“He was an early champion of my work,” wrote Steven Holl about Kevin Lippert, the founder of Princeton Architectural Press, who died Tuesday at 63 after a long battle with cancer. “In a sense, I owe my beginnings as an architect to Kevin.”
Lippert was still a graduate student at Princeton’s School of Architecture and Urban Planning in 1981 when he founded the small publishing company that later moved with him to Manhattan and then to Hudson, New York. Over the years, Princeton Architectural Press, or PAPress, published more than a thousand books, moving beyond architecture to graphic design, fine art, and other topics that piqued Lippert’s interest (and sometimes sold better than architecture). “In a risk-averse industry, Kevin took an expansive approach, pursuing the dissemination of ideas,” said David J. Lewis, dean and professor of architecture at the Parsons School of Design. Lippert, Lewis pointed out, not only published the early work of his firm, Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis, but hired it to design the PAPress office on East Seventh Street in the East Village in the 1990s
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