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Manfred Kirchheimer’s 2006 film, screening now in New York City—its first-ever theatrical run—chronicles Louis Sullivan’s creation of an American architectural aesthetic.
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Stephanie Meeks, CEO of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, has mustered an array of data in this book demonstrating the virtues of architectural adaptation.
By Camilo José Vergara. University of Chicago Press, December 2013, 364 pages, $55. The City Observed The sociologist, photographer, and MacArthur Fellow Camilo José Vergara, known for his website Invincible Cities and his heartfelt documentation of devastated urban neighborhoods, says in this, his ninth, book that there are many Harlems he has been photographing since 1970. While that could mean the various populations he mentions—the early Jewish and Italian immigrant Harlemites, the big wave of African-Americans, the nearly as big influx of Latin Americans, the recent Senegalese and Malians—the pictures are primarily of built Harlem, its street life (concentrating on