Everything by Design: My Life as an Architect

published Aug 6, 2007
Everything by Design My Life as an Architect
"My buildings are my babies, my legacy.

When I watch one of them going up, or when I pass a structure I designed, the sense of awe and wonder is always indescribable.

They will be there long after I am gone, to explain, in a universal language to generations as yet unborn, how we lived.

It is a feeling unlike any other.

For this I am grateful." - architect Alan Lapidus, author of Everything by Design.

Alan Lapidus is a true Renaissance man.

Well-known in the architecture and real estate worlds as the designer of some of our greatest hotels and casinos - including the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City and the Broadway Crowne Plaza in Manhattan - he is also a pilot, chef, stage-set designer, auxiliary cop, and, most delightfully, an extremely talented story-teller and memoirist.

In his new book, Everything by Design: My Life As An Architect, Lapidus takes readers behind-the-scenes for an insider's look at how great buildings are created.

He introduces us to his famous clients including Donald Trump, Michael Eisner, John Tishman, Aristole Onassis, and Bob Guccione as well as assorted pit bosses, business moguls, and even CIA operatives.