Stefan Sebok was a Hungarian-born architect who worked with Walter Gropius in Dessau and Berlin in the late 1920s, then with Laszlo Moholy-Nagy on his famous Light Prop, and still later moved to the Soviet Union to work with the constructivist architects Ginzburg, El Lissitzky and the Vesnin brothers. This text is accompanied by numerous illustrations of Sebok's design work and essays on the Hungarian and Soviet content by historians Eva Forgacs and Richards Anderson."

This monograph will not only provide exhaustive documentation of O-14's design and construction but delves further into the complex interrelationships this architectural model weaves between technology, expression and politics in the context of the 'nowhere place' of the global city. The book is both an account of a design's realisation and a manifesto, and contains Jesse Reiser's explanatory and theoretical texts on the tower as well as a number of critical essays.

Sharp Words brings together a variety of essays that touch upon each of his architectural fascinations - among them, glass architecture, picture palaces, masters of concrete and English modernism. Punctuating these texts are a number of editorials from his days as editor of Architectural Association Quarterly (AAQ), which graphically as much as intellectually offer emblems of his time at the AA.