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The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn | Wurman, Richard Saul et al. | The MIT Press |
Learning from Las Vegas | Venturi, Robert et al. | The MIT Press |
A Pattern Language | Alexander, Christopher et al. | Oxford University Press |
Thermal Delight in Architecture | Heschong, Lisa | The MIT Press |
On the Art of Building in Ten Books | Alberti, Leon Battista | The MIT Press |
Edifices de Rome Moderne | Letarouilly, Paul Marie | Princeton Architectural Press |
Delirious New York | Koolhaas, Rem | The Monacelli Press |
Animate FORM | Lynn, Greg | Princeton Architectural Press |
The Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the History of Taste | Scott, Geoffrey | W. W. Norton |
Your Private Sky: R. Buckminster Fuller | Lichtenstein, Claude et al. | Lars Müller Publishers |
Gyroscopic Horizons | Denari, Neil M. | Princeton Architectural Press |
The Curves of Time | Niemeyer, Oscar | Phaidon Press |
Object to Be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark | Lee, Pamela M. | The MIT Press |
The World Trade Center Remembered | Goldberger, Paul et al. | Abbeville Press |
The Four States of Architecture | Hanrahan, Thomas et al. | John Wiley & Sons |
Labour, Work and Architecture | Frampton, Kenneth | Phaidon Press |
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture | Venturi, Robert | The Museum of Modern Art |
Modern Architecture | Colquhoun, Alan | Oxford University Press |
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things | McDonough, William et al. | North Point Press |
Mastering Tradition: The Residential Architecture of John Russell Pope | Garrison, James B. | Acanthus Press |
Great Houses of New York, 1880–1930 | Kathrens, Michael C. | Acanthus Press |
Mies van der Rohe: The Krefeld Villas | Kleinman, Kent et al. | Princeton Architectural Press |
Modern Architecture and Other Essays | Scully, Vincent | Princeton University Press |
KM3: Excursions on Capacities | MVRDV, | Actar |
Shigeru Ban | McQuaid, Matilda | Phaidon Press |
Minimum | Pawson, John | Phaidon Press |
FARMAX | MVRDV, et al. | nai010 Publishers |
Interpreting the Renaissance (Ricerca dell’Rinascimento) | Tafuri, Manfredo | Yale University Press |
Designing with Light | Meyers, Victoria | Abbeville Press |
Eliot Noyes | Bruce, Gordon | Phaidon Press |
Informal | Balmond, Cecil | Prestel Publishing |
Hugh Newell Jacobsen, Architect: 1993–2006 | Jacobsen, Hugh Newell et al. | Rizzoli International Publications |
Modern Architecture: A Critical History | Frampton, Kenneth | Thames & Hudson |
Houses of Los Angeles, vol. 2 | Watters, Sam | Acanthus Press |
The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture | Wright, Frank Lloyd et al. | Princeton University Press |
Home Delivery | Bergdoll, Barry et al. | The Museum of Modern Art |
Greg Lynn FORM | Rappolt, Mark et al. | Rizzoli International Publications |
Newport Villas | Kathrens, Michael C. | W. W. Norton |
KarimSpace | Rashid, Karim | Rizzoli International Publications |
Dream House | Dietz, Ulysses Grant et al. | Acanthus Press |
Architecture’s Desire | Hays, K. Michael | The MIT Press |
Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals | Payne, Christopher et al. | The MIT Press |
Richard Meier Architect Vol. 5 | Meier, Richard | Rizzoli International Publications |
Bauhaus 1919–1933 | Bergdoll, Barry et al. | The Museum of Modern Art |
Miami Modern Metropolis | Shulman, Allan T. | Princeton Architectural Press |
The Green House | Stang, Alanna et al. | Princeton Architectural Press |
Vincent Van Duysen: Complete Works | Van Duysen, Vincent et al. | Thames & Hudson |
The Nature of Circumstance | Bohlin, Peter et al. | Rizzoli International Publications |
Joseph Urban | Loring, John | Abrams |
Prefab Architecture: A Guide to Modular Design and Construction | Smith, Ryan E. | John Wiley & Sons |
Gerrit Rietveld | van Zijl, Ida | Phaidon Press |
Clip Stamp Fold | Colomina, Beatriz et al. | Actar |
A House for an Art Collector | Adjaye, David | Rizzoli International Publications |
Reveal: Studio Gang Architects | Gang, Jeanne | Princeton Architectural Press |
Why Architecture Matters | Goldberger, Paul | Yale University Press |
Julius Shulman, Los Angeles | Lubell, Sam et al. | Rizzoli International Publications |
Tomorrow’s Houses | Gorlin, Alexander et al. | Rizzoli International Publications |
Kissing Architecture | Lavin, Sylvia | Princeton University Press |
The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture | Pallasmaa, Juhani | John Wiley & Sons |
Living in the Endless City | Burdett, Ricky et al. | Phaidon Press |
Spatial Agency | Awan, Nishat et al. | Routledge |
Wirrwarr | Mayer H., Jürgen et al. | Hatje Cantz |
Pamphlet Architecture 11–20 | Holl, Steven | Princeton Architectural Press |
Architecture in Uniform | Cohen, Jean-Louis | Yale University Press |
Rising Currents | Bergdoll, Barry | The Museum of Modern Art |
KieranTimberlake: Inquiry | Kieran, Stephen et al. | Rizzoli International Publications |
