Now Boarding: Fentress + The Architecture of Flight explored the work of Denver-based architect Curt Fentress, who emerged as one of the world’s leading airport architects with the completion of the terminal complex for Denver International Airport in 1995. Since then, he and his firm have designed airports in the United States and Asia that exemplify the most innovative ideas in architectural design, passenger experience, and regional planning. To provide context to the architect’s work, the exhibition included a timeline of airport and airplane history, artifacts exploring air travel in popular culture, a specially commissioned media installation about air travel today, and digital speculations on the airport of the future.

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Credits
Publisher: Denver Art Museum and Scala Publishers
Designer: Robert Aufuldish/Aufuldish and Warinner

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Cars, Culture, and the City explored how the car shaped modern-day New York, while, at the same time, New York shaped America’s romance with the car. From the early 20th century through today, New Yorkers’ invention of innovative ways to accommodate cars and pedestrians, such as multi-level streets, and the construction of bridges and tunnels made the city the epicenter of a vast, tri-state region. In the formative decades from the turn of the century through the 1960s, New Yorkers also built the auto showrooms and hosted the annual auto shows and world’s fairs that created the magic of American car culture. The exhibition was accompanied by a 100-page catalog.

Mr. Albrecht and his co-curator developed the idea of the show and catalog, selected all the artifacts, and wrote the exhibition text and catalog.

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Co-authored with Phil Patton

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Credits
Publisher: Museum of the City of New York
Designer: Pure+Applied

Global Citizen: The Architecture of Moshe Safdie accompanies a major traveling exhibition that explores this renowned architect’s buildings and the philosophy that shapes them. Safdie’s career has traced a remarkable trajectory in the canon of modern architecture, from the 1960s when the twenty nine-year-old architect designed Habitat, one of the century’s most significant experiments in prefabricated housing, until today, when he practices within an ever-expanding global architectural culture. Safdie’s canonical works combine the social activism and advanced technologies of modernism with profound respect for historic and regional context. For his diverse clients, Safdie has created buildings where communities are forged of strangers, memory is enshrined, and identity is created in built form. This book examines Safdie’s role in contemporary architecture, as well as his use of architecture for advancing political, religious, and cultural agendas. Also included is a unique illustrated essay by Safdie examining the architect’s thoughts on the global city in the 21st century.

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Credits
Designer: Pure+Applied

Co-authored with Thomas Mellins.

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Credits
Publisher: Monacelli Press
Catalog designer: Pure+Applied

Mr. Albrecht conceived the organization, selected the essayists, and wrote the introduction to this 328-page book that accompanied the National Building Museum exhibition that explored the impact of World War II on postwar American life.

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Credits
Publisher: MIT Press
Designed by Jean Wilson/MIT Press

Mr. Albrecht’s book was the first scholarly treatment of this subject and explored the relationship between film and architecture in England, France, Germany, Italy, and the United States during the first half of the 20th century.

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Credits
Publisher: Harper & Row and the Museum of Modern Art

Mr. Albrecht conceived the organization and commissioned the essays for this 205-page book on the California-based husband-and-wife team. Mr. Albrecht’s also wrote the book’s introduction and essays on the Eameses’ working methods and landmark furniture designs in innovative materials from molded wood to fiberglass. Other essays explored the Eameses’ important work in the areas of modern architecture, art, and science.

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Awards
Winner, Best Exhibition Catalogue,
Society of Architectural Historians.

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Credits
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Designer: Abbott Miller

A pioneer in the concept of “lifestyle marketing,” Russel Wright anticipated the likes of Martha Stewart and Ralph Lauren. Wright designed dinnerware, furniture, decorative objects. He and his wife Mary Wright wrote best-selling how-to books that influenced a post-World War II generation seeking a casual, yet elegant, American domesticity.

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Credits
Co-editor: Robert Schonfeld
Designer: Abbott Miller/Pentagram