The bibliography of Michael Sorkin includes criticism, essays, and non-fiction books written by the American architect and professor of urban design Michael Sorkin. Sorkin was a prolific writer on topics related to architectural and urban design and theory from the postmodern period until his death in 2020, during which he regularly contributed to numerous periodicals. Sorkin's non-fiction architectural and urban criticism constitutes the majority of his work, but his bibliography also features diverse items such as early journalistic work and poetry.
Books (as author) +TitlePublication YearPublisherNot the Webster's Dictionary1983WallabyExquisite Corpse: Writing on Buildings1991VersoLocal Code: The Constitution of a City at 42º N Latitude1993Princeton Architectural PressMichael Sorkin Studio: Wiggle1998The Monacelli PressOther Plans: University of Chicago Studies, 1998-20002001Princeton Architectural PressStarting from Zero: Reconstructing Downtown New York2003RoutledgeTwenty Minutes in Manhattan2009Reaktion BooksAll Over the Map: Writing on Buildings and Cities2011VersoTwo Hundred and Fifty Things an Architect Should Know2021Princeton Architectural Press
Books (as editor) +TitlePublication YearPublisherHardy Holzman Pfeiffer1981Whitney Library of DesignVariations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space1992The Noonday PressGiving Ground: The Politics of Propinquity1999VersoAfter the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City2002RoutledgeThe Next Jerusalem: Sharing the Divided City2002The Monacelli PressAgainst the Wall: Israel's Barrier to Peace2005The New PressIndefensible Space: The Architecture of the National Insecurity State2008RoutledgeNew Orleans Under Reconstruction: The Crisis of Planning2014VersoBeyond Petropolis: Designing a Practical Utopia in Nueva Loja2015Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers
Essays and articles +In BooksTitlePublicationPublication YearPublisherEt In Arcadia EmilioEmilio Ambasz: The Poetics of the Pragmatic1988Rizzoli International PublicationsCiao ManhattanNew York Architecture: 1970 to 19901989Rizzoli International PublicationsNineteen Millennial MantrasArchitecture in Transition: Between Deconstruction and New Modernsim1991PrestelLocal CodeLAX: The Los Angeles Experiment1994SITESThe Measure of ComfortComfort: Reclaiming Place in a Virtual World2001Cleveland Center for Contemporary ArtThe Avant-garde in Time of WarThe State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century2003The Monacelli PressMore or LessThe HOME House Project: The Future of Affordable Housing2004The MIT PressWith the GrainWhereabouts: New Architecture with Local Identities2004The Monacelli PressDeputy CityUrban Ecology: Detroit and Beyond2005Map Book Publishers -Here Is Tijuana!2006Black Dog PublishingThe Bounding MayneMorphosis 1998–20042006Rizzoli International PublicationsThe Great Mall of New YorkThe Suburbanization of New York: Is the Wold's Greatest City Becoming Just Another Town?2007Princeton Architectural PressWhat's the Difference?Architecture: Celebrating the Past, Designing the Future2008Visual Reference PublicationsThe Plot Against ArchitecturePhilip Johnson: The Constancy of Change2009Yale University PressNYU's Tipping PointWhile We Were Sleeping: NYU and the Destruction of New York2012McNally Jackson BooksIntroduction: Traffic in DemocracyThe People, Place, and Space Reader2014RoutledgeDrawn to LifeMy Book - Svein Tønsager: Cracks, Hinges and Xfoliations2020Architectural Publisher B +In PeriodicalsTitleYearPublicationDown with False Messiahs1972Architectural Association QuarterlyA Radical Alternative1972Architectural RecordRobert Venturi and the Function of Architecture at the Present Time1974Architectural Association QuarterlyThe Architect: A New American Movie Hero1975Architectural Association QuarterlyOn the Hegemony of the Ersatz1981Progressive ArchitectureRaiders of the "Tilted Arc"1985In These TimesLeaving Wright Enough Alone1986Architectural RecordDwelling Machines1987Design QuarterlyThe Uncertain Status of Being Stern1986SPYCheesed Off1987SPYCourt Jesting1987SPYWhere Was Philip?1988SPYSee You in Disneyland1992Design QuarterlyCartoon Cities1992I.D.Noted with Pleasure1992Progressive ArchitecturePerspectives: Meeting Spaces1993Progressive ArchitectureHyper Growth in South China: From the Pearl River Delta to Shanghai1997Architectural RecordAmerica's Most Visited Houses1998Architectural RecordEleven Tasks for Urban Design1998Perspecta: The Yale Architecture JournalSplitsville, U.S.A.: Why the Practice and Teaching of Urban Design Is Coming Apart2002Architectural RecordConfessions of a Competition Junkie, and