Princeton Architectural Press
Princeton Architectural Press is a world leader in architecture and design publishing. Featuring a backlist of nearly 1,000 titles, the company specializes in books that—in subject matter and design—defy easy categorization. With each new season’s offerings, Princeton Architectural Press continues to surprise, inspire, and inform those curious about our visual world.
Featured Books
30th Anniversary Tote Bag
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We're celebrating our 30th anniversary with this large (16.5 inches, or 42 cm, square) tote bag. Made of heavy, ten-ounce black cotton, this generous bag, with its 23" shoulder-length handles, is perfect for hauling around all your beautiful Princeton Architectural Press books. Logo in a metallic gold ink, this bag is printed and made in the USA.
The Sleepwalkers Box
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Introducing the Sleepwalkers Box—a kaleidoscopic multimedia experience unfolding the making of Doug Aitken's groundbreaking 2007 MoMA public film installation containing: CD and limited vinyl picture disc; original artwork by Doug Aitken on a full-color, two-sided poster; two flipbooks; video of the piece as installed at the MoMA on DVD; and a book filled with never-before-seen photographs, production stills, process sketches, and writings. This limited edition of 1,000 includes an authentication card, signed by Doug Aitken.
Forthcoming
June 11, 2013
From the Publisher. Whether for protest, religious congress, companionship, eating, or comfort, sitting communally remains one of the most powerful and prevalent of human social activities. This simple act held special significance in... More
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July 19, 2013
From the Publisher. Prospect Park, the first monograph on this exquisite public space, makes it easy to see why. Presenting a wealth of archival and newly commissioned photography and insightful text, David P. Colley and Elizabeth Keegin... More
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September 18, 2013
From the Publisher. From the rammed-earth houses of Rick Joy and Pacific Northwest timber houses of Tom Kundig, to the community-built structures of Rural Studio and Francis Kéré, designers everywhere are championing an... More
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Recently Published
May 15, 2013
From the Publisher. Passive is the new green. Passive Houses, well–insulated, virtually airtight buildings, can decrease home heating consumption by an astounding ninety percent, making them not only an attractive choice for current... More
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May 14, 2013
From the Publisher. Art Parks is the first comprehensive guide to North America's most important outdoor sculpture parks. Parks are divided into chapters thematically and by region, with four maps that locate parks within each geographic... More
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April 17, 2013
From the Publisher. The Designer Says, the follow-up to our best-selling The Architect Says, is a compendium of quotations from more than one hundred of history's leading practitioners. Quotes are paired on page spreads like guests... More
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April 17, 2013
From the Publisher. Houses of Maine offers an in-depth look at six houses, from the celebrated House on Casco Bay (a modern update to a nineteenth-century Cape Cod) to Pond House (a Mount Desert Island summer cottage inspired by local... More
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April 17, 2013
From the Publisher. Landprints showcases ten of Bernard Trainor's most ambitious and inspiring gardens through gorgeous photography and detailed project descriptions. The projects are all located in California: Carmel, Lagunitas,... More
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April 5, 2013
From the Publisher. Architect Hugh Hardy is the quintessential New Yorker. His irrepressible love of the city animates all of his work, and can be found in many of the city’s most beloved institutions.This book gathers 20 of Hardy... More
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April 5, 2013
From the Publisher. The work of 2013 Pritzker Prize winning architect Toyo Ito explores the dynamic relationship between buildings and their environments. His principal focus is on developing an architecture free of the grid system, which... More
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April 1, 2013
From the Publisher. Projects range in scope from residential gardens to a large-scale sheep and cattle station along the coast of New Zealand. They include the recently opened Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, PA; the Asia Trail... More
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March 1, 2013
From the Publisher. In this abundantly illustrated catalogue raisonne, collector and Kaldewey devotee Clemens von Lucius presents in detail all seventy-five books published to-date including books published in cooperation with artists such... More
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December 19, 2012
From the Publisher. Lewis. Tsurumaki.Lewis: Intensities presents twenty new built and speculative projects ranging from small installations to interior home and office transformations to large cultural institutions and urban... More
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December 19, 2012
From the Publisher. In less than a decade, Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample have emerged as two of architecture's most daring experimenters. By exchanging plans and sections for software and film, MOS eschews the static forms of... More
