Two Hundred and Fifty Things an Architect Should Know

Two Hundred and Fifty Things an Architect Should Know will be released October 19, 2021 by Princeton Architecture Press.

You can pre-order your copy at your favorite retailer.

Equal parts poetic, practical, playful, and Wise the book Two Hundred and Fifty Things and ArchiteShould Know presents a compelling and perceptive list of the essential knowledge composed by Michael Sorkin during his renowned career as an architect, urbanist, critic and force for justice and equity in design. In this first posthumous collection of work, entries are paired with 100 poignant and elegant color and black-and-white photographs, illustrations, and archival images.

Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope Book Launch

Michael Sorkin's latest book Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope has been officially launched!

Edited by Michael Sorkin and Deen Sharp, the volume brings together designers, environmentalists, planners, activists, and scholars from Palestine and Israel, the US, the UK, India, and elsewhere to create hopeful interventions that imagine a better place for Gazans and Palestinians.

On Monday, February 22 2021, LSE Middle East hosted a webinar to launch the book project. Speakers included editor Deen Sharp, and contributors, Helga Tawil-Souri, Fadi Shayya, and Tareq Baconi.

Open Gaza Advocates Social and Spatial Justice for the Beleaguered Strip

A new book edited by the late Michael Sorkin and Deen Sharp offers speculative visions that prioritize the recovery of the people’s agency and humanity.

Spatially speaking, the Gaza Strip is a hyper-dense string of Palestinian cities and refugee camps whose geographic smallness belies its global import. Implicating an international web of geopolitical interests (most saliently those of Israel, which effectively encircles it), it is also the subject of a new volume from Urban Research, the imprint of urban think tank Terreform, founded by the architect and critic Michael Sorkin, who died earlier this year. (One of Sorkin’s last works, the book is dedicated to him.)

Coedited by Sorkin and Deen Sharp, the contributions collated in the book are “surely eclectic,” they write, from architectural accounts of uniquely Gazan typologies to speculative visions of future development trajectories in the beleaguered territory. Gaza’s resilience in the face of abject desperation has long inspired the international community, making it a highly salient crucible in discussions of spatial justice, occasionally to the point of abstraction…..