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46 ArtPeter Eisenman at home in New York with his library, 2008.UnpackingMy LibraryArchitects andtheir BooksJo SteffensWhat does a library sayabout the mind of its owner?How do books map theintellectual interests,curiosities, tastes andpersonalities of their readers?What does the collecting ofbooks have in common with the practice of architecture?Unpacking My Library provides an intimate look at thepersonal libraries of fourteen of the world’s leading architects,alongside conversations about the significance of books totheir careers and lives.Architects and Their Books features the libraries of:Stan Allen, Henry Cobb, Liz Diller & Ric Scofidio,Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Steven Holl, Toshiko Mori,Richard Meier, Michael Sorkin, Robert A. M. Stern,Bernard Tschumi, Todd Williams and Billie TsienJo Steffens is director of Urban Center Books and editor ofBlock by Block: Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York City.Published with Urban Center Books, The ArchitectureBookstore of the Municipal Art Society of New YorkNovember 208 pp. 140x203mm.24 b/w + 284 colour illus.ISBN 978-0-300-15893-9 £20.00*Why ArchitectureMattersPaul GoldbergerWhy Architecture Matters is not awork of architectural history or aguide to the styles or anarchitectural dictionary, though itcontains elements of all three. Thepurpose of Why ArchitectureMatters is to ‘come to grips withhow things feel to us when westand before them, with howarchitecture affects us emotionally as well as intellectually’—with its impact on our lives. ‘Architecture begins to matter’,writes Paul Goldberger, ‘when it brings delight and sadnessand perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads’.Based on decades of looking at buildings and thinking abouthow we experience them, the distinguished critic raises ourawareness of fundamental things like proportion, scale, space,texture, materials, shapes, light and memory. Uponcompleting this remarkable architectural journey, readers willenjoy a wonderfully rewarding new way of seeing andexperiencing every aspect of the built world.Paul Goldberger is the architecture critic for The New Yorker.He also holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design andArchitecture at The New School in Manhattan.Why X MattersNovember 288 pp. 197x134mm. 55 b/w illus.ISBN 978-0-300-14430-7 £18.99*Translation rights: International Creative Management, Inc, New YorkArchitecture onthe Edge ofPostmodernismCollected Essays,1964–1988Robert A. M. SternEdited byCynthia DavidsonRobert A. M. Stern is one ofcontemporary architecture’smost influential figures, witha career encompassing every facet of the profession. As apreeminent force in the discourse of the field, Stern was one ofthe first critics to use and analyse the term ‘postmodern’ inarchitecture. This collection of essays—Stern’s first—bracketsthe years defined by the changes in architectural thinkingintroduced by Robert Venturi in 1966 and the exhibitionDeconstructivist Architecture at the Museum of Modern Art in1988. Throughout, Stern provides close readings ofarchitectural events and offers firsthand accounts oftransformations in architectural thinking during a criticalperiod.Robert A. M. Stern is J. M. Hoppin Professor of Architectureand the Dean of the School of Architecture at YaleUniversity. Cynthia Davidson is the editor of the architecturejournal Log.November 208 pp. 254x190mm. 90 b/w illus.ISBN 978-0-300-15397-2 £30.00*Library, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N. H., 1965–72.ModernArchitectureRepresentationand RealityNeil LevineIn this handsome book,esteemed architecturalhistorian Neil Levineinvestigates for the first timethe complex history ofrepresentation—the use andmeaning of architectural signifiers—from the 18th through the20th century. Using the lens of a continuous theoreticalargument, Levine provides a detailed survey and critical analysisof major works by a host of modern architects, includingÉtienne-Louis Boullée, Nicholas Hawksmoor, Louis Kahn,Henri Labrouste, Augustus Welby Pugin, Karl FriedrichSchinkel, John Soane, Louis Sullivan, Mies van der Rohe,Eugène Viollet-le-Duc and Frank Lloyd Wright.The book features previously unpublished images, manycreated for this publication, and it addresses a variety ofspecific cases while offering an original and panoramic view ofthe history of architecture. Beautifully written and accessible,Modern Architecture is destined to become a classic.Neil Levine is the Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor ofHistory of Art and Architecture at Harvard University.January 432 pp. 279x228mm. 311 b/w + 30 colour illus.ISBN 978-0-300-14567-0 £45.00*