Series II documents the writing of Michael Sorkin through drafts, final manuscripts, clippings and full publications, photocopies, correspondence, contracts, and research files. It is primarily organized chronologically, divided by decades, and ranges from 1959 to 2020. Undated writings have been organized alphabetically or compiled if untitled.
Not all writings published by Michael Sorkin are included, nor does every published piece include both final or draft versions. Due to the expanse of the collection and the uncertain nature of some of the writings, no clear distinction has been drawn between published and unpublished pieces or between scholarly and creative writings. It includes articles, poems, prose, and a substantial number of undated movie and play scripts. The series likely includes drafts of undated or untitled lecture scripts, with potential duplicates found in Series IV: Professional Papers, Lectures. Major figures and themes are listed in the scope and content notes for individual entries.
Various dates have been inferred or estimated from the content or residence address mentioned in the drafts. Numerous drafts had been organized by address by the owner and filed together in a folder titled "1978-84?". It seems likely that Michael Sorkin lived at these addresses between 1975 and 1986 based on other dated drafts. Sorkin may also potentially have moved back and forth between apartments.
Box 5 Folder 1 "Bus Driver is Hero," Den 3 Dragnet, January 1959., 1959
Clipping of Michael Sorkin's first article, in local children-run newspaper
Box 5 Folder 133 Writings in The Burgundy Bugle: An Exciting Literary Publication Compiled by the 8th Grade of Burgundy Farm School, ca. 1961-2
Publication of school newspaper with writings by various students
Box 5 Folder 2 "The Arab Propaganda Campaign on the Campus," Near East Report, October 29, 1969, written under Pseudonym "George Gordon", 1969
Clipping of article on Arab student organizing written under pseudonym, correspondence with Isaiah L. Kenen (American Israel Public Affairs Committee, AIPAC), drafts
Oversize 1 Folder 1 to 7 Editor, Grey City Journal / Chicago Maroon, 1968-1970
Clippings of University of Chicago student newspaper that Michael Sorkin edited
Oversize 1 Folder 8 Print Project Amerika 1, No. 1, December 1970, 1970
Publication of student newspaper, with contribution by Michael Sorkin
Box 5 Folder 3 Poem, "The Big Fire at the Architectural College," ca. 1970, ca. 1970
Photocopies of poem on fire at Yale School of Architecture
Box 5 Folder 4 "Down With False Messiahs," aaq 4, No. 4, Autumn 1972, 26-9., 1968
Clipping, photocopy, and draft
Box 5 Folder 5 "A Radical Alternative," Architectural Record, December 1972., 1972
Photocopy, clipping, and draft outline of article based on Sorkin's MIT Thesis proposal. Related material in Box 11, Folder 3
Box 5 Folder 137 Writing on MOMA Housing show, ca. 1973
Drafts
Box 5 Folder 6 "Robert Venturi and the Function of Architecture at the Present Time," aaq 6, 1974., 1974
Photocopy and draft. Also includes response by Denise Scott Brown and Michael Sorkin
Box 5 Folder 7 "The Architect: A New American Movie Hero," aaq 7, No. 1, 1975, 41., 1975
Draft and photocopy of article
Box 5 Folder 8 Selected Poems, 1974-2011
mostly dated between September 1974 and 1975; Single poem written in 2011 to Joan Copjec
Box 5 Folder 9 "The Candidates' Views," The National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, July/September 1976, 12., 1976
Clipping
Box 5 Folder 10 "Behind Closed Doors," Review of The Bathroom, by Alexander Kira, Seven Days, February 1976, 12-3., 1976
Clipping
Box 5 Folder 135 Sevendays, April 19, 1976, 1976
Full publication, Sorkin worked as staff
Box 5 Folder 11 "This Was the House that Jack Built. Who's to Blame?," Student Lawyer, April 1978, 1978
Clipping
Box 5 Folder 12 "Timespeak: Hidden Persuaders. Newsmagazine Marshals Rhetorical Devices in Special Report on Socialism. Learning a thing or two from Aristotle," More: The Media Magazine, May 1978, 29-32., 1978
Clipping
Box 5 Folder 13 "This Was the House that Jack Built. Who's to Blame?," Legal Briefs for Architects, Engineers and Contractors, Special Report, July 1978., 1978
Clipping
Box 5 Folder 14 "The Civilizing Process," Review of The Civilizing Process: The History of Manners, by Norbert Elias, Seven Days, July 1978., 1978
Clipping and Drafts
Box 5 Folder 15 "You Are Where You Eat," Village Voice, September 4, 1978, 136., 1978
Draft, Photocopy and Photocopy
Box 5 Folder 16 "Hi-fi Design," Rolling Stone, No. 273, September 1978, 1978
Proofs and drafts titled "Sound Looking Sound"
Oversize 1 Folder 9 "Cloning People," Skyline: The New York Architecture and Design Calendar, November 1978, 1978
Clippings
Box 5 Folder 17 "The 'Movement': Up Mine!," The Bills of Rights Journal, December 1978, 12-3, 1978
Clipping and Photocopy
Box 5 Folder 18 Review of Interiors, by Woody Allen., ca. 1978
Draft
Box 5 Folder 130 "Designed for Film: The Hollywood Art Director (MOMA, Until September 26)", ca. 1978
Draft of review of MOMA movie, aired 1978.
Box 5 Folder 19 "Wt U Cn Lrn from College Catalogues," Village Voice, January 15, 1979, 1979
Photocopy and draft
Box 5 Folder 20 "Let a Hundred Styles Blossom: MOMA's Message on Modern," Village Voice, March 19, 1979., 1979
Photocopy
Box 5 Folder 21 "The Tastemaker," Building Design, April 20, 1979, 20-2., 1979
Clipping and draft of article on Philip Johnson
Box 5 Folder 22 "A Monument Manqué: The House on West 11th Street," Village Voice, April 23, 1979., 1979
Photocopies and drafts
Box 5 Folder 136 "Sound Looking Sound," Village Voice, May 21, 1979, 1979
Photocopy and draft. Reprint of Box 5, Folder 16
Box 5 Folder 23 "Mumfordiana," Review of My Works and Days, by Lewis Mumford, The Nation, May 26, 1979, 607-8., 1979
Clipping, draft, proof and photocopy
Box 5 Folder 24 "Lofty Pursuits," TWA Ambassador 12, No. 6, June 1979., 1979
Clipping, Photocopy, and draft
Box 5 Folder 25 "License to Pillage," Village Voice, June 11, 1979., 1979
Photocopy and draft
Box 1 Folder 9 "Vegitecture," Wet Magazine, July/August 1979., 1979
Clipping and draft titled "Out-laws and In-laws in Architecture"
Box 5 Folder 26 "In the Cannes" / "17th New York Film Festival," Village Voice, September, 1979, 1979
Photocopy and draft. Missing day.
