Lewis Baltz: Rule Without Exception / Only Exception

This progressive book object combines two volumes and covers the sweep and depth of Lewis Baltzs influential oeuvre. Rule Without Exception is a re-issue of Baltzs award-winning mid-career retrospective book which accompanied a travelling exhibition of the same name in 1991. The book surveys Baltzs work from The Prototype Works of 1967 through to Sites of Technology of 1991, showing the range of his images of industrialised landscapes and technological sites.

Each section of the book is accompanied by installation views as well as texts by distinguished writers, some newly commissioned for this edition. Only Exceptions is a new book chronicling Baltzs work now usually site-generated commissioned works from 1992 to the present and is published on the occasion of an exhibition organized by the Kunstmuseum, Bonn.

Only Exceptions includes Baltzs work in California, Leipzigs Black Triangle, Reggio Emilia, Groningen, Rome, Venice, and two projects with Jean Nouvel in France and Italy.