These 10 design books are the most frequently chosen by our designers and commentators.
 

Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
Robert Venturi
On 15 lists
Towards a New Architecture (Vers une Architecture)
Le Corbusier
On 10 lists
Delirious New York
Rem Koolhaas
On 8 lists
Le Corbusier: Oeuvre Complète (Complete Works)
Willy Boesiger, ed.
On 7 lists
Learning from Las Vegas
Robert Venturi
On 7 lists
A Pattern Language
Christopher Alexander
On 7 lists
How Buildings Learn
Stewart Brand
On 7 lists
Theory and Design in the First Machine Age
Reyner Banham
On 6 lists
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Edward R. Tufte
On 6 lists
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
On 5 lists
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Best-Selling Design Books at Van Alen Books, New York

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Building Seagram
Phyllis Lambert
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Clog 6: Brutalism
Kyle May et al., eds.
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Project Journal Issue 1
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Newest Designers and Commentators

Michael Maharam
Writer; Executive; United States
Fritz Frenkler
Product/Industrial Designer; Germany
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Curator; Writer; Editor; Lecturer; United States
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Hidden Forms
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British Textiles: 1700 to the Present
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Katsuji Wakisaka
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Kokyo Hatanaka
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Stephen Burrows
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Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec
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Delirious New York
Rem Koolhaas
On 8 lists
Jeanne Gang
Architect; United States
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Designer; Educator; United States
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Architect; United States
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