Box 5 Folder 27 Michael Sorkin and Howard Rodman, "An Interview with the Pope," Village Voice, October 8, 1979, 1979
Photocopy and draft
Box 5 Folder 28 "Food Follows Function," Restaurant Design, Fall 1979., 1979
Clippings and Photocopy
Box 5 Folder 131 Review of The Powers that Be, by David Halberstam, ca. 1979
Draft
Box 5 Folder 29 "Air Rights for Whom?", ca. late 1970s
Draft in response to Der Scutt 1979 New York Times Op-Ed
Box 5 Folder 30 "And Now the Word from our Sponsor", ca. late 1970s
Drafts on TV advertisement
Box 5 Folder 31 "Bussed In", ca. late 1970s
Drafts on taking the bus
Box 5 Folder 32 "CitiCorp", ca. late 1970s
Drafts on CitiCorp building in New York City
Box 5 Folder 33 "Entertaining Mr. Teng", ca. late 1970s
Drafts on Deng [Teng] Xiaoping's visit to US, 1979
Box 5 Folder 132 Writing on Fast Food, ca. late 1970s
Drafts
Box 5 Folder 34 "Forms of Speech", ca. late 1970s
Draft of statements by fictional political figures
Box 5 Folder 35 Writing on George Benet, ca. mid to late 1970s
Draft
Box 5 Folder 36 Writing on South Ferry, ca. late 1970s
Draft on South Ferry building in New York City
Box 5 Folder 134 "La Ruse Gastronomique: Menus from the Faculty Club. Written by Michael Sorkin / Scripted by Linda Dannhauser.", ca. late 1970s
Draft and clipping from unknown publication
Oversize 1 Folder 10 "Sci-Fi Flicks are doing what architects should," Los Angeles Herald Examiner, January 30, 1980., 1980
Clipping and annotated drafts on movies
Box 5 Folder 37 "Who Were the First New Yorkers?," Village Voice, April 14, 1980, 86., 1980
Photocopy and drafts
Box 5 Folder Unknown The Architecture of Emilio Ambasz," Architecture and Urbanism, No. 116, May 1980, 1980
Clipping
Box 5 Folder 39 "The Illusion of Pluralism," Arkkitehti, May/June 1980., 1980
Clipping
Box 5 Folder 40 "Shaft," Village Voice, June 25 - July 1, 1980, 73., 1980
Clipping
Oversize 1 Folder 10 "Architecture, too, belongs in museum," Los Angeles Herald Examiner, July 2, 1980, B3, 1980
Clipping and drafts on Bunker Hill development in Los Angeles. Related material in Box 5, Folder 50
Oversize 1 Folder 10 "Five Days that Shook the World," Village Voice, October 22-28, 1980, 112, 1980
Clipping and drafts
Box 5 Folder 41 "Drawings for Sale," Village Voice, November 12, 1980, 85, 1980
Photocopy on Leo Castelli Gallery
Box 5 Folder 42 "A Week in the Life," [ca November 1980], 1980
Clipping and draft of satire article, on Louis Althusser etc. Maybe Village Voice
Box 5 Folder 43 "Chinoiserie," Village Voice, December 24-30, 1980, 77., 1980
Photocopy and draft on "China Exhibition"
Box 5 Folder 44 "Albany Malled," Domus 612, December 1980, 23-25, 1980
Clipping and Draft on Rockefeller Center, Albany
Oversize 1 Folder 10 "Pretty as a Building," Village Voice, December 17-23, 1980, 112, 1980
Clipping on Ezra Stoller
Box 5 Folder 45 "Motels are for Weeping," Village Voice, January 7-13, 1981, 1981
Photocopy of article on Harry Helmsley and Donald Trump developments
Oversize 1 Folder 10 "A City Drawn and Quartered," Village Voice, January 28 - February 3, 1981, 71-2, 1981
Clipping and draft on Leon Krier exhibit
Box 5 Folder 46 "This Side of the Paradigms," In Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates (New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1981), 8-14, 1981
Draft for introduction of Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates monograph
Box 5 Folder 47 "Clothes Encounters," Village Voice, February 19-24, 1981, 23, 1981
Photocopy and draft on fashion
Box 5 Folder 48 "The Odd Couples," Village Voice, March 16-24, 1981, 76., 1981
Photocopy and drafts on Architectural League
Box 5 Folder 49 "On the Hegemony of Ersatz," Progressive Architecture, September 1981., 1981
Photocopy and draft on revivalism
Box 5 Folder 50 "Bunker Hill Mentality," Arts + Architecture, Fall 1981, 45-8, 1981
Clipping on Bunker Hill development in Los Angeles. Related material in Oversize 1, Folder 10
Oversize 1 Folder 10 "My Three Crises: Or, Why I Left California," Village Voice, November 11-17, 1981, 23, 1981
Clippings and photocopy
Box 5 Folder 51 "YWCA: Downtown Branch Houston," Arts + Architecture, Winter 1981, 44-46, 1981
Clipping and draft on Tafts Architects
Box 5 Folder 52 "Anderson Hall Expansion: School of Architecture, Rice University," Arts + Architecture, Winter 1981, 47-50, 1981
Clipping on James Stirling
Box 5 Folder 53 "American Architecture since 1960: Quo Vadis," Architecture and Urbanism, American Architecture: After Modernism, 1981, 1981
Clipping and Drafts on Multinational Style
Box 5 Folder 54 "Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates," L.A. Architect, 1981, 1981
Clipping
Box 5 Folder 55 Untitled, Writing on Gwathmey and Siegel, Columbia University Campus Development, ca. 1981
Draft
Box 5 Folder 56 Untitled, Writing on Myron Goldfinger, ca. 1981
Draft
Box 5 Folder 57 "Portman's Hotel: Assault on a Mythic Center?," The Wall Street Journal, January 2, 1982, 31., 1982
Clipping and draft on John Portman's Times Square hotel
Box 5 Folder 58 "The Path Always Taken," Review of The Skyscraper, by Paul Goldberger, The Nation, February 6, 1982., 1982
Clipping, proof, and draft. Also titled "What Goes up, not Why"
Box 5 Folder 59 "Architecture After Lunch," March 9, 1982., 1982
Draft on lunch
Box 5 Folder 60 Writings on Richard Haas, April 1, 1982., 1982
Drafts, date on previous folder
Box 5 Folder 61 "On Being Scene: New York fashions its Style," Brand New York, 1982, 49-51., 1982
Clipping and Draft on Fashion and Mary Boone
Box 5 Folder 62 "Altar Egos," Village Voice, July 6, 1982, 72., 1982
Photocopy and drafts on wedding with Joan Copjec
Box 5 Folder 63 "Explaining Los Angeles," California Counterpoint: New West Coast Architecture Catalogue 18, 1982, 1982
Clipping
Box 5 Folder 64 "Critique," Arts + Architecture 2, No. 1, 1982., 1982
Clipping and draft on contextualism
Oversize 1 Folder 11 "Tower Hungry: Three Skyscrapers at MoMA," Skyline: the Architecture and Design Review, March 1983., 1983
Clipping and undated draft
Box 5 Folder 65 "Analog Architecture," Vogue, April 19, 1983, 1983
Proof and draft
Box 5 Folder 66 "A House of Illusions," House & Garden, August 1983, 119-123, 1983
Clipping and draft on William Adams
Box 5 Folder 67 "Just a Phone Call Away," I.D. Magazine, March/April 1983., 1983
Clipping and drafts on telephone design
Box 5 Folder 68 "When a Woman designs a War Monument," Vogue, May 1983., 1983
Clipping and draft on Maya Lin's Vietnam Memorial
Box 5 Folder 69 "Vietnam: A Television History," Vanity Fair, November 1983, 1983
Proof and clipping
Box 5 Folder 70 Michael Sorkin and Howard Rodman, "Statement of LAMB (ML)*: On the Current Crisis in the So-called Falkland Islands," Cultural Correspondence, New Series #2, Winter 1983, 74, 1983
Clipping and drafts on satirical piece
Box 5 Folder 71 "Are You PoMo, or merely Modern?," Vogue, November 1983, 290., 1983
Clipping, Proof, and draft
Box 5 Folder 72 "Dressed for Each Other: Couples in Love and Clothes—the Fine Art of Compatibility," Vogue, December 1983., 1983
Clipping and draft
Box 5 Folder 73 Writing on La Villette Competition, ca. 1983
Draft on Bernard Tschumi and Rem Koolhaas
Box 5 Folder 74 "A Masterful Meeting: Architect Peter Gluck Adds to a Classic House by Mies van der Rohe," House and Garden, January 1984, 1984
Clipping and drafts
Oversize 1 Folder 12 "Out of Damn Spot," Village Voice, February 7, 1984, 62-3, 1984
Clipping, photocopy and various undated drafts on TV advertisement
Box 5 Folder 75 "The Official Style," The Nation, July 7-14, 1984., 1984
Clipping on Washington buildings by Richard Russell, Eggers and Higgins and I.M. Pei
Box 5 Folder 76 Michael Sorkin and Howard Rodman, " Exclusive! The John Paul II Tapes: Secret Transcript of Conversation Between His Holiness, Pope John Paul II, and Mehmet Ali Agca," Village Voice, October 8, 1984., 1984
Photocopy and draft
Oversize 1 Folder 13 "Scarpa in the Details," Village Voice, December 11, 1984, p. 101, 1984
Clipping on Carlo Scarpa
Box 5 Folder 77 Script, Stanley Mieses and Michael Sorkin, "Mason & Dixon (A Body and Soul Comedy)," 1984., 1984
Draft script
Box 5 Folder 78 "Skyscraper Project, 1981-1984", 1981-1984
Drafts, notes, and clippings on book or research proposal on skyscrapers
Box 5 Folder 79 "Kitsch, Cash, and the Cleansing of 42nd St.: Architecture as Salon Painting," Harper's, December 1984., 1984
Clipping on Philip Johnson's AT&T Building
Box 5 Folder 80 "The Big Man on Campus," The Architectural Review 175, No. 1046, April 1984, 1984
Clipping on James Stirling
Box 5 Folder 81 "A Light in the Forest: Architect Arthur Erickson's dramatic reflections on art and landscape," House and Garden, January 1985., 1985
Clipping and draft
Oversize 1 Folder 13 "The White City," Village Voice, January 8, 1985, p. 67, 1985
Clipping on Bauhaus and Jewish architects in post war Palestine
Oversize 1 Folder 13 "Mr. Wright," Village Voice, February 5, 1985, 87., 1985
Clipping on Frank Lloyd Wright
Oversize 1 Folder 13 "Que Sera Serra," Village Voice, March 5, 1985, 85, 1985
Clipping on Richard Serra's Tilted Arc
Oversize 1 Folder 13 "Why Goldberger is so Bad: The Case of Times Square," Village Voice, April 2, 1985, 90, 1985
Clipping on Paul Goldberger
Oversize 1 Folder 13 "Reforming the Institute," Village Voice, April 30, 1985, 102, 1985
Clipping on the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies
Oversize 1 Folder 13 "Tipping the Circle: Will the World's Tallest Building replace the Coliseum?," Village Voice, May 28, 1985, 104, 1985
Clipping on Columbus Circle development
Box 5 Folder 82 "Collectibles," Vogue, May 1985., 1985
Clipping and draft
Oversize 1 Folder 13 "Save the Whitney," Village Voice, June 25, 1985, 104., 1985
Clipping on the Whitney Museum
Oversize 1 Folder 13 "Two Primitives: Léon Krier and Ricardo Bofill," Village Voice, July 30, 1985, 83, 1985
Clipping
Oversize 1 Folder 13 "What I did on my Summer Vacation," Village Voice, September 3, 1985, 76., 1985
Clipping, photocopy, and draft
Oversize 1 Folder 13 "Ferry Godfathers," Village Voice, October 1, 1985, 94, 1985
Clipping on South Ferry
Box 5 Folder 83 "Romancing the Rails: The Surprising Pleasures, Luxurious Seclusion of Discovering America by Train," Vogue, October 1985., 1985
Clipping and draft
Box 5 Folder 84 "Art Squads," Parkett 6, 1985., 1985
Photocopy on Richard Serra's Tilted Arc
Box 5 Folder 85 "Too Rich and Too Thin," Vogue, February 1985., 1985
Clipping and draft on TV
Box 5 Folder 86 "Another Low Tech Spectacular," The Architectural Review 179 No. 1063, September 1985., 1985
Clipping on Richard Rogers' PA Technology Laboratory
Box 5 Folder 87 "Miami Virtues: Sun, Sea, and Dazzling Urban Design," Vogue, January 1986, 1986
Photocopy and draft
Oversize 1 Folder 14 "Astrofiction," Village Voice, January 7, 1986, 21., 1986
Clipping and photocopy
Box 5 Folder 88 "Leaving Wright Enough Alone,"Architectural Record, March 1986, 79-85., 1986
Clipping on Gwathmey Siegel addition to Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum
Box 5 Folder 89 "A Bunch of White Guys (and Three Japanese) Sitting Around Talking or The Three PPP (A Parody)," Review of The Charlottesville Tapes (Rizzoli, 1985), Design Book Review, Spring 1986., 1986
Clipping on Philip Johnson, Peter Eisenman, Rem Koolhaas, Leon Krier, Rob Krier, Robert Stern, Isozaki, Stanley Tigerman, O.M. Ungers, Kevin Roche, and Jacqueline Robertson.
