The OMA partner's new book Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession takes an idiosyncratic look at architectural history and dissects contemporary practice.

Lynn Sagalyn presents an exhaustive account of the conflicted planning and troubled execution of the epic redevelopment of Ground Zero.

Wendy Lesser’s study of Louis Kahn synthe­sizes his life and work in a literary equivalent of an architectural composition.

Paul Goldberger reviews Victoria Newhouse’s book on the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens.

Wild By Design: Strategies For Creating Life-Enhancing Landscapes, by Margie Ruddick; Gardens of the High Line: Elevating the Nature of Modern Landscapes, by Piet Oudolf and Rick Darke; Bawa: The Sri Lanka Gardens, by David Robsen; The Garden of Peter Marino, by Peter Marino with foreword by Claude Lalanne.

Author Kathryn Smith takes readers on a comprehensive tour through Frank Lloyd Wright’s exhibitions, from his first at the Chicago Architectural Club of 1894 to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1959.

Writer and editor Helen Thompson presents 21 case studies of the artistic utopia's domestic architecture.

In his latest book, The Rise of the Creative Class–author Richard Florida argues that the stratospheric housing prices, costly entrepreneur-stifling zoning regulations, and homogenizing tidiness of "superstar cities" threaten to kill the creative ethos.

Former filmmaker Marc Kristal is a natural storyteller, which enlivens his 18 case studies about adding contemporary additions to old houses.

Our reviews of books by Jonathan Glancey, Gijs Van Hensbergen, Thomas Fisher, James Crawford, Justin Davidson, Denise Hoffman Brandt, Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, Leslie Earl Robertson, and Jason M. Barr.