Description
Hailed as “extremely discovered” (New York Times), “blithe in spirit and unerring in imaginative and prescient,” (New York Magazine), and the “definitive report of New York’s architectural history” (Municipal Artwork Society), Norval White and Elliot Willensky’s guide is an crucial reference for everybody with an hobby in structure and people who merely need to realize extra approximately New York Town.
First printed in 1968, the AIA Information to New York City has lengthy been the definitive Information to the town’s structure. Transferring thru all 5 boroughs, community via community, it provides probably the most entire review of New York’s important puts, earlier and provide. The 5th Adaptation keeps to incorporate puts of ancient significance–together with Intensive protection of the International Industry Heart website–whilst additionally taking complete account of the development growth of the earlier 10 years, a growth that has given upward thrust to an exceptional choice of new homes via such architects as Frank Gehry, Norman Foster, and Renzo Piano. All the homes integrated within the Fourth Adaptation had been revisited and re-photographed and far of the remark has been re-written, and protection of the outer boroughs–in particular Brooklyn–has been extended.
Famed skyscrapers and historical landmarks are distinct, however so, too, are firehouses, parks, church buildings, parking garages, monuments, and bridges. Boasting greater than 3000 new images, 100 more desirable maps, and heaps of quick and lively entries, the Information is organized geographically via borough, with every borough divided into sectors after which into community. Intensive commentaries describe the nature of the divisions.
An expert, playful, and fantastically illustrated, here’s without equal guided excursion of New York’s architectural treasures.
Popularity of in advance variants of the AIA Information to New York City:
“An awfully discovered, personable exegesis of our city. No different American or, for that subject, International Town can boast so definitive a one-quantity Information to its constructed setting.”
— Philip Lopate, New York Times
“Blithe in spirit and unerring in imaginative and prescient.”
— New York Magazine
“A definitive report of New York’s architectural history… witty and useful pocketful which serves as arbiter of architects, Baedeker for boulevardiers, catalog for the curious, primer for preservationists, and sourcebook to scholars. For all who are trying to find to grasp of New York, it’s right here. No house must be with no replica.”
— Municipal Artwork Society
“There are purposes the Information has entered the pantheon of New York books. One is its encyclopedic nature, and the opposite is its inimitable taste–‘sensible, bright, humorous and opinionated’ because the architectural historian Christopher Grey as soon as summed it up in pithy W & W model.”
— Constance Rosenblum, New York Times
“A guide for architectural gourmands and gastronomic gourmets.”
— The Village Voice
