Princeton Architectural Press
Princeton Architectural Press is a world leader in architecture and design publishing. Featuring a backlist of nearly 1,000 titles, the company specializes in books that—in subject matter and design—defy easy categorization. With each new season’s offerings, Princeton Architectural Press continues to surprise, inspire, and inform those curious about our visual world.
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30th Anniversary Tote Bag
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We're celebrating our 30th anniversary with this large (16.5 inches, or 42 cm, square) tote bag. Made of heavy, ten-ounce black cotton, this generous bag, with its 23" shoulder-length handles, is perfect for hauling around all your beautiful Princeton Architectural Press books. Logo in a metallic gold ink, this bag is printed and made in the USA.
The Sleepwalkers Box
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Introducing the Sleepwalkers Box—a kaleidoscopic multimedia experience unfolding the making of Doug Aitken's groundbreaking 2007 MoMA public film installation containing: CD and limited vinyl picture disc; original artwork by Doug Aitken on a full-color, two-sided poster; two flipbooks; video of the piece as installed at the MoMA on DVD; and a book filled with never-before-seen photographs, production stills, process sketches, and writings. This limited edition of 1,000 includes an authentication card, signed by Doug Aitken.
Forthcoming
August 19, 2014
From the Publisher. Abbott Miller: Design and Content is the first monograph on the award-winning graphic designer known for his innovative work at Pentagram, where as a partner he leads a team designing books, magazines, catalogs,... More
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Recently Published
May 27, 2014
From the Publisher. The long awaited follow-up to our all-time bestseller Thinking with Type is here. Type on Screen is the definitive guide to using classic typographic concepts of form and structure to make dynamic... More
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May 27, 2014
From the Publisher. Over the past two decades, James Corner has reinvented the field of landscape architecture. His highly influential writings of the 1990s, included in our bestselling Recovering Landscape, together with a post-... More
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May 20, 2014
From the Publisher. In three decades of visits to China, celebrated photographer Lois Conner has witnessed firsthand the monumental physical transformation of the country. Nowhere is this change more dramatic than in the capital city of... More
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April 29, 2014
From the Publisher. The Dakota. The Apthorp. The San Remo. The names of these legendary New York apartment buildings evoke images of marble-lined lobbies, uniformed doormen, and sunlit penthouses with sweeping Central Park views. Built from... More
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April 29, 2014
From the Publisher. Our 2007 hit Natural Architecture introduced artists and architects who transform the act of building into a fascinating new art form. Built from humble elements, branches, twigs, straw, bamboo, and fulfilling a... More
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April 29, 2014
From the Publisher. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Cuba found itself solely responsible for feeding a nation that had grown dependent on imports and trade subsidies. With fuel, fertilizers, and pesticides... More
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April 15, 2014
From the Publisher. Many of us have vivid recollections of childhood visits to a public library: the unmistakable musty scent, the excitement of checking out a stack of newly discovered books. Today, the more than 17,000 libraries in... More
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April 15, 2014
From the Publisher. Our critically acclaimed bestseller Visual Complexity was the first in-depth examination of the burgeoning field of information visualization. Particularly noteworthy are the numerous historical examples of past... More
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March 4, 2014
From the Publisher. Our indispensable guide to publishing your own photography book just got better. In this revised and updated edition of Publish Your Photography Book, industry insiders Darius D. Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson... More
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February 28, 2014
From the Publisher. The Bra. The Box Kite. The Cat. The Milk Carton. The Reclining Picasso. These are the playful names given to the eccentric beach houses of Andrew Geller. Built in the 1950s and 1960s, these whimsical vacation homes... More
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February 4, 2014
From the Publisher. Stretched across city walls and along rooftops, Stephen Powers's colorful large-scale murals sneak up on you. "Open your eyes / I see the sunrise," "If you were here I'd be home," "Forever begins... More
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February 4, 2014
From the Publisher. One spring day in 2012, fresh from his circumnavigation of the British Isles, English designer Nick Hand set off on his bicycle from Brooklyn, New York, and pedaled north along the Hudson River toward its source in the... More
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February 3, 2014
From the Publisher. The first and only book to focus on the modernist gardens of Southern California is now available in paperback. In Private Landscapes, landscape architect Pamela Burton and interior designer Marie Botnick... More
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Selected Backlist
2011
From the Publisher. What is taste? This well-curated collection documents new theories and emerging critical practices in the field of interior design. It investigates taste, a concept central to the formation of the discipline in the 18th... More
