In October 2012, Four Freedoms Park—the last design Louis I. Kahn completed before his untimely death in 1974—will open on Roosevelt Island in New York City, over forty years after its commission as a memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt. Barney Kulok’s black-and-white photographs of the building site function as a meditation on the materiality and formal underpinnings of Kahn’s architectural thinking. Building is at once a historical record and a multilayered visual investigation of form and the subtleties of texture—elements of fundamental importance to Kahn’s philosophies. Published in conjunction with Kulok’s solo exhibition, Building, at Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, September 13 – October 27, 2012. Includes 49 black and white plates as well as an essay by architect Steven Holl and afterword by filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn. Hardcover; Edition of 1,000; Aperture Foundation: 2012

Published on the occasion of Rottenberg’s retrospective exhibition at de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, this first publication on the acclaimed young artist presents a comprehensive overview of her work to date. Video stills, diagrams, drawings and previously unpublished source material are interwoven with essays investigating the work from political, philosophical and historical perspectives. Interviews conducted by the artist with some of the performers provide unique insight into Rottenberg’s process of blending fact and fiction to create her highly original work. Full color. Hard cover; 204 pp. Published by Gregory R. Miller & Co.: 2011