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The work of the faculty of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of
Architecture represents the perfect blend of rigorous academic
ideas and practical application of these theories within the public
realm. This book and the accompanying exhibition are the products
of the faculty's professional work: vibrant, intellectually rich,
professionally accomplished, and theoretically inclined. Architects
who teach utilize the academy as a laboratory for their ideas based
on experience garnered from practice. Specific ideas in some of the
built and unbuilt works appear as studio projects where they can be
explored more fully, often unencumbered by the practical realities
of clients, budgets, and programs. The school is a perfect setting
for the architect working in the field who brings professional
acumen to the rarified experiments of the academic studio. A
collaboration between the City College of New York. Bernard and
Anne Spitzer School of Architecture and Oscar Riera Ojeda
Publishers
Hailed as "extraordinarily learned" (New York Times), "blithe in
spirit and unerring in vision," (New York Magazine), and the
"definitive record of New York's architectural heritage" (Municipal
Art Society), Norval White and Elliot Willensky's book is an
essential reference for everyone with an interest in architecture
and those who simply want to know more about New York City.
First published in 1968, the AIA Guide to New York City has long
been the definitive guide to the city's architecture. Moving
through all five boroughs, neighborhood by neighborhood, it offers
the most complete overview of New York's significant places, past
and present. The Fifth Edition continues to include places of
historical importance--including extensive coverage of the World
Trade Center site--while also taking full account of the
construction boom of the past 10 years, a boom that has given rise
to an unprecedented number of new buildings by such architects as
Frank Gehry, Norman Foster, and Renzo Piano. All of the buildings
included in the Fourth Edition have been revisited and
re-photographed and much of the commentary has been re-written, and
coverage of the outer boroughs--particularly Brooklyn--has been
expanded.
Famed skyscrapers and historic landmarks are detailed, but so,
too, are firehouses, parks, churches, parking garages, monuments,
and bridges. Boasting more than 3000 new photographs, 100 enhanced
maps, and thousands of short and spirited entries, the guide is
arranged geographically by borough, with each borough divided into
sectors and then into neighborhood. Extensive commentaries describe
the character of the divisions.
Knowledgeable, playful, and beautifully illustrated, here is the
ultimate guided tour of New York's architectural treasures.
Acclaim for earlier editions of the AIA Guide to New York City
"An extraordinarily learned, personable exegesis of our
metropolis. No other American or, for that matter, world city can
boast so definitive a one-volume guide to its built environment."
-- Philip Lopate, New York Times
"Blithe in spirit and unerring in vision."
-- New York Magazine
"A definitive record of New York's architectural heritage... witty
and helpful pocketful which serves as arbiter of architects,
Baedeker for boulevardiers, catalog for the curious, primer for
preservationists, and sourcebook to students. For all who seek to
know of New York, it is here. No home should be without a copy."
-- Municipal Art Society
"There are two reasons the guide has entered the pantheon of New
York books. One is its encyclopedic nature, and the other is its
inimitable style--'smart, vivid, funny and opinionated' as the
architectural historian Christopher Gray once summed it up in pithy
W & W fashion."
-- Constance Rosenblum, New York Times
"A book for architectural gourmands and gastronomic gourmets."
-- The Village Voice
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