Architect, museum curator, and industrial designer Emilio Ambasz is renowned for projects that fuse architecture and landscape. In this penetrating collection of essays, prominent scholars and architects take up the challenge and set about rigorously analyzing Ambasz.

Michael Sorkin is the principal of the Michael Sorkin Studio in New York and director of the Graduate Urban Design Program at the City College of New York. His books include "Variations on a Theme Park, Exquisite Corpse, Local Code, Giving Ground, Wiggle, Some Assembly Required, Other Plans, " and "The Next Jerusalem."