Princeton Architectural Press is a small press publisher, specializing in books on architecture, design, photography, landscape, and visual culture, with over 1,000 titles on its backlist. In 2013, it added a line of stationery products, including notebooks and notecards; the following year it began publishing children's books. The press was founded in 1981 in

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, by Kevin Lippert, who was then studying architecture at

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. In 1985, it moved to

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, where it operated for years in the East Village neighborhood. In 2014, it moved again, to Hudson, N.Y., where it also runs a retail store, Paper + Goods. It is not related to

Princeton University Press Princeton University Press is an independent Academic publishing, publisher with close connections to Princeton University. Its mission is to disseminate scholarship within academia and society at large. The press was founded by Whitney Darrow, ...

. Since 1996, Princeton Architectural Press has been distributed in the Americas by

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. It was part of the German publishing group

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from 1997 to 2009. In early 2010, Lippert reacquired Springer's shares. In 2011, Princeton Architectural Press was acquired by the McEvoy Group, and PAP became a sister company to

. Founder Kevin Lippert died on March 29, 2022 of complications from brain cancer. He was 63.

References

External links

Princeton Architectural Press website

"Building Books: PAPress"
(interview with PAPress Publisher Kevin Lippert)
Archinect
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