"Easily one of the best architecture critics around ... Sorkin is a flaneur with a sense of public purpose." - Chris Hall, Guardian "America's most invigorating writer on architecture. " - Observer "Sorkin is one of the most intelligent writers on architecture today. " - Library Journal "Sorkin is a formidable opponent of the banal, the ugly, the stupid and the vapidly posturing which, he argues, are all around us. " - Publishers Weekly