The Houses of the Hamptons
In The Houses of the Hamptons, Paul Goldberger, explores the evolution of this unusual set of villages on eastern Long Island and their role as an incubator of modern architecture. Published in 1986,...
View ArticleOn the Rise: Architecture and Design in a Postmodern Age
On the Rise is the first anthology of Paul Goldberger’s architecture criticism from The New York Times, with seventy-nine essays published between 1974 and 1983. They range from critiques of new...
View ArticleThe Skyscraper
Goldberger’s The Skyscraper is a history and commentary on the skyscraper both as an aesthetic object and as a force for changing the American urban landscape since the late nineteenth century. With a...
View ArticleThe City Observed New York: A Guide to the Architecture of Manhattan
“Paul Goldberger’s new guide to the architecture of Manhattan is without doubt the best thing of its kind yet to appear. It is a wonderful book–perceptive, entertaining, useful, refreshingly free of...
View ArticleThe City Out My Window: 63 Views of New York
The City Out My Window: 63 Views of New York is the second book by Matteo Pericoli to which Paul Goldberger has contributed a text essay. Pericoli asked 63 New Yorkers, including Tom Wolfe, Stephen...
View ArticleWhy Architecture Matters
Paul Goldberger’s long-awaited Why Architecture Matters, published in late 2009, is not a work of architectural history or a guide to the styles or an architectural dictionary, though it contains...
View ArticleBuilding Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Age of Architecture
Building Up and Tearing Down collects for the first time Paul Goldberger’s acclaimed essays on architecture from The New Yorker, where he became architecture critic in 1997, taking over the Sky Line...
View ArticleGwathmey Siegal: Apartments
Charles Gwathmey and Robert Siegel were among the few major architectural figures who continued to design residential interiors even as their practice brought them numerous commissions for large,...
View ArticleYale in New Haven: Architecture & Urbanism
In this first major book devoted to the history of Yale’s architecture and planning, four authors explore the physical shaping and reshaping of a great university that for almost three centuries has...
View ArticleBuilding Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry
From Pulitzer Prize–winning architectural critic Paul Goldberger: an engaging, nuanced exploration of the life and work of Frank Gehry, undoubtedly the most famous architect of our time. This first...
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