Concrete New York is a compact guidebook to the brutalist and concrete architecture of New York City, documenting more than 50 buildings across all five boroughs through new photography and concise commentary.
About This Book
Writer Allison C. Meier and photographer Jason R. Woods have spent years charting New York's buildings for Blue Crow Media's map series, and this book extends that work into a fuller survey. Moving from the experimental postwar decades to the present, it sets celebrated landmarks—Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim, Eero Saarinen's TWA Flight Center, Marcel Breuer's former Whitney Museum—beside less-visited works such as the Church of the Crucifixion, Bronx Community College, the Spring Street Salt Shed and Battery Harris at Fort Tilden. Housing, churches, libraries, campuses and infrastructure appear alongside recent concrete buildings by Studio Gang, David Adjaye and Steven Holl, showing just how widely the material shaped the city. Printed on uncoated stock and accompanied by maps, the book works as both a reference and a companion for exploring New York on foot.
Key Features
- More than 50 buildings across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island
- Original photography by Jason R. Woods throughout
- Maps to support self-guided exploration
- Companion to the Concrete New York Map, and the latest in a guidebook series that includes Brutalist London and Brutalist Berlin
What You'll Discover
- How concrete transformed New York's architectural landscape from the postwar decades to today
- Canonical works by Wright, Saarinen and Breuer read alongside overlooked civic and religious buildings
- Infrastructure and public space as serious architecture—from a salt shed to a coastal battery
- Contemporary concrete buildings by Studio Gang, David Adjaye and Steven Holl
About the Author
Allison C. Meier is an architectural writer based in Brooklyn, and Jason R. Woods is an architectural photographer based in Michigan. Together they have produced several titles for Blue Crow Media, including the Concrete New York, Art Deco New York and Modernist New York maps.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Dimensions: 138 × 200 mm
- Pages: 160, plus maps
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781912018468
- Publisher: Blue Crow Media
Perfect For: Architects, photographers and visitors to New York who want a portable, well-illustrated guide to the city's concrete buildings, and collectors of Blue Crow Media's architectural guides.