Twenty-one plus books of manifestos from our designers, commentators, and featured publishers. Included are books by Diana Balmori, Michael Bierut, Steven Holl, Bjarke Ingels, and Thom Mayne.

100 Artists’ Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists
Alex Danchev, ed.
Arranging Things: A Rhetoric of Object Placement
Leonard Koren
Bauhaus: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago
Hans Wingler
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
Robert Venturi
Combinatory Urbanism
Thom Mayne
Cradle to Cradle
William McDonough
The Design of Everyday Things
Donald Norman
Designing for People
Henry Dreyfuss
Design for the Real World
Victor Papanek
An Essay on Typography
Eric Gill
Graphic Design: Now in Production
Ellen Lupton
Ken Garland
Adrian Shaughnessy
A Landscape Manifesto
Diana Balmori
Makers: The New Industrial Revolution
Chris Anderson
Monumental
Deborah Hussey
My Prescription for Anti-Depressive Living
Jonathan Adler
Parallax
Steven Holl
Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture
Ulrich Conrads
Sou Fujimoto: Primitive Future
Sou Fujimoto
Tibor Kalman: Perverse Optimist
Michael Bierut
Towards a New Architecture (Vers une Architecture)
Le Corbusier
Yes Is More
Bjarke Ingels
You Have to Pay for the Public Life
Charles, W. Moore
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