5.5 × 9.5 inches, 392 pages, softcover
ISBN 978-1-941753-99-6

Design by Ninotchka Regets

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In this comprehensive survey of his writing to date, Joe Day examines the intersections of architecture, contemporary art and urbanism as interdependent visual and spatial disciplines. Including pieces for both academic and general readership, letters, reviews, public addresses and responses, Essays offers a full account of Day’s thirty-year critical development, and a revealing look at L.A.’s built environment and intellectual climate at the turn of the millennium. Organized in three chronological sequences—“Transgressions,” “Situations” and “Reactions”—this collection begins with nominalist observations on art and architecture, turns then to writing on cities, and concludes with responses to major works and figures including Frank Gehry, Peter Eisenman, Mike Davis and Rosalind Kraus, as well as many more recent protagonists.

Essays joins Day’s previous monographs, Arrays (SCI-Arc, 2016) and Forays (ORO, 2021), which gather his prolific diagraming and design work, respectively. His earlier book, Corrections & Collections: Architectures for Art and Crime (Routledge, 2013), explores the evolving polarities in contemporary exhibition and incarceration.