Columbia Books on Architecture and the City

Columbia Books on Architecture and the City aims to expand the ground of architectural discourse. Bringing together designers, scholars, planners, artists, theorists, and curators, often working outside of the expected formats of their fields, we focus on books that ask urgent questions about what architecture is and what it does—and to model different forms of architectural production beyond building. We hope to amplify new voices while reflecting on those who’ve shaped the field in vital ways, and to publish books that explore architecture’s intersections, rethink the assumptions and epistemologies of practice, and confront the discipline’s blind spots and complicity in enduring forms of injustice.

Recent publications include: Mapping Malcolm edited by Najha Zigbi-Johnson; Everlasting Plastics edited by Tizziana Baldenebro, Lauren Leving, Joanna Joseph, and Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt; Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana by Virginia Hanusik; Aeropolis: Queering Air in Toxicpolluted Worlds by Nerea Calvillo; Deserts Are Not Empty edited by Samia Henni, and Paths to Prisons: On the Architecture of Carcerality edited by Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt.