notion we want to be distant from in preference to seeking areas we feel were not yet conceptualised or theorised. The potential to see the spatial properties of its use and what kind of world that might suggest is shown in the book, with selected striking visual materials, to reposition its architecture though new forms of representation and responses that continue to stay in touch with pragmatics. Aesthetics of CLT with a connection to wood and art practice is a central thread though the book.Table of ContentsBlank Towers Prologue: Built-in Sprezzatura - Erika Naginski After Timber Trends, or Speculations on the Cross-Laminated Timber Blank - Jennifer Bonner and Hanif Kara Blank Houses Endless Lamellae and Finer Grains: A Brief History of Better Wood - Erin Putalik Essential Planes - Christopher C. M. Lee On Blankness: Courtney Coffman Blank Panels Blank Shots: Monolithic Desires and Laminar Inevitabilities - Nader Tehrani Ten Points on CLT Models and Public Performance - Yasmin Vobis Wood Grain Models Constructing the Supergraphic: A Drawing of a Wall as Much as a Wall - Sam Jacob Cut-Out - Nelson Byun Lauren Halsey Surface Tensions - Victoria Camblin Jennifer Bolande Exploded Blanks Switcheroo, Blanks Everywhere - Jennifer Bonner Blank Characters: Elisions in Artistic Practice and Domestic Spaces - Sean Canty Pervasive Structural Analysis Dialogues of Material - Hanif Kara CLT Forecasts Contributors Image Credits Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisFor long, spatial design has been seen as an action that could be performed by people and for people only. And today, even though some of the most meaningful projects of our times seem to challenge this concept, qualitative researches still struggle to emerge. This is why this book collects, reconstructs, and discusses archetypal models of posthuman architecture, from the cabin of Henry David Thoreau to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. To show how architectural, landscape, and industrial designers, be they professional practitioner or not, redefined their tools in order to meet the functional and symbolic needs of new and different kinds of subjects. All this in ten monographic architectural tales, thought to trace the evolution of an extended idea of coexistence between humans and other species and technologies.

