Notable Design Books of 2013
Also see Notable Books: Reviews, Notable Design Books of 2012 and Notable Design Books of 2011.
| Encounters 2 | Pallasmaa, Juhani et al. | Rakennustieto | |
| Architecture of Santiniketan | Das, Samit | Niyogi Books | |
| Swiss Made | Breiding, R. James | Profile Books | |
| The Images of Architects | Olgiati, Valerio | Quart Architektur | |
| Everything Loose Will Land | Lavin, Sylvia et al. | Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg | |
| Deventer | Stadler, Matthew et al. | nai010 Publishers | |
| The Light Pavilion | Kumpusch, Christoph a. | Lars Müller Publishers | $15.00 |
| Go: A Kidd’s Guide to Graphic Design | Kidd, Chip | Workman | $17.95 |
| Lolita—The Story of a Cover Girl: Vladimir Nabokov’s Novel in Art and Design | Bertram, John et al. | Print Publishing | $18.00 |
| Hall of Femmes: Lella Vignelli | Bouabana, Samira et al. | Hall of Femmes/Oyster Press | $19.65 |
| Hall of Femmes: Tomoko Miho | Bouabana, Samira et al. | Hall of Femmes/Oyster Press | $19.65 |
| Mapping Manhattan | Cooper, Becky et al. | Abrams | $19.95 |
| All the Buildings in New York *That I’ve Drawn So Far | Hancock, James Gulliver | Rizzoli International Publications | $19.95 |
| The Afterlife of Emerson Tang | Champa, Paula | Houghton Mifflin | $26.00 |
| How Architecture Works | Rybczynski, Witold | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | $27.00 |
| Architecture on the Carpet | Vale, Brenda et al. | Thames & Hudson | $27.95 |
| The Pinecone | Uglow, Jenny | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | $28.00 |
| Wunderkammer | Williams, Tod et al. | Yale University Press | $29.00 |
| Creative Confidence | Kelley, Tom et al. | Crown | $29.00 |
| Hand-Drying in America | Katchor, Ben | Random House | $29.95 |
| The Metropolitan Revolution | Katz, Bruce et al. | Brookings Institution Press | $29.95 |
| A Country of Cities | Chakrabarti, Vishaan | Metropolis Books | $29.95 |
| PIN-UP Interviews | PIN-UP, et al. | powerHouse Books | $29.95 |
| The Invention of Craft | Adamson, Glenn | Bloomsbury | $29.95 |
| City of Ambition | Williams, Mason B. | W. W. Norton | $29.95 |
| Hello World | Rawsthorn, Alice | Hamish Hamilton | $30.00 |
| The Design Book: 1000 New Designs for the Home and Where to Find Them | Hudson, Jennifer | Laurence King Publishing | $30.00 |
| Eileen Gray: Objects and Furniture Design | Espegel, Carmen et al. | Ediciones Polígrafa | $30.00 |
| Graphic Icons | Clifford, John | Peachpit Press | $31.99 |
| Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas | Wood, Denis | Siglio | $32.00 |
| Handbook of California Design, 1930-1965 | Tigerman, Bobbye | The MIT Press | $34.95 |
| The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon | Dalley, Stephanie | Oxford University Press | $34.95 |
| Multiple Signatures | Rock, Michael | Rizzoli International Publications | $35.00 |
| Hippie Chic | Whitley, Lauren | MFA Publications | $35.00 |
| Interviewing Users | Portigal, Steve | Rosenfeld Media | $39.00 |
| Cosmos of Light | Plummer, Henry | Indiana University Press | $39.00 |
| Various Small Books: Referencing Various Small Books of Ed Ruscha | Brouws, Jeff et al. | The MIT Press | $39.95 |
| Experiments with Life Itself | González de Canales, Francisco | Actar | $39.95 |
| Formica Forever | Lange, Alexandra et al. | Metropolis Books | $39.95 |
| Design Forward | Esslinger, Hartmut | ARNOLDSCHE Art Publishers | $40.00 |
| Threads of Silk and Gold | McDermott, Hiroko T. et al. | Ashmolean Museum | $40.00 |
| Fashion Design, Referenced | Kennedy, Alicia et al. | Rockport Publishers | $41.25 |
| Dekho | Codesign, et al. | Codesign | $42.00 |
| James Stirling: Revisionary Modernist | Lawrence, Amanda Reeser | Yale University Press | $45.00 |
| Italian Liberty Style | De Guttry, Irene et al. | 24 Ore Cultura | $45.00 |
| Printer’s Devil | Loxley, Simon et al. | David R. Godine | $45.00 |
| Discovering Architecture | Jodidio, Philip et al. | Rizzoli International Publications | $45.00 |
| Irma Boom: The Architecture of the Book | Boom, Irma et al. | Lecturis | $45.50 |
| Tom Dixon: Dixonary | Dixon, Tom | Violette Editions | $49.95 |
| Architectural Guide Japan | Bognar, Botond | DOM Publishers | $50.00 |
| Theater of Architecture | Hardy, Hugh | Princeton Architectural Press | $50.00 |
| Kamisaka Sekka | Trinh, Khanh et al. | Prestel Publishing | $50.00 |
| 100 Years of Architectural Drawing | Bingham, Neil | Laurence King Publishing | $50.00 |
| Eva Zeisel: Life, Design, and Beauty | Kirkham, Pat et al. | Chronicle Books | $50.00 |
| Henri Labrouste | Bélier, Corinne et al. | The Museum of Modern Art | $55.00 |
| The Sustainable Fashion Handbook | Black, Sandy | Thames & Hudson | $55.00 |
| Culture:City | Wang, Wilfried | Lars Müller Publishers | $55.00 |
