An extract from ‘Building Seagram’ by Phyllis Lambert
The Seagram building rises over New York’s Park Avenue, seeming to float above the street with perfect lines…
Architecture
The Pevsner Architectural Guides and an intriguing link to the History Today Trustee’s Award Prize Bowl
Yale University Press was delighted when the Pevsner Architectural Guides series recently won the Longman – History Today Trustees’ Award, which is given…
Master Architects: Inside Studio Gang
Building: Inside Studio Gang Architects Take a look inside our new book on cutting-edge architectural firm Studio Gang Architects,…
Author Article: John Newman on Architecture and Aging
An expanded and fully revised edition of John Newman’s classic survey has just been published by Yale University…
*Now Closed* Competition: Win a copy of Pevsner Kent
Congratulations to the winner of our Pevsner competition! Further thanks to all those who entered.
Bloomsbury before Woolf: Rosemary Ashton on the birth of London’s intellectual quarter
Published this month Victorian Bloomsbury is the first account of Bloomsbury’s evolution as the undisputed intellectual quarter of London…
Discover London this Summer (because you can’t watch sport ALL the time)
For those lucky enough to be in London this summer for the Olympics, we’ve decided to share a…
Intelligent Design: Gorgeous book looks at over 60 years of iconic Marimekko designs
Marimekko: Fabrics, Fashion, Architecture (available now in paperback) is the first comprehensive study of Marimekko designs, and presents over two…
A Little History of Bedford Square: Todd Longstaffe-Gowan on the ‘superior’ central London square
Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, internationally renowned landscape architect and author of The London Square, provides a short history of Bedford Square,…
Yale books prevail at the 2012 William M.B. Berger Prize for British Art History
Yale University Press is proud to announce that The Eighteenth Century Church in Britain by Terry Friedman has been awarded…
Yale University Press launches its Autumn / Winter 2012 seasonal catalogue
Yale’s Autumn / Winter seasonal catalogue is available now to order and download. Today we take a quick look at…
The ‘perfect world’ of the London Square: Author article by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan
In this author article internationally renowned landscape architect Todd Longstaffe-Gowan flies the flag for the London square, the focus…
Stirling and Gowan, architects of influence: Author article by Mark Crinson
Mark Crinson, author of Stirling and Gowan, takes a look at the dynamic partnership between architects James Stirling…
Author Interview: Austin Troy discusses ‘The Very Hungry City’
Earlier this month we took a look at January’s Book of the Month, The Very Hungry City by Austin Troy, which…
Shelf Obsessed: New Yale book takes a look at the bookshelves of famous authors
Unpacking My Library: Writers and their Books by Leah Price was published in November 2011 to immediate acclaim…