CURRENT PUBLICATIONS

Lineament: Material, Representation, and The Physical Figure in Architectural Production

edited by Gail Peter Borden and Michael Meredith, associate professor of architectural design

Lineament (Routledge) is a comprehensive catalog of contemporary design that examines the relationship between representation, materiality, and architecture. Edited by…

Research

X-Ray Architecture

Beatriz Colomina, professor of the history and theory of architecture

Princeton Professor Beatriz Colomina challenges normal understandings of modern architecture in X-Ray Architecture (Lars Müller Publishers). Looking at technologies on…

Nonfiction

Structures of Coastal Resilience

Catherine Seavitt Nordenson *96, Julia Chapman ’09 *14, and Guy Nordenson, professor of structural engineering and architecture

Catherine Seavitt Nordenson *96, Guy Nordenson, and Julia Chapman ’09 *14 offer new strategies for coastal planning for climate change…

Nonfiction

Designs of Destruction: The Making of Monuments in the Twentieth Century

Lucia Allais ’96

Examining key episodes in the history of the 20th century preservation effort, Designs of Destruction (University of Chicago Press) is…

Research

Superhumanity: Post-Labor, Psychopathology, Plasticity

edited by Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Anton Vidokle, Mark Wigley, and Beatriz Colomina, professor of the history and theory of architecture

Superhumanity: Post-Labor, Psychopathology, Plasticity (e-flux Architecture) explores areas of “self-design” ranging from media and contemporary art to architecture and science…

Research

Fluvial Metropolis: Past Visions/Future Imaginaries

Mario Gandelsonas and Alexandre Delijaicov, professors of architecture

Written by Princeton School of Architecture Professors Mario Gandelsonas and Alexandre Delijaicov, Fluvial Metropolis (Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers) researches the…

Research

An Unfinished Encyclopedia of Scale Figures Without Architecture

edited by Hilary Sample *03 and Michael Meredith, associate professor of architectural design

An Unfinished Encyclopedia of Scale Figures Without Architecture (MIT Press) strips more than 1,000 representations of human figures from their…

Research

Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of

Mark Wigley and Beatriz Colomina, professor of the history and theory of architecture

Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley’s field notes trace the past few 100,000 years to explore how design has gone viral…

Research

Superhumanity: Design of the Self

edited by Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Anton Vidokle, Mark Wigley, and Beatriz Colomina, professor of the history and theory of architecture

The field of design has greatly expanded. It has moved from material objects to the crafting of individual styles and…

Research

Projects and Their Consequences

Nanaka Umemoto and Jesse Reiser, professor of architectural design

Projects and Their Consequences (Princeton Architectural Press) spans 30 years of investigation into form, structure, technique and planning. Jesse Reiser…