Person, Place, and Thing

Professor Emeritus and former PennDesign Dean Lee Copeland, Place (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform)
Appealing to both architects and landscape architects, Copeland explores the variety of elements in the environment that affect the way people experience or perceive the places around them, ranging from historic landmarks and climate to art and culture.

Witold Rybczynski, Martin and Margy Meyerson Professor Emeritus of Urbanism, Now I Sit Me Down – From Klismos to Plastic Chair: A Natural History (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
From the folding stools of pharaonic Egypt to the ubiquitous stackable Monobloc chairs of today, the way we choose to sit and what we choose to sit on speak volumes about our values, our tastes, and the things we hold dear.

Dean Frederick Steiner contributed the preface to the first Chinese translation of Ian McHarg’s A Quest for Life: An Autobiography (Wiley).
Available from the Chinese Architecture Bookstore and other Chinese-language booksellers.