Two essays and a set of original diagrams consider the parameters of the something beyond in James Carpenter s projects. Architectural historian Mark Linder offers a long view of Carpenter s work, placing his early career as an installation artist and experimental filmmaker in the context of contemporary art practices. Linder draws out the continuities between this early work and Carpenter s current practice as a glass designer, demonstrating a consistent focus on literalism materiality, spatial perception, and inhabitation as opposed to phenomenological effect, expression, and representation. Architectural critic Sarah Whiting examines the sensibilities and constituencies that emerge from Carpenter s practice. Rather than succumbing to the technique of Brechtian estrangement (which has become a default strategy for avant-garde practices in all domains), Carpenter gently eases his viewers into new constituencies. Perceptions and publics are altered, although these alterations are never dictated. Carpenter s new worlds are not avant-garde but are more like dreams that embed themselves in the back of one s mind, opening new possibilities without choreographing what those might be. Finally, Lucia Allais s diagrams offer a visual means of reading Carpenter s combination of technique and effect his means of making light material and making material present. Photographs and extended captions from Carpenter complete this book s documentation of key projects.

My father was only a child when, in the winter of 1879, he said goodbye to his home in Poland and, with his mother, father and two sisters, began an overland journey that brought them, three months later, to the gates of Jerusalem. Thus, the Linder family saga begins, and continues, four generations and 100 years later, on the shores of America. In a unique blend of the historical and the personal, ANGELS ALWAYS COME ON TIME tells the story of a young, Hasidic boy coming of age in the ultra-orthodox community in Jerusalem in the early 20th century. With wit and insight, he writes of lives rich in pathos, humor, and hope. Though intensely personal, ANGELS ALWAYS COME ON TIME possesses a grand and universal sweep, for its stories show men and women who, enduring poverty and war and uncertainty, remain ever optimistic as they search for their place in the world.

KIRKUS REVIEWS: An American immigrant explores the sprawling history of the Jewish people...through the struggles of generations of his family... The illuminating book...is rich in history...The author tells his family's story with passion, charm, and exquisite detail...As a memoir, it's beautifully rendered, and as history, it's masterfully told...an engrossing and important look at the Jewish experience of the last century and a half. CLARION REVIEW ****: Chaim Linder's remarkable memoir reaches into widely interesting territory...This memoir stands with the best of its kind, rendered in delicious detail by a brilliant yet ordinary man...with an unflagging sense of aliveness... BLUEINK REVIEW: ...Linder transports readers from his childhood in Palestine to his pursuit of the American Dream...skillfully combines personal detail with historical facts...an engaging memoir about an uncommon individual...particularly compelling.