Join Us Thursday, August 22 at 4 p.m. ET!
At the next PRINT Book Club, architect James Biber and designer Michael Bierut will join Debbie Millman and Steven Heller to discuss their new book, The Architect & Designer Birthday Book.
The book is described as a thoughtfully curated collection in a stunning package that recognizes and celebrates the birthdays of famous, infamous, and often overlooked designers and architects. It’s the design book you didn’t know you needed (and will not be able to live without).
Inspired by architect James Biber’s mid-pandemic Instagram project, in which he posted a birthday bio of a designer or architect (famous or less so) every day for a year, The Architect and Designer Birthday Book is filled with personal, opinionated, and humorous observations on fascinating figures past and present.
These anecdotal histories include:
- Architects from the Aaltos (Aino and Alvar) to Zumthor
- Rivals Bernini and Borromini
- Photographers Lee Miller, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Vivian Maier, Dody Weston Thompson, Margaret Morton, and Judith Turner
- Midcentury modernists Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, and Florence Knoll
The book’s author, James Biber is an architect and founder of the firm Biber Architects, based in New York. He has designed projects as diverse as the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee, the USA Pavilion at the 2015 Expo in Milan, Italy, the restoration of Richard Neutra’s Sten-Frenke house in Santa Monica, and, for one client, twelve houses across the country.
Michael Bierut, the book’s designer, is a graphic designer, design critic, and educator. A partner at Pentagram since 1990, Bierut has worked with clients such as The New York Times, Saks Fifth Avenue, The Robin Hood Foundation, MIT Media Lab, Mastercard, and the New York Jets. He also designed the ubiquitous H logo for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Don’t miss our conversation with James Biber and Michael Bierut on Thursday, August 22 at 4 PM ET! Register for the live discussion here, and buy your copy of The Architect and Designer Birthday Book right here.