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Mies van der Rohe: The Krefeld Villas Kent Kleinman et al. Princeton Architectural Press On list of Books by Kent Kleinman Add to My Reading List	Great Houses of New York, 1880–1930 Michael C. Kathrens Acanthus Press On list of Books by Michael C. Kathrens Add to My Reading List	Elsie de Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration Penny Sparke Acanthus Press On Susan Weber’s Book List On Dominique Browning’s Book List Add to My Reading List	The Complete Dictionary of Symbols Jack Tresidder Chronicle Books Add to My Reading List	Mastering Tradition: The Residential Architecture of John Russell Pope James B. Garrison Acanthus Press On Ernest de la Torre’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Crossing the BLVD: Strangers, Neighbors, Aliens in a New America Warren Lehrer et al. W. W. Norton On list of Books by Warren Lehrer Add to My Reading List	Manolo Blahnik: Drawings Anna Wintour Thames & Hudson Add to My Reading List	The Corset: A Cultural History Valerie Steele Yale University Press On list of Books by Valerie Steele Add to My Reading List
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things William McDonough et al. North Point Press On Zoë Ryan’s Book List On Philip Freelon’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Modern Architecture Alan Colquhoun Oxford University Press On Deborah Berke’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture Robert Venturi The Museum of Modern Art On Tom Coward’s Book List On Elizabeth Diller’s Book List On Daisy Froud’s Book List On Michael Graves’s Book List On Vincent Lacovara’s Book List On Terence Riley’s Book List On Ricardo Scofidio’s Book List On Geoff Shearcroft’s Book List On Witold Rybczynski’s Book List On R. Craig Miller’s Book List On Paul Goldberger’s Book List On Alberto Alessi’s Book List On Cesar Pelli’s Book List On list of Books by Robert Venturi On David Piscuskas’s Book List On Jorge Silvetti’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Labour, Work and Architecture Kenneth Frampton Phaidon Press On list of Books by Kenneth Frampton Add to My Reading List	The Four States of Architecture Thomas Hanrahan et al. John Wiley & Sons On list of Books by Victoria Meyers Add to My Reading List	The World Trade Center Remembered Paul Goldberger et al. Abbeville Press On list of Books by Paul Goldberger Add to My Reading List	Object to Be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark Pamela M. Lee The MIT Press On Christian Wassmann’s Book List Add to My Reading List	The Art of Looking Sideways Alan Fletcher Phaidon Press On Jennifer Morla’s Book List On Tom Geismar’s Book List On Bob Gill’s Book List On Wendell Castle’s Book List On Coralie Bickford-Smith’s Book List Add to My Reading List
Georg Jensen: A Tradition of Splendid Silver Janet Drucker Schiffer Publishing Add to My Reading List	The Architecture of I.M. Pei Carter Wiseman Thames & Hudson Add to My Reading List	The Curves of Time Oscar Niemeyer Phaidon Press On Jeffrey Beers’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Gyroscopic Horizons Neil M. Denari Princeton Architectural Press On list of Books by Neil Denari Add to My Reading List	Your Private Sky: R. Buckminster Fuller Claude Lichtenstein et al. Lars Müller Publishers On Christian Wassmann’s Book List Add to My Reading List	The Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the History of Taste Geoffrey Scott W. W. Norton On Witold Rybczynski’s Book List On Paul Goldberger’s Book List Add to My Reading List	The Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright David A. Hanks Dover Publications Add to My Reading List	Animate FORM Greg Lynn Princeton Architectural Press On list of Books by Greg Lynn Add to My Reading List
Delirious New York Rem Koolhaas The Monacelli Press On Terence Riley’s Book List On Adam Tihany’s Book List On Andrés Duany’s Book List On Jeanne Gang’s Book List On Mohsen Mostafavi’s Book List On Galia Solomonoff’s Book List On Phil Patton’s Current Reading list On Aric Chen’s Book List On Michael Rock’s Book List Add to My Reading List	A Day with Picasso Billy Klüver The MIT Press On Christian Wassmann’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Edifices de Rome Moderne Paul Letarouilly Princeton Architectural Press On Michael Graves’s Book List On Peter Pennoyer’s Book List Add to My Reading List	The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols Jean Chevalier et al. Penguin Books Add to My Reading List	Plan of Chicago, 1909 Daniel Hudson Burnham et al. Princeton Architectural Press On Denise Scott Brown’s Book List On Robert Venturi’s Book List Add to My Reading List	I. M. Pei: Mandarin of Modernism Michael T. Cannell Clarkson Potter Add to My Reading List	Seeing through Clothes Anne Hollander University of California Press Add to My Reading List	On the Art of Building in Ten Books Leon Battista Alberti The MIT Press On Daniel Libeskind’s Book List Add to My Reading List
Eva Zeisel: Designer for Industry Martin Eidelberg The University of Chicago Press Add to My Reading List	Thermal Delight in Architecture Lisa Heschong The MIT Press On Craig Dykers’s Book List Add to My Reading List	A Pattern Language Christopher Alexander et al. Oxford University Press On Niels Diffrient’s Book List On Nancye Green’s Book List On Andrés Duany’s Book List On Witold Rybczynski’s Book List On Chris Bangle’s Book List On Peter Bohlin’s Book List On Carola Zwick’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Learning from Las Vegas Robert Venturi et al. The MIT Press On Michael Bierut’s Book List On Andrés Duany’s Book List On R. Craig Miller’s Book List On Zoë Ryan’s Book List On Ellen Lupton’s Book List On list of Books by Denise Scott Brown On list of Books by Robert Venturi On Rudy VanderLans’s Book List On Nathalie de Vries’s Book List Add to My Reading List	The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn Richard Saul Wurman et al. The MIT Press On list of Books by Richard Saul Wurman Add to My Reading List	The Origins of Modern Town Planning Leonardo Benevolo The MIT Press On Phyllis Lambert’s Book List Add to My Reading List	The Machine: As Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age Pontus Hultén The Museum of Modern Art Add to My Reading List

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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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Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People by Debbie Millman

Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World's Most Creative People

By Debbie Millman
Publisher: Harper Design
Published: February 22, 2022

Debbie Millman—author, educator, brand consultant, and host of the widely successful and award-winning podcast “Design Matters”—showcases dozens of her most exciting interviews, bringing together insights and reflections from today’s leading creative minds from across diverse fields.

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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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