"A love poem to a favorite building material, this book shows imaginative exterior and interior uses of stone, often in stunning images." Stanley Abercrombie, Interior Design. STONEWORK focuses on the role stone can play in making exceptional architecture. Stone's richness of texture, color and finish cannot be found in other materials; it is sensuous to touch, striking to the eye and pleasing to the soul. Malcolm Holzman's STONEWORK demonstrates that the application of stone can result in architecture unlike that created from other materials, and that it can be of more interest today than it has been in the recent past. The book features vignettes about observing antiquities as well as commonplace structures, and about manufacturing stone and making buildings. A second printing is available in Chinese.

"Brimming with information on the design of effective performance spaces, this solid resource offers a wealth of ideas to inspire professional and student architects, designers, teachers, and performing arts producers. The book studies the interrelationship of the aims of the artist, the needs of the public, and the creative innovations of theater architects. Issues surrounding the creation of public spaces, the restoration of theaters, and the technological differences between venues for plays, opera, and dance are all addressed. Essays by respected producers, scenic designers, architects, actors, choreographers, and other artists give the book a wide perspective. The contributors include, among others, Jane Alexander, Eliot Feld, Joel Grey, Phyllis Curtin, Robert Whitehead, Arthur Mitchell, Tony Randall, Arthur Penn, and Frank Rich."

"Now recognized as one of America's eminent architectural firms, Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates first appeared on the scene in the late 1960's with a series of highly innovative designs that took the profession by storm. During the thirty years of HHPA's practice, the firm has maintained its spirit of collaboration and experimentation while expanding into larger-scale and more ambitious projects. This second Rizzoli monograph on the firm's work spans the last five years, a period of prodigious growth for HHPA. Among the fifty projects presented with detailed descriptions and numerous illustrations are Windows on the World restaurant in the World Trade Center and Bryant Park in New York; the Cleveland Public Library; the Hawaii Theatre Center in Honolulu; the comprehensive development plan for the Warner Bros. Hollywood Studios; and the Los Angeles Public Library. A catalog of the work and partner's and associates' biographies complete the volume."

"Twenty-five years of architectural projects by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates (HHPA) are contained in this well-organized book. Michael Sorkin's introduction details the background, training, and vision of each of the partners--Hugh Hardy, Malcolm Holzman, and Norman Pfeiffer-- while the collective interview by Mildred F. Schmertz serves to place their work in the context of their architectural and social values. Projects include private homes, apartments, schools, offices, and several remarkable auditoriums, an HHPA specialty. Rather than being self-congratulatory, this book successfully shows a range of new buildings, renovations, and redesigns that represent good design and celebrates an era that saw the concept "modern" come to incorporate many different styles."

"Published on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition, this critical assessment of the 25-year architectural practice of Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, New York, illuminates the historic context from which the firm emerged and in which its present achievements may be understood and measured. Within a broad survey of HHPA buildings, contemporary stylistic issues, and evolving architectural vocabularies, the author highlights four recent projects as paradigmatic of the intellectual, aesthetic and pragmatic interests of the architects, known for their inventive juxtapositions of massing, color, pattern, and geometry, their interest in the expansion and rehabilitation of historic structures, and their masterful solutions to assignments in which architecture creates or reinterprets an institutional identity. A complete bibliography and working chronology of a representative range of the firm's projects make this an indispensable reference as well as a valuable introduction to contemporary architectural history."