Notable Books of 2011
African Metropolitan Architecture
David Adjaye $100.00
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The Agile City
James Russell $35.00
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Alexander Girard
Todd Oldham et al. $200
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Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
Andrew Bolton et al. $50.00
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And I Shall Have Some Peace There
Margaret Roach $25.99
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The Architectural Detail
Edward R. Ford $40.00
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Architecture in Uniform
Jean-Louis Cohen $50.00
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Balenciaga and Spain
Hamish Bowles $65.00
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Beauty Is in the Street
Johan Kugelberg et al. $40.00
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Believing Is Seeing
Errol Morris $40.00
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Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention
Zoë Ryan, ed. $60.00
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Bob Gill, so far.
Bob Gill $50.00
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By the City/For the City
Anne Guiney et al. $35.00
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California Design 1930–1965
Wendy Kaplan. ed. $60.00
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Cecil Beaton
Donald Albrecht $65.00
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Cédric Delsaux: Dark Lens
Cédric Delsaux $75.00
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Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life
Todd Oldham et al. $29.95
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Chi ha paura...?-Who’s afraid...?
Alba Cappellieri
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Collected
Malcolm Gladwell et al. $80.00
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Combinatory Urbanism
Thom Mayne $39.95
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Cultural Connectives: Bridging the Latin and Arabic Alphabets
Rana Abou Rjeily $34.95
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities: 50th Anniversary Edition
Jane Jacobs et al. $23.00
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Design with the Other 90%: Cities
Cynthia Smith $29.95
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Design*Sponge at Home
Grace Bonney $35.00
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Designing for Emotion
Aarron Walter $18.00
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Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
Lisa Immordino Vreeland $55.00
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Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible
Sophie Lovell $95.00
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Edward Durell Stone
Hicks Stone $85.00
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The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture
Juhani Pallasmaa $45.00
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Floating Worlds
Peter F. Neumeyer $35.00
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Flying Without a Net
Thomas J. DeLong $29.95
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Food Rules
Michael Pollan et al.
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Gerhard Richter: Panorama
Mark Godfrey et al.
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Gerrit Rietveld
Ida von Ziji $75.00
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Graphic Design: Now in Production
Ellen Lupton
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Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture
Diana Balmori et al. $50.00
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Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture
John Hill $29.95
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Helvetica and the New York City Subway System
Paul Shaw $39.95
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High Line: The Inside Story of New York City’s Park in the Sky
Joshua David et al. $29.95
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A House for an Art Collector
David Adjaye $50.00
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The Houses of William Wurster: Frames for Living
Caitlin Lempres Brostrom et al. $50.00
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How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive
Christopher Boucher $15.00
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Hussein Chalayan
Robert Violette, ed. et al. $85.00
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Julius Shulman, Los Angeles
Sam Lubell et al. $60.00
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Katie Ridder: Rooms
Heather MacIsaac $50.00
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KieranTimberlake: Inquiry
Stephen Kieran et al. $55.00
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Kissing Architecture
Sylvia Lavin $16.95
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The Latin American Photobook
Horacio Fernández, ed. $52.00
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Less and More
Keiko Ueki-Polet et al.
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Living in the Endless City
Ricky Burdett et al. $69.95
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Maharam Agenda
Michael Maharam $65.00
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Maps
Paula Scher $50.00
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Menu Design in America
Steven Heller et al. $59.99
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Missed Connections
Sophie Blackall $13.95
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New York Bikes
Michele Castagnetti $19.99
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New York: The Story of a Great City
Sarah Henry. ed. $39.95
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OLIVE (A Handbook to Protect Your Life)
Nosigner ¥ 1,000 ($12.88)
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100 Artists’ Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists
Alex Danchev, ed. $20.99
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Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
Howard Schultz et al. $25.99
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Ootje Oxenaar: Designer + Commissioner
Els Kuijpers $38.35
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Pamphlet Architecture 11–20
Steven Holl, introduction $45.00
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Radioactive
Lauren Redniss $29.99
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Ready to Print
Kristina Nickel $78.00
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Rebels in Paradise
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp $32,50
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Redheaded Peckerwood
Christian Patterson $65.00
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Rethinking Design and Interiors
Shashi Caan $29.95
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Reveal: Studio Gang Architects
Jeanne Gang $45.00
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Richard Prince: American Prayer
Robert Rubin, ed. $65.00
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Rising Currents
Barry Bergdoll et al. $24.95
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Roberto Burle Marx: The Modernity of Landscape
Fares El-Dahdah et al. $49.95
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The Ruins of Detroit
Yves Marchand et al. $125.00
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Sagmeister: Another Book About Promotion and Sales Material
Stefan Sagmeister et al. $40.00
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Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design
Pat Kirkham et al. $75.00
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Seven Books Grey
Tacita Dean $98.00
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Spacesuit
Nicholas de Monchaux $34.95
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Spatial Agency
Nishat Awan et al. $44.95
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Star Wars: The Blueprints
J. W. Rinzler $500.00
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Symbol
Angus Hyland $40.00
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A Taxonomy of Office Chairs
Jonathan Olivares $39.95
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TD 63-73: Total Design and Its Pioneering Role in Graphic Design
Ben Bos $55.00
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Textiles, the Whole Story: Uses, Meanings, Significances
Beverly Gordon $60.00
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344 Questions
Stefan Bucher $11.99
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To Make a World
Alexander Nemerov $45.00
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The Toaster Project: Or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch
Thomas Thwaites $19.95
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Tomorrow’s Houses
Alexander Gorlin et al. $65.00
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Toward a New Interior
Lois Weinthal $45.00
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Triumph of the City
Edward Glaeser $29.95
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Typography for Lawyers
Matthew Butterick $25.00
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Urban Design Since 1945
David Grahame Shane $45.00
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Usefulness in Small Things
Kim Colin et al. $29.95
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Visual Storytelling
Robert Klanten et al. $68.00
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Voiture Minimum
Antonio Amado Lorenzo $49.95
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Why We Broