Author Description

Cities form powerful networks that define our cultural, economic, and personal fortunes. By actively responding to its context, architecture can seek to improve the urban condition, creating useful connections that reach back to the past, enhancing functionality today, and looking toward a better future. This book presents a contemporary portrait of New York City, as illustrated by the recent work of Kohn Pedersen Fox and a collection of essays by leading urbanists and commentators. The designs included serve to define KPF's architectural vision and practice of connective urbanism.