Olga Touloumi’s book reveals how bureaucrats and technical advisors—not star architects—helped shape the design of the United Nations complex, with broadcast media top of mind.
The DKGR-led renovation of the three towers does away with garish interiors added over the years in favor of an approach more true to the original early-1970s design.
Author Lizabeth Cohen's new book on the urban planner is not merely a history but a reminder of the need to closely study government redevelopment efforts of the past.
Author Kathryn Smith takes readers on a comprehensive tour through Frank Lloyd Wright’s exhibitions, from his first at the Chicago Architectural Club of 1894 to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1959.
By Phyllis Lambert. Yale University Press, 2013, 320 pages, $65. Aiming High The era in which it seemed possible to regard the work of Mies van der Rohe as a product of pure geometry untouched by mortal concerns on its journey from his brain to physical reality has happily passed. Never, though, has a single work been examined in such intricate and fascinating human detail as is his iconic New York tower in Phyllis Lambert's Building Seagram, a comprehensive account of the building's inspiration, design, construction, and preservation. Photo courtesy Yale University Press Phyllis Lambert oversaw the work of Philip
