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The annual Almanac of Architecture & Design is the essential and definitive tool for architecture and design - including architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, industrial design, historic preservation, and planning - and the only sourcebook of its kind. The 2001 edition is fully updated and expanded with a foreword by Blair Kamin, the Pulitzer Prize winning architecture critic from the Chicago Tribune. New additions include speeches by recent award winners Rem Koolhaas, Ricardo Legorreta, Art Gensler; essays by recent interior design and architecture graduates; the 2001 Top 15 Schools for Architecture and Interior Design; updated salary and compensation guide for architects and designers; over 20 worldwide design museums and their 2001 exhibition calendars; revised list of the world's tallest buildings and best skylines; enhanced list of specialty design bookstores; complete 2001 design calendar with competition deadlines and conference dates; profiles of innovative 20th century women design leaders; latest historic preservation award winners and programs; improved directory of design colleges & universities; 2001 leading 100 firms survey results; state capitols and their architects; fully updated design and construction statistics; firm rankings and benchmarks; recent obituaries of design leaders; and the Top 25 Most Visited Historic House Museums for 2001.