Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo
The most delightful and memorable new book I read last year...– Adam Gopnik,THE NEW YORKER.COMThe density of  ideas and connections is intoxicating. De Monchaux swings masterfully  between subjects, teasing out unexpected connections and spotting the  seeds of contemporary life that were planted by the space race.–ICON (UK)[a] wonderful material history...–LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS... a broad and  creative appraisal of [the] suit's many contexts, encouraging readers to  consider technology as design, shaped by the circumstances of its time,  unfailingly and elegantly layered and crafted to serve a purpose.–NATURE... now the definitive investigation of this terrain.–THE ATLANTIC.COM"Berkeley  architecture professor de Monchaux's thorough and artful history of the  American spacesuit takes readers at a leisurely pace through the  past...a wholly absorbing capsule of our history. "-PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY,Starred ReviewWoven, as befits  its topic, with multiple and colored threads borrowed from an astounding  variety of fields and domains--technology, politics, media, and fashion  design, to name only a few--this path-breaking book provides an  innovative reading of the space race. Above all, it illuminates the  relevance of this race for designers from yesterday and today.–ANTOINE PICON,Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology, Harvard Graduate School of Design…This surely is one of the most deeply researched books on design ever written.–RALPH CAPLAN,author of _By Design: Why There Are No Locks on the  Bathroom Doors in the Hotel Louis XIV and Other Object Lessonsde Monchaux  offers in this remarkable book a far-reaching and broad-based analysis  of the spacesuit, interpreting it as far more than a functional garment  protecting astronauts but also as an artifact at the nexus of society,  science, and spacefaring...–ROGER LAUNIUS,Senior Curator, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum