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Princeton Architectural Press
Parent companyMcEvoy Group
Founded1981
FounderKevin Lippert
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationHudson, New York
DistributionChronicle Books (US)
Raincoast Books (Canada)
Abrams & Chronicle Books (UK)
Bookreps NZ (New Zealand)
Books at Maniac (Australia)[1]
Nonfiction topicsarchitecture, design, photography, landscape and visual culture
Official websitewww.papress.com

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.[2] In 2013, it added a line of stationery products, including notebooks and notecards; the following year it began publishing children's books.[3]

The press was founded in 1981 in Princeton, New Jersey, by Kevin Lippert, who was then studying architecture at Princeton University. In 1985, it moved to New York City, 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.[4] It is not related to Princeton University Press.[5]

Since 1996, Princeton Architectural Press has been distributed in the Americas by Chronicle Books. It was part of the German publishing group Springer Science+Business Media from 1997[6] 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 Chronicle Books.[7]

Founder Kevin Lippert died on March 29, 2022 of complications from brain cancer. He was 63.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Our Distributors". Retrieved 2017-12-08.
  2. ^ Danny Heitman, "Small presses release some of the best books around", The Christian Science Monitor, January 10, 2014.
  3. ^ "Meet the Artist! Series Introduces Princeton Architectural Press to Children's Market",Publishers Weekly, March 20, 2014.
  4. ^ "About Princeton Architectural Press",PAPress Blog, September 1st 2014.
  5. ^ Sharon Deng, "'Gray areas': Who can use the 'Princeton' name?", The Daily Princetonian, May 11, 2014.
  6. ^ Jim Milliot, "Princeton Architectural Press Moving Skyward", Publishers Weekly, January 3, 2000.
  7. ^ "McEvoy Group Buys Princeton Architectural Press", Publishers Weekly, Feb 14, 2011.
  8. ^ Seelye, Katharine Q. (2022-04-17). "Kevin Lippert, Publisher of Architectural Books, Dies at 63". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-18.


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