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Home » Authors » Anna Shapiro

Anna Shapiro

Anna Shapiro is a novelist and an essayist on the arts.

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A Memoir of an Architect's Daughter

Implosion: A Memoir of an Architect's Daughter

By Elizabeth W. Garber
Anna Shapiro
June 5, 2018
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The daughter of Cincinnati architect Woodie Garber looks back on her harrowing upbringing in this emotional memoir.


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Review of ‘Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan’

Review of ‘Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan’

Anna Shapiro
February 8, 2018
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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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Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul

Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul

By Jeremiah Moss
Anna Shapiro
February 7, 2018
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A new book delves into the disappearance of New York's iconic institutions and neighborhoods.


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Nutshell Studies

Renwick Gallery Exhibition ‘Murder Is Her Hobby’ Presents Grisly Miniature Crime Scenes

Anna Shapiro
January 11, 2018
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Frances Glessner Lee’s detailed dioramas, on view through January 28, recreate crime scenes in exquisite detail.


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Greater Gotham

Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919

By Mike Wallace
Anna Shapiro
December 5, 2017
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A sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 traces the radical transformation of New York in the early 20th century.


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Book Roundup

Book Review Roundup: Architecture's Evolution and the Importance of Traditions

Anna Shapiro
November 1, 2017
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RECORD reviews four books that examine the importance of traditions as cities and buildings evolve.


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Nature vs. Nurture

Nature Versus Nurture: Four Books on Landscape Architecture

Anna Shapiro
August 1, 2017
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Wild By Design: Strategies For Creating Life-Enhancing Landscapes, by Margie Ruddick; Gardens of the High Line: Elevating the Nature of Modern Landscapes, by Piet Oudolf and Rick Darke; Bawa: The Sri Lanka Gardens, by David Robsen; The Garden of Peter Marino, by Peter Marino with foreword by Claude Lalanne.


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Record Recommends

RECORD Recommends: 2017 Summer Reading

Our annual guide for books to take to the beach or the mountains.
Anna Shapiro
May 1, 2017
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Our reviews of books by Jonathan Glancey, Gijs Van Hensbergen, Thomas Fisher, James Crawford, Justin Davidson, Denise Hoffman Brandt, Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, Leslie Earl Robertson, and Jason M. Barr.


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The Past and Future City

The Past and Future City: How Historic Preservation is Reviving America’s Communities

By Stephanie Meeks, with Kevin C. Murphy
Anna Shapiro
February 1, 2017
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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.


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Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto

Anna Shapiro
June 16, 2014
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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
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