Why It May Be Time to Kick the Habit2003Architectural RecordOf Dolphins, Comedy, and Architecture: Remembering Doug Michels and Ant Farm2003Architectural RecordOf Landmarks and Memorials: Getting Mad (and MAD) about All the Wrong Things2004Architectural RecordAdvice to Critics2004ARCADELimping Our Way to Universal Design: Everything Looks Different on Crutches2004Architectural RecordIn a City Whose Political Terrain Is Treacherous, a Gehry Project Comes Up Against a Wall2004Architectural RecordWhen Good Architects Design Bad Buildings: Beauty Trumps Ethics2004Architectural RecordFinding an Open Space for the Exercise of Democracy in New York's Dense Urban Fabric2004Architectural RecordEntering the Building2004Perspecta: The Yale Architecture JournalAfter the Flood: Rebuilding the Physical and Social Fabric2005Architectural RecordPeople Who Live in Urban Glass Houses ... Play It Safe2005Architectural RecordWhat Can You Say about the Pritzker?2005Perspecta: The Yale Architecture JournalTen Better Places for a Football Stadium2005The Architect's NewspaperWill New Plans for the Gulf Drown It Again, This Time in Nostalgia?2006Architectural RecordGuilt by Association: Political Expression and Architecture2006Architectural RecordJane Jacobs: Fighting Back Until the Very End2006Architectural RecordHollowing Out the Middle: What's Lost When a Housing Enclave Is Sold2006Architectural RecordJane Jacobs Dies at 892006The Architect's NewspaperCan Robert Moses Be Rehabilitated for a New Era of Building?2007Architectural RecordCan an Indigenous Culture Survive in a Jungle Petropolis?2007Architectural RecordBig Brother Hitches a Ride with a Congestion-Pricing Scheme2007Architectural RecordLegal Loophole Trumps Good Zoning in SoHo2007Architectural RecordMaking (Too) Big Plans for Manhattan's West Side2008Architectural RecordBucky Lives! Why Fuller Matters More Today Than Ever Before2008Architectural RecordSome Suggestions on How to Spend $800 Billion2009Architectural RecordTemporary Openings in the City Fabric Tempt a Critic to Imagine2009Architectural RecordConnect the Dots: Dubai, Labor, Urbanism, Sustainability, and the Education of Architects2009Architectural RecordSmoke and Mirrors2011Architectural RecordLearning the Hard Way2012Architectural RecordHow Green Is My City?: The State of Sustainable Urbanism2012Landscape Architecture Magazine Bridge Over Troubled Waters2014Architectural RecordThe Architect's Dilemma: When to Say No2014Architectural RecordLove Thy Neighbor(hood)2014ItemsTime to Welcome Woonerfs2014OculusThe Phantom Menace2015Architectural RecordToo Rich, Too Skinny2015Architectural RecordParametrics and Power2016Architectural RecordPinkwashing Zion Square2016The Architect's NewspaperThe Autonomobile and the City2017Architectural RecordSauve qui peut2018OculusCertain Regulations Pertaining to Public Space in The City2018Positions
Forewords, introductions, and prefaces +TitleTypePublicationPublication YearPublisherThis Side of ParadigmsIntroductionHardy Holzman Pfeiffer1981Whitney Library of Design -PrefaceHardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates: Buildings and Projects 1967–19921992Rizzoli International PublicationsTraffic in DemocracyIntroductionGiving Ground: The Politics of Propinquity1999VersoUp Against the WallIntroductionAgainst the Wall: Israel's Barrier to Peace2005The New Press -IntroductionJohn Howey Associates: Selected and Current Works2006Images PublishingSaratoga Springs!IntroductionSaratoga2009ORO EditionsWhat Does the City Want?IntroductionBy the City/For the city: An Atlas of Possibility for the Future of New York2011Multi-Story Books -ForewordThe Architecture of Change: Building a Better World2013University of New Mexico PressWho Is Aragonés?ForewordMiguel Ángel Aragonés2013Rizzoli International Publications -ForewordHumanitarian Architecture: 15 Stories of Architects Working after Natural Disasters2014Routledge -IntroductionNew Orleans Under Reconstruction: The Crisis of Planning2014Verso -PrefaceBeyond Petropolis: Designing a Practical Utopia in Nueva Loja2015Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers Welcome to PetropolisIntroductionBeyond Petropolis: Designing a Practical Utopia in Nueva Loja2015Oscar Riera Ojeda PublishersIntransigent SpacesForewordTransient Spaces2019Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture
Afterwords and Epilogues +TitlePublicationPublication YearPublisherEverybody's a CriticArchitectural Criticism and Journalism: Global Perspectives2006Umberto Allemandi & C.Architecture Without CapitalismArchitecture and Capitalism: 1845 to the Present2014Routledge
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