Books – Detail

The first publication to feature a survey of contemporary Black artists who are making collage artwork. It features both emerging and established artists making collage works from around the world.

Siobhan Moroney situates the 1945 Chicagoland Prize Homes competition in its time both socially and architecturally, analyzing floor plans and other materials to reveal how the designs reflected the expectations of middle-class families and the social norms that dictated their everyday lives and aspirations.

An eye-opening investigation into how our ever-expanding urban highways accelerated inequality and fractured communities—and a call for a more just, sustainable path forward.

Curated by the Spanish collage artist Rebeka Elizegi, this women artists book gives space to voices from all backgrounds, origins, and artistic expressions, and shows the wide variety of perspectives that are shaping the panorama of collage today, bringing to light a parallel effervescence of female artistic initiatives around the world.

A beautifully illustrated history of the many inventive, poetic, and alluring ways in which color swatches have been selected and staged.

Scholars, advocates, and architects assess America’s affordable housing crisis and suggest various strategies to rectify it, including numerous images of important, recently built houses and complexes.

Charles Holland challenges us to look beyond the day-to-day familiarity of buildings to rediscover the pleasure of experiencing architecture

A major monograph of the American realist artist, descendant of one of America’s most revered artistic families, and painter of dark and uneasy subjects. With essays by Jennifer Margaret Barker, Amanda C. Burdan, Rena Butler, Michael Kiley, and John Rusk.

An intimate record of Kahn’s musings on design, coupled with preparatory drawings of his monumental last project.

Offering a unique glimpse into American history, this is the first book to celebrate the compelling work of the United States' first federal photographer. It features 160 photographs capturing Washington, DC in the midst of Civil War.

A new study of Mary Cassatt that explores the centrality of work to both her inventive technical practice and her distinctive approach to modern subjects--with contributions by Dave Beech, Kathleen A. Foster, Nicole Georgopulos, Erica E. Hirschler, Teresa A. Lignelli and Thomas Primeau.

This groundbreaking study, the definitive introduction to the work of artist Mary Cassatt, places her work in the wider context of nineteenth-century feminism and art theory and is now updated with color illustrations.

The first-ever coffee table book on Philadelphia’s private gardens! Inspiring photos and expert writing spotlight select private gardens, where horticultural pride is part of the region’s land history.

In 1742, when the legendary dome atop St. Peter’s Basilica—designed by Michelangelo—cracks and threatens to collapse, Pope Benedict XIV summons three mathematicians whose groundbreaking ideas spark a revolution in the world of architecture.

A groundbreaking reassessment that foregrounds Van Gogh’s profound engagement with the industrial age while making his work newly relevant for our world today.

Over 100 global artists working with collage, as chosen by a team of art experts – an indispensable who's who of the most exciting and innovative names working in the medium.