Oversize 1 Folder 14 "The Report of the Jury," Village Voice, June 3, 1986, 78, 1986
Clipping and photocopy
Box 5 Folder 90 "Immigrant Savings," Village Voice, July 8, 1986., 1986
Photocopy and drafts on Ellis Island
Oversize 1 Folder 14 "Ten Rules for Rebuilding the West Side," Village Voice, August 26, 1986, 83, 1986
Clipping
Box 5 Folder 91 "Fallingwater at Fifty," Connoisseur, August 1986., 1986
Clipping and draft on Frank Lloyd Wright
Box 5 Folder 92 "Around Some Towns," Dialogue September/October 1986., 1986
Clipping and draft on midwestern towns
Box 5 Folder 93 Review of Mask of Medusa, Ed. by Kim Shkapich; introduction by Daniel Libeskind. Architectural Record, November 1986., 1986
Clipping
Box 5 Folder 94 "Postmodern Mash," Connoisseur, November 1986., 1986
Clipping. Likely missing pages.
Oversize 1 Folder 14 "My Brilliant Krier," Village Voice, December 2, 1986, 124, 1986
Clipping, photocopy, and annotated draft on Leon Krier, missing page of clipping (130)
Box 5 Folder 95 "The California Cure," Vogue, December 1986., 1986
Clipping and draft on Two Bunch Palms
Box 5 Folder 96 "The Uncertain Status of Being Stern," SPY, December 1986., 1986
Clipping
Box 5 Folder 97 Collection of book reviews, [ca. 1986], ca. 1986
Including drafts on Reyner Banham, Geoffrey Bawa, and Carlo Scarpa.
Box 5 Folder 98 "Dwelling Machines," Design Quarterly, no. 138, 1987., 1987
Clipping on housing
Box 5 Folder 99 "The Devil in Jersey," Connoisseur, January 1987, 1987
Clipping and draft on the Jersey Devils. Related material in Box 6 Folder 50
Box 5 Folder 100 "The Call of the Wild," Vogue, March 1987., 1987
Clipping and draft on the Mayan Dude Ranch, Texas
Oversize 1 Folder 14 "The Wrong Stuff," Village Voice, March 3, 1987, 78, 1987
Clipping and Draft on Gwathmey Siegel & Associates' Guggenheim extension
Oversize 1 Folder 14 "Waiting for Kong," L.A. Weekly, April 3-9, 1987, 34-35., 1987
Clipping and Draft On Universal Studios Tour
Oversize 1 Folder 15 "About Town," Village Voice, May 19, 1987, 83., 1987
Clipping, photocopy, and draft on John Johanson
Box 5 Folder 101 "Letters from New York," Vogue, July 1987., 1987
Clipping and draft
Box 5 Folder 102 "The Theater of Vision of Lebbeus Woods," Centricity Catalogue/AEDES Gallery (Berlin), September 1987., 1987
Clipping and draft
Box 5 Folder 103 "Cheesed Off," SPY, March 1987., 1987
Clipping and draft
Box 5 Folder 104 "Court Jesting," SPY, May 1987., 1987
Clipping and draft on TV judges
Box 5 Folder 105 "The Garden in the Machine," DBR, Fall 1987., 1987
Clipping on Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo's Ford Foundation
Box 5 Folder 106 "Talking Architecture," Avenue 12, No. 3, November 1987., 1987
Clipping and draft
Box 5 Folder 107 "The Light House: Paul Rudolph's Triplex Aerie Suspended over Manhattan's Skyline," House & Garden, January 1988., 1988
Clipping and draft
Box 5 Folder 108 "Brave New Worlds," Architectural Record, February 1988., 1988
Clipping and photocopy on Lebbeus Woods
Box 5 Folder 109 "The Eternity of Egypt," Vogue, March 1988., 1988
Clipping, draft and photocopy on travels
Box 5 Folder 110 "Skyscrapers From A to Z," in La Citta che Sale, Ed. Fulvio Irace (Milan: Arcadia Edizioni, 1988), 1988
Clipping
Box 5 Folder 111 "Child of the Times: Gaetano Pesce Puts a Human Face on Modern Design," House & Garden, December 1988., 1988
Proof and draft
Box 5 Folder 112 Mike Davis and Michael Sorkin, "Bulletins from the Future," [LA Style], June 1988., 1988
Draft. Unclear if published. Dates on pages are future scenarios envisioned in article.
Box 5 Folder 113 "Where Was Philip?," SPY, October 1988., 1988
Clipping on Philip Johnson
Box 6 Folder 20 "Reverse Psychology: Analyzing the Analyst's Decor," On the Couch, Vogue, December 1988., 1988
Proof and draft. Written under alias "N.L.S. Sand"
Box 5 Folder 114 "Counterpoint," in Criticism in Architecture, Ed. Robert Powell (Singapore: Concept Media/The Aga Khan Award for Architecture, 1989)., 1989
Photocopy and draft
Oversize 1 Folder 15 "13 tips for the Budding Critic," Arcade, February/March 1989, 1989
Clipping
Box 5 Folder 115 Writing on Times Square, ca. 1989
Draft, includes note "Harpers"
Box 5 Folder 116 Writing on A&A, ca. mid to late 1980s
Draft on exhibition
Box 5 Folder 117 Writing on Architecture and Liability, Ca. early 1980s
Draft. Possibly late 1970s
Box 5 Folder 118 "Architecture Rising", ca. mid to late 1980s
Draft on Lebbeus Woods
Box 5 Folder 119 "Are Women Getting Sexier?", ca. early to mid 1980s
Draft
Box 5 Folder 120 "Celebrity Apartments", ca. early to mid 1980s
Draft. Note says: "Based on style possibly The Village Voice."
