Urban Elegance
Classic Contemporary Living
$145.44
- Hardcover
312 pages
- Release Date
3 November 2026
Summary
A celebration of luxury apartment towers by RAMSA, the unquestioned leader in this architecture arena
In the early twentieth century, a spate of elegantly proportioned and classically detailed residential buildings in New York gave rise to the concept of the Golden Age of apartment living. After a significant hiatus, these design values have resurfaced and expanded in reach, with New York-based architecture firm RAMSA leading the charge.
Urban Elegance
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781580937436 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1580937438 |
| Author: | Michael D. Jones, K.S. Gemma Kim, Daniel Lobitz, Paul L. Whalen, Paul Goldberger |
| Publisher: | Monacelli Press |
| Imprint: | Monacelli Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 3 November 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 260mm x 318mm |
Michael D. Jones
RAMSA partners Michael D. Jones, K. S. Gemma Kim, Daniel Lobitz, and Paul L. Whalen have collaboratively assembled an extensive portfolio of multifamily residential buildings that have had a transformative impact on cities around the world.
Michael Jones joined the firm in 1988, working initially on projects in New York and subsequently applying his understanding of architectural history and urbanism to residential complexes in Asia and Lima, Peru.
Gemma Kim has been at RAMSA since 2003. She has played a key role in RAMSA’s luxury apartment buildings in New York and Chicago as well as mixed-use projects in South Korea and Charleston, South Carolina.
Since joining the firm in 1986, Daniel Lobitz has overseen many of the firm’s residential towers, leading the design on the tallest residential building in Lower Manhattan, adding romance to the Chicago skyline, and developing a San Francisco complex that restores the residential fabric of Presidio Heights.
Paul Whalen believes that the key to a successful city design is understanding its culture, history, urban principles, and the languages of its architecture. Pivotal projects include 15 Central Park West, 220 Central Park South, and 520 Park Avenue in New York, multiple buildings in Palm Beach and Miami, and group of luxury towers that have transformed the historic San Isidoro neighborhood in Lima.
Pulitzer prizewinning architecture critic Paul Goldberger began his career at the New York Times and subsequently wrote for the New Yorker and Vanity Fair. He is the author of Why Architecture Matters and Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry and a contributor to Rosario Candela and the New York Apartment 1927–1937, among many other titles.
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