Notable Design Books of 2013
Also see Notable Books: Reviews, Notable Design Books of 2012 and Notable Design Books of 2011.
| Italian Liberty Style | De Guttry, Irene et al. | 24 Ore Cultura | $45.00 |
| Mapping Manhattan | Cooper, Becky et al. | Abrams | $19.95 |
| The Most Beautiful Opera Houses in the World | de Laubier, Guillaume et al. | Abrams | $60.00 |
| Experiments with Life Itself | González de Canales, Francisco | Actar | $39.95 |
| Design Forward | Esslinger, Hartmut | ARNOLDSCHE Art Publishers | $40.00 |
| Moroccan Carpets and Modern Art | Adam, Jürgen et al. | ARNOLDSCHE Art Publishers | $115.00 |
| Threads of Silk and Gold | McDermott, Hiroko T. et al. | Ashmolean Museum | $40.00 |
| Synesthetic Design | Haverkamp, Michael | Birkhäuser | $69.95 |
| The Invention of Craft | Adamson, Glenn | Bloomsbury | $29.95 |
| The Metropolitan Revolution | Katz, Bruce et al. | Brookings Institution Press | $29.95 |
| Eva Zeisel: Life, Design, and Beauty | Kirkham, Pat et al. | Chronicle Books | $50.00 |
| Dekho | Codesign, et al. | Codesign | $42.00 |
| Creative Confidence | Kelley, Tom et al. | Crown | $29.00 |
| Printer’s Devil | Loxley, Simon et al. | David R. Godine | $45.00 |
| Architectural Guide Japan | Bognar, Botond | DOM Publishers | $50.00 |
| Creative Engineering, Architecture, and Technology | Hammann, Ralph | DOM Publishers | $99.95 |
| Eileen Gray: Objects and Furniture Design | Espegel, Carmen et al. | Ediciones Polígrafa | $30.00 |
| The Pinecone | Uglow, Jenny | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | $28.00 |
| How Architecture Works | Rybczynski, Witold | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | $27.00 |
| Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940-1990 | Wit, Wim de et al. | Getty Research Institute | $59.95 |
| Hall of Femmes: Lella Vignelli | Bouabana, Samira et al. | Hall of Femmes/Oyster Press | $19.65 |
| Hall of Femmes: Tomoko Miho | Bouabana, Samira et al. | Hall of Femmes/Oyster Press | $19.65 |
| Hello World | Rawsthorn, Alice | Hamish Hamilton | $30.00 |
| The Afterlife of Emerson Tang | Champa, Paula | Houghton Mifflin | $26.00 |
| Cosmos of Light | Plummer, Henry | Indiana University Press | $39.00 |
| James Turrell: A Retrospective | Govan, Michael et al. | Prestel Publishing | $75.00 |
| The Light Pavilion | Kumpusch, Christoph a. | Lars Müller Publishers | $15.00 |
| Culture:City | Wang, Wilfried | Lars Müller Publishers | $55.00 |
| The Design Book: 1000 New Designs for the Home and Where to Find Them | Hudson, Jennifer | Laurence King Publishing | $30.00 |
| 100 Years of Architectural Drawing | Bingham, Neil | Laurence King Publishing | $50.00 |
| Irma Boom: The Architecture of the Book | Boom, Irma et al. | Lecturis | $45.50 |
| Everything Loose Will Land | Lavin, Sylvia et al. | Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg | |
| A Country of Cities | Chakrabarti, Vishaan | Metropolis Books | $29.95 |
| Never Built Los Angeles | Lubell, Sam et al. | Metropolis Books | $55.00 |
| Formica Forever | Lange, Alexandra et al. | Metropolis Books | $39.95 |
| Hippie Chic | Whitley, Lauren | MFA Publications | $35.00 |
| MVRDV Buildings | MVRDV, et al. | nai010 Publishers | $95.00 |
| Deventer | Stadler, Matthew et al. | nai010 Publishers | |
| Architecture of Santiniketan | Das, Samit | Niyogi Books | |
| The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon | Dalley, Stephanie | Oxford University Press | $34.95 |
| Graphic Icons | Clifford, John | Peachpit Press | $31.99 |
| Shiro Kuramata | Sudjic, Deyan et al. | Phaidon Press | $150.00 |
| Out There | Brito, Maria Gabriela | Pointed Leaf Press | $60.00 |
| PIN-UP Interviews | PIN-UP, et al. | powerHouse Books | $29.95 |
| Kamisaka Sekka | Trinh, Khanh et al. | Prestel Publishing | $50.00 |
| Theater of Architecture | Hardy, Hugh | Princeton Architectural Press | $50.00 |
| Shadow Type | Heller, Steven et al. | Princeton Architectural Press | $55.00 |
| Lolita—The Story of a Cover Girl: Vladimir Nabokov’s Novel in Art and Design | Bertram, John et al. | Print Publishing | $18.00 |
| Swiss Made | Breiding, R. James | Profile Books | |
| The Images of Architects | Olgiati, Valerio | Quart Architektur | |
