Notable Design Books of 2012

Our designers, commentators, guest bloggers, and specially invited guests have chosen these as the most notable design books of 2012. Also see Notable Design Books of 2011.
81 books
Tree Houses
Philip Jodidio; Patrick Hruby (illustrator)
The Style of the Stedelijk
Frederike Huygen
The Dutch Photobook
Fritz Gierstberg and Rik Suermondt, eds.
The Avant-Garde Applied (1890–1950)
Manuel Fontán del Junco, et al.
Graphic Design: A History, 2nd Edition
Stephen J. Eskilson
The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City
Alan Ehrenhalt
20th-Century World Architecture: The Phaidon Atlas
Editors of Phaidon Press
The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design
Editors of Phaidon Press
Photo Gallery of Good Buildings: West
Building Mania Cafe
Wim Crouwel: A Graphic Odyssey (Japanese edition)
Tony Brook et al.
Underground: How the Tube Shaped London
David Bownes et al.
Instant: The Story of Polaroid
Christopher Bonanos
Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet
Andrew Blum
The Color Revolution
Regina Lee Blaszczyk
The Raw and the Cooked
Peter Bialobrzeski
Luca Barcellona: Take Your Pleasure Seriously
Luca Barcellona
Thanks for the View, Mr. Mies
Danielle Aubert et al.
Norman Bel Geddes Designs America
Donald Albrecht, ed. et al.
Information Graphics
Sandra Rendgen et al.