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 African Metropolitan Architecture
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 Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
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 And I Shall Have Some Peace There
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 Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention
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 Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life
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 Chi ha paura...?-Who’s afraid...?
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 Cultural Connectives: Bridging the Latin and Arabic Alphabets
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 The Death and Life of Great American Cities: 50th Anniversary Edition
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 Design with the Other 90%: Cities
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 Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
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 Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible
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 The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture
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 Graphic Design: Now in Production
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 Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture
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 Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture
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 Helvetica and the New York City Subway System
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 High Line: The Inside Story of New York City’s Park in the Sky
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 The Houses of William Wurster: Frames for Living
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 How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive
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 New York: The Story of a Great City
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 OLIVE (A Handbook to Protect Your Life)
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 100 Artists’ Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists
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 Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
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 Ootje Oxenaar: Designer + Commissioner
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 Rethinking Design and Interiors
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 Richard Prince: American Prayer
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 Roberto Burle Marx: The Modernity of Landscape
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 Sagmeister: Another Book About Promotion and Sales Material
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 A Taxonomy of Office Chairs
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 TD 63-73: Total Design and Its Pioneering Role in Graphic Design
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 Textiles, the Whole Story: Uses, Meanings, Significances
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 The Toaster Project: Or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch
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 Usefulness in Small Things
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New Book Release, June 30, 2014: Supernew Supergraphics
Shows how the current generation of designers and architects are blasting typography and graphic forms across walls—even landscapes. A compendium of graphic excess on a monumental scale, it features new work from around the globe, and interviews with leading practitioners Felice Varini, Sascha Lobe, Sara De Bondt, and Boa Mistura.
Tony Brook, Adrian Shaughnessy, and Sarah Schrauwen, eds.
Published by Unit Editions
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New Book Release, May 27, 2014: Type on Screen
The long awaited follow-up to graphic designer Ellen Lupton’s best-selling Thinking with Type is here. The definitive guide to using classic typographic concepts of form and structure to make dynamic compositions for screen-based applications.
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Ellen Lupton
Published by Princeton Architectural Press
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New Book Release (U.S.), June 30, 2014: BMW Art Cars
Traces the development of the BMW Art Cars, the so-called “rolling sculptures” designed by artists including Alexander Calder, David Hockney, and Andy Warhol over the last 40 years.
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Thomas Girst, editor
Texts by Carl Magnusson, Phil Patton, et al.
Published by Hatje Cantz
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New Book Release, July 1, 2014: The Good Life: Perceptions of the Ordinary
Just what is it that catches the eye, and why? What’s the significance of a broken flowerpot, a pair of identical tables side by side, a garden hose wrapped around an old car wheel? In this collection of photo essays, designer Jasper Morrison examines and imagines the life behind a series of seemingly ordinary situations.
By Jasper Morrison
Published by Lars Müller Publishers
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New Book Release, April 21, 2014: Drawing and Reinventing Landscape, AD Primer
Explores notions of representation in the discipline of landscape architecture at large and across time.
Diana Balmori
Published by John Wiley & Sons
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New Book Release (U.S.), May 1, 2014: Shape of Sound
Architect Victoria Meyers analyzes the shape of sound; architecture and sound; form; materiality; windows; the urban soundscape, its politics, aesthetics and social character; reflection; virtuality; sound art; and silence.
Victoria Meyers
Published by Artifice Books on Architecture
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