Box 5 Folder 121 Writing on Columbus, Ohio, ca. early to mid 1980s
Draft
Box 5 Folder 122 Writings on Commercials, ca. early to mid 1980s
Drafts on the Clio Awards
Box 5 Folder 123 "The Critical Edge", ca. early to mid 1980s
Draft on TV Show
Box 5 Folder 124 "Degentrification", ca. early to mid 1980s
Draft on galleries. Related material in Box 6, Folder 21
Box 5 Folder 125 "Designer Food", ca. early to mid 1980s
Draft
Box 5 Folder 126 Writing on Frank Gehry's House in Santa Monica, California, ca. early to mid 1980s
Drafts
Box 5 Folder 127 "Gun Control: The Arguments", ca. mid to late 1980s
Draft
Box 5 Folder 128 Writing on Helmut Jahn's State of Illinois Center, ca. mid to late 1980s
Draft
Box 5 Folder 129 "Instructions to the Editors", ca. early to mid 1980s
Draft
Box 6 Folder 1 "Less is More: An Insight into the Battle of the Anchorpersons", ca. early 1980s
Drafts. Possibly late 1970s
Box 6 Folder 2 Writing on Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art show, ca. mid to late 1980s
Draft
Box 6 Folder 3 "Man of the Century"/"My Fada's at the Whitney"/..., ca. mid to late 1980s
Compiled drafts, including on Oscar Nitzschke
Box 6 Folder 4 "Men and Make-Up", ca. early to mid 1980s
Drafts
Box 6 Folder 5 "Mood Indigo", ca. mid to late 1980s
Draft on Alan Buchsbaum
Box 6 Folder 6 "Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny", ca. early 1980s
Drafts. Possibly late 1970s
Box 6 Folder 7 "Re: Construction", ca. early 1980s
Drafts on construction projects in New York. Possibly late 1970s
Box 6 Folder 8 "The Sackler", ca. mid to late 1980s
Draft on James Stirling's Sackler Museum at Harvard
Box 6 Folder 9 "Some Gems of Hollywood Architecture", ca. early to mid 1980s
Draft
Box 6 Folder 10 Writing on Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University, ca. early 1980s
Draft
Box 6 Folder 12 Writing on Voting, ca. early 1980s
Draft. Possibly late 1970s
Box 6 Folder 13 "A Walk on the West Side (With our Roving Reporter)," Village Voice, undated., ca. 1980s
Proof
Box 6 Folder 14 "What's American about American Design?", ca. mid to late 1980s
Drafts on Horatio Greenough
Box 6 Folder 15 Writing on William Grover, ca. early to mid 1980s
Draft
Box 6 Folder 16 "The World in a Box", ca. early to mid 1980s
Drafts and research file
Box 6 Folder 17 "What Goes Up", ca. mid to late 1980s
Draft on the Museum of the Bomb, Los Alamos
Box 6 Folder 18 "Writers around the Block", ca. early 1980s
Draft on Writer's strike. Possibly late 1970s
Box 6 Folder 20 "Word and Image", ca. mid to late 1980s
Drafts on the Guerilla Girls
Box 6 Folder 21 "Degentrification," archithese Dirty Realism, January 1990., 1990
Photocopy in German. Related material in Box 5, Folder 124
Box 6 Folder 22 "The Age of Kahn's Balancing Act: The Latest Set of Aga Khan Award Winners," Architectural Record, April 1990., 1990
Photocopy, proof, drafts, and magazine
Box 12 Folder 6 Script, Doug Michels and Michael Sorkin, "Cadillac Ranch: The Movie", 1990
Drafts, illustrated drafts, notes, correspondence with Doug Michels, research files, and drawings
Oversize 2 Folder 3 Doug Michels, Poster drafts for "Cadillac Ranch: The Movie", 1990
Print drawings
Box 6 Folder 23 "Remarks to Architects in Education Committee, AIA", ca. 1990
Draft of Lecture notes
Box 6 Folder 24 Response to "Ground Up: Herbert Muschamp on Paper Architecture," Art Forum, 1991, ca. 1991
Draft and photocopy
Box 6 Folder 25 "Knocking Chips off Old Blocks," Review of "Tadao Ando: Japanese Architecture," Museum of Modern Art, New York, Blueprint, December/January 1992, 1992
Clipping and draft
Box 6 Folder 26 "Dancing to the Routine of Someone Else's Imagining in Disneyzone," The State, March 29, 1992., 1992
Photocopy of article on Variations on a Theme Park
Box 6 Folder 27 "The City of the Future," Proposal Submitted to BBC, May 2, 1992, 1992
Draft of TV show proposal
Box 6 Folder 28 Preface to Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates: Buildings and Projects, 1967-1992, Ed. Michael Sorkin (New York: Rizzoli, 1992)., 1992
Draft
Box 6 Folder 29 "Scenes From the Electronic City,: I.D. Magazine, May/June 1992., 1992
Clipping, Mock-up, and draft
Box 6 Folder 30 "Noted with Pleasure," Progressive Architecture, June 1992., 1992
Clipping of essay from Exquisite Corpse
Box 6 Folder 31 "Cartoon Cities," I.D. Magazine, November/December 1992., 1992
Clipping and drafts
Box 6 Folder 32 "Wir seh'n uns in Disneyland," ARCH+ 114-5, December 1992., 1992
Clipping in German. Related material in Box 6 Folder 33
Box 6 Folder 33 "See You in Disnelyland," Design Quarterly, No. 154, Winter 1992., 1992
Magazine. Related material in Box 6 Folder 32
Box 6 Folder 34 "The Holocaust Museum: Between Beauty and Horror," Progressive Architecture, February 1993, 1993
Clipping and draft on James Freed's National Holocaust Museum
Box 6 Folder 35 Chee Pearlman, "Designing America," I.D. Magazine, March/April 1993, 1993
Clipping on President Clinton Roundtable on Design, with contribution by Michael Sorkin.
Box 6 Folder 36 "Meeting Places," Progressive Architecture, Perspectives, April 1993, 1993
Clipping and draft titled "VR The World." Note: Yelavich, Susan. 'VR The World' The Edge of the Millenium."
Box 6 Folder 37 "Local Code: The Constitution of a City at 41ºn Latitude, Preamble"/"Bauordnung: Eine Verfassung für eine Stadt auf 42ºn Breite, Auszüge", ca. 1993
Clipping of German-language source. In English and German. Note says: " Text: extr. from Local Code. Don't know what mag.?"
Box 6 Folder 38 "For Paul Rudolph (On the Occasion of his being honored by the Harvard Graduate School of Design Alumni Association)," ANY, May/June 1993, 1993
Clipping, photocopy and draft in verse form
Box 6 Folder 39 "Post-SinCity: America's Archetypical fantasy city comes to life with pirates, pyramids and perpetual motion," I.D. Magazine, March/April 1994, 1994
Clipping, mock-up, photocopy and draft on Las Vegas
Box 6 Folder 40 Joan Copjec and Michael Sorkin, "Shrooms: East New York," Assemblage 24 House Rules, August 1994, 1994
Clipping
Box 6 Folder 133 "Local Code," in Mick McConnell, LAX: The Los Angeles Experiment (SITES, 1994), 1994
Clipping and photocopy
Box 6 Folder 41 "Forward: Why Sarasota?", 1995
Draft of foreword for The Sarasota School of Architecture, 1941–1966, Ed. John Howey (1995), and correspondence with John Howey
Box 6 Folder 42 "Höhepunkt Wien und der Dritte Ring," in Bleibt Wien Wien? Eds. Michael Häupl und Hannes Swoboda (Vienna: Falter Verlag, 1995), 1995
Clipping in German
Box 6 Folder 43 "A Tree for Brooklyn, Newsline, Columbia GSAPP Faculty Newsletter, January 1996., 1996
Publication, photocopy, draft and correspondence with Steve Perella
Box 6 Folder 44 "Trafik I Demokratia [Traffic In Democracy]" Arkitektur, November/December 1996., 1996
Clipping in Swedish, draft in English, notes, images from Michael Sorkin Studio. Relevant to design work. Related material in Box 6 Folder 48
Box 6 Folder 45 Writings on Alan Buchsbaum, 1987-1996
Poems, undated; Script for memorial lecture, with Martin Filler, April 24, 1987; draft and correspondence for article, 1996
Oversize 1 Folder 16 "A Unique Effusion," in Ramesh Kumar Biswas, ed. M1:222 Innovative Austrian Architecture (New York: Springer, 1996)., 1996
Also includes files classified as "Wien ist Anders." of the same publication. Includes clipping, drafts, and floppy disc
Box 6 Folder 46 "AIA Honor Awards: Interiors," Architectural Record, May 1997, 1997
Clipping
Box 6 Folder 47 "Hyper Growth in South China: From the Pearl River Delta to Shanghai," Architectural Record, July 1997, 1997
Clipping
Box 6 Folder 48 "Traffic in Democracy," In The Raoul Wallenberg Lecture, Ed. Kent Kleinman (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 1997), 1997
Photocopy and draft. Related material in Box 6 Folder 44
Box 6 Folder 49 "Can Williams and Tsien's Phoenix Art Museum help this sprawling desert city find its edge?," Architectural Record, January 1997, 1997
Photocopy
Box 6 Folder 50 "Foreword: The Devil is in the Detail," in Devil's Workshop: 25 Years of Hersey Devil Architecture, Eds. Mark Alden-Branch and Susan Piedmont-Palladino (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1997), 1997
Photocopy and draft. Related material in Box 5 Folder 99
Box 6 Folder 51 Paul Rudolph Obituary, ca. 1997
Draft
Box 6 Folder 52 "Ten for TEN," in Working: 20 Projects in Process, Enrique Norten/TEN Arquitectos (New York: Monacelli Press, 1998), 1998
Drafts and correspondence
Oversize 1 Folder 16 "Present Tense: The Architecture of George Ranalli," Artist Space 4, no. 2, Nov. 1997-Jan 1998, 1997-1998
Clipping and draft
Box 6 Folder 53 "Status Quo Vadis: On Times Square," Harvard Design Magazine, Winter/Spring 1998, 1998
Clipping
Box 6 Folder 54 "Amazing Archigram," What Goes Up, Metropolis, April 1998, 1998
Clipping and draft
Box 6 Folder 55 "America's Most visited Houses," Architectural Record, April 1998, 1998
Clipping
Box 6 Folder 56 "Second Nature," What Goes Up, Metropolis, May 1998, 1998
Clipping
Box 6 Folder 57 "Come and Getty," What Goes Up, Metropolis, June 1998, 1998
Clipping on Richard Meier's Getty Center
Box 6 Folder 58 "The Urban Vibe," Architectural Record, June 1998, 1998
Clipping on Amsterdam, Berlin, Vienna and New York City
Box 6 Folder 59 "Documenting Wright," What Goes Up, Metropolis, October 1998, 1998
Clipping on Ken Burns' movie on Frank Lloyd Wright
Box 6 Folder 60 "Beyond Bilbao," Bazaar, December 1998, 1998
Clipping, draft and correspondence on Frank Gehry
Box 6 Folder 61 "Michael Sorkin Studio," New York Magazine, 1998, 1998
Proof, correspondence to Kurt Andersen and Sarah Jewler, and contract. Relevant to Design papers
Box 6 Folder 62 "Telling Time," Anytime, Ed. Cynthia C. Davidson (Cambridge, MA: MIT, June 1999), 1999
Drafts and correspondence with Matthew Berman
Box 6 Folder 63 "In Plane View: Norman Foster's Hong Kong airport brings the tarmac into the Terminal," What Goes Up, Metropolis, February/March 1999, 1999
Clipping
Box 6 Folder 64 "Crap Shoot: Gambling on the Triumph of 'Taste' in Las Vegas," What Goes Up, Metropolis, April 1999, 1999
Clipping and photocopy
Box 6 Folder 65 "Tre Progetti Per Il New York City Waterfront [Three Projects for the New York City Waterfront]," Arbitare 384, May 1999, 1999
Clipping, drafts and note. Relevant to design papers.