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Book SynopsisThe book promotes a landscape approach as a method for understanding and addressing the complex interdependent issues of environmental and climatic change, ecological degradation, and socio-cultural inequalities. The twenty-three book essays are structured into five sections around concepts of urban landscape systems, ecology, politics, territory, and practice. By linking individual sites and local communities to territorial socio-ecological systems and processes, they discuss issues of urban growth and development, remote areas of extraction and production, environmental degradation and transformation, and social inequality and discrimination. While the book allows for parallel readings of such issues in multiple cultural and geographical contexts, a geographic focus is placed on Canada and other environmentally complex and sensitive northern regions. One key theme is the integration of Indigenous knowledge, experience, and storytelling throughout several of the chapters. The book draws lessons that are grounded in inclusive, contextual, and multi-scalar readings which suggest landscape-informed practices that are both socially and environmentally resilient, just, and sustainable.Trade Review"The book draws lessons that draw on inclusive, contextual, and multiscalar readings to suggest landscape-informed practices that are both socially and environmentally resilient, just, and sustainable." [Translated from original language of Italian] - Topscape PaysageTable of ContentsForeword 8 Landscape as Approach: Engaging Medium-as-Method Nina-Marie E. Lister Preface 11 Crafting Socio-Environmental Entanglements in a World of Growing Uncertainties Hannes Zander Introduction 21 Hannes Zander, Shelagh McCartney, Samantha Solano, Sonja Vangjeli 1. PLANNING METROPOLITAN LANDSCAPE SYSTEMS 1.1 Wild, Connected, and Diverse 35 The Role of Landscape Architects in Establishing the Natural Ecosystem of Canada’s Largest City Jane Welsh 1.2 Perspectives on Heritage Conservation and Sustainable Development in Toulouse, France 45 Aliza Sovani 1.3 A Reflexive Approach to Uncertainty 55 Situating Planning Practice in the Landscape of Afghanistan’s City-Regions Justin Kollar, Thomas Nideroest, Mirwais Rahimi 1.4 Ecological Infrastructure as a Systematic Approach to Water Issues 67 Guangzhou’s Sponge City Planning Hexing Chang, Dong Wang 1.5 Anchoring Our Cities in Ecological Identity 79 Jennifer A. Dowdell, Keith Bowers 2. BUILDING ECOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURES 2.1 Port Lands Flood Protection 93 A Landscape Infrastructural Approach Shannon Baker, Sonja Vangjeli 2.2 Urban Water as a Resource, Not as Waste 103 The Case for Medium-Scale Hydric Districts in Mexico City Adriana Chávez, Elena Tudela, Víctor Rico 2.3 Livable Waterways for a Water-Sensitive Transition for Cape Town 115 2.4 Qanatscape 127 Revealing the Historic Water Landscape of the Qanat to Inform Future Green Infrastructure in Cities of Arid Iran Malihe Chamani 2.5 Eternal Ephemera 137 Soft Infrastructures in the Floating City of Uros, Peru Alberto De Salvatierra 3. READING SOCIO-POLITICAL LANDSCAPES 3.1 Forest Plantations as Spatiotemporal Reclamation Strategy 149 Julia Smachylo 3.2 Earth Moves 159 Singapore’s Land Reclamation Projects and the Construction of Territory Hans Hortig 3.3 “Hic et Nunc”Palimpsests 169 Reconstructing Historical Natures through the Malm Territory of Extraction Berta Flaquer 3.4 The Living and Breathing Map of Sámi Reindeer Herding 181 Kjerstin Uhre, Eli Ristin Skum 4. PLANNING FOR TERRITORIAL SYSTEMS 4.1 On the Edge 195 Re-Framing Our Understanding of a Nissological Territory Matthew A. J. Brown, Sandra Cooke 4.2 WaterLore for the Drylands 207 Strategies for Activating Cultural Waters in Regimes of Extraction Antonia Besa, Gini Lee 4.3 Conservation Through Indigenous Treaty Revival 217 Duffin’s Creek, Williams Treaties Area Sheila Boudreau, Gary Pritchard 4.4 Blue Gold 229 Agricultural Infrastructure & Climate Change in the Sahel Matthew Poot 5. NEW MODELS OF PRACTICE 5.1 Codesign, Collaboration, and Systems Change 243 Reflections on Innovative Cross-Cultural and Interdisciplinary Practice Centered on Action in Landscapes of Conflict Shelagh McCartney, Nina-Marie Lister, Jeffrey Herskovits 5.2 Resensitizing Urban Waterways and Their Publics 255 Ecological Art in the Built and Unplanned Environment in the Work of Mare Liberum Kendra Sullivan, Dylan Gauthier, Sunita Prasad 5.3 A Strategy-Driven Model for Sustainable Socio-Environmental Transformations in Chile 265 Flavio Sciaraffia 5.4 Learning Development by Doing 277 The Evolution of the Resilient Civic Design Collective Lindsay Howe, Ben Mansfield 5.5 Collaborative and Strategic Approaches to Build Urban Resilience in India 289 Sourav Kumar Biswas, Praveen Raj, Shreya Krishnan, Manushi Ashok Jain, Balaji Balaganesan, Suriya KP, Sujhatha Arulkumar, Aditi Subramanian, Logeshwaran Subramanian, Pankti Sanganee (Sponge Collaborative) Editors 301 Contributors 302 Additional Image Credits, Notes 304

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Book SynopsisDrawing from the unique design experience at Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG) as architects of the next world’s tallest tower and several others under construction, Supertall Megatall: How High Can We Go? highlights the design, sustainability, innovative technology, programming, and contextualism that defines supertall and megatall towers. The book is a mixture of under construction and design-only projects divided into several chapters that are organized according to their special characteristics: Innovative Systems, Harnessing Energies, Designing an Icon, Extending Ecologies, and Achieving Megatall. Each project, completed between 2007–2020 at AS+GG, is discovered through context, program, form, research and development, and performance, highlighting the stories, challenges, and lessons learned.

