Editors’ Fall Picks for 2021, Library Journal
“Sandfuture […] tackles architectural history’s canon directly. And it does so with the kind of brio and panache that seems absent from architectural writing these days.”
– The Architect’s Newspaper
“In Beal’s account, you hear about not just a tragic life, but the strange cultural history of the World Trade Center—what it came to mean, and how that meaning reflected the history of New York and the United States”
– Open Source with Christopher Lydon
“This is a personable, erudite memoir that ambles through a series of theoretical and historical musings linked to the author’s emotional, intellectual and practical engagement with New York City”
– ArtReview
“It is not like any other book on architecture I have read. And that is a very good thing […] Beal has written a brilliant, often surprisingly personal, book that works as metaphor and, perhaps, as portent.”
- Edwin Heathcote, FT
“Beal is sympathetic, describing the Japanese-American architect’s battles with prejudice, pointing out the qualities of the many fine buildings he created across America, and bringing alive the ironies and tragedies of his career. […] His book is an unusual collage of narratives, but it provides rare insight into the making and experience of architecture.”
- Rowan Moore, The Observer
