Notable Design Books of 2011

Specially invited guests have chosen these as the most notable design books of 2011. See complete Notable Design Books list

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

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Now is Better by Stefan Sagmeister

Now is Better

By Stefan Sagmeister
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: October 2023

Combining art, design, history, and quantitative analysis, transforms data sets into stunning artworks that underscore his positive view of human progress, inspiring us to think about the future with much-needed hope.

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Design Emergency: Building a Better Future by Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli

Design Emergency: Building a Better Future

By Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: May 2022

Rawsthorn and Antonelli tell the stories of the remarkable designers, architects, engineers, artists, scientists, and activists who are at the forefront of positive change worldwide. Focusing on four themes—Technology, Society, Communication, and Ecology—the authors present a unique portrait of how our great creative minds are developing new design solutions to the major challenges of our time, while helping us to benefit from advances in science and technology.

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Love Letter to a Garden by Debbie Millman

Love Letter to a Garden

By Debbie Millman
Contributions by Roxane Gay
Publisher: Timber Press
Published: April 15, 2025

From the award-winning artist, designer, and the host of the podcast Design Matters, Debbie Millman, this book tells the visual story of falling in love with gardening—and the philosophies that work conjures. Spread throughout are simple recipes using the garden’s ingredients from Millman’s wife, best-selling author Roxane Gay.

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Milton Glaser: POP by Steven Heller, Mirko Ilić, and Beth Kleber

Milton Glaser: POP

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

Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall

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

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

This facsimile edition of Die Fläche, recreates every page of the formative design periodical in full color and at original size, accompanied by essays that contextualize the work, highlighting contributions by pathbreaking women, innovative lettering artists, and key practitioners of the new “surface art,” including Rudolf von Larisch, Alfred Roller, and Wiener Werkstätte founders Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffmann.

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