NY Skyscrapers, by Dirk Stichweh, Scott Murphy, and Jörg Machinas. Prestel, August 2016, 193 pages, $39.95.
A large-format (9.6 by 12.8 inches) celebration of the New York skyscraper, this book shows towers in clusters and from aerial and long-range views that provide perspectives that vary from the typical pedestrian’s-eye experience. An expanded update of a 2009 publication, this edition includes images of skyscrapers under way now and planned for the near future.
Holiday Gift Guide: Architecture Books
RECORD's annual guide to gifts for colleagues, friends, and supportive clients.
RECORD’s holiday roundup highlights books that deal with urbanity in its many guises, from perspectives that embrace skyscrapers to those that see antidotes to density in low-rise planning and landscape design. Our purview takes us from the anti-urban development of the shopping mall to the precedents for civilization established long ago in the Middle East now endangered through political turmoil.
