Product Description

When German photographer Gerrit Engel moved to New York in 1994 to study architecture, he combed through bookstores in search of a book documenting the city’s most important buildings—not just some eccentric details but each edifice as a whole from the street level to the roof; no fancy photographic distortions but captured as the structures present themselves to the ordinary pedestrian. Having

searched in vain he decided to do it himself. Documenting prefabricated housing estates in East Berlin neighborhood of Marzahn, and Buffalo grain elevators, he knew what he was looking for.

What he came up with is no less than a typology of Manhattan architecture: 150 buildings in chronological order of their creation between 1793 and 2005, complete with names of the architects and locations. Engel’s brilliant color photographs present a survey of the mix of styles that make Manhattan a unique architectural environment.

We now get what Gerrit Engel had been looking for.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1657634 in Books
• Published on: 2006-12-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 343 pages

About the Author
Texts by Jordan Mejias and Terence Riley

Gerrit Engel, born in Essen in 1965, studied architecture and photography in Munich and New York from 1990 to 1997. He has published several photo books and has presented his pictures in exhibitions in Munich, New York, Buffalo, Frankfurt, Rotterdam, and Berlin. He lives in Berlin and New York.

Jordan Mejias is the US arts correspondent of the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He lives in New York.

Terence Riley former chief curator of architecture and design at MoMA, is the new director of the Miami Art Museum and a faculty member of Harvard Design School.