Kevin Lippert
{{Short description|American publisher, founder of Princeton Architectural Press}}
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Kevin Christopher Lippert (January 20, 1959 – March 29, 2022) was an American book publisher. He was the founder of Princeton Architectural Press.{{Cite web|url=https://www.archpaper.com/2022/03/steven-holl-remembers-the-late-kevin-lippert/|title=Steven Holl remembers the late Kevin Lippert|first=Steven|last=Holl|date=March 31, 2022|access-date=October 29, 2022|archive-date=October 29, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221029221327/https://www.archpaper.com/2022/03/steven-holl-remembers-the-late-kevin-lippert/|url-status=live}}
Early life and education
Lippert was born in Leeds, England to Ernest and Maureen (Ellis) Lippert. He was born while they were studying at the University of Leeds.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/17/books/kevin-lippert-dead.html|title=Kevin Lippert, 'Impresario' of Architectural Books, Dies at 63|first=Katharine Q.|last=Seelye|work=The New York Times |date=April 17, 2022|via=NYTimes.com|access-date=April 22, 2022|archive-date=April 23, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220423103757/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/17/books/kevin-lippert-dead.html|url-status=live}}
In 1980, he received a BA from Princeton University and a MA in 1983.
During his time as a student, he was the music director of the Princeton radio station WPRB.
Career
At Princeton in 1981, when Lippert was a graduate student in architecture, he realized that there was a demand for reprints of important books that students were encouraged to study. The original editions were large, old, and often hard to access. He received permission from Princeton librarians to copy books, the first being Recueil et Parallèle des Edifices de Tout Genre by French architect Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand published in 1800. The edition published by Lippert turned out to be too expensive and too large for student use. The next book, the three volume Edifices de Rome Moderne published by Paul Letarouilly in 1840, was printed in a small one volume book. He had 1,000 copies printed and sold them out of the trunk of his car. He founded Princeton Architectural Press (PAP) soon after. In 1996, PAP made a distribution agreement with Chronicle Books. In 1997, Lippert sold Springer Verlag, the owner of the architectural publisher Birkhauser, a share of the company.{{cite web | url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20000103/30359-pw-princeton-architectural-press-moving-skyward.html | title=PW: Princeton Architectural Press Moving Skyward }}
Lippert was central in publishing Steven Holl’s 1989 manifesto Anchoring, which is considered one of the “fundamental design texts of the past half-century”.{{Cite web|url=https://archinect.com/news/article/150305189/kevin-lippert-influential-princeton-architectural-press-founder-has-passed-away-aged-63|title=Kevin Lippert, influential Princeton Architectural Press founder, has passed away aged 63|website=Archinect|access-date=April 25, 2022|archive-date=April 25, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220425063953/https://archinect.com/news/article/150305189/kevin-lippert-influential-princeton-architectural-press-founder-has-passed-away-aged-63|url-status=live}}
He authored the 2015 book War Plan Red on War Plan Red, the United States plan for a hypothetical war with the British Empire.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thenextchapter/anakana-schofield-robert-j-wiersema-and-joel-thomas-hynes-1.3296215/randy-boyagoda-reviews-war-plan-red-by-kevin-lippert-1.3296882|title= Randy Boyagoda reviews War Plan Red by Kevin Lippert |access-date=April 23, 2022 |archive-date=April 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220423201552/https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thenextchapter/anakana-schofield-robert-j-wiersema-and-joel-thomas-hynes-1.3296215/randy-boyagoda-reviews-war-plan-red-by-kevin-lippert-1.3296882 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |id={{ProQuest|2383753968}} |last1=Semley |first1=John |title=Review: Kevin Lippert's War Plan Red looks at the planned Canada-U.S. war |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=29 May 2015 }}{{cite news |id={{ProQuest|1709982715}} |last1=Gardner |first1=Ralph |title=Not-So-Neighborly Behavior; Kevin Lippert's book recounts how U.S. and Canada drew up plans to invade each other |newspaper=Wall Street Journal |date=8 September 2015 }}
Awards and honors
In 2020, Lippert received an award in architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.{{cite web | url=https://www.archpaper.com/2020/04/american-academy-of-arts-and-letters-2020-architecture-award-winners/ | title=American Academy of Arts and Letters announces 2020 architecture award winners | date=April 21, 2020 }}
Personal life
Lippert died on March 29, 2022, at his home in Ghent, New York. He died due to complications of brain cancer.
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