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ABOUT VAN ALEN BOOKS
Van Alen Books is an architecture and design bookstore, event space and public reading room located at Van Alen Institute’s headquarters in Manhattan’s Flatiron District. Opened in April 2011, this highly visible storefront space is New York City’s only book emporium and gathering place devoted singularly to architecture and design publications.
Van Alen Books gratefully acknowledges the support of Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, and Van Alen Circle members. Van Alen Books is also supported, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and through public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. vanalenbooks@vanalen.org Media: Press@vanalen.org 212-924-7000
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PLOT Volume 2

Launch Party

The Graduate Landscape Architecture Program of the Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York, is launching Volume 2 of its student-edited journal, PLOT. Featuring submissions by students, faculty, and friends of the Landscape Architecture program, Volume 2 explores the theme of PATCHWORK, developed by the second year MLA student editorial board in collaboration with faculty advisor Catherine Seavitt Nordenson and designer Isaac Gertman. Contributions to this issue explore ad-hoc and innovative assemblages, commensal species, and incongruous urban wilds. Come celebrate PLOT’s new issue and raise a toast to the 2013 graduating class of Master of Landscape Architecture students.

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LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Mimi Zeiger, Neil Donnelly, John Southern, Hitha Prabhakar

After an absence from print for over a decade, the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design announces the relaunch of the LA Forum Newsletter. The premiere issue features architect Frank Escher on the clinical restoration of the Eames house and The Retronaut’s Simon Reynolds on past futures, as well as an interview with Radio Iris author Anne-Marie Kinney and a centerfold by James Michael Tate. In celebration of the return to pulp and ink, the LA Forum will be in New York City at Van Alen Books for a panel discussion between editor Mimi Zeiger, architect John Southern, and graphic designer Neil Donnelly. A live interview with Hitha Prabhakar, author of Black Market Billions, follows the panel and will be published in the Fall 2013 Newsletter.

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