Box 6 Folder 66 "Remembering the Future," Architectural Record, June 1999, 1999
Clipping
Box 6 Folder 67 "Overdue," What Goes Up, Metropolis, October 1999, 1999
Clipping on Sandy Wilson's British Library in London
Box 6 Folder 68 "Six Degrees of Phyllis Lambert: Or, Six Figures for Peter Eisenman," What Goes Up, Metropolis, November 1999, 1999
Clipping and photocopy
Box 6 Folder 69 "Letter from New York," The Architectural Review, November 1999, 1999
Clipping and draft titled "Cranes over Tribeca"
Box 6 Folder 70 "Frozen Light," in Gehry Talks, Ed. Mildred Friedman (New York : Rizzoli, 1999), 1999
Drafts on Frank Gehry and Jeff Koons
Box 6 Folder 71 "No Pain," Review of The Anaesthetics of Architecture, by Neil Leach, ca. 1999
Draft
Box 6 Folder 72 "The Big Peep Show," The New York Times Magazine, December 26, 1999, 1999
Clipping on Times Square
Box 6 Folder 131 "Back to the Kitchen"/"Big Deal", ca. 1999
Draft on International Foundation of the Canadian Center for Architecture competition for 34th street railyard
Box 6 Folder 73 Writing on the upcoming millennium, ca. 1990s
Drafts
Box 6 Folder 74 "Plaza Sweet", 2000
Draft and photocopy of Jerold Kayden, Privately Owned Public Space: The New York City Experience
Oversize 1 Folder 16 "The Second Greatest Generation," Harvard Design Magazine, Fall 2000, 44-5., 2000
Clipping on the 1960s
Box 6 Folder 75 "Hollin Hills, Happy Experiment with Modernity," in Hollin Hills, A Community of Vision: A Semicentennial History 1949-1999, Civic Association of Hollin Hills (2000), 2000
Draft, photocopy and correspondence. Related material in Box 11, Item 3
Box 6 Folder 129 "E-City Blues", ca. 2000
Drafts and correspondence with Steve Graham
Box 6 Folder 76 "Paradigma Times Square," Arquitectura Viva 76 Corazón de Neón, February 2001, 2001
Clipping in Spanish
Box 6 Folder 77 "Fabricating Authenticity," Metropolis, March 2001, 2001
Clipping on Tribeca development
Box 6 Folder 78 "Seduced and Abandoned," Architecture Magazine 90, No. 4, April 2001, 2001
HAS SSN. Draft and contract
Box 6 Folder 79 "The U of C must Turn Around and Face Woodlawn," Chicago Maroon, May 22, 2001, 2001
Photocopy
Box 6 Folder 80 "Muschamp in Love," Architecture Magazine, June 2001, 2001
Drafts on Herbert Muschamp, correspondence, and contract
Box 6 Folder 81 "Vedic City," Architectural Record, September 2001, 2001
Clipping, draft and correspondence
Box 6 Folder 82 "Traffic in Democracy," Quaderns: In Transit 231, October 2001, 2001
Clipping
Box 6 Folder 83 "Protecting Architectural Heritage in Expanding Metropolises," in Historic Cities and Sacred Sites: Cultural Roots for Urban Futures, Ed. Ismall Serageldin (Washington, DC: World Bank Publication, 2001), 2001
Photocopy, draft, and correspondence
Box 6 Folder 84 "The Measure of Comfort," in Comfort: Reclaiming Place in a Virtual World, Ed. Kristin Chambers (Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, 2001), 2001
Draft
Box 6 Folder 85 Book Proposal, "Site Matters", 2000-2001
Draft of book outline and correspondence
Box 6 Folder 86 "Paradise Beach", ca. 2001
Draft and photocopy of unknown publication
Box 6 Folder 130 "Architecture in Time of War", ca. 2001
Draft, likely for Charles Moore and Architecture at Yale in the late 1960s conference organized by Eve Blau in 2001. Related material in Box 6, Folder 109
Box 6 Folder 87 Writings on September 11, 2001-2002
Collected drafts on the Wall Trade Center attack. Includes correspondence
Box 6 Folder 88 "The Memorial Process," January 22, 2002, 2002
Draft on September 11 aftermath
Box 6 Folder 134 "Riff On Rem: Sorkin's Take On Multinational Style," Architectural Record, January 2002, 2002
Clipping on Rem Koolhaas (OMA)
Box 6 Folder 89 "The Architecture of Air Travel," The New York Times, April 14, 2002, 2002
Clipping and photocopy
Box 6 Folder 90 "En Onda Corporativa: Koolhaas y la imagen de marca de Prada," Arquitectura Viva 83 Marcas Culturales, April 2002, 2002
Clipping in Spanish on Rem Koolhaas (OMA)
Box 6 Folder 91 "Prada Epicenter Store in New York," Baumeister, May 2002, 2002
Clipping in German
Box 6 Folder 92 "Collateral Damage: Assessing the Cultural and Architectural aftermath of September 11th," Metropolis, January 2002, 2002
Clipping
Oversize 1 Folder 17 "Brand Aid: Or, the Lexus and the Guggenheim (Further Tales of the Notorious B.I.G.ness)," Harvard Design Magazine 17, Fall 2002/Winter 2003., 2002-2003
Clipping, photocopy, and draft
Box 6 Folder 138 "No Island is an Island: A developer show how to build with nature," Architectural Record, January 2003, 2003
Clipping
Box 6 Folder 93 Kentleşme Eşittir Politika: Aşırıların Hükmettiği Bir Bölgeden Öğrenilenler," Marmalik, May/June 2003, 2003
Clipping in Turkish
Box 6 Folder 94 "Architecture Must Be!," Hunch, The Berlage Institute Report 6/7, August 2003, 2003
Draft
Box 6 Folder 139 "Of Dolphins, Comedy, and Architecture: Remembering Doug Michels and Ant Farm," Architectural Record, September 2003, 2003
Clipping
Box 6 Folder 95 "Ten Answers," Response to "Stocktaking 2004: Ten Questions for Thinkers about the Present and Future of Design," Harvard Design Magazine, No. 20. Spring/Summer 2004, 2004
Draft and contract
Box 6 Folder 96 "Decline and Renaissance," Canadian Centre of Architecture, February 2004, 2004
Draft of conversation with Jean-Louis Cohen on Montreal in the 1960s
Oversize 1 Folder 17 "Advice to Critics," Arcade 23, No. 1, Autumn 2004, 2004
Clipping
Box 6 Folder 97 "With The Grain," in Whereabouts: New Architecture with Local Identities, Ed. Susan Sirefman (New York: Monacelli Press, 2004), 2004
Drafts, contract, and correspondence
Box 6 Folder 98 "Eleven Tasks for Urban Design," in Iran: Architecture for Changing Societies, Ed. Philip Jodidio (Torino: Umberto Allemandi & C, 2004), 2004
Clipping and draft
Box 6 Folder 99 "Ten Better Places for a Football Stadium," The Architect's Newspaper, July 13, 2005, 2005
Clipping, photocopy, correspondence and draft
Box 6 Folder 100 "Politics and the Object," in Gaetano Pesce: The Noise of Time, Ed. Ezio Alberione (Edizioni Charta Srl. Exhibition Catalogue, 2005), 2005
Draft and correspondence
Box 6 Folder 101 "Introduction: Up Against the Wall" in Against the Wall: Israel's Barrier to Peace, Ed. Michael Sorkin, (New York: The New Press: 2005), 2005
Draft
Box 6 Folder 102 "Deputy City," in Urban Ecology: Detroit and Beyond, Ed. Kyong Park/International Center for Urban Ecology (Hong Kong: MAP Book Publishers, 2005), 2005
Draft and publication proposal
Box 6 Folder 103 "From New York to Darwinism: Formulary for a Sustainable Urbanism," in City Edge: Case Studies in Contemporary Urbanism, Ed. Esther Charlesworth (New York: Architectural Press, 2005), 2005
Photocopy, and draft
Box 6 Folder 104 "Comment 15. SLUG: Response: Vishaan Chakrabarti. HED: Building Dense vs. Being Dense", ca. 2005
Drafts and correspondence
Box 6 Folder 105 "Hollowing out the Middle: What's lost when a housing enclave is sold," Architectural Record, November 2006, 2006
Clipping
Box 6 Folder 106 "Formulary for a Sustainable Urbanism," in Sustainable Urbanism, Institute for Urban Design, Fellows Proceedings, United Nations Habitat, October 18, 2006, 2006
Draft and photocopy. Relevant to lecture
Box 6 Folder 107 Introduction, in John Howey and Associates: Selected and Current Works, Ed. Robyn Beaver (Australia: Images Publishing Group, 2006), 2006
Draft
Box 6 Folder 108 "Jacobs and Moses: Thinking Big", ca. 2006
Draft on Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses
Box 6 Folder 109 "Going on Sixties," in Architecture in the Time of the Vietnam War: Protest, Politics, and Pedagogy in the Late Sixties, Ed. Eve Blau (UNPUBLISHED), 2006
Drafts and correspondence. Related Material in Box 6, Folder 130
Box 6 Folder 110 "For Svein," Arkitekten, 3, 2006, 2006
Drafts of tribute for Svein Tønsager, and correspondence
Box 6 Folder 135 "Jane Jacobs Dies at 89," The Architect's Newspaper, May 10, 2006, 2006
Photocopy and draft
Box 6 Folder 136 "Il fattore paura," Il Magazine Dell'Architettura, September 2007, 2007
Clipping in Italian
Box 6 Folder 137 "The End(s) of Urban Design," Harvard Design Magazine, Fall 2006/Winter 2007, 2007
Photocopy
Box 6 Folder 111 "A Trip to India," in Made in India Architectural Design Series, November/December 2007, 2007
