Notable Books of 2011

Our designers, commentators, guest bloggers, and specially invited guests have chosen these as the most notable design books of 2011
102 books
Voiture Minimum
Antonio Amado Lorenzo $49.95
Spatial Agency
Nishat Awan et al. $44.95
Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture
Diana Balmori et al. $50.00
TD 63-73: Total Design and Its Pioneering Role in Graphic Design
Ben Bos $55.00
How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive
Christopher Boucher $15.00
Living in the Endless City
Ricky Burdett et al. $69.95
Typography for Lawyers
Matthew Butterick $25.00
Chi ha paura...?-Who’s afraid...?
Alba Cappellieri
New York Bikes
Michele Castagnetti $19.99
Architecture in Uniform
Jean-Louis Cohen $50.00
100 Artists’ Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists
Alex Danchev, ed. $20.99
High Line: The Inside Story of New York City’s Park in the Sky
Joshua David et al. $29.95
Flying Without a Net
Thomas J. DeLong $29.95
Cédric Delsaux: Dark Lens
Cédric Delsaux $75.00
Rebels in Paradise
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp $32,50
Roberto Burle Marx: The Modernity of Landscape
Fares El-Dahdah et al. $49.95
The Latin American Photobook
Horacio Fernández, ed. $52.00
The Architectural Detail
Edward R. Ford $40.00
Gerhard Richter: Panorama
Mark Godfrey et al.
Textiles, the Whole Story: Uses, Meanings, Significances
Beverly Gordon $60.00
Tomorrow’s Houses
Alexander Gorlin et al. $65.00
By the City/For the City
Anne Guiney et al. $35.00
Menu Design in America
Steven Heller et al. $59.99
New York: The Story of a Great City
Sarah Henry. ed. $39.95
Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture
John Hill $29.95
Pamphlet Architecture 11–20
Steven Holl, introduction $45.00
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
Lisa Immordino Vreeland $55.00
The Death and Life of Great American Cities: 50th Anniversary Edition
Jane Jacobs et al. $23.00
California Design 1930–1965
Wendy Kaplan. ed. $60.00
KieranTimberlake: Inquiry
Stephen Kieran et al. $55.00
Visual Storytelling
Robert Klanten et al. $68.00
Beauty Is in the Street
Johan Kugelberg et al. $40.00
The Houses of William Wurster: Frames for Living
Caitlin Lempres Brostrom et al. $50.00
Julius Shulman, Los Angeles
Sam Lubell et al. $60.00
Katie Ridder: Rooms
Heather MacIsaac $50.00
The Ruins of Detroit
Yves Marchand et al. $125.00
OLIVE (A Handbook to Protect Your Life)
Nosigner ¥ 1,000 ($12.88)
The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture
Juhani Pallasmaa $45.00
Redheaded Peckerwood
Christian Patterson $65.00
Star Wars: The Blueprints
J. W. Rinzler $500.00
Cultural Connectives: Bridging the Latin and Arabic Alphabets
Rana Abou Rjeily $34.95
And I Shall Have Some Peace There
Margaret Roach $25.99
Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention
Zoë Ryan, ed. $60.00
Sagmeister: Another Book About Promotion and Sales Material
Stefan Sagmeister et al. $40.00
Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
Howard Schultz et al. $25.99
Urban Design Since 1945
David Grahame Shane $45.00
Helvetica and the New York City Subway System
Paul Shaw $39.95
The Toaster Project: Or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch
Thomas Thwaites $19.95
Hussein Chalayan
Robert Violette, ed. et al. $85.00
Designing for Emotion
Aarron Walter $18.00
Toward a New Interior
Lois Weinthal $45.00