Our designers, commentators, guest bloggers, and specially invited guests have chosen these as the most notable design books of 2011.
26 books
| Kissing Architecture | Lavin, Sylvia | Princeton University Press | $16.95 |
| Rising Currents | Bergdoll, Barry | The Museum of Modern Art | $24.95 |
| Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture | Hill, John | W. W. Norton | $29.95 |
| By the City/For the City | Guiney, Anne et al. | Institute for Urban Design | $35.00 |
| Combinatory Urbanism | Mayne, Thom | Stray Dog Cafe | $39.95 |
| The Architectural Detail | Ford, Edward R. | Princeton Architectural Press | $40.00 |
| Spatial Agency | Awan, Nishat et al. | Routledge | $44.95 |
| Reveal: Studio Gang Architects | Gang, Jeanne | Princeton Architectural Press | $45.00 |
| Pamphlet Architecture 11–20 | Holl, Steven | Princeton Architectural Press | $45.00 |
| The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture | Pallasmaa, Juhani | John Wiley & Sons | $45.00 |
| Architecture in Uniform | Cohen, Jean-Louis | Yale University Press | $50.00 |
| A House for an Art Collector | Adjaye, David | Rizzoli International Publications | $50.00 |
| The Houses of William Wurster: Frames for Living | Brostrom, Caitlin Lempres et al. | Princeton Architectural Press | $50.00 |
| Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture | Balmori, Diana et al. | The Monacelli Press | $50.00 |
| KieranTimberlake: Inquiry | Kieran, Stephen et al. | Rizzoli International Publications | $55.00 |
| Project Japan | Koolhaas, Rem et al. | TASCHEN | $59.99 |
| Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention | Ryan, Zoë | Yale University Press | $60.00 |
| Julius Shulman, Los Angeles | Lubell, Sam et al. | Rizzoli International Publications | $60.00 |
| California Design 1930–1965 | Kaplan, Wendy | The MIT Press | $60.00 |
| Tomorrow’s Houses | Gorlin, Alexander et al. | Rizzoli International Publications | $65.00 |
| Living in the Endless City | Burdett, Ricky et al. | Phaidon Press | $69.95 |
| Gerrit Rietveld | van Zijl, Ida | Phaidon Press | $75.00 |
| Edward Durell Stone | Stone, Hicks | Rizzoli International Publications | $85.00 |
| African Metropolitan Architecture | Adjaye, David | Rizzoli International Publications | $100.00 |
| Alexander Girard | Oldham, Todd et al. | AMMO Books | $200 |
| Wirrwarr | Mayer H., Jürgen et al. | Hatje Cantz | $300.00 |
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