The first lines of Craig Buckley’s introduction to this collection of essays from the proceedings of conferences on the subject of manifestos at Columbia and the University of Navarra in 2012, seem surprising.

If you’re prominent and reach the age of 80, The New York Times may have a writer (possibly this one) prepare your obituary for later use.

Some new additions to a balanced architectural library.

In A Genealogy of Modern Architecture, the prolific historian, critic, and theorist Kenneth Frampton presents a documentation of a course he used to teach, which involved comparative critical analyses of 14 pairs of more or less canonical modern buildings completed between 1924 and 2007.

It is impossible to do justice in the space available to the critical writing of the distinguished Canadian architect/theorist George Baird.

Named for the conventional Japanese word meaning “house,” Naomi Pollock’s book surveys the “wonderful, as well as the weird” residential architecture of Japan.

A traveling exhibition, now closed, is well documented in a book of the same name.

This is a beautifully crafted study of Wright’s place in the history of urbanism in the first half of the 20th century.

This is a superb history of the numerous ways that New York has provided subsidized housing for low-, moderate-, and middle-income residents from around 1900 to the present.