Some Assembly Required Michael Sorkin Table of Contents Times Square excerpt Graceland/White House excerpt		$25.00 Paper ISBN: 0-8166-3483-1 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-3483-5 $67.50 Cloth ISBN: 0-8166-3482-3 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-3482-8
The long-awaited collection by one of architecture's most exciting voices. Michael Sorkin is widely hailed as one of the best architecture critics writing today. Iconoclastic and often controversial, he is a witty, entertaining, yet ultimately serious writer. In this new collection, Sorkin reviews the state of contemporary architecture and surveys the dramatic changes in the urban environment of the past decade. From New York to New Delhi, from Shanghai to Cairo, Sorkin offers a sweeping assessment of the impact of globalization, environmental degradation, electronic media, rapid growth, and the legacies of modernist planning. Whether laying out, manifesto-like, eleven necessary tasks for urban design, providing a fresh take on the Disneyfication of Times Square, grappling with sprawl, or blasting the nostalgic prescriptions of "new urbanist" communities (which he dubs "Reaganville"), Sorkin makes a compelling argument for an architecture and urbanism firmly grounded in both artistic expression and social purpose. “Relevant, insightful, and entertaining. Some Assembly Required details the dynamic state of urban architecture and shows why maintaining community is so critical to keeping our bearings in this globalizing world.” —Urban Ecology Michael Sorkin is principal of the Michael Sorkin Studio and professor of architecture and director of the graduate urban design program at New York's City College. He is the author of Giving Ground (with Joan Copjec, 1999), Wiggle (1998), Exquisite Corpse (1994), and Variations on a Theme Park (1991), and his writing has appeared in the Village Voice, Metropolis, the New York Times Magazine, and other publications. 264 pages | 5 7/8 x 9 | 2001 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Part I. Cities/Places Eleven Tasks for Urban Design Branding Space Times Square: Status Quo Vadis Round and Round Cranes over TriBeCa Big Deal A Passage through India Instrumental Cities Containing Cairo Second Nature Millennium in Vegas Acting Urban Notes on Vibe Phoenix Rising Remembering the Future Part II. Architects/Buildings Animating Space Siza the Day The Borders of Islamic Architecture Filming Wright Inside the Biosphere Come and Getty Habitat and After MOR Is Less Far, Far AwAIA Amazing Archigram Admitting the Fold Forms of Attachment Airport 98 No Sex Please, We're British How French Is It? Upstairs, Downstairs Part III. Misfits Container Riff Family Values The Second Greatest Generation War Is Swell Genius Loco: A Success Story Publication Information

 

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