The Official IfUD Holiday Gift Guide

Friday, December 16th, 2011

If you’re looking for some ideas for what to give to design-minded friends, family, or colleagues, we’d recommend browsing through the list of our Fellows’ publications over the past year: Tom Angotti’s New York For Sale came out in paperback; Andy Bernheimer and Board Member Claire Weisz both had projects included in Michael Crosbie’s New York Dozen; Jim Dart and Deborah Gans‘ work in New Orleans was featured in Beyond Shelter: Architecture and Human Dignity; Founder Ann Ferebee released a new edition of A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present, updated to include recent years; critic Justin Davidson included Alexander Gorlin’s Tomorrow’s Houses on his round-up of the most Notable Design Books of 2011; Ken Greenberg’s Walking Home was published to great acclaim; Jamie Hand, Olympia Kazi, and Kate Orff co-edited Gateway: Visions for an Urban National Park, which features work by Barbara Wilks; Horizontal Skyscraper, Patron Steven Holl’s latest publication, is just hitting bookstore shelves now; Board Member Thom Mayne rolled out a new manifesto called Combinatory Urbanism: The Complex Behavior of Collective Form; Board President Michael Sorkin’s most recent collection of essays, All Over the Map, has been building buzz; and Frederick Steiner released Design for a Vulnerable Planet this past spring.

New York For Sale Receives Paul Davidoff Book Award

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

new-york-for-saleInstitute fellow Tom Angotti’s book, New York For Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate (MIT Press), received the Paul Davidoff Book Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.

New York for Sale by Tom Angotti

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

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MIT Press has just published New York for Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate by Tom Angotti, Institute fellow and professor at Hunter College’s Department of Urban Affairs and Planning. More