ANY Book is both a reader and a critical analysis of ANY: Architecture New York published by Anyone Corporation between 1993 and 2000. The book reframes conversations surrounding the discipline of architecture before, during, and after the 1990s (1989–2001). It both situates them within broader and longer sociopolitical and cultural contexts, while tracing the evolution of specific discourses still relevant today. While ANY Book focuses on texts from the tabloid-format magazine, it situates the essays in the larger context of the ANY ecosphere of conferences, public symposia, and books. The inclusion of original graphics by Massimo Vignelli and 2x4 highlight significance of ANY as both a discursive platform and a design object. Through this lens ANY becomes a tool for historically analyzing the longest decade in recent memory, while rendering visible the resonances and continuing significance of that discourse today.

Zachariah A. Michielli is codirector of graduate programs in architecture at Ball State University, where he teaches design studio and architectural history. He received a PhD in architecture history and theory from Yale University in 2024. His research focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to bridging architecture and the world of scientific knowledge, with a particular interest in the application of mathematical models and systems theory. His scholarship has appeared in Leonardo Journal, The Journal of Architectural Education, and The World Book Encyclopedia. He holds degrees from the Southern California Institute of Architecture, the Michigan State University College of Education, and Swarthmore College. Michielli has previously lived and worked in Washington, New Haven, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toyama, Tokyo, Milan, and Siena.

Cathelijne Nuijsink is a senior lecturer at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich. Her research focuses on developing new historiographical methods that enable more dynamic and polyvocal architectural histories. Between 2022 and 2024, Nuijsink was a postgraduate associate in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she explored further the potential of “architectural contact zones” through her research project “Unlocking the ‘Contact Zone’: Toward a New Historiography of Architecture,” using the Any Conferences (1991–2000) as a case study. She is developing that research into a monograph that will serve as her habilitation. Nuijsink holds master’s degrees in architecture from Delft University of Technology and the University of Tokyo, as well as a MA and PhD in East Asian languages and civilizations from the University of Pennsylvania.

Ashley Schafer is a writer, curator, educator, and registered architect whose research lies at the intersection of architecture, urbanism, landscape, history, technology, and practice. She cofounded and coedited PRAXIS: journal of writing + building. Her research and projects have been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Graham Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts. In 2014, she was appointed cocommissioner and cocurator of the US Pavilion at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition–La Biennale di Venezia (2014), and with Ana Miljački and Eva Franch edited OfficeUS Agenda, Atlas, and Manual with Lars Müller Publishers. She is a professor and former head of architecture at The Ohio State University and has previously taught at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Tulane University.

Aaron Tobey is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He holds a PhD in architectural history and theory from Yale University and a MArch from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He has taught at Yale, RISD, and Colorado College, while maintaining a freelance design practice. His research, design, and teaching draw on media theory and the histories of technology and organizational management to analyze design practices ranging from individual workspaces and tool interfaces to urban development and systems of information exchange. His research focuses on the influence of computer graphics systems on the built environment and on managerial and academic attempts to systematize the design process. Tobey’s work has been supported by the Graham Foundation and has been published in Architecture Theory Review, Architecture and Culture, the Journal of Architectural Education, Technology and Culture, and the Harvard Design Magazine. He is preparing a manuscript based on his dissertation, “Drawing Management.”

Omnivore, Inc.—Alice Chung, Karen Hsu, and Julie Cho—is a 3-person, female-owned, graphic design studio located in Brooklyn, Los Angeles, and Portland, Oregon. Prior to founding Omnivore in 2002, Alice and Karen both worked at 2x4 and contributed to the design of ANY Magazine and the ANY book series. Alice is founding partner at Omnivore. She has received degrees from Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University, and the Rhode Island School of Design. She is senior critic in graphic design at Yale University School of Art. Karen is founding partner at Omnivore. She received a BFA in graphic design from Oregon State University and an MFA in graphic design from Yale University. She is on the board of the Portland Art Museum Contemporary Art Council. Julie is partner at Omnivore. She received a BA from Columbia University and an MFA in graphic design from Yale University. She is also co-founder of Thick Press with Erin Segal, a publishing practice that makes and distributes books related to care work and the work of care.

Founded in 1999, Praxis, Inc. has fostered a distinctive architectural discourse rooted in the interdependence of technology, design, theory, and history through publishing, exhibitions, and public programming. From 1999–2020, the organization produced the award-winning journal PRAXIS: a journal of writing + building along with a series of associated conferences and installations. In 2014, Praxis, Inc. collaborated with Storefront for Art and Architecture as cocommissioners and cocurators of the United States Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale for the installation OfficeUS. Over its 25-year history, Praxis, Inc. has connected diverse facets of architectural production, fostering dialogue between practitioners, theorists, historians, and the broader cultural community. Building on this legacy, the organization now turns its critical, editorial, and curatorial inquiry toward the architectural discourse that both preceded and shaped it through the publication of ANY Book and an associated installation ANY Studio at the 2027 Venice Biennale.