What a great and very important book about a figure who is (sadly) largely absent from contemporary discussions. Congratulations on putting together such a superb book and great homage to a great architect and teacher.
Robert McCarter, Washington University
Congratulations on pulling together an amazing publication about Werner! It looks fantastic! This is an important contribution to American architecture!
Marleen Kay Davis, Dean Emerita University of Tennessee
...a masterpiece. It is beautiful. And well deserved.
Anthony Ames, Anthony Ames Architect
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LOVE your composition! The colors and transparencies are really beautiful, and it's just a whole lot of fun! Speaks to me of community…
Lee Temple, PrimaMundi
I just received the book, and it is magnificent... Thank you.
Jean Seligmann
Your book is priceless. I finished reading your book in just 3 days. It vividly brought back so many memories, and also introduced me to a lot of Werner's projects I was unaware of. Thank you so very much for your tremendous efforts and time in making it happen!
Greg Dembs, Peter Marino + Associates Architects
…it looks magnificent, truly an œuvre complète…
Nelson Chen, Nelson Chen Architect
I too think the book looks great, and am also so glad and grateful that you are taking this on. I'm so pleased to be a part of it.
Kristen Schaffer, North Carolina State University
…a beautiful homage to an amazing and influential architect that formed the cornerstone of Syracuse University’s School of Architecture.
Jeffrey Zynda, Perkins & Will
Cheers!..., and serious congrats, again, on creating the WS tome. It looks gorgeous.
Alan Chimacoff
There is a "passion" that I sense while looking at the diagrams and beautiful illustrations, I can hear Werner describing the "moves" to me....ever the teacher!
Art McDonald, Syracuse University
A magnificent, definitive, ‘in situ’ cubist portrait of a truly great man, his indomitable spirit, and his influential, inspiring life's work….it’s a precious, vividly living reminder of existential lineage, and all those, like Werner, on whose shoulders I still and will forever stand. Respect and veneration—so needed today.
Lee Temple, PrimaMundi
I think the projects are given great grounding, and the variability of quality from time to time is subtly addressed. The newer essays contribute significantly.
Val Warke, Cornell University
I received my copy of the WS monograph today. Kudos on the design and content. Thanks for producing the book.
Charles Graves, Professor Emeritus Kent State University
What an accomplishment! So wonderful to have. I didn't realize Werner had built as much as he had.
Mary McLeod, Columbia University
A reminder for true believers in the discipline. Something to be savored. Thank you Bruce Coleman.
Gerard Damiani, studio d’ARC architects
What a great achievement memorializing an extraordinary architect who (until now) has never been given his due. Fantastic book.
Jose Gelabert-Navia, Perkins & Will
I know a little about how long you've been working on it and can appreciate the energy and determination that it must have taken to push so many cows uphill for so long. It looks fantastic, but more importantly it’s chock full of drawings and documentation that we all need to see and have near.
Anyway, congrats again and thank you for both a definitive and a loving tribute to someone who as been so important to so many of us.
John Ostlund, Skidmore Owings & Merrill
The gestation period’s silver lining is....it highlights how Werner’s oeuvre stands the test of time.
W. I. Van Campen, Van Campen Architects
The book on Werner is a masterpiece. It is beautiful. And well deserved.
It is like curling up in front of the fire on a cold evening.
Anthony Ames, Anthony Ames Architect
Such a lovely testimony to a tenacious and talented architect.
Edgar G Adams Jr, Roger Williams University
At last!!!! And worth the wait, it is magnificent!!
Mark Shapiro
What a terrific contribution to architectural knowledge. Well done indeed! Congrats! A great tribute to an incredible architect and educator.
Matthew J Bell, University of Maryland
Congratulations on a wonderful book — and it is absolutely beautiful.
Elizabeth Mikula, Perkins & Will
That's a huge accomplishment, congratulations. The added color is good.
Gerard Damiani, studio d’ARC architects
This is great news, congratulations to you and Bruce.
James Tice, University of Oregon
Going through it, all kinds of emotions rushed in. …Werner was a teacher, mentor, employer, colleague, and friend. He was my first architecture teacher in the 1956-57 academic year at the University of Texas.
Congratulations, it’s terrific! I know it wasn’t easy, but worth it. Thank you for doing it.
Mike Dennis, formerly MIT
What a masterful and beautiful body of work you have given to us ... what Jim Tice would push to call The Legacy of Werner Seligmann.
As your book does such a masterful job of conveying…architecture is a teachable, learnable subject when both teachers and students make it so. Thank you for demonstrating that truth, one that Seligmann fervently believed, so well. It should be one that is more widespread. As someone said in your book, better to light the candle, and you certainly have.
Steve W Hurtt, University of Maryland
This is an important, but long-overdue monograph. Professor Werner Seligmann was such a distinguished teacher and practitioner in the Finger Lakes Region of upstate New York, an inspirational and charismatic leader who really put Syracuse University on the national architectural map during his Deanship.
Grahame Shane, Columbia University
I am nearly overwhelmed at seeing this wonderful reflection on the work of WS. I echo Steve Hurtt's comments on the quality as well as the huge undertaking. I and many others have looked forward to this publication to bring into focus Werner's contribution to architecture and education, and to celebrate his accomplishments. Not disappointed.
Bruce Lonnman, Chinese University of Hong Kong
…thank you for putting together such a wonderful publication. It’s clearly a massive endeavor, and I truly appreciate the care and effort that went into it. I'm so happy to be able to discover so much of Seligmann's great work...
David Levy, Levy Design Studio
It is absolutely incredible!! I can’t wait to start reading. I’m sure the Seligmann family must love it. Thank you for doing this.
Lori Kellner
The Exegesis Seligmann is a real page-turner.
...Graphos were de rigueur in the Seligmann studio, even into the late 1970s when other architects had long ago adopted more expedient means of representation. As the neophyte draftsperson responsible for production of the ink-on-mylar north elevation drawing for Ithaca Centre (sic), I can attest that it was made using those finicky pens.
Steven Fong, University of Toronto
it’s really fantastic and we can see lots of research use being made of it—I’m looking forward to sitting down with it more thoroughly soon.
Congratulations—it’s very clear what an immense amount of scholarship and experience is present in the book!
Amy McDonald, SCRC Syracuse University Libraries
Bravo, I know that this was a labor of love, congratulations. And what a wonderful way to distribute Werner's book.
Again our profound thanks for the Herculean effort to bring this across the finish line.
Jeffrey Klug, Butz + Klug Architecture
Thanks for all your effort putting the book together. Very nice to see that work in one place.
Robert Goodill, SK+I Architecture
Your outstanding tome arrived, and it is well worth the wait! Just a note to say well and truly done — the final product fit and finish, down to the tiniest, most appreciated details, completely matches the excellence of the overall gestalt, and everything in between. I know Werner would be very, very pleased — way to go guys!!!
Lee Temple, PrimaMundi
Congratulations on a really fine work. It's certainly impressive — much more detailed than such books typically are.
John Dixon, editor-in-chief, Progressive Architecture
To order your copy
The books are not for sale in the usual sense. Please make a new, tax-deductible donation* to your preferred school of architecture, or any other cultural non-profit, and send a digital receipt to Bruce M Coleman.
*Suggested minumum is $50 or $40 for students with ID.