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Book SynopsisCarbon is everywhere — in the soil, in the air, in life. Carbon is the foundation of architecture and the built environment. Carbon is also infamous for intensifying the climate catastrophes around us. And architects — by the nature of their education and practice are transforming this carbon into the built environment. Twelve critical essays in this book present a constellation of voices surrounding carbon and its relationship with architecture, renovation, material, form, and design pedagogy. The renovation of two buildings on the Equator — at the School of Design and Environment (SDE), National University of Singapore — serve as the protagonists for these reflections. The essays raise key questions on the values embedded in the architecture of architecture schools. What principles might a low-carbon future embody? What do renovations mean for rapidly urbanising Asia? How can they transform the relationship between climate and architecture on the Equator? Do they demand new equatorial forms? How can material innovations influence their design? How can the design of architecture schools influence a new generation of architects towards a sustainable future? These and other questions are set forth within while illustrating the models of thought that have shaped the architecture of SDE 1 & 3, offering ways to sustainably transform carbon in the context of our warming world.

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Book SynopsisThe book takes as its starting point the city of Canton, at the heart of the most populous built-up metropolitan area in Mainland China, and a city that has for several centuries held a central position with regard to economic, social, and physical change in the country. Included are hundreds of beautiful illustrations and drawings that help articulate Smith's historical insight into key events surrounding the development of Canton, from its preliminary trading and treaty port history, to its Republican city building program, the Socialist planned economy after 1949, the post-1978 reform period, and the regenerative impetus of the contemporary city. Shaping Canton focuses on the modern history of Canton. The text and illustrations explore and set out the various stages and events leading up to the modern city, by way of a reinvigorated Chinese superpower, from the founding of trade between Europe and the East in the late 15th century, to the beachheads of foreign influence, and forces of transformation through periods of revolution, political transition, and reform up to the present time.Table of ContentsPreface 7 Introduction 17 The Mandate of Heaven 21 Avenues of Commerce 49 Adventurism and Hostilities 87 Beachheads of Foreign Influence 111 An Emerging Modernism 141 Forces of Transformation 173 The Socialist Planned Economy 1949–1976 195 Reforms, Challenges, and Resurgence 229 Remaking the Canton Metropolis 259 The Political Paradox 299 Acknowledgments 316 Endnotes 318

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Book SynopsisThe Parisian café is an integral part of the city's daily life no matter the weather, the time of day or year, the mood or neighbourhood. It is the spirit of the café, the dance of the waiters, the camaraderie of the patrons, the perpetual movement and joy, that brings Joanie Osburn to share a dollop of history, a shot of insight, and a boatload of images that celebrate the Paris café as a cultural heritage worth celebrating and preserving. Café Society: Time Suspended, The Cafés, & Bistros of Paris is neither a history book nor a cookbook, but a non-traditional travel guide, coffee table, and lifestyle book about a treasured lifestyle. Osburn's unique perspective, honed over many decades as an American in Paris exploring and capturing images of café society, captivates and amuses with anecdotes and insider recommendations. Café Society: Time Suspended, The Cafés, and Bistros of Paris is a book that matters now as the world reopens and eager travellers return to Paris. The spirit of the café brings Joanie Osburn to share a dollop of history, a shot of insight, and a boatload of images that celebrate the Paris café as a cultural heritage worth preserving.Trade Review"The book is exquisitely designed by my friend and great designer Louise Brody, and I’ve browsed through it at least a half a dozen times so far, fully devouring it." - I Prefer ParisTable of Contents7 FOREWORD Alain Fontaine 8 Flâneuring on the Streets of Paris 10 Expect the Unexpected 12 Poetry, Art, Flowers & Ice Cream 14 Spotted All Over Paris: The Eiffel Tower 17 PART 1 Paris & its Cafés A Certain Alchemy Definitions of Paris Cafés & Bistros All the Streets in Paris Lead to its Cafés 25 PART 2 The Look & Feel La Terrasse L’Intérieur Le Zinc 51 PART 3 The Food & Drink L’Apéritif L’Entrée Le Plat Le Dessert Les Boissons 67 PART 4 Café Society A Lively Social Network The Things to Do: From Work to Play 79 PART 5 The People Who Make Café Society The Patrons The Waiter The Barman The Chef The Animals 115 PART 6 The Time of Day Le Petit Déjeuner Le Déjeuner L’Après-Midi L’Heure de l’Apéro/Happy Hour Le Dîner La Nuit 129 PART 7 The Time of Year L’Été L’Automne L’Hiver Le Printemps 139 PART 8 Les Quartiers: Historic, Trendy, & Local Haunts Odéon Palais Royal Les Grands Boulevards Le Quartier Latin Montmartre Montparnasse St Germain des Prés Le Marais La Bastille All Around Town: Cafés du Quartier 195 PART 9 In Search of Lost Time Now & Then: Time Regained 207 PART 10 Poof: The Disappearing Cafés & Bistros The Loss of a Lifestyle A Café is not a Coffee Shop The Specialty Coffeehouse The Burgering of Paris 215 PART 11 Looking Forward: Trendy in a Good Way L’Art de Vivre is Alive & Well 227 PART 12 A Little History: From Coffee to Café History of Coffee History of World Cafés History of Paris Cafés History of Paris Bistros & Brasseries 236 ADDRESSES

