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Princeton Architectural Press Buys Out Shareholder Springer Verlag · Feb 5, 12:15 PM

(February 5, 2010) – Princeton Architectural Press, a division of Springer Verlag (Berlin) since 1997, returned to independent status effective Friday, January 29, 2010. Kevin Lippert, Princeton Architectural Press’s founder and publisher, announced that he has purchased back the majority stake in the company from Springer. This development renders Princeton Architectural Press one of the largest independent publishers of architecture and design titles.

“It has been a pleasure to be part of the Springer family for these many years, and to work with so many talented people on both sides of the Atlantic,” said Lippert, Princeton Architectural Press’s publisher, “but the strategic directions of our two businesses were diverging so quickly that a partnership no longer made sense. Our new independent status will provide us with the opportunity to use the innovations we’ve learned from Springer, particularly in electronic books, to continue to broaden the scope of what design publishing constitutes. Crossing boundaries is our strongest suit: we’re at our best publishing books that defy easy categorization, and we will continue to explore these boundaries, both in terms of what we publish, and how,” said Lippert.

Among the books published by Princeton Architectural Press are Thinking with Type, Indie Publishing, and Graphic Design: The New Basics all by Ellen Lupton, Rural Studio by Samuel Mockbee, The Guerilla Art Kit by Keri Smith, The Map as Art and You Are Here by Katharine Harmon, and Tom Kundig: Houses.

Princeton Architectural Press will continue to be distributed by Chronicle Books in North and South America and Asia, Raincoast in Canada, Coen Sligting in Europe, PGUK in the UK, and Manic Exposeur in Australia and New Zealand.

Since its founding in 1981, Princeton Architectural Press has become a world leader in architecture and design publishing, both in market share and in editorial and design excellence. With over six hundred titles on its backlist and around fifty new titles per year, Princeton Architectural Press “strives to publish the best architects, designers and visual thinkers, and is privileged to be able to attract and publish them,” according to publicity director Katharine Myers. “PAPress has made its reputation in part by identifying new trends and publishing first books on emerging talents, as well as definitive works on established names, and by creating books of unsurpassed design quality and production values,” says Myers.

Princeton Architectural Press is located at 37 E. 7th St. in New York City and, in spite of the name similarity, is not affiliated in any way with Princeton University. The Press currently has twenty-three employees

For more information, contact Katharine Myers at 212/995-9620 or katharine@papress.com.

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