| Encounters 2 | Pallasmaa, Juhani et al. | Rakennustieto | |
| Hand-Drying in America | Katchor, Ben | Random House | $29.95 |
| Luxurious Minimalism | von der Schulenburg, Fritz | Rizzoli International Publications | $60.00 |
| All the Buildings in New York *That I’ve Drawn So Far | Hancock, James Gulliver | Rizzoli International Publications | $19.95 |
| A New Sculpturalism | Mount, Christopher et al. | Rizzoli International Publications | $65.00 |
| Multiple Signatures | Rock, Michael | Rizzoli International Publications | $35.00 |
| Visions of Seaside | Thadani, Dhiru A. et al. | Rizzoli International Publications | $75.00 |
| Discovering Architecture | Jodidio, Philip et al. | Rizzoli International Publications | $45.00 |
| Mario Buatta: Fifty Years of American Interior Decoration | Buatta, Mario et al. | Rizzoli International Publications | $75.00 |
| It’s Modern: The Eye and Visual Influence of Alexander Liberman | Churchward, Charles | Rizzoli International Publications | $65.00 |
| Fashion Design, Referenced | Kennedy, Alicia et al. | Rockport Publishers | $41.25 |
| Interviewing Users | Portigal, Steve | Rosenfeld Media | $39.00 |
| Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas | Wood, Denis | Siglio | $32.00 |
| Carlo Scarpa: Venini, 1932–1947 | Barovier, Marino | Rizzoli International Publications | $95.00 |
| D&AD: 50 | Stanley, Ron | TASCHEN | $59.99 |
| Emilio Pucci | Friedman, Vanessa et al. | TASCHEN | $69.99 |
| Álvaro Siza: Complete Works 1952–2013 | Jodidio, Philip | TASCHEN | $150.00 |
| Architecture on the Carpet | Vale, Brenda et al. | Thames & Hudson | $27.95 |
| Various Small Books: Referencing Various Small Books of Ed Ruscha | Brouws, Jeff et al. | The MIT Press | $39.95 |
| Handbook of California Design, 1930-1965 | Tigerman, Bobbye | The MIT Press | $34.95 |
| Albert Speer | Krier, Léon et al. | The Monacelli Press | $75.00 |
| Paradise Planned | Stern, Robert A. M. et al. | The Monacelli Press | $95.00 |
| Henri Labrouste | Bélier, Corinne et al. | The Museum of Modern Art | $55.00 |
| Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes | Cohen, Jean-Louis et al. | The Museum of Modern Art | $75.00 |
| Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture after Images | Dimendberg, Edward | The University of Chicago Press | $65.00 |
| The Library | Campbell, James W. P. et al. | The University of Chicago Press | $75.00 |
| The Sustainable Fashion Handbook | Black, Sandy | Thames & Hudson | $55.00 |
| Type Only | Sinclair, Mark et al. | Unit Editions | $68.00 |
| Staircases | Tusquets Blanca, Oscar | The Vendome Press | $75.00 |
| Tom Dixon: Dixonary | Dixon, Tom | Violette Editions | $49.95 |
| City of Ambition | Williams, Mason B. | W. W. Norton | $29.95 |
| Go: A Kidd’s Guide to Graphic Design | Kidd, Chip | Workman | $17.95 |
| James Stirling: Revisionary Modernist | Lawrence, Amanda Reeser | Yale University Press | $45.00 |
| Building Seagram | Lambert, Phyllis et al. | Yale University Press | $65.00 |
| The Houses of Louis Kahn | Marcus, George H. et al. | Yale University Press | $65.00 |
| Lina Bo Bardi | Lima, Zeuler Rocha Mello de Almeida et al. | Yale University Press | $65.00 |
| Wunderkammer | Williams, Tod et al. | Yale University Press | $29.00 |
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Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: May 2022
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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.
Growing Up Underground: A Memoir of Counterculture New York by Steven Heller
Growing Up Underground: A Memoir of Counterculture New York
By Steven Heller
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: October 2022
An entertaining coming-of-age memoir from Steven Heller, award-winning designer, writer, and former senior art director at the New York Times, that takes readers on a visually inspired look back at being at the center of New York’s youth culture in the 1960s and ’70s.
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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Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Published: June 2021
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