Columbia Books on Architecture and the City

Columbia Books on Architecture and the City (CBAC) aspires to challenge the status quo of architecture through books and through an engaged, collective editorial practice. Bringing together designers, scholars, planners, artists, theorists, and curators, often working outside of the expected formats of their fields, CBAC makes books that urgently question what architecture is and what it does, and models different forms of architectural production beyond building. By amplifying new voices while also reflecting on those who have shaped the field, CBAC publishes books that explore architecture’s intersections, rethink the assumptions and epistemologies of practice, and confront the discipline’s blind spots and complicity in enduring forms of injustice.