The Architectural Detail | Ford, Edward R. | Princeton Architectural Press |
Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture | Balmori, Diana et al. | The Monacelli Press |
Louis Vuitton: Architecture and Interiors | Mostafavi, Mohsen | Rizzoli International Publications |
Edward Durell Stone | Stone, Hicks | Rizzoli International Publications |
Designing Bridges to Burn | Tigerman, Stanley | ORO Editions |
Tom Kundig: Houses 2 | Kundig, Tom | Princeton Architectural Press |
The Biography of a Building | Rybczynski, Witold | Thames & Hudson |
Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention | Ryan, Zoë | Yale University Press |
Project Japan | Koolhaas, Rem et al. | TASCHEN |
Aesthetic Theory | Gage, Mark Foster | W. W. Norton |
California Design 1930–1965 | Kaplan, Wendy | The MIT Press |
The Houses of William Wurster: Frames for Living | Brostrom, Caitlin Lempres et al. | Princeton Architectural Press |
Distillations | McCurry, Margaret et al. | ORO Editions |
African Metropolitan Architecture | Adjaye, David | Rizzoli International Publications |
Schlepping Through Ambivalence | Tigerman, Stanley et al. | Yale University Press |
Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture | Hill, John | W. W. Norton |
Alexander Girard | Oldham, Todd et al. | AMMO Books |
Saving Wright | Chusid, Jeffrey M. | W. W. Norton |
The Raw and the Cooked | Bialobrzeski, Peter | Hatje Cantz |
Steven Holl—Scale | Holl, Steven et al. | Lars Müller Publishers |
Five North American Architects | Frampton, Kenneth | Lars Müller Publishers |
Imperfect Health | Borasi, Giovanna et al. | Lars Müller Publishers |
A Visual Inventory | Pawson, John | Phaidon Press |
Writing About Architecture | Lange, Alexandra | Princeton Architectural Press |
Steven Holl—Color Light Time | Holl, Steven | Lars Müller Publishers |
Site and Sound | Newhouse, Victoria | The Monacelli Press |
American Splendor | Kathrens, Michael C. | Acanthus Press |
Foreclosed | Bergdoll, Barry | The Museum of Modern Art |
Design Like You Give a Damn [2] | Architecture for Humanity, et al. | Abrams |
Authoring | Adjaye, David et al. | Lars Müller Publishers |
Post-Ductility | Bell, Michael et al. | Princeton Architectural Press |
The Dot-Com City | Lange, Alexandra | Strelka Press |
Poem of the Right Angle (Le poème de l'angle droit) | Le Corbusier, | Hatje Cantz |
Wiel Arets | McCarter, Robert et al. | Birkhäuser |
Le Corbusier Redrawn | Park, Steven | Princeton Architectural Press |
Torre David | Brillembourg, Alfredo et al. | Lars Müller Publishers |
20th-Century World Architecture: The Phaidon Atlas | Editors of Phaidon Press, | Phaidon Press |
Architecture Concepts: Red is Not a Color | Tschumi, Bernard | Rizzoli International Publications |
House | Keaton, Diane et al. | Rizzoli International Publications |
La Formentera | Piasecki, Eric et al. | The Monacelli Press |
Understanding Architecture | McCarter, Robert et al. | Phaidon Press |
Building: Inside Studio Gang Architects | Gang, Jeanne et al. | Yale University Press |
A Guide to Archigram 1961–74 | Crompton, Dennis | Princeton Architectural Press |
In the Life of Cities | Mostafavi, Mohsen | Lars Müller Publishers |
Instigations | Mostafavi, Mohsen et al. | Lars Müller Publishers |
Sou Fujimoto: Sketchbook | Fujimoto, Sou | Lars Müller Publishers |
Norman Bel Geddes Designs America | Albrecht, Donald et al. | Abrams |
Tree Houses | Jodidio, Philip et al. | TASCHEN |
Cino Zucchi: Inspiration and Process in Architecture | Zucchi, Cino | Chronicle Books |
The Architecture of the Barnes Foundation | Williams, Tod et al. | Rizzoli International Publications |
Eames: Beautiful Details | Demetrios, Eames et al. | AMMO Books |
Solomon’s Temple | Balfour, Alan | John Wiley & Sons |
Maynard L. Parker: Modern Photography and the American Dream | Watts, Jennifer A. et al. | Yale University Press |
Bio Design | Myers, William et al. | The Museum of Modern Art |
The Language of Luxe | Ng, Ed et al. | ORO Editions |
Experiments with Life Itself | González de Canales, Francisco | Actar |
Building Seagram | Lambert, Phyllis et al. | Yale University Press |
James Stirling: Revisionary Modernist | Lawrence, Amanda Reeser | Yale University Press |
The Planning Game | Garvin, Alexander | W. W. Norton |
The Light Pavilion | Kumpusch, Christoph a. | Lars Müller Publishers |
All the Buildings in New York *That I’ve Drawn So Far | Hancock, James Gulliver | Rizzoli International Publications |
Albert Speer | Krier, Léon et al. | The Monacelli Press |
Theater of Architecture | Hardy, Hugh | Princeton Architectural Press |
Kengo Kuma: Complete Works | Frampton, Kenneth | Thames & Hudson |
Culture:City | Wang, Wilfried | Lars Müller Publishers |
Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940-1990 | Wit, Wim de et al. | Getty Research Institute |
Matteo Thun: The Index Book | Thun, Matteo | Hatje Cantz |
A New Sculpturalism | Mount, Christopher et al. | Rizzoli International Publications |
