Jain Malkin’s New Book
I have the privilege of working with Jain Malkin to produce the eagerly anticipated new book she’s written for The Center, A Visual Reference for Evidence-Based Design. It promises to be a must-read for anybody in our field. The Center staff have had a sneak preview and are really excited about how great it’s going to be because no such book has previously existed.
Jain’s an industry legend. I’m also discovering that she writes at an amazing and prolific pace WITHOUT the use of a computer. This entire book was handwritten by her, which for someone like me, who relies heavily on a computer for my writing, is quite a feat in and of itself.
Her book was originally planned to be an annotated visual guide with some text, but it’s blossomed into a much larger and significant work. Not only is it chock full of photographs and practical information about the application of evidence-based design theory, it’s also up to the minute and full of studies from a wide number of sources (some of which will surprise readers.) Jain has told me that she’d often get an email from the AIA or another organization about a burning new issue and it would already be in the chapter she was writing at the time.
The book is coming out later this year and I’m sure it’ll sell like hot cakes. Between now and then, there’s still lots of work to do, including making sure we print enough copies for everyone who is going to want this on their bookshelf.
July 27th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
Please save one for me. This is a book I have to see.
October 17th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Please forward any advance ordering information.