"AIA Guide to New York City"

The fifth edition of the AIA Guide to New York City includes hundreds of new projects built since the last edition in 2000. Among them are the large-scale projects and some big-name, obvious choices: Michael Van Valkenburghs Brooklyn Bridge Park, the Polshek Partnerships Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, Gehry Partners IAC Center, Atelier Jean Nouvels 40 Mercer Street, and Peter Gluck & Partners Bronx Prep Charter School. The late Norval White, FAIA, and I compiled lengthy lists of buildings and parks. I would then visit them, take photos and notes, and we would write and edit each others text for the new Guide. Those lists of projects were generated mostly from studying Architectural Record, the New York Times, The Architects Newspaper, Curbed.com, and Metropolis. But some of the most interesting, new projects are the ones that didnt get much publicity and were happened upon by chance.