The annual Almanac of Architecture & Design is the essential and definitive tool for architecture and design - including architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, industrial design, historic preservation, and planning - and the only sourcebook of its kind. The Third Edition is fully updated and expanded with a foreword by Robert Campbell, the Pulitzer Prize winning architecture critic from the Boston Globe.
Highlights of the Third Edition include the acceptance speeches by recent award winners Michael Graves and Hertzog & de Meuron, the results of the 2002 Architecture and Interior Design school rankings, and an updated salary and compensation guide for architects and designers. The new Design Education chapter features major student and faculty award programs and their winners, an updated matrix of accredited design programs, a listing of design and design-related Doctorate and Ph.D. programs, and a salary and recruiting guide for students.
The Almanac also contains many rankings of design firms found nowhere else: the Largest Architecture Firms by City, Largest Architecture Firms by Project Type, $100,000,000 Architecture Firms, and the Top Architecture Firms by City. The Records, Rankings, and Achievements chapter includes an exclusive listing of architecture critics from the nation’s newspapers, the Most Admired Poll from a jury of architects and designers, the most popular U.S. buildings as ranked by architects at varies points in history, a comprehensive list of all the major sports stadiums and their architects, and other building/architectural statistics.
In addition to its new features, the Third Edition fully updates the information and statistics found in past editions, including over 20 worldwide design museums and their 2002 exhibition calendars, an updated list of the world's tallest buildings and best skylines, all the latest award winning projects and designers, the most recent historic preservation award winners and programs, fully updated design and construction statistics with charts; recent obituaries of design leaders, the Top 25 Most Visited Historic House Museums for 2002, and much more.
James Cramer is the founder and chairman of Greenway Consulting and adjunct professor of architecture at the University of Hawaii. He researches, consults, and gives seminars for leading professional firms around the world. He is the author of 135 articles and several books, including the critically acclaimed Design + Enterprise, Seeking a New Reality in Architecture. He is co-author of the upcoming How Firms Succeed, A Field Guide to Management Solutions. Cramer is the former chief executive of The American Institute of Architects in Washington D.C. and is the former president of the American Architectural Foundation. The recipient of over eighty awards and honors, he was presented the University of Minnesota’s Distinguished Service Medal for his work advocating the value of good design into the mainstream of corporate America. He is currently the co-chair of the Washington D.C.-based think-tank, the Design Futures Council. An educator, futurist, and business advisor, he is currently leading workshops on technology advancements and pending value migration changes in the design professions.
Jennifer Evans Yankopolus is the co-editor of the Almanac of Architecture & Design and an architectural historian. She is also the editor of the Archidek series of collectable, educational architecture trading cards. She has a Master’s degree in architecture history from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She also studied at Drake University, where she received her B.S. in business administration and earned a Master’s Degree in heritage preservation at Georgia State University. As a researcher, architectural historian, and project director, she leads Greenway’s initiatives that bring historical perspective and fresh insight to futures invention assignments.
