These are the design books that were the best sellers at the Van Alen Books in New York during April 2013.

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Building Seagram Add to My Reading List

Phyllis Lambert
Foreword by Barry Bergdoll

Building Seagram is a comprehensive personal and scholarly history of a major building and its architectural, cultural, and urban legacies.

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Clog 6: Brutalism Add to My Reading List

Kyle May et al., Editors

A defining architectural style of the postwar era, Brutalism arguably produced some of the world's least popular public buildings. Judging by the work of many contemporary practitioners, however, the influence of Brutalism only seems to grow.

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Project Journal Issue 1 Add to My Reading List

Project

This new journal invites architects and critics to debate and examine projects in their own terms, through both images and texts.

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Clyfford Still Museum: Allied Works Architecture Add to My Reading List

Brad Cloepfil
Robert McCarter
Dean Sobel

The Clyfford Still Museum in Denver was created as a home for the artistic vision of American painter Clyfford Still (1904-1980), who helped spearhead the Abstract Expressionist movement.

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A Topology of Everyday Constellations Add to My Reading List

Georges Teyssot

In A Topology of Everyday Constellations, Georges Teyssot considers the intrusion of the public sphere into private space, and the blurring of notions of interior, privacy, and intimacy in our societies.