James Turrell: A Retrospective | Govan, Michael et al. | Prestel Publishing |
Álvaro Siza: Complete Works 1952–2013 | Jodidio, Philip | TASCHEN |
Make It Fabulous | Georgis, William T. et al. | The Monacelli Press |
Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes | Cohen, Jean-Louis et al. | The Museum of Modern Art |
Classic & Modern: Signature Styles | Barlis, Alan et al. | ORO Editions |
Visions of Seaside | Thadani, Dhiru A. et al. | Rizzoli International Publications |
Architecture on the Carpet | Vale, Brenda et al. | Thames & Hudson |
100 Years of Architectural Drawing | Bingham, Neil | Laurence King Publishing |
MVRDV Buildings | MVRDV, et al. | nai010 Publishers |
Discovering Architecture | Jodidio, Philip et al. | Rizzoli International Publications |
The Library | Campbell, James W. P. et al. | The University of Chicago Press |
The Most Beautiful Opera Houses in the World | de Laubier, Guillaume et al. | Abrams |
Paradise Planned | Stern, Robert A. M. et al. | The Monacelli Press |
Wunderkammer | Williams, Tod et al. | Yale University Press |
Deventer | Stadler, Matthew et al. | nai010 Publishers |
Shape of Sound | Meyers, Victoria | Artifice Books on Architecture |
Fundamentals | Koolhaas, Rem | Rizzoli International Publications |
Being: An Architect | Ritchie, Ian et al. | Royal Academy of Arts |
What If...?: The Architecture and Design of David Rockwell | Pearlman, Chee et al. | Metropolis Books |
A Genealogy of Modern Architecture | Frampton, Kenneth | Lars Müller Publishers |
Ballpark | Goldberger, Paul | Knopf |
Charleston Fancy | Rybczynski, Witold | Yale University Press |
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Louis Kahn: Architecture as Philosophy by John Lobell
Louis Kahn: Architecture as Philosophy
By John Lobell
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
Published: June 2020
Noted Louis I.Kahn expert John Lobell explores how Kahn’s focus on structure, respect for materials, clarity of program, and reverence for details come together to manifest an overall philosophy.
Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn by Harriet Pattison
Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn
By Harriet Pattison
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: October 2020
An intimate glimpse into the professional and romantic relationship between Harriet Pattison and the renowned architect Louis Kahn. Harriet Pattison, FASLA, is a distinguished landscape architect. She was Louis Kahn’s romantic partner from 1959 to 1974, and his collaborator on the landscapes of the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, and the F.D.R. Memorial/Four Freedoms Park, New York. She is the mother of their son, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn.
Louis I. Kahn: The Nordic Latitudes
Louis I. Kahn: The Nordic Latitudes
By Per Olaf Fjeld and Emily Randall Fjeld
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: October 4, 2019
A new and personal reading of the architecture, teachings, and legacy of Louis I. Kahn from Per Olaf Fjeld’s perspective as a former student. The book explores Kahn’s life and work, offering a unique take on one of the twentieth century’s most important architects. Kahn’s Nordic and European ties are emphasized in this study that also covers his early childhood in Estonia, his travels, and his relationships with other architects, including the Norwegian architect Arne Korsmo.
Reading Graphic Design History: Image, Text, and Context by David Raizman
Reading Graphic Design History: Image, Text, and Context
By David Raizman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Published: December 2020
An innovative approach to graphic design that uses a series of key artifacts from the history of print culture in light of their specific historical contexts. It encourages the reader to look carefully and critically at print advertising, illustration, posters, magazine art direction, and typography, often addressing issues of class, race, and gender.
David King: Designer, Activist, Visual Historian by Rick Poynor
David King: Designer, Activist, Visual Historian
By Rick Poynor
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: September 2020
A comprehensive overview of the work and legacy of David King (1943–2016), whose fascinating career bridged journalism, graphic design, photography, and collecting. King launched his career at Britain’s Sunday Times Magazine in the 1960s, starting as a designer and later branching out into image-led journalism, blending political activism with his design work.
Teaching Graphic Design History by Steven Heller
Teaching Graphic Design History
By Steven Heller
Publisher: Allworth Press
Published: June 2019
An examination of the concerted efforts, happy accidents, and key influences of the practice throughout the years, Teaching Graphic Design History is an illuminating resource for students, practitioners, and future teachers of the subject.
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