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November 28, 2012
From the Publisher. Now available in paperback, Svetlana Boym's Architecture of the Off-Modern is an imaginative tour through the history and afterlife of Vladimir Tatlin's legendary but unbuilt Monument to the Third... More
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Selected Backlist
2011
From the Publisher. What is taste? This well-curated collection documents new theories and emerging critical practices in the field of interior design. It investigates taste, a concept central to the formation of the discipline in the 18th... More
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2012
From the Publisher. The Architect Says is a colorful compendium of quotations from more than one hundred of history's most opinionated design minds. Paired on page spreads like guests at a dinner party (an architect of today might... More
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book
2011
From the Publisher. The Architectural Detail is author Edward R. Ford's life's work, and this may be his most important book to date. Ford walks the reader through five widely accepted (and wildly different) definitions of detail,... More
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2012
From the Publisher. No one captured the midcentury modernism of the Mad Men era better than Balthazar Korab. His iconic photographs for master architects immortalized their finest works, while leaving his own indelible impact on twentieth... More
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2012
From the Publisher. Breakthrough! is a lively compilation of strategies for combating creative block offered by a who's who of leading graphic designers, typographers, cartoonists, photographers, illustrators, musicians, writers,... More
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2012
From the Publisher. A creative renaissance blooms in Brooklyn. At its heart is a thriving community of artisans producing a remarkable variety of handmade goods. In Brooklyn Makers, photographer Jennifer Causey captures the spirit of this... More
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2012
From the Publisher. Our critically acclaimed smash hit Cartographies of Time is now available in paperback. In this first comprehensive history of graphic representations of time, authors Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton have... More
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2012
From the Publisher. Citizens of No Place is a groundbreaking graphic novel on architecture and urbanism. Inspired by the theoretical drawings of paper architects, architect Jimenez Lai uses manga-style storyboards to explore the... More
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2012
From the Publisher. This Design Brief is a compact hands-on primer for graphic designers who want to use their unique problem solving skills to help others. Twenty case studies from around the world illustrate how design professionals and... More
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book
2012
From the Publisher. Louise Fili has been an inspiration for designers around the world since the 1980s, when she raised the bar on book cover design, creating more than two thousand jackets as art director for Pantheon Books. In 1989 Fili... More
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2010
From the Publisher. The last decade has witnessed a proliferation of artists whose primary medium is software. Algorithmic processes, harnessed through the medium of computer code, allow artists to generate increasingly complex visual forms... More
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2012
From the Publisher. Generative design is a revolutionary new method of creating artwork, models, and animations from sets of rules, or algorithms. By using accessible programming languages such as Processing, artists and designers are... More
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2005
From the arid deserts of Tucson, Arizona to the icy forests of Poori, Finland to the tropical beaches of New South Wales, Australia to the urban jungle of downtown Manhattan, critics Alanna Stang and Christopher Hawthorne have traveled to the... More
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2012
From the Publisher. The Archigram group pioneered a playful brand of architecture that was visionary, utopian, and grounded in social need. Through a provocative series of publications and exhibitions, the avant-garde cooperative challenged... More
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1999
From the Publisher. Gyroscopic Horizons are the dense yet sprawling territories explored and inhabited by the projects and texts of Neil Denari. Displaying the pilot's vertical and horizontal orientation by creating an artificial... More
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2009
From the Publisher. During the late 19th century, letterpress printers, engravers, and lithographers boldly challenged the rational sobriety of traditional design by introducing intricate borders, corner embellishments, quirky typefaces,... More
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book
2011
From the Publisher. Over the course of a career that spanned 45 years, William Wilson Wurster (1895–1973) designed hundreds of residences up and down the West Coast. Like Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, with whom Wurster... More
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2012
From the Publisher. In Inside Prefab, author Deborah Schneiderman offers a fascinating history of prefabricated interior design, followed by twenty-four contemporary case studies. The richly illustrated examples in this book range... More
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book
2012