| Never Built Los Angeles | Lubell, Sam et al. | Metropolis Books | $55.00 |
| Shadow Type | Heller, Steven et al. | Princeton Architectural Press | $55.00 |
| Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940-1990 | Wit, Wim de et al. | Getty Research Institute | $59.95 |
| D&AD: 50 | Stanley, Ron | TASCHEN | $59.99 |
| Luxurious Minimalism | von der Schulenburg, Fritz | Rizzoli International Publications | $60.00 |
| Out There | Brito, Maria Gabriela | Pointed Leaf Press | $60.00 |
| The Most Beautiful Opera Houses in the World | de Laubier, Guillaume et al. | Abrams | $60.00 |
| Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture after Images | Dimendberg, Edward | The University of Chicago Press | $65.00 |
| Building Seagram | Lambert, Phyllis et al. | Yale University Press | $65.00 |
| A New Sculpturalism | Mount, Christopher et al. | Rizzoli International Publications | $65.00 |
| The Houses of Louis Kahn | Marcus, George H. et al. | Yale University Press | $65.00 |
| Lina Bo Bardi | Lima, Zeuler Rocha Mello de Almeida et al. | Yale University Press | $65.00 |
| It’s Modern: The Eye and Visual Influence of Alexander Liberman | Churchward, Charles | Rizzoli International Publications | $65.00 |
| Type Only | Sinclair, Mark et al. | Unit Editions | $68.00 |
| Synesthetic Design | Haverkamp, Michael | Birkhäuser | $69.95 |
| Emilio Pucci | Friedman, Vanessa et al. | TASCHEN | $69.99 |
| Albert Speer | Krier, Léon et al. | The Monacelli Press | $75.00 |
| James Turrell: A Retrospective | Govan, Michael et al. | Prestel Publishing | $75.00 |
| Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes | Cohen, Jean-Louis et al. | The Museum of Modern Art | $75.00 |
| Visions of Seaside | Thadani, Dhiru A. et al. | Rizzoli International Publications | $75.00 |
| The Library | Campbell, James W. P. et al. | The University of Chicago Press | $75.00 |
| Mario Buatta: Fifty Years of American Interior Decoration | Buatta, Mario et al. | Rizzoli International Publications | $75.00 |
| Staircases | Tusquets Blanca, Oscar | The Vendome Press | $75.00 |
| MVRDV Buildings | MVRDV, et al. | nai010 Publishers | $95.00 |
| Carlo Scarpa: Venini, 1932–1947 | Barovier, Marino | Rizzoli International Publications | $95.00 |
| Paradise Planned | Stern, Robert A. M. et al. | The Monacelli Press | $95.00 |
| Creative Engineering, Architecture, and Technology | Hammann, Ralph | DOM Publishers | $99.95 |
| Moroccan Carpets and Modern Art | Adam, Jürgen et al. | ARNOLDSCHE Art Publishers | $115.00 |
| Álvaro Siza: Complete Works 1952–2013 | Jodidio, Philip | TASCHEN | $150.00 |
| Shiro Kuramata | Sudjic, Deyan et al. | Phaidon Press | $150.00 |
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Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: May 2022
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By Debbie Millman
Publisher: Harper Design
Published: February 22, 2022
Debbie Millman—author, educator, brand consultant, and host of the widely successful and award-winning podcast “Design Matters”—showcases dozens of her most exciting interviews, bringing together insights and reflections from today’s leading creative minds from across diverse fields.
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By Steven Heller, Mirko Ilić, and Beth Kleber
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
Published: March 2023
This collection of work from graphci design legend Milton Glaser’s Pop period features hundreds of examples of the designer’s work that have not been seen since their original publication, demonstrating the graphic revolution that transformed design and popular culture.
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Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall by Alexandra Lange
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By Alexandra Lange
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: June 2022
Chronicles postwar architects’ and merchants’ invention of the shopping mall, revealing how the design of these marketplaces played an integral role in their cultural ascent. Publishers Weekly writes, “Contending that malls answer ‘the basic human need’ of bringing people together, influential design critic Lange advocates for retrofitting abandoned shopping centers into college campuses, senior housing, and ‘ethnocentric marketplaces’ catering to immigrant communities. Lucid and well researched, this is an insightful study of an overlooked and undervalued architectural form.”
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Die Fläche: Design and Lettering of the Vienna Secession, 1902–1911 (Facsimile Edition)
By Diane V. Silverthorne, Dan Reynolds, and Megan Brandow-Faller
Publisher: Letterform Archives Books
Published: October 2023
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