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<SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman''serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA>The book is a combined memoir and impressionistic history of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>At first affiliated with New York's Museum of Modern Art and Cornell University the Institute housed architects artists and historians who worked on creative design and intellectual projects and would become world renown.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>Its creation and direction was in the hands of its able leader Peter Eisenman.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>Besides a documentary study of the work that went on there among an international clearing house the book is laced with impressions of the author's experience there.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>It has been in the works for over 12 years and was originally financed by the Graham Foundation for the Study of the Fine Arts and has subsequently been aided by Dr. Jenny Kaufmann.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>The photographs of the Institute at the height of its activity are included and so does an original ground plan of its <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags /><st1:Street w:st=on><st1:address w:st=on>West 40<SUP>th</SUP> Street</st1:address></st1:Street> office done by Scott Brandi who also designed the book.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>It ends with 27 interviews of prominent members of the Institute who comment on it and their experiences.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>The book should appeal to architecture students and those interested in architecture and urbanism of the seventies when the government in the <st1:country-region w:st=on><st1:place w:st=on>United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> was more reasonable in economic and political equity.</SPAN>