Our goal is to publish timely, thought-provoking, useful, and beautiful books that explore how design shapes culture, even as culture shapes the designed environment at every scale. We believe that design is a humanist activity and with this in mind, we look for topics that make people’s lives better. Related to this aim, we are interested in projects that examine how our environment is changing—cities and their surrounding suburbs and exurbs, as well as all the small and large objects and ideas, materials and processes that build them.
As our list continues to grow, it will feature books on contemporary issues in architecture, urbanism, preservation, interior design, product design, and landscape architecture, particularly as these relate to the sustainable, natural environment and evolving technologies. We will also publish the occasional biography, autobiography, or monograph on a leading figure who shaped the 20th century, and revive an out-of-print work. Our formats range from small, modestly illustrated essay books to large, heavily illustrated volumes, and many variations in between, with a corresponding span of price points.
In the past three years Metropolis Books has published an impressive roster of provocative titles: Architecture for Humanity, ed., Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises (now in its fifth printing); Akiko Busch, The Uncommon Life of Common Objects: Essays on Design and the Everyday ; Matthew Coolidge and Sarah Simons, eds., Overlook: Exploring the Internal Fringes of America with the Center for Land Use Interpretation; Natalia Ilyin, Chasing the Perfect: Thoughts on Design in Our Time; Marla Hamburg Kennedy and Ben Stiller, eds., Looking at Los Angeles; and Robert Polidori with Martin C. Pedersen and Criswell Lappin, Robert Polidori’s Metropolis.
We welcome collaborations with other publishers as well as museums, educational institutions, and other organizations whose interests complement ours.
Metropolis Books is distributed by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers.
Please address inquiries to Diana Murphy, Editorial Director, Metropolis Books, dianamur@earthlink.net.
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