Exquisite Corpse: Writings on Buildings: Writing on Buildings (Haymarket Series)

Michael Sorkin is the Lenny Bruce of American architecture: satirist, moralist, agent provocateur ... .His courageous, outrageous and often hilarious insights into the architectural culture of our times are expressed with antic brilliance and deep conviction. --House and Garden

To read Sorkin is to discover a genuine love of urbanism's best offerings and a humanistically rooted disdain for the greedy and opportunistic types who view the city as a deregulated zone for plundering. --Chicago Tribune

.. . a formidable opponent of the banal, the ugly, the stupid and the vapidly posturing which, he argues, are all around us ... a punchy, provocative collection. --Publishers Weekly

A thorn in the flesh of America's more complacent architects--especially the postmodernists--Sorkin proves that it's possible to write with wit, passion and insight about architecture. --The Guardian (London)

Michael Sorkin's brand of writing ... is to thoughtful criticism what the Ayatollah Khomeini is to religious tolerance ... --Paul Goldberger