JULIA CHRISTENSEN * WRITING

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Big Box Reuse
By Julia Christensen
MIT Press, Fall 2008
ISBN-10: 0262033798
Julia Christensen's critically acclaimed first book, Big Box Reuse, is about the community reuse of abandoned big box
buildings throughout the United States.  Big Box Reuse has been reviewed and discussed in such publications as the
Washington Post, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Bookforum, The New York Review of Books, 
Salon.com, Slate.com, USA Today, and Readymade Magazine, among scores of other publications.
Big Box Reuse was named one of the Top Ten Art Books of 2008 by Amazon.com, after appearing on Amazon's
"Best of the Month" list in December 2008. It was named "Winning Entry, General Trade Cover/Jacket Category" and 
"Best of Category" in the 2009 New England Book Show sponsored by Bookbuilders of Boston.  It was  "Winner"
of the Jackets and Covers Category and "Selected Entry" in the Illustrated Trade Category of the 2009 American
Association of University Presses Book, Journal, and Jacket Show.
Christensen has appeared on NPR several times speaking about the book.
Visit the book website for upcoming lecture dates and links to articles and reviews.
Order the book at MIT Press, Amazon, Powell's, or find your local bookstore.

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Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes
Walker Art Center/ DAP, Spring 2008
ISBN-10: 0935640908         
The suburbs have always been a fertile space for imagining both the best and the worst of modern social life.          
Portrayed alternately as a middle-class domestic utopia and a dystopic world of homogeneity and conformity--with          
manicured suburban lawns and the inchoate darkness that lurks just beneath the surface--these stereotypes          
belie a more realistic understanding of contemporary suburbia and its dynamic transformations. Organized by the         
Walker Art Center in association with the Heinz Architectural Center at Carnegie Museum of Art, Worlds Away: New          
Suburban Landscapes is the first major museum exhibition to examine both the art and architecture of the          
contemporary American suburb. Featuring paintings, photographs, prints, architectural models, sculptures and          
video from more than 30 artists and architects, including Christophr Ballantyne, Julia Christensen, Center for          
Land Use Interpretation, Gregory Crewdson, Estudio Teddy Cruz, Dan Graham and Larry Sultan, Worlds Away          
demonstrates the catalytic role of the American suburb in the creation of new art and prospective architecture. The      
catalogue features new essays and seminal writings by John Archer, Robert Beuka, Robert Breugmann, David Brooks, 
Julia Christensen, Beatriz Colomina, Malcolm Gladwell and others, as well as a lexicon of suburban neologisms. 
Julia Christensen contributed "The Afterlife of Big Boxes: A Conversation with Julia Christensen"

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Younger Than Jesus: Artist Directory 
New Museum/ Phaidon, Spring 2009
# ISBN-10: 0714849812
"Younger than Jesus: The Artists Directory" is the product of some of the most wide-ranging research in the         
field of contemporary art in years: the first 'Younger than Jesus' triennial at the New Museum. Working with a          
team of 200 'insiders' (curators, writers, teachers, critics, bloggers and artists) scattered across the globe,          
curators Massimiliano Gioni , Lauren Cornell and Laura Hoptman have selected the 500 best international          
artists under the age of 33, from which they will curate the exhibition component of the triennial in spring 2009.          
While most generational exhibitions are retrospective, this one will be predictive, anticipating the future and          
revealing upcoming trends. "Younger than Jesus: The Artists Directory" will therefore be an unparalleled          
resource for curators, collectors, dealers and critics. By serving as a handbook to currrent artistic innovation,      
it will also appeal to artists, designers and anyone curious about the latest developments in visual culture. 
Inlcudes work by Julia Christensen.

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For Sale: 200,000 Square Foot Box
by Julia Christensen
Slate Magazine
November 19, 2008

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Big Box, New Life
by Julia Christensen
Print Magazine
Feburary 2009

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Excerpt: Big Box Reuse
by Julia Christensen
Architect Magazine
October 2008

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Redemption Center
by Julia Christensen
Orion Magazine
Jan/Feb 2006