From the Publisher. “Pictures in a minute!” In the 1950s, ’60s, and '70s, Polaroid was the hottest technology company on Earth. They were an innovation machine that cranked out one irresistible product after another. It... More
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book
2012
From the Publisher. Le Corbusier Redrawn presents the only collection of consistently rendered original drawings (at 1:200 scale) of all 25 of Le Corbusier’s residential works. Using the original drawings from the Le... More
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book
2011
From the Publisher. Collected for the first time, Maps presents 39 of the celebrated graphic designer's obsessively detailed, highly personal cartographic creations. Paintings as tall as 12 feet depict continents,... More
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2005
From the Publisher. With all of the attention Mies van der Rohe has received over the last few years, it's hard to believe that there could be a pair of "undiscovered" buildings begging for even the slightest consideration—... More
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book
2011
From the Publisher. The Pamphlet Architecture series was founded in 1978 by architect Steven Holl and William Stout as a venue for publishing the works, thoughts, and theory of a new generation of architects. Now in its third... More
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2012
Metals, as surface or structure—as the generators of space—play a role in nearly every strain of modernization in architecture. They define complete geographies of work, production, and political life. Non-architectural metals delivered... More
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book
2011
A “constructed“ book that takes an in-depth look at Studio Gang’s work and working process through drawings, diagrams, sketches, photographs, and ephemera illuminating the evolution of each of the book’s eight featured... More
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2007
From the Publisher. Now available in paperback, Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design brings together the best of designer Michael Bierut’s critical writing. Whether serious or humorous, flattering or biting, Bierut is always... More
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book
2012
There was a time, as recently as the 1980s, when storefronts, murals, banners, barn signs, billboards, and even street signs were all hand-lettered with brush and paint. But, like many skilled trades, the sign industry has been overrun by the techno... More
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2012
From the Publisher. The newest volume in our popular Conversations series features Japanese architect Tadao Ando. One of the most celebrated living architects, Ando is best known for crafting serenely austere structures that fuse... More
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book
The Toaster Project: Or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch
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2011
From the Publisher: Where do our things really come from? China is the most common answer, but Thomas Thwait es decided he wanted to know more. In The Toaster Project, Thwaites asks what lies behind the smooth buttons on a mobile... More
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2011
From the Publisher. The follow-up to the best-selling Tom Kundig Houses features 17 residential projects, ranging from a 500-square-foot cabin in the woods to a house carved into and built out of solid rock. The houses seamlessly... More
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book
2011
From the Publisher. Interior design, as a relatively young discipline within the academic world of design, has historically been interpreted as an extension of other fine arts. Narratives exist, but they all too often treat interior design... More
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2011
From the Publisher. Typography Sketchbooks gets into the minds of designers who create typefaces, word images, and logos through their private sketchbooks. More than 90 established and emerging designers and emerging design talents... More
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2012
From the Publisher. Architect-turned photographer/pilot Alex MacLean's remarkable aerial photos capture the surreal beauty of the visual patterns formed by the intersection of natural and constructed environments. Alongside the city’s... More
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2012
From the Publisher. Our new Architecture Brief Urban Composition shows architects, planners, artists, and engineers of individual projects how they can best fulfill their public trust to help make meaningful urban places. Each... More
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2011
Our ability to generate information now far exceeds our capacity to understand it. Finding patterns and making meaningful connections inside complex data networks has emerged as one of the biggest challenges of the twenty-first century. In recent... More
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2012
From the Publisher. Creating large-scale relief prints from cross sections of trees, artist Bryan Nash Gill reveals the sublime power locked inside their arboreal rings. The artist rescues the wood from the property surrounding his studio... More
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book
2012
From the Publisher. Writing About Architecture is a handbook on writing effectively and critically about buildings and cities. Each chapter opens with a reprint of a historically significant essay written by a renowned architecture... More
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