‘On Books, 2025’ is a timestamp about the status of books and architecture. The relationship between the two has been spun together over the course of history, and in this moment, we see the book as an indispensable secret keeper with its own rationale and sure-footedness. This phenomenon is giving the book, the library and the institutions that house them new relevance in architecture. The architecture of these buildings offers a conundrum for public architecture: how to give form to what is inherently dense and withholding?

Nile Greenberg is a founding partner of Abel Nile New York (ANY). ANY recently guest edited the 2025 issue of Flash Art Volumes on the theme of Crisis Formalism—a dossier of architectural responses to re-integrate architectural form and crisis. Greenberg serves as Architecture Editor at The Brooklyn Rail, overseeing a section that focuses on the relationship between architecture and art. He is the co-author of “The Advanced School of Collective Feeling” (Park Books, 2023), a study on the relationship between physical culture and housing in the 1920s, and curated the exhibition “Two Sides of the Border” at Yale. Greenberg has taught at Columbia University GSAPP and Cornell University AAP. His work has been presented at the 2025 Venice Biennale, ETH Zürich, Cornell University, Spazio Maiocchi, the AIA Center for Architecture, University of Melbourne, The Cooper Union, University of Colorado, and more. ANY was recognized as New Practices New York 2020-2023 by AIANY. Greenberg holds a Master of Architecture from Columbia University.