Draft on Jimmy Lin
Box 6 Folder 112 "What's the Difference," in Architecture: Celebrating the Past, Designing the Future, Ed. Nancy Solomon (London: Kaplan Publishing, 2007), 2006-2007
Draft and contract
Box 6 Folder 113 "Models as Generative Processors," in Models: 306090 Books, Vol. 11 (January 2008), 2008
Draft
Box 6 Folder 114 "Making (too) big plans for Manhattan's West Side," Architectural Record, February 2008, 2008
Clipping and draft
Box 6 Folder 115 "For Juan and Miguel", 2008
Draft on Miró Rivera Architects, and correspondence. Also includes photocopy of slideshow, potentially by Juan Miró for studio class by Michael Sorkin, titled "Advanced Studio, Fall 1990: A City in the Border between Israel - Jordan," at Yale School of Architecture. Relevant to academic papers
Box 6 Folder 132 "On the Edge", ca. 2008
Drafts and correspondence for ENYA publication
Box 6 Folder 116 "Some Suggestion on how to Spend $800 Billion," Architectural Record, January 16, 2009, 2009
Photocopy of article addressed to Barack Obama
Box 6 Folder 117 "Which Way Avant-Garde?," Assemblage, no. 41, April 2009, 2009
Clipping
Box 6 Folder 118 Photo submission to Time Out New York, September 3-9, 2009, 2009
Clipping
Box 6 Folder 119 "Letter to Dave and Stella," in Leven Betts: Pattern Recognition, Stella Betts and David Leven (Princeton Architectural Press, 2009), 2007-2009
Drafts
Box 6 Folder 120 "A Talk About Book Collecting," in Unpacking My Library: Architect and Their Books, Ed. by Jo Steffens (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), 2009
Photocopy, draft, and contract
Box 6 Folder 121 "The End(s) of Urban Design," in Urban Design, Ed. William S. Saunders and Alex Krieger (University of Minnesota Press, 2009), 2009
Photocopy
Box 6 Folder 122 "Discipline and Punish", 2009
Draft, various documents on prison architecture, clippings and correspondence.
Box 6 Folder 123 "Introduction: Saratoga Springs!," in Saratoga, George Ranalli, Ed. Oscar Riera Ojeda (San Rafel, CA: Oro Editions, 2009), 2009
Drafts
Box 6 Folder 124 Writing on transportation technologies, ca. 2000s
Drafts
Box 6 Folder 125 Review of Up From Zero, by Paul Goldberger, ca. 2000s
Draft
Box 6 Folder 126 "Introduction: Home/Front (Scare Tactics?) (Fear Factor?), ca. 2000s
Draft on the militarization of public space
Box 6 Folder 127 "Peter Principle," The Architectural Review, ca. 2000s
Undated clipping and draft
Box 6 Folder 128 "Architettura: William H. Grover", ca. 2000s
Clipping from Italian publication
Box 7 Folder 1 "Big Apple, Homegrown: Feeding New York in New York," in Re-inventing Construction, Eds. Ilka & Andreas Ruby (Zurich: Ruby Press, Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction, 2010), 2010
Photocopy
Box 7 Item 1 Re-inventing Construction, Eds. Ilka & Andreas Ruby (Zurich: Ruby Press, Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction, 2010, 2010
Full book
Box 7 Folder 2 "A Merry Manifesto," in Urban Future Manifestos Eds. Peter Noever, Kimberli Meyer, and MAK Vienna/Los Angeles (Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2010), 2010
Draft
Box 7 Folder 3 "Smoke and Mirrors," Architectural Record, September 2011, 2011
Photocopy, draft, and research files on the rebuilding of Ground Zero
Box 7 Folder 4 "My Kind of Town: Michael Sorkin on Hollis Hills," Architecture Today 22, October 2011, 2011
Photocopy, draft, research files and correspondence
Box 7 Folder 5 "The Pesce Mode", 2011
Draft, research files and correspondence on Gaetano Pesce
Box 7 Folder 6 "Last Chance to Save Ground Zero," Architect's Newspaper, September 2011, 2011
Photocopy and Draft
Box 7 Folder 7 "The State of the House," in From the Ground Up, Ed. Peggy Tully (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2011), 2011
Drafts and correspondence
Box 7 Folder 8 "Riwaq: Building the Culture of Palestine," for the Prince Claus Fund, 2011
Drafts, correspondence and research files
Box 12 Folder 13 "What Does the City Want?" By the City / For the City: An Atlas of Possibility for the Future of New York, Eds. Anne Guiney and Brendan Crain (New York: Institute for Urban Design, 2011), 2011
Draft
Box 12 Item 2 By the City / For the City: An Atlas of Possibility for the Future of New York, Eds. Anne Guiney and Brendan Crain (New York: Institute for Urban Design, 2011), 2011
Full publication
Box 7 Folder 9 "Occupying Wallstreet," Architect Spontaneous Interventions, U.S. Pavilion, 13th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, August 2012., 2012
Clipping and photocopy
Box 7 Folder 10 "Learning the Hard Way," Architectural Record, December 2012, 2012
Photocopy on Hurricane Sandy
Box 7 Folder 11 "NYU's Tipping Point," in While We Were Sleeping: NYU and the Destruction of New York. A Collection of Pieces in Protest, Various contributors (New York: McNally-Jackson Bookstore, 2012), 2012
Drafts on Greenwich Village
Box 7 Folder 12 "The City After Now", 2005-2012
Drafts for various lectures: "The City After Now," From Rethink Design Forum Green-Rated New York, 2005; "The City After Now," Keynote from 100th Year Anniversary, University of Illinois Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Champaign, IL; "The City After Now," Forum Lectures from University of Nevada, College of Architecture, Las Vegas, NV; "The City After Now," Lecture from Ecobuild, London, 2012. Relevant to professional papers
Box 7 Folder 13 "How Green is my City?," Landscape Architecture Magazine 102, no. 9, 2012., 2012
Draft, also for lectures: "How Green Is My City?" Lecture, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai. November 13, 2015; Keynote, Resite: Shared City, Prague, June 19, 2015. Duplicate in lecture files
Box 7 Folder 14 "Prologue: Life/Form," in Where are the Utopian Visionaries? Architecture of Social Exchange, Ed. Hansy Better Barraza (Pittsburgh: Periscope Publishing, 2012), 2012
Drafts and full book
Box 7 Folder 15 "An Alternative Proposal for The Growth of NYU," Architect's Newspaper, March 6, 2013, 2013
Photocopy, draft, and research files
Box 7 Folder 16 "Origin of Species," Architectural Design Special Issue: The New Pastoralism: Landscape into Architecture, April 4, 2013., 2013
Photocopy, drafts, correspondence, notes, photocopy of slides and contracts, for journal issue edited by Michael Sorkin
Box 7 Folder 17 "The Trials of Rafi Segal," The Nation, May 13, 2013, 2013
Clipping, photocopy, drafts, notes, correspondence with Rafi Segal, Moshe Safdie, Bing Wang, and Preston Scott Cohen on controversy over National Library, Jerusalem
Box 8 Folder 1 "New York, Maggio 2013"/"New York May 2013," Abitare, July 2013, 2013
Full Publication in English and Italian
Box 8 Folder 2 "Hitler's Classical Architect," Review of Albert Speer: Architecture, by Léon Krier, The Nation, June 10-17, 2013, 2013
Clipping
Box 8 Folder 3 Writing on Léon Krier, Adolf Hitler, and Albert Speer, 2000-2013
Correspondence with Léon Krier, research files, and drafts
Box 8 Folder 4 "The Legendary Doyenne of American Architectural Criticism," Viewpoints, The Architectural Review, June 10, 2013, 2013
Photocopy on Ada Louise Huxtable
Box 8 Folder 5 "Ground Sum Zero," The Nation, July 22/29, 2013, 2013
Clipping, photocopy, drafts, research files on One World Trade Center
Box 8 Folder 6 "Marshall Berman 1940–2013," The Nation, September 18, 2013, 2013
Photocopy and draft
Box 8 Folder 7 "Drawing the Line: Architects and Prisons," The Nation, September 16 2013, 2013
Clipping, photocopy and draft
Box 8 Folder 8 "Bloomberg's Legacy Leaves Many Questions Unanswered," Architectural Review, October 23, 2013, 2013
Full publication, photocopies, drafts, notes, and research files
Box 8 Folder 9 "Presidents and Libraries," The Nation, October 28, 2013, 2013
Clipping and photocopy on the Barack Obama Presidential Library
Box 8 Folder 10 "Exchange: Trials and Designs (With Bing Wang)," The Nation, December 9, 2013, 2013
Photocopy and correspondence on National Library in Jerusalem controversy with Rafi Segal
Box 8 Folder 11 Introduction, in Aragonés, Miguel Ángel Aragonés (New York: Rizzoli, 2013), 2012-2013
Drafts, correspondence and research files
Box 8 Folder 12 "Afterword: Architecture Without Capitalism," Architecture and Capitalism 1845 to the Present, Ed. Peggy Deamer (New York: Routledge, 2013), 2013
