Gail Fenske
The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York
"Fenske’s impressively comprehensive, contextual, and deeply researched account of the making of the Woolworth Building weaves together the histories of the client, the architect, and the building itself, including design, construction, technology, and representation. It is also about the city, and no other architectural history reveals so well what it means to build a major commercial building in New York City."—Thomas Bender, author of The Unfinished City

   

Alastair Gordon
Naked Airport: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Revolutionary Structure
“Gordon’s engaging history tells the story of how airports have changed—from the first muddy airfields transporting people into a new world of experience (the ‘20th-century version of sublime’), through their transformation into ‘symbols of progressive thinking and utopian planning,’ and their sad decline into ‘an allegory for all that was dehumanizing in modern life.’”—Guardian Review

   

Anthony Alofsin
When Buildings Speak: Architecture as Language in the Habsburg Empire and Its Aftermath, 1867-1933
"A compelling demonstration of the value of the Central European contribution to late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century architecture, Alofsin's exposition also adds to the continuing rediscovery of a related phenomenon: the complexity of national and cultural 'identity' in Central Europe, not least after 1918 and the disintegration of Austria-Hungary."—Elizabeth Clegg

   

Carl Smith
The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City
“An imaginative, beautifully produced, and visually appealing masterpiece of stirring prose and stunning illustration.… Carl Smith’s book is a concise, splendidly accessible, and beautifully constructed introduction to a seminal work of American urban planning and its enduring influence on Chicago and other American cities. He writes particularly well, without padding or academic jargon, and admirable self-restraint: He tells us just enough about the men and the times that created The Plan of Chicago to make us want to learn more on our own. One can offer no higher praise for a writer.”—William Bryk, New York Sun

   

Barry B. LePatner
Broken Buildings, Busted Budgets: How to Fix America's Trillion-Dollar Construction Industry
“Every now and then, a major construction project is completed on time and on budget. Everyone is amazed … Barry LePatner thinks this exception should become the rule.… A swift kick to the construction industry.”—James R. Hagerty, Wall Street Journal

   

Charles Waldheim and Katerina Ruedi Ray, editors
Chicago Architecture: Histories, Revisions, Alternatives
"This book…is about how architecture works in an urban context.…The interpretations that are specific to Chicago in this volume are applicable to similar issues in many other places. In this book, Chicago is emblematic—it is itself and it is more."—from the Foreword by Richard Solomon

   

William Allin Storrer
The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Catalog, Updated 3rd Edition
"Every admirer of [Frank Lloyd Wright] covets the complete catalog to his works.… Now available in a sturdy paperback version, the catalog is arranged chronologically from the 1886 Unity Chapel to the 1966 Lykes Residence. Color photographs, maps (with global positioning coordinates!) and indices should seduce the reader into road trips to visit the 433 surviving Wright structures."—Austin American Statesman
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