Glass is one of the most ubiquitous and extensively researched building materials. Despite the critical role it has played in modern architecture in the last century we have yet to fully comprehend the cultural and technological effects of this complex and sophisticated building material. Engineered Transparency presents a portfolio of projects featuring cutting-edge glass designs by today’s most innovative architects including SANAA's acclaimed Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art and Steven Holl's Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City. With contributions by foremost thinkers in the field of architecture and design including the historians and critics Kenneth Frampton, Antoine Picon, Detlef Mertins, Beatriz Colomina, Joan Ockman and Reinhold Martin; engineers Werner Sobek, Guy Nordenson and Richard Tomasetti; and architects Kazuyo Sejima, Steven Holl, and Elizabeth Diller, Engineered Transparency redefines glass as a 21st century building material and challenges our assumptions about its aesthetic structural and spatial potential.

GSAPP and Princeton Architectural Press, 2009
272 pages, hardcover.
28.5 cm h x 22 cm w

This illuminating book contains a key series of key debates between Spain's most celebrated architects, and their critical reflections on the nature of contemporary architectural design, including: Carlos Ferrater, Vicente Guallart, Alberto Campo Baeza, Blanca Lleo, Francisco Mangado, Josep Lluis Mateo, Rafael Moneo, Arsenio Perez Amaral, Enric Ruiz-Geli, Juan Domingo Santos, Enrique Sobejano, Benedetta Tagliabue, and Jose Maria Torres Nadal. With a preface by Mark Wigley, and an introduction by Jorge Otero-Pailos.

GSAPP and Editorial Rueda, 2009
158 pages, paperback.
Size: 19 cm h x 15 cm w

This richly illustrated volume features the non-linear process taught by Kathryn Dean at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. It includes several essays, a fabrication dictionary, and exceptional studio and seminar work from the past three years.

GSAPP, 2008
156 pages, paperback.
24 cm h x 19.5 cm w

Grounded in over ten years of design-based research generated by the post-graduate Constellation Urban Design studio at Columbia University (MSAUD), the book makes three claims: First, that urban design sites are extensive territories, spatially and temporally. Second, that no matter their size, projects built in cities do more than house use-program; they provoke urban transformations far-reaching in time and space. Third, that polishing the surface appearance of the city is insufficient. The ideas and projects in Constellations argue that to achieve a substantive effect the urban designer must engage a broad array of physical forms, infrastructural interconnections, development models and social agents. The diverse content of the book conveys the breadth and variety of practices that can today be included under the rubric of urban design, while revealing a shared approach to framing urban design problems using innovations in representation to promote conversations across design disciplines, between theory and practice, and among the many processes and players implicated in city-making.

GSAPP 2007
144 pages, paperback
23 cm h x 23 cm w

This richly illustrated volume documents two years of research into the Gowanus Canal region, presenting the area as a potential incubator of possible urban strategies, engaging issues of remediation, brownfields redevelopment, watershed restoration, and industrial recycling. It includes scholarly essays by the editors, Richard Plunz and Patricia Culligan, in addition to more than a dozen research projects and design proposals.

GSAPP, 2007
New Urbanisms 8
128 pages, paperback.
23 cm h x 23 cm w

A non-monograph about the possibility of an open source design process, the second volume of this series includes essays by Yoseph Bar-Cohen, Livia Corona, Holly Kretschmar, Seth Mnookin, William Wu and SISYPHUS.

GSAPP, 2007
126 pages, paperback.
17 cm n x 11 cm w

Reflected Transparency presents the recent photography of Erieta Attali in a beautifully printed medium-format book. A rare look at celebrated buildings, the work embraces the aesthetic effects of glass in contemporary architecture. The photographs include the work of Kisho Kurokawa, Kazuo Sejima, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Bernard Tschumi, and others. In addition to being a presentation of the work of an acclaimed photographer, Reflected Transparency is also an indispensible primer for architects and architectural students interested in the effects of transparency, both literal and phenomenal.

GSAPP with Danish Architectural Press, 2006
96 pages, paperback
29 cm h x 19.5 cm w

Geothermal Larderello investigates contemporary urbanism by looking at the evolution of human settlement patterns in relation to geothermal energy in Larderello, Italy. Larderello is "off the map," and virtually unknown to Tuscan residents and tourists, but is one of the world's centers of geothermal power research. Alternative futures for this industrial town, which was planned by Giovanni Michelucci in the 1950s, are discussed within the context of sustainability, economics, programming, and environment. In ancient times, the Valley de Cecina was home to a spa and renowned for its healing thermal waters, while in the modern era, this steam was harnessed to generate electricity for district heating and for other uses. Larderello, with its unique landscape of agricultural fields, olive trees, cooling towers, and miles of above-ground steam pipes, is a case study for the possible confluence of geothermal power and urban design issues.

GSAPP and Princeton Architectural Press 2005
160 pages, paperback.
23 cm h x 23 cm w