New York

by Alan Balfour

New York is an exciting book dedicated to one of the world's most fascinating and
vibrant cities. Lavishly illustrated this architectural overview documents both the historical development and the future prospects of New York. Throughout New York you will find a wide range of projects which demonstrate every aspect of the city's construction, including commercial, residential, industrial and public buildings, as well as transportation and landscape works.
The projects, both built and yet to be built, include works by Richard Gluckman, FOA,
FTL, Hanrahan and Meyers, Bernard Tschumi, Peter Eisenman, Richard Meier,
Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Herzog and De Meuron and other architects of
international renown. Each project is covered in detail with texts, plans,
drawings and outstanding photography.
This book gives a unique portrait of a 20th-century city packed with diverse forms of architecture. It provides an historical overview of the factors that made the city what it is today
- Geography
- Geology
- Demographics
EACH PROJECT IS COVERED IN DETAIL WITH TEXTS, PLANS, DRAWINGS AND OUTSTANDING PHOTOGRAPHY

Hardcover

First published June 25, 2001

About the author

Alan Balfour (b. 1939) is a Scottish architect and author. He attended the Royal High School and Edinburgh College of Art. He won the Edinburgh Corporation Medal for Civic Design in 1961 and attended Princeton University as a Fulbright Scholar. He an Emiritus Professor of Architecture and has lived in America for more than forty years.

His books include New York (2001) and Shanghai (2002), in the World Cities series published by Wiley/Academy, London. They offer critical histories of city character and form as defined by architecture. The first in the series, Berlin, published by Academy Editions in 1995, documents the transformation of Berlin before and after the bringing down of the Wall. This and his earlier Berlin: The Politics of Order, 1737 - 1989 (Rizzoli, 1990), received AIA International Book Awards. Other ooks include Portsmouth (Studio Vista, 1970), Rockefeller Centre: Architecture as Theater (McGraw-Hill, 1978).

Balfour was e;ected Chairman of the Architectural Association in London in 1991. He was Dean of the School of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York and was the 2000 Topaz Laureate, the highest recognition given in North America to an academic in architecture.