Eric P. Nash

I was born in Chicago in nineteen and fifty-six. had the blues since I fell out the cradle. autodidact architectural critic, because I grew up walking to kindergarten past Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House, and later in New Haven, where my mother taught at Yale, so I hung around Gordon Bunshaft's Beinecke Library, Paul Rudolph's Yale School of Architecture, and the great Louis Kahn's Yale University Art Gallery.

fell backwards into New York City. bounced hard on the pavement. went to a private school for schmucks, where they let me drop out of 7th grade. roamed the streets when there were switchblade gangs in Williamsburg. like Robbie Robertson says in "The Last Waltz," New York keeps kicking your ass, but you keep coming back. swung a career at THE NEW YORK TIMES for 25 years, where I paid some heavy dues.

now I write books about architecture. by default, I'm an expert on skyscrapers and Art Deco, but my special love is Midcentury Modernism, all around the world, from NYC to L.A. and Berlin.

please check out my books:

my favorite is "MiMo: Miami Modern Revealed " (Chronicle), because they had a huge permissions budget, and we ran some wild images of Jayne Mansfield, The Beatles, James Bond, JFK, Lenny Bruce.

you might also enjoy my three editions of "Manhattan Skyscrapers" (Princeton Architectural Press), which cover the evolution of the skyscraper form in New York City, from strange-looking Eclectic Era edifices to the classic Art Deco sawtooth skyline of the setback style, associated with the Jazz Age and F. Scott Fitzgerald, to the cool cool glass boxes of the Mad Men 1950s era, to Post Modernism, and beyond, or to Infinity and Beyond, as Buzz Lightyear would say.

also, took a few sidesteps along the way, into Japanese manga in "Manga KIamshibai: The Art of Japanese Paper Theater" (Abrams), and a coupla bios: "Frank Lloyd Wright: Force of Nature" (Smithmark) and "Ansel Adams: The Spirit of Wild Places" (Smithmark), tho you might have to find the latter on Amazon's subsidiary, abebooks.com, for out of print titles.

oh, don't let me forget: got 2 new ones for yer perusal and enjoyment. "New York Art Deco: Birds, Beasts & Blooms," hot off the press from Rizzoli, which is listed under the name of my photographer/partner Andrew Garn; and forthcoming in June 2023, "Sky-High: A Critique of NYC's Supertall Towers from Top to Bottom."

catch you on the flip side,

EPN