In the late 1970s and early ’80s, Pamphlet Architecture offered a fresh, samizdat-like alternative to homogenized architectural publishing. Based in New York and San Francisco, masterminded by a young Steven Holl and by bookshop innovator William Stout, the Pamphlets presented notional schemes by a then 30-something clique of intellectual practitioners, men – and one woman – who retained a critical faith in certain tenets of Modernism. Here the first 10 Pamphlets are collected as a celebratory, 20th anniversary tome, featuring the early works of many of today’s best-known architects, including Steven Holl, Lars Lerup, Mark Mack, Lebbeus Woods, Zaha Hadid, Livio Dimitriu, and Alberto Sartoris.
Published in 1998 by Princeton Architectural Press, this hardcover book is a First Edition — new and sealed in plastic shrink wrap.