Photocopy, drafts, and review
Box 8 Folder 13 "Clear Light", 2013
Drafts, notes, and research files on Lauretta Vinciarelli
Box 8 Folder 14 Response to Alvaro Sevilla-Buitrago, "Debating Contemporary Urban Conflicts: A Survey of Selected Scholars," Cities 31, 2013, 2012-2013
Photocopy, drafts, and correspondence
Box 8 Folder 15 "Skyscrapers with Chinese Characteristics," Tall Buildings, December/January 2014, 2013-2014
Photocopy in Russian, and draft
Box 8 Folder 16 "The Fungibility of Air," The Nation, January 6/13, 2014, 2014
Clipping and photocopy
Box 8 Folder 17 "Bridge over Troubled Water," Architectural Record, January 2014, 2014
Clipping, photocopy, draft
Box 8 Folder 18 "Empire State of Mind," Aeon, February 2014, 2013-2014
Photocopy and drafts
Box 8 Folder 19 "Bull in China's Shop," The Nation, February 24, 2014, 2014
Clipping
Box 8 Folder 20 "Learning from Yachay," Viewpoints, The Architectural Review, March 2014, 2014
Clipping, photocopy and draft
Box 8 Folder 21 "Behind the 'Poor Door'," The Nation, April 21, 2014, 2014
Clipping and photocopy
Box 9 Folder 1 "Time to Welcome Woonerfs," Oculus, Spring 2014, 2014
Photocopy and draft
Box 9 Folder 2 "Critical Measure: Why Criticism Matters," The Architectural Review, June 28, 2014, 2014
Clipping
Box 9 Folder 3 "Ups and Downs," The Nation, June 9/16, 2014, 2014
Clipping
Box 9 Folder 4 "The Architect's Dilemma: When to Say No," Architectural Record, June 24, 2014
Clipping and draft
Box 9 Folder 5 "Love Thy Neighbor(hood)," The Cities Papers, July 23, 2014, 2014
Photocopy and draft. Also published as "Love Thy Neighbor(hood)," ECOWEEK The Book# 1: 50 Voices for Sustainability, Eds. Elias Messinas and Dan Price (Aegina: Ecoweek, 2016)
Box 9 Folder 6 Contribution to "What is the State of Architectural Criticism?," Metropolis, July/August 2014, 2014
Clipping and photocopy
Box 9 Folder 7 "Little Boxes," The Nation, August 18/25, 2014, 2014
Clipping
Box 9 Folder 8 "Up," Area, September 21, 2014, 2014
Clipping in English and Italian
Box 9 Folder 9 "Lower Manhattan and The Tragedy Of Business As Usual," Metropolis, September 2014, 2014
Clipping and photocopies
Box 9 Folder 10 "The View," The Nation, September 22, 2014, 2014
Clipping, photocopy and draft
Box 9 Folder 11 "Civilian Objects," The Nation, November 17, 2014, 2014
Clipping
Box 9 Folder 12 "The Walls without Museum", 2014
Draft and correspondence with Manuel Shvartzberg for the 14th Architecture Venice Biennale, American Pavilion
Box 9 Folder 13 "Introduction: Traffic in Democracy," in The People, Place, and Space Reader, Eds. Jen Jack Gieseking, William Mangold, et al. (New York: Routledge, 2014), 2014
Draft, photocopy of reprint
Box 9 Folder 14 "Ten Qualities of Good Architectural Criticism", 2014
Draft and notes. Note Says: "Unpublished 2014"
Box 9 Folder 15 Foreword, in Humanitarian Architecture, Esther Charlesworth (New York: Routledge, 2014), 2014
Clipping, draft and photocopy
Box 9 Folder 16 "The Space of Time", 2014
Draft of tribute to Lebbeus Woods
Box 9 Folder 17 "The Phantom Menace," Architectural Record, January 2015, 2015
Clipping on MAD Architects
Box 9 Folder 18 "Our Rival Competition to the Helsinki Guggenheim," Viewpoints, The Architectural Review, February 2015, 2015
Clipping
Box 9 Folder 19 "'Starchitects are putting lipstick on a rash(er) of enormous pigs'," The Architectural Review, August 2015, 2014-2015
Clipping, drafts and research files
Box 9 Folder 20 "Weird Bedfellows," The Nation, April 2015, 2015
Clipping
Box 9 Folder 21 "Too Rich, Too Skinny," Architectural Record, May 2015, 2015
Clipping
Box 9 Folder 22 "Another City," The Nation, July 6/13, 2015, 2015
Clipping
Box 9 Folder 23 Introduction, in Displaced: Llonch+Vidalle Architecture, Ed. Oscar Riera Ojeda (Hong Kong: Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers, 2015), 2015
Draft
Box 9 Folder 24 "Lost at Sea," The Nation, October 19, 2015, 2015
Clipping and photocopy
Box 9 Folder 25 Reply to "Inside Out and Outside In," Barry Schwabsky, The Nation, November 9, 2015, 2015
Clipping
Box 9 Folder 26 "Getting Together," The Nation, December 21/28, 2015, 2015
Clipping, photocopy, and draft
Box 9 Folder 27 Foreword, in City Sink: Carbon Cycle Infrastructure for our Built Environments, Denise Hoffman Brandt (Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers, 2015), 2011-2015
Draft and research files
Box 9 Folder 28 Afterword, in The Architect As Worker: Immaterial Labor, The Creative Class, And The Politics Of Design, Ed. Peggy Deamer (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015), 2015
Proof
Box 9 Folder 29 "Pinkwashing Zion Square," The Architect's Newspaper, April 6, 2016, 2016
Clipping
Box 9 Folder 30 "PATH of Glory?," The Nation, April 25/May 2, 2016, 2016
Clipping, photocopy, and drafts on Santiago Calatrava's Oculus
Box 9 Folder 31 "Burden of Gilt," The Nation, August 15/22, 2016, 2016
Clipping and photocopy on Donald Trump
Box 9 Folder 32 "Forest of Light," The Architectural Review, June 2016, 2016
Clipping
Box 9 Folder 33 "A New New York, The Same Old Story," Metropolis, July/August 2016, 2016
Photocopy and draft
Box 9 Folder 34 "Parametrics and Power," Architectural Record, September 2016, 2016
Clipping
Box 9 Folder 35 Foreword, in The Architecture of Change: Building a Better World, Eds. Jerilou Hamett and Maggie Wiggley (Albuquerque, NM: October 2016), 2016
Photocopy and draft
Box 9 Folder 52 "Hot Air: Partnership for What?", 2016
Draft
Box 9 Folder 36 "Made for China," in Vertical Urbanism: Designing Compact Cities in China, Ed. Zhongjie Lin and Jose Gomez ( New York: Routledge, 2016), 2015-2016
Drafts, correspondence and research files
Box 9 Folder 37 "The National Museum of African American History and Culture," The Architect's Newspaper, January 4, 2017, 2017
Clipping and research files
Box 9 Folder 38 "The Automobile and the City," Architectural Record, April 2017, 2017
Proof, draft and correspondence
Box 9 Folder 39 "Spectacle", 2017
Draft and correspondence for Architecture Since 1900 publication (likely unpublished)
Box 12 Folder 14 "Othering the Mall", 2016-2017
Drafts and research files on the National African American Museum and the National Mall. Initially filed with design files on Obama Library
Box 9 Folder 40 "Sauve qui Peut," Oculus, Summer 2018, 2018
Clipping
Box 9 Folder 41 "De Pesce Mode between Architecture," in Gaetano Pesce: Il Tempo Multidisciplinare, Exhibition Catalogue (April 2018), 2018
Photocopy, missing pages
Box 9 Folder 42 Introduction, in Carl Pruscha: Singular Personality, Architect, Bohemian, Activist, Eds. Lars Müller, Arno Ritter, Eva Schlegel (Lars Müller Publishers, 2019), 2018
Drafts, correspondence and research files
Box 9 Folder 43 "Certain Regulations Pertaining to Public Space in the City", 2018
Drafts
Box 9 Folder 44 "Framing Space," in Unearthed: Drawings, Sculpture, Installations, Stephen Talasnik (New York: Monacelli, 2018), 2016-2018
Drafts and correspondence
Box 9 Folder 45 "What Comes after the Avant-Garde?," Counterpoint, Architectural Design 89 Re-imagining the Avant-Garde, no. 04, July/August 2019, 2019
Clipping and drafts
Box 9 Folder 46 Contribution, in My Book - Svein Tønsager - Cracks, Hinges & Xfoliations, Ed. Anette Brunsvig Sørensen (Arkitekturforlaget B, 2020), 2019-2020
Drafts and correspondence
Box 9 Folder 47 "A Metropolis — Not an Enclave: Gaza Ring City", 2019
Draft and research files
Box 9 Folder 48 "Let Our Colleague Eyal Weizman In!", 2020
Draft and correspondence
Box 9 Folder 49 "Monks and Cowboys," in Miró Rivera Architects: Building a New Arcadia, Juan Miró and Miguel Rivera (University of Texas Press, 2020), 2008-2020
Drafts and correspondence
Box 9 Folder 50 "Intransigent Spaces", ca. 2010s
Draft
Box 9 Folder 51 "The Freedom Bowl and the Island of Peace", ca. 2010s
Draft on Governor's Island
Box 9 Folder 53 Two Hundred Fifty Things an Architect Should Know, Pentagram, reprint, Winter 2020, 2020
Publication
Box 9 Folder 54-A "Can China's Cities Survive?", ca. 2010s
Draft
Box 12 Folder 16 "The Last Lecture", ca. 2010s
Draft of lecture script, likely for lecture on April 1, 2019 at the Winnipeg Art Gallery
Box 9 Folder 54-B "37,000"
Draft, filed with Box 10, Folder 3
Box 9 Folder 55 "American Contour," Movie proposal
Draft
Box 9 Folder 56 "Awarding What?"
