
In the late 1970s and early '80s, Pamphlet Architecture offered a fresh, samizdat-like alternative to homogenized architectural publishing. Based in New York and San Francisco, masterminded by a young Steven Holl and by bookshop innovator William Stout, the Pamphlets presented notional schemes by a then 30-something clique of intellectual practitioners, men-and one women-who retained a critical faith in certain tenets of Modernism. Here the first 10 Pamphlets are reprinted as a celebratory, 20th anniversary tome.