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Book SynopsisNowhere is the human condition more apparent than in India, a window to life, a window to all. Departures presents a journey through place, life, and our preparations for departure from the material to the ethereal. To journey with India is to reflect, a portal to the experiences of a universal human condition, Departures weaves together a sometimes-haunting story of modernity and urbanisation with an ancient, diverse, and complex land. A work in the humanist and social realist genre of photography, Departures reflects on the 21st century urban stage contrasting the gritty realism of urban life, work and the struggles and joys of the everyday with the dramatic beauty of people, ritual, belief, and landscape. Created from an archive of 20 years photographing, living and working in India, Departures goes beyond the often incidental or serendipitous nature of street photography to open the door and explore the life within.

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Book SynopsisIn the book Al Wasl Plaza: Dubai Expo 2020 the architects, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture highlight the inspiration and innovation of the design of Al Wasl Plaza. The book explores each aspect of the project including the garden, the trellis, three office buildings, and two hotel buildings, all of which serve to define the centre of Expo 2020. The book is essentially divided into three phases of design. The first phase focuses on the inspiration and conception of the project. Architectural studies, sketches, and models show the process that led to the final iconic form. The second phase introduces each of the parcels including the garden, trellis, offices, hotels, the Leadership Pavilion, and the Arrivals Plaza. Each chapter illustrates the design process, architectural details, and the development of the technical systems. The third and final phase summarises the construction process, sustainability achievements, and looks to the future to reveal the District 2020 legacy master plan concept by AS+GG.

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Book SynopsisSilt Sand and Slurry is a visually rich investigation into where, why, and how sediment is central to the future of America’s coasts. Sediment is an unseen infrastructure that shapes and enables modern life. Silt is scooped from sea floors to deepen underwater highways for container ships. It is diverted from river basins to control flooding. It is collected, sorted, managed, and moved to reshape deltas, marshes, and beaches. Anthropogenic action now moves more sediment annually than ‘natural’ geologic processes — yet this global reshaping of the earth’s surface is rarely-discussed and poorly-understood. In four thematic text chapters, four geographic visual studies, and a concluding essay, this book demonstrate why sediment matters now more than ever, given our contemporary context of sea level rise, environmental change, and spatial inequality, through a documentation of the geography of dredging and sediment on the four coasts of the continental United States. The book explores the many limitations of current sediment management practices, such as short-sighted efforts to keep dynamic ecosystems from changing, failure to value sediment as a resource, and inequitable decision-making processes. In response to these conditions, the DRC delineate an approach to designing with sediment that is adaptive, healthy, and equitable.

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Book SynopsisThis is a story of a young girl from a small town with a big dream that took her to Juilliard, Broadway, summer stock, the stage of the Metropolitan Opera and the Santa Fe Opera, and introduced her to her husband William Zeckendorf Jr. Her memoir overflows with the glamour of a life lived among the famous figures of mid-century New York society and the grit necessary to succeed in the professional world of dance. Fascinated by art and architecture, the vivacious ballerina Nancy Zeckendorf became a formidable development partner with her husband and a philanthropic leader in the performing arts – her fundraising ability is an art form unto itself. “I love hardware stores and tools,” she said of her common-sense approach to construction projects. Indeed, Nancy was a guiding force in the expansion of the Santa Fe Opera, the Lensic Performing Arts Center, and the premier community of Los Miradores where she lives now in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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