Draft
Box 9 Folder 57 "Bio-Tech Architecture"
Draft
Box 9 Folder 58 "Birth of a Building"
Draft
Box 9 Folder 59 "For Carl"
Draft on Carl Abbott
Box 9 Folder 61 "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place", ca. 2000-1
Draft and postcard. Note saying: Possibly a review of/in response to Lucinda Devlin, The Omega Suite, a series of photographs of lethal injection chambers
Box 9 Folder 103 "Containing Cairo"
Draft. Found in lectures
Box 9 Folder 62 Howard Silver, Michael Sorkin, and Stanley Mieses, "COMECON"
Drafts, notes, and research files
Box 9 Folder 63 "A Competition for Spiretec"
Draft
Box 9 Folder 64 "Displacement"
Draft. Published in All Over the Map
Box 9 Folder 65 "Draft Script for Edge"
Drafts. Initially organized with scripts: "Script. Edge, PBS"
Box 9 Folder 66 "Elders"
Notes
Box 9 Folder 67 "(E)utopia Limited"/"Eutopia Now!"
Drafts. Potentially related material in Box 4, Folder 1.
Box 9 Folder 68 "Events"/"The Course of Urban Events"
Drafts and notes on Bernard Tschumi
Box 9 Folder 69 "Five Modern Styles"
Draft
Box 9 Folder 70 "The Fog of War", ca. 2003
Drafts
Box 9 Folder 71 "For Gordon"
Draft, likely on Gordon Gilbert
Box 9 Folder 72 "For Robert Venturi on His 80th Birthday", ca. 2005
Draft
Box 9 Folder 73 "Fourteen Qualities of Good Cities"
Drafts
Box 9 Folder 74 "Get Happy"
Drafts on Happy Springs
Box 9 Folder 75 "Gratitudes and Obligations: The Aesthetics of Moral Ecology"
Draft
Box 9 Folder 104 "Highrise of Homes"
Draft on James Wines (SITE). Found in Lectures
Box 9 Folder 76 "Hollywood Architecture"
Draft
Box 9 Folder 77 "The Home of the Future"
Draft
Box 9 Folder 78 "Houston at the Gates"
Drafts
Box 9 Folder 79 "How I Invented Aisa"
Draft
Box 9 Folder 80 "The Idea of a Town"
Draft
Box 9 Folder 81 "In In Damned Spot"
Drafts
Box 9 Folder 82 "In the Context of Many Contexts: Henco Retirement"
Draft on Henko Bekkering
Box 9 Folder 83 "Inside, Backside, Outside: Rooming, Sitting, Looking Out"
Drafts
Box 9 Folder 84 "Introduction"
Draft
Box 9 Folder 85 "Introduction"
Draft
Box 9 Folder 87 "Ken Yeang"
Draft
Box 9 Folder 88 "Last Chant for the Krishnas?"
Draft
Box 9 Folder 89 "Lists," Collected Writings
Drafts, photocopies. Some published, mostly unpublished. Note saying: "Michael's penchant for list making"
Box 9 Folder 90 "Looking Backwards", ca. 1995
Draft on Perspecta 30 issue
Box 9 Folder 91 "Luxury Goods"/"Beyond the Fold"
Draft
Box 9 Folder 92 "Marxists"
Draft on Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Mao Zedong, etc.
Box 9 Folder 93 "Mass Movement Project"
Draft
Box 9 Folder 94 "Meditation on Minima"
Draft
Box 9 Folder 95 "Middle of the Night"
Draft
Box 9 Folder 96 "Milord la Chamarre"
Draft on Jean Dubuffet
Box 9 Folder 97 "The Multinational Style"
Draft
Box 9 Folder 98 "My Band"
Draft
Box 9 Folder 99 "Nanjing Too, Introduction Two"
Draft
Box 9 Folder 100 "Notes on the City Waterfront (Getting Down to Work)"
Draft
Box 9 Folder 101 "Ode to Lebbeus Woods on the Occasion [sic] of the Publication of His Latest Book"
Drafts, poems
Box 9 Folder 102 "Ornament is Crime (Among Other Things)!"
Draft of satirical biographies of various postmodern architects, inc. Robert Venturi, John Portman, and Cesar Pelli
Box 10 Folder 1 "Paul Rudolph Institute for Advanced Architectural and Urban Research"
Draft
Box 10 Folder 2 "Perfect Pitch"
Draft
Box 10 Folder 3 "Prosthetic Architecture"
Draft. Note Saying "Lecture"
Box 10 Folder 4 "RIBA Lecture"
Draft
Box 10 Folder 5 "The Road to Utopia"
Draft
Box 10 Folder 6 "Rogers Marvel"
Draft on Rogers and Marvel
Box 10 Folder 7 "Script One — Holland Tunnel"/"From the Street — Episode Two"
Draft. Originally filed with scripts
Box 10 Folder 8 "Some Thoughts on Being a Dean"
Draft
Box 10 Folder 9 "Statement for Stylos"
Drafts
Box 10 Folder 11 "Style City"
Drafts
Box 10 Folder 12 "Summertime"
Draft
Box 10 Folder 13 Twinkie City?"
Draft
Box 10 Folder 14 "Urban Planet"
Draft
Box 10 Folder 15 "The Urbanism that Dare Not Speak Its Name"
Drafts
Box 10 Folder 16 "What's L.A. About L.A. Space?"
Drafts
Box 10 Folder 18 "Which Way the Tipping Point?"
Drafts
Box 10 Folder 19 "Why Draw?"
Draft and notes
Box 10 Folder 20 "You'd Think You'd Never Saw a Yankee Before"
Draft
Box 10 Folder 21 "Zoning Defense"
Drafts
Box 10 Folder 47 "Background and Objectives", ca. 1980s
Draft of research project on architecture and humor
Box 10 Folder 22 Untitled writings
Collected untitled and undated drafts, including on OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Theodor Adorno, Philip Johnson, and Lauretta Vinciarelli. Also includes handwritten notes on Cambridge, MA, MIT and Harvard (possibly student work)
Box 10 Folder 23 Poems
Collected poems on various topics, some titled: PoMo Poems, Lacan's Lecture, etc. Undated.
Box 10 Folder 24 Prose, "The Moving Finger Writes"
Draft, filed as "Prose"
Box 10 Folder 25 Script, "Breeding"
Drafts, notes, and research files
Box 10 Folder 26 Script, "Brilliant Ideas"
Drafts, notes, and research files
Box 10 Folder 27 Script, "The Elders: Judgment Day"
Draft and notes. Also titled "Nazi Novel"
Box 10 Folder 28 Script, "Family Business", 1978
Draft
Box 10 Folder 29 Script, "A Few Film Scripts"
Compiled drafts, note, and research file
Box 10 Folder 30 Script, "Gout Scripts"
Drafts with various titles
Box 10 Folder 31 Script, "Hinky Pinky (???)"
Drafts
Box 10 Folder 32 Script, "LAX"
Drafts
Box 10 Folder 33 Script, "Le Million"
Drafts, notes, and research files
Box 10 Folder 34 Script, "Medical Movie"
Drafts, and research files
Box 10 Folder 35 Script, "Producer's Diary"
Drafts
Box 10 Folder 36 to 37 Script, "Red Stars"
Drafts, notes, Curriculum Vitae, Photograph (likely of Michael Sorkin's father)
Box 10 Folder 38 Script, "A Scene That Took Place Several Months Ago"
Drafts and notes
Box 10 Folder 39 Script, Untitled, "A meeting of the top programming executives at B.B.S. TV Network"
Drafts and notes
Box 10 Folder 40 Script, Untitled, "A Tumultuous Meeting of the Reform Club"
Drafts and notes
Box 10 Folder 41 Script, Untitled, "Two feet overhang the end of a couch"
Drafts
Box 10 Folder 42 Script, Untitled, "It's the year 2000."
Draft. Originally filed with Box 10, Folder 41
Box 10 Folder 43-45 Script, Frank Lipsius and Michael Sorkin, "Vegas Vince, The Boardwalk Prince"
Drafts. Folder 1 filed as "Most recent"