Princeton Architectural Press

Stretched across city walls and along rooftops, Stephen Powers's colorful large-scale murals sneak up on you. "e;Open your eyes / I see the sunrise,"e; "e;If you were here I'd be home,"e; "e;Forever begins when you say yes."e; What at first looks like nothing as much as an advertisement suddenly becomes something...

The technological innovation and unprecedented physical growth of the cold war era permeated American life in every aspect and at every scale. From the creation of the military-industrial complex and the beginnings of suburban sprawl to the production of the ballpoint pen and the TV dinner, the artifacts of the period are a numerous and diverse as...

Quotes, Quips, and Words of WisdomWhether musing about the creative process, the merits of failure and criticism, or the challenges of keeping the studio lights on, designers make good, and opinionated, copy. The Designer Says, the follow-up to our best-selling The Architect Says, is a compendium of quotations from more than one hundred of...

A Photographic EssayA gorgeous visual celebration of America's public libraries including 150 photos, plus essays by Bill Moyers, Ann Patchett, Anne Lamott, Amy Tan, Barbara Kingsolver, and many more.Many of us have vivid recollections of childhood visits to a public library: the unmistakable musty scent, the excitement of checking out a stack...

Quotes, Quips and Words of WisdomCompelling quotations from 150 chefs—including James Beard, Julia Child, Gordon Ramsay, April Bloomfield—to inspire and delight professional chefs, foodies, and anyone who&'s ever resolved a crisis by adding more butter."e;Clean plates don&'t lie."e;—Dan BarberGreat chefs are not self-effacing or...

During the first two decades of the nineteenth century, two of the most significant theoretical works on color since Leonardo da Vinci's Trattato della Pittura were written and published in Germany: Arthur Schopenhauer's On Vision and Colors and Philipp Otto Runge's Color Sphere. For Schopenhauer, vision is wholly subjective in...