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Paul Goldberg
"A feast for serious fiction readers." --Wendy Smith, The Washington Post
"A dead-serious, dead-funny, no-he-didn't marvel." --Joshua Cohen, author of The Netanyahus
A thrilling, witty, and slyly original Cold War…
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"A novel set in 1970s Moscow following a group of Jewish dissidents"--
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Eran Chen, Paul Goldberger
This first book to comprehensively consider ODA s range in architecture, from apartment to building to neighborhood. Projects underline a humanistic philosophy seeking community engagement, social connectivity, and above all…
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David Netto, Paul Goldberger, Peter Pennoyer
Masterworks of the Jazz Age architect whose residential buildings are as significant in their impact on the character of New York as the skyscrapers of Wall Street.
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An unprecedented look at the central role one man played in the transformation of New York City
Paul Goldberger
The story of the creation of an astonishing house that renews and reinvigorates the spirit of the avant-garde in the Hamptons
Architecture critic Paul Goldberger tells the story of an…
Paul Golberger on the age of archtiecture
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A debut novel of daring originality, The Yid guarantees that you will never think of Stalinist Russia, Shakespeare, theater, Yiddish, or history the same way again.
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A classic work on the joy of experiencing architecture, with a new afterword reflecting on architecture’s place in the contemporary moment
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An exhilarating, splendidly illustrated, entirely new look at the history of baseball- told through the stories of the vibrant and ever-changing ballparks where the game was and is staged, by…
A guide to the styles or an architectural dictionary, though it contains elements of all three. It helps to ‘come to grips with how things feel to us when we…
The illustrated history of a seminal New York neighborhood a story of birth, decline, and renewal, of high design, of grit and glamour a tale of real estate wrangling, of…
As hilarious as it is moving, as intellectual as it is violent with echoes of Inglourious Basterds and Seven Samurai - The Yid is a tragicomic masterpiece of historical fiction.
From Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic Paul Goldberger- an engaging, nuanced exploration of the life and work of Frank Gehry, undoubtedly the most famous architect of our time. This first full-fledged…
Beautiful, bespoke, environmentally sensitive houses by the award-winning architecture firm known for clean, modern, soulful design for such leading proponents of contemporary modernism as Calvin Klein and Hugh Jackman feature…
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The acclaimed author of The Yid takes us behind the scenes of a Florida condo board election, delivering a wild spin on Miami Beach, petty crime, Jewish identity, and life…
Highlights structures, both in the planning and executed stages, designed in the 1990s by the firm of Philip Johnson/Alan Ritchie Architects, that demonstrate the firm’s sculptural achievements, including Da Monsta…
Ma Yansong,Paul Goldberger
A seductive vision of the future from the most promising firm in China led by Ma Yansong, an important voice in the new generation of architects.
Jay Johnson
Jed Johnson: Opulent Restraint, the first book to chronicle the fascinating career, work and times of an interior design superstar, is now back in print after many years.
Paul Goldberger,Clifford Ross
Multimedia artist Clifford Ross looks beyond the natural world to uncover a world bound only by the imagination, much like in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass. Images are reversed…
Jake Rajs
Acclaimed photographer Jake Rajs creates a compelling portrait of the stylish Hamptons, one of America’s most famous summer resorts, making this an attractive volume for anyone visiting or living in…
Powerful photographic record of the destruction of the USA’s most famous resort town. Contains commentaries by news and broadcast media, juxtaposed with contemporary tweets by Donald Trump
Lauren Rottet
A luxurious presentation of the work of a celebrated American designer and architect known for creating spaces that balance modern simplicity and historic detail.
Panagiotis Karkanas,Paul Goldberg
A guide to the systematic understanding of the geoarchaeological matrix Reconstructing Archaeological Sites offers an important text that puts the focus on basic theoretical and practical aspects of depositional processes…
The sun-splashed countries of the Mediterranean are shown here as never before. Photographer Jeffrey Becom focuses on how people live and celebrate living in the exquisite details of their humble…
It is January 2017 and Bill has hit rock bottom. Yesterday, he was William M. Katzenelenbogen, successful science reporter at the Washington Post. But things have taken a turn. Fired…
Paul Goldberg, the acclaimed author of The Yid, takes us behind the scenes of a Florida condo board election, delivering a wild spin on Miami Beach, petty crime, Jewish identity…
Paul Goodman,Percival Goodman
– Lewis Mumford
David Anderson,Author Paul Goldberger
During the 1970s, a lot of glass-and-steel, boxlike buildings were going up in New York City. David Anderson realized that the architecturally elaborate and stylistic buildings of the late nineteenth…
Otis Webb Brawley,Paul Goldberg
Exposes the underbelly of healthcare today - the under treatment of the poor, the over treatment of the rich, the financial conflicts of interests physicians face, insurance that doesn’t demand…
As a builder fascinated by the beauty of the universe, I finish by emphasizing that which should be never be forgotten: What we build in the present is a legacy…
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Designed by the award-winning architectural firm Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects, soaring 60 stories above Fifth Avenue, 400 Fifth Avenue seamlessly integrates a collection of condominium tower residences with the…
Rising dramatically above other skyscrapers at the tip of Manhattan, the World Trade Center symbolized New York. From any direction the Towers were lodestars, Manhattan’s local mountains. This book presents…
This book offers a critique of Foster + Partners’ work in the context of historic structures or sensitive historical locations.
Michael Gericke
A richly illustrated monograph profiling the extensive and influential work across four decades of Michael Gericke, designer and partner with internationally acclaimed and independently owned design studio, Pentagram.
Paul Goldberger,Jeff Chu,Jennifer Kirby
This guide to New York City’s exciting new public space explores Vessel from top to bottom, inside and out, and from beginning to completion. A public space like no other…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics, WINE 2012, held in Liverpool, UK, in December 2012.
Paul Goldberger,Phyllis Lambert,Sylvia Lavin
‘Modern Views’ examines nearly nintey creations built for an exclusive project with the National Historic Preservation Trust.
Richard I. Macphail (University College London),Paul Goldberg (Boston University)
This book provides the most up-to-date information on soil science and its applications in archaeology. It covers the use of complimentary methods for interpretation and key topics in the field…
Paul Goldberger,Peter G. Rowe,Witold Rybcynski
Volume 2 features an essay by Safdie presenting his current thoughts on the significant issues facing architecture today. Accompanying it are texts by William Mitchell on the theme of a…
Nina Freelander Gibans,James D. Gibans
Based on the award-winning exhibition of the same name, Cleveland Goes Modern examines modern movement houses in greater Cleveland within the context of American Modernism as a whole. The authors…
This volume brings together contributions from an experienced group of archaeologists and geologists whose common objective is to present thorough and current reviews of the diverse ways in which methods…
Robert A.M. Stern,Gideon Fink Shapiro
Celebrating Yale’s first new residential colleges in fifty years, The New Residential Colleges at Yale examines the role of the residential college system and the evolution of Yale’s urban campus…
Paul Goldberger,James Cuno,Joseph Rosa
Examines the addition to the Art Institute of Chicago, designed by Renzo Piano; this expansion to The Art Institute of Chicago, already one of the largest museums in the country…