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2014
From the Publisher. No artist can put a smile on your face quicker than Alexander Calder. A sense of playfulness animates all of his work, from his signature hanging mobiles to his endlessly creative toys, drawings, and jewelry. This book... More
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1999
From the Publisher. When published in 1999, Animate FORM, the first book on the work of architect Greg Lynn, literally pushed back the boundaries of architectural form. It inspired an entire generation of designers to think of... More
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2012
From the Publisher. The Architect Says is a colorful compendium of quotations from more than one hundred of history's most opinionated design minds. Paired on page spreads like guests at a dinner party (an architect of today might... More
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book
2011
From the Publisher. The Architectural Detail is author Edward R. Ford's life's work, and this may be his most important book to date. Ford walks the reader through five widely accepted (and wildly different) definitions of detail,... More
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2012
From the Publisher. Now available in paperback, Svetlana Boym's Architecture of the Off-Modern is an imaginative tour through the history and afterlife of Vladimir Tatlin's legendary but unbuilt Monument to the Third... More
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2013
From the Publisher. Art Parks is the first comprehensive guide to North America's most important outdoor sculpture parks. Parks are divided into chapters thematically and by region, with four maps that locate parks within each geographic... More
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2012
From the Publisher. No one captured the midcentury modernism of the Mad Men era better than Balthazar Korab. His iconic photographs for master architects immortalized their finest works, while leaving his own indelible impact on twentieth... More
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2012
From the Publisher. Breakthrough! is a lively compilation of strategies for combating creative block offered by a who's who of leading graphic designers, typographers, cartoonists, photographers, illustrators, musicians, writers,... More
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2012
From the Publisher. A creative renaissance blooms in Brooklyn. At its heart is a thriving community of artisans producing a remarkable variety of handmade goods. In Brooklyn Makers, photographer Jennifer Causey captures the spirit of this... More
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2012
From the Publisher. Our critically acclaimed smash hit Cartographies of Time is now available in paperback. In this first comprehensive history of graphic representations of time, authors Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton have... More
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2012
From the Publisher. Citizens of No Place is a groundbreaking graphic novel on architecture and urbanism. Inspired by the theoretical drawings of paper architects, architect Jimenez Lai uses manga-style storyboards to explore the... More
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2013
From the Publisher. The Designer Says, the follow-up to our best-selling The Architect Says, is a compendium of quotations from more than one hundred of history's leading practitioners. Quotes are paired on page spreads like guests... More
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2012
From the Publisher. This Design Brief is a compact hands-on primer for graphic designers who want to use their unique problem solving skills to help others. Twenty case studies from around the world illustrate how design professionals and... More
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2013
From the Publisher. There are many ways to make your writing feel more personal, but none carries the charge of using a custom-drawn font. Draw Your Own Alphabets is a fun, hands-on workbook that teaches how to create funky hand-... More
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book
2012
From the Publisher. Louise Fili has been an inspiration for designers around the world since the 1980s, when she raised the bar on book cover design, creating more than two thousand jackets as art director for Pantheon Books. In 1989 Fili... More
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2012
From the Publisher. In less than a decade, Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample have emerged as two of architecture's most daring experimenters. By exchanging plans and sections for software and film, MOS eschews the static forms of... More
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2013
From the Publisher. Inspiring everything from pop culture earthquakes to popular revolutions, filmmakers have demonstrated an uncanny ability to move the masses. But the drama they project on screen is only half the picture. Stretching from... More
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2010
From the Publisher. The last decade has witnessed a proliferation of artists whose primary medium is software. Algorithmic processes, harnessed through the medium of computer code, allow artists to generate increasingly complex visual forms... More
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2013
From the Publisher. In 2010 the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver director Adam Lerner did something unheard of in the museum world: he mounted a large exhibition of paintings without first knowing whether they were real or fakes. Painted... More
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2012
From the Publisher. It is said that the history of modern architecture can be observed through the evolution of the single-family home. Over generations, each has hoped to improve on the last, rethinking and reinventing this seemingly... More
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2012
From the Publisher. Generative design is a revolutionary new method of creating artwork, models, and animations from sets of rules, or algorithms. By using accessible programming languages such as Processing, artists and designers are... More
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2005
From the arid deserts of Tucson, Arizona to the icy forests of Poori, Finland to the tropical beaches of New South Wales, Australia to the urban jungle of downtown Manhattan, critics Alanna Stang and Christopher Hawthorne have traveled to the... More
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2013
From the Publisher. Passive is the new green. Passive Houses, well–insulated, virtually airtight buildings, can decrease home heating consumption by an astounding ninety percent, making them not only an attractive choice for current... More
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2004
From the Publisher. Although grid systems are the foundation for almost all typographic design, they are often associated with rigid, formulaic solutions. However, the belief that all great design is nonetheless based on grid systems (even... More
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2012
From the Publisher. The Archigram group pioneered a playful brand of architecture that was visionary, utopian, and grounded in social need. Through a provocative series of publications and exhibitions, the avant-garde cooperative challenged... More
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1999
From the Publisher. Gyroscopic Horizons are the dense yet sprawling territories explored and inhabited by the projects and texts of Neil Denari. Displaying the pilot's vertical and horizontal orientation by creating an artificial... More
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2009
From the Publisher. During the late 19th century, letterpress printers, engravers, and lithographers boldly challenged the rational sobriety of traditional design by introducing intricate borders, corner embellishments, quirky typefaces,... More
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2013
From the Publisher. Houses of Maine offers an in-depth look at six houses, from the celebrated House on Casco Bay (a modern update to a nineteenth-century Cape Cod) to Pond House (a Mount Desert Island summer cottage inspired by local... More
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book
2011
From the Publisher. Over the course of a career that spanned 45 years, William Wilson Wurster (1895–1973) designed hundreds of residences up and down the West Coast. Like Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, with whom Wurster... More
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2005
From the Publisher. Designers are quick to tell us about their sources of inspiration, but they are much less willing to reveal such critical matters as how to find work, how much they charge, and what to do when a client rejects three... More
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2013
From the Publisher. For the follow up to In the Wilds, his much-loved illustrated ode to rural life, Nigel Peake swaps the bucolic Irish countryside where he grew up for the bustling sidewalks of the city. Peake's companion volume... More
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2012
From the Publisher. In Inside Prefab, author Deborah Schneiderman offers a fascinating history of prefabricated interior design, followed by twenty-four contemporary case studies. The richly illustrated examples in this book range... More
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book
2012
From the Publisher. “Pictures in a minute!” In the 1950s, ’60s, and '70s, Polaroid was the hottest technology company on Earth. They were an innovation machine that cranked out one irresistible product after another. It... More
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2013
From the Publisher. Visionary Danish architect Jørn Utzon was just 38 years old when in 1957 he was named the surprise winner of an international competition to design the Sydney Opera House in Australia. His bold design consisting... More
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2013
From the Publisher. Landprints showcases ten of Bernard Trainor's most ambitious and inspiring gardens through gorgeous photography and detailed project descriptions. The projects are all located in California: Carmel, Lagunitas,... More
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book
2012
From the Publisher. Le Corbusier Redrawn presents the only collection of consistently rendered original drawings (at 1:200 scale) of all 25 of Le Corbusier’s residential works. Using the original drawings from the Le... More
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2012
From the Publisher. Lewis. Tsurumaki.Lewis: Intensities presents twenty new built and speculative projects ranging from small installations to interior home and office transformations to large cultural institutions and urban... More
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2013
From the Publisher. From the rammed-earth houses of Rick Joy and Pacific Northwest timber houses of Tom Kundig, to the community-built structures of Rural Studio and Francis Kéré, designers everywhere are championing an... More
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book
2011
From the Publisher. Collected for the first time, Maps presents 39 of the celebrated graphic designer's obsessively detailed, highly personal cartographic creations. Paintings as tall as 12 feet depict continents,... More
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2009
From the Publisher. The two decades following World War II were a period of extraordinary growth in Miami. During that time architectural modernism provided a framework for the city's new urban patterns, novel building types, evolving... More
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2005
From the Publisher. With all of the attention Mies van der Rohe has received over the last few years, it's hard to believe that there could be a pair of "undiscovered" buildings begging for even the slightest consideration—... More
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2013
From the Publisher. Prefabricated housing of high design and quality construction has long been an elusive goal for architects, where industry practices, bureaucratic regulations, and cost have always stood in the way, until now. The New... More
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2013
From the Publisher. Projects range in scope from residential gardens to a large-scale sheep and cattle station along the coast of New Zealand. They include the recently opened Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, PA; the Asia Trail... More
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2013
From the Publisher. China's explosive urban growth continues to make headlines, illustrated by dramatic shots of the latest commercial or residential building, each more outstanding (and often more outlandish) than the next. As the country'... More
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2014
From the Publisher. Pablo Picasso: Meet the Artist! takes young readers on an interactive journey through the remarkable life of the legendary Spanish painter. This engaging book uses a multitude of lift-the-flaps, cutouts, and pull tabs to... More
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book
2011
From the Publisher. The Pamphlet Architecture series was founded in 1978 by architect Steven Holl and William Stout as a venue for publishing the works, thoughts, and theory of a new generation of architects. Now in its third... More
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2013
From the Publisher. The competition for Pamphlet Architecture 33 asked previous authors in the series to nominate the architects and theorists whose work represents the most exciting design and research in the field today. The... More
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2012
Metals, as surface or structure—as the generators of space—play a role in nearly every strain of modernization in architecture. They define complete geographies of work, production, and political life. Non-architectural metals delivered... More
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2013
From the Publisher. Prospect Park, the first monograph on this exquisite public space, makes it easy to see why. Presenting a wealth of archival and newly commissioned photography and insightful text, David P. Colley and Elizabeth Keegin... More
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book
2011
A “constructed“ book that takes an in-depth look at Studio Gang’s work and working process through drawings, diagrams, sketches, photographs, and ephemera illuminating the evolution of each of the book’s eight featured... More
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2013
From the Publisher. A hundred miles north of San Francisco, the Sonoma County coast meets the Pacific Ocean in a magnificent display of nature. This is the location of The Sea Ranch, an area covering several thousand acres of large, open... More
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2013
From the Publisher. In this abundantly illustrated catalogue raisonne, collector and Kaldewey devotee Clemens von Lucius presents in detail all seventy-five books published to-date including books published in cooperation with artists such... More
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2007
From the Publisher. Now available in paperback, Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design brings together the best of designer Michael Bierut’s critical writing. Whether serious or humorous, flattering or biting, Bierut is always... More
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book of 2013
2013
From the Publisher. Designers often look to the past for ways to enliven their projects. Letters with relief and shadow have long been an effective way to add spectacle or intrigue to otherwise mundane words. Introduced in metal type as... More
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2013
From the Publisher. Buried within the collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History exists an astonishing group of historical relics from the pre-Revolutionary War era to the present day, many of which have... More
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2013
From the Publisher. In 2009 artist and writer Sarah Trigg embarked on an ambitious field expedition across the United States, interviewing more than 200 artists in their studios. She sat down with everyone, from painters to performance... More
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2012
From the Publisher. The newest volume in our popular Conversations series features Japanese architect Tadao Ando. One of the most celebrated living architects, Ando is best known for crafting serenely austere structures that fuse... More
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2013
From the Publisher. Architect Hugh Hardy is the quintessential New Yorker. His irrepressible love of the city animates all of his work, and can be found in many of the city’s most beloved institutions.This book gathers 20 of Hardy... More
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Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: An Anthology of Architectural Theory 1965 - 1995
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From the Publisher. Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: An Anthology of Architectural Theory collects in a single volume the most significant essays on architectural theory of the last thirty years.
A dynamic period of... More
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2011
From the Publisher. The follow-up to the best-selling Tom Kundig Houses features 17 residential projects, ranging from a 500-square-foot cabin in the woods to a house carved into and built out of solid rock. The houses seamlessly... More
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book
2011
From the Publisher. Interior design, as a relatively young discipline within the academic world of design, has historically been interpreted as an extension of other fine arts. Narratives exist, but they all too often treat interior design... More
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2013
From the Publisher. The work of 2013 Pritzker Prize winning architect Toyo Ito explores the dynamic relationship between buildings and their environments. His principal focus is on developing an architecture free of the grid system, which... More
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2011
From the Publisher. Typography Sketchbooks gets into the minds of designers who create typefaces, word images, and logos through their private sketchbooks. More than 90 established and emerging designers and emerging design talents... More
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2012
From the Publisher. Architect-turned photographer/pilot Alex MacLean's remarkable aerial photos capture the surreal beauty of the visual patterns formed by the intersection of natural and constructed environments. Alongside the city’s... More
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2012
From the Publisher. Our new Architecture Brief Urban Composition shows architects, planners, artists, and engineers of individual projects how they can best fulfill their public trust to help make meaningful urban places. Each... More
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2011
Our ability to generate information now far exceeds our capacity to understand it. Finding patterns and making meaningful connections inside complex data networks has emerged as one of the biggest challenges of the twenty-first century. In recent... More
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2013
From the Publisher. Whether for protest, religious congress, companionship, eating, or comfort, sitting communally remains one of the most powerful and prevalent of human social activities. This simple act held special significance in... More
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2012
From the Publisher. Creating large-scale relief prints from cross sections of trees, artist Bryan Nash Gill reveals the sublime power locked inside their arboreal rings. The artist rescues the wood from the property surrounding his studio... More
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book
2012
From the Publisher. Writing About Architecture is a handbook on writing effectively and critically about buildings and cities. Each chapter opens with a reprint of a historically significant essay written by a renowned architecture... More
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New Book Release, June 30, 2014: Supernew Supergraphics
Shows how the current generation of designers and architects are blasting typography and graphic forms across walls—even landscapes. A compendium of graphic excess on a monumental scale, it features new work from around the globe, and interviews with leading practitioners Felice Varini, Sascha Lobe, Sara De Bondt, and Boa Mistura.
Tony Brook, Adrian Shaughnessy, and Sarah Schrauwen, eds.
Published by Unit Editions
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New Book Release, May 27, 2014: Type on Screen
The long awaited follow-up to graphic designer Ellen Lupton’s best-selling Thinking with Type is here. The definitive guide to using classic typographic concepts of form and structure to make dynamic compositions for screen-based applications.
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Ellen Lupton
Published by Princeton Architectural Press
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New Book Release (U.S.), June 30, 2014: BMW Art Cars
Traces the development of the BMW Art Cars, the so-called “rolling sculptures” designed by artists including Alexander Calder, David Hockney, and Andy Warhol over the last 40 years.
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Thomas Girst, editor
Texts by Carl Magnusson, Phil Patton, et al.
Published by Hatje Cantz
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New Book Release, July 1, 2014: The Good Life: Perceptions of the Ordinary
Just what is it that catches the eye, and why? What’s the significance of a broken flowerpot, a pair of identical tables side by side, a garden hose wrapped around an old car wheel? In this collection of photo essays, designer Jasper Morrison examines and imagines the life behind a series of seemingly ordinary situations.
By Jasper Morrison
Published by Lars Müller Publishers
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New Book Release, August 5, 2014: What We See When We Read
How we visualize images from reading works of literature, from one of our very best book jacket designers, himself a passionate reader.
Peter Mendelsund
Published by Vintage/Random House
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New Book Release, August 5, 2014: Cover
Designer Peter Mendelsund’s completed book jackets along with ephemera from his previously unseen creative method, including jacket sketches, interior art and editorial illustrations, and scores of rejected drafts. These images are punctuated by Mendelsund’s reflections on his work and his process, as well as by texts from writers with whom he has worked and designed.
Peter Mendelsund
Published by powerHouse Books
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