Notable Books of 2011

Our designers, commentators, guest bloggers, and specially invited guests have chosen these as the most notable design books of 2011
102 books
And I Shall Have Some Peace There
Margaret Roach $25.99
The Architectural Detail
Edward R. Ford $40.00
Architecture in Uniform
Jean-Louis Cohen $50.00
Beauty Is in the Street
Johan Kugelberg et al. $40.00
Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention
Zoë Ryan, ed. $60.00
By the City/For the City
Anne Guiney et al. $35.00
California Design 1930–1965
Wendy Kaplan. ed. $60.00
Cédric Delsaux: Dark Lens
Cédric Delsaux $75.00
Chi ha paura...?-Who’s afraid...?
Alba Cappellieri
Cultural Connectives: Bridging the Latin and Arabic Alphabets
Rana Abou Rjeily $34.95
The Death and Life of Great American Cities: 50th Anniversary Edition
Jane Jacobs et al. $23.00
Designing for Emotion
Aarron Walter $18.00
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
Lisa Immordino Vreeland $55.00
The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture
Juhani Pallasmaa $45.00
Flying Without a Net
Thomas J. DeLong $29.95
Gerhard Richter: Panorama
Mark Godfrey et al.
Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture
Diana Balmori et al. $50.00
Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture
John Hill $29.95
Helvetica and the New York City Subway System
Paul Shaw $39.95
High Line: The Inside Story of New York City’s Park in the Sky
Joshua David et al. $29.95
The Houses of William Wurster: Frames for Living
Caitlin Lempres Brostrom et al. $50.00
How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive
Christopher Boucher $15.00
Hussein Chalayan
Robert Violette, ed. et al. $85.00
Julius Shulman, Los Angeles
Sam Lubell et al. $60.00
Katie Ridder: Rooms
Heather MacIsaac $50.00
KieranTimberlake: Inquiry
Stephen Kieran et al. $55.00
The Latin American Photobook
Horacio Fernández, ed. $52.00
Living in the Endless City
Ricky Burdett et al. $69.95
Menu Design in America
Steven Heller et al. $59.99
New York Bikes
Michele Castagnetti $19.99
New York: The Story of a Great City
Sarah Henry. ed. $39.95
OLIVE (A Handbook to Protect Your Life)
Nosigner ¥ 1,000 ($12.88)
100 Artists’ Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists
Alex Danchev, ed. $20.99
Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
Howard Schultz et al. $25.99
Pamphlet Architecture 11–20
Steven Holl, introduction $45.00
Rebels in Paradise
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp $32,50
Redheaded Peckerwood
Christian Patterson $65.00
Roberto Burle Marx: The Modernity of Landscape
Fares El-Dahdah et al. $49.95
The Ruins of Detroit
Yves Marchand et al. $125.00
Sagmeister: Another Book About Promotion and Sales Material
Stefan Sagmeister et al. $40.00
Spatial Agency
Nishat Awan et al. $44.95
Star Wars: The Blueprints
J. W. Rinzler $500.00
TD 63-73: Total Design and Its Pioneering Role in Graphic Design
Ben Bos $55.00
Textiles, the Whole Story: Uses, Meanings, Significances
Beverly Gordon $60.00
The Toaster Project: Or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch
Thomas Thwaites $19.95
Tomorrow’s Houses
Alexander Gorlin et al. $65.00
Toward a New Interior
Lois Weinthal $45.00
Typography for Lawyers
Matthew Butterick $25.00
Urban Design Since 1945
David Grahame Shane $45.00
Visual Storytelling
Robert Klanten et al. $68.00
Voiture Minimum
Antonio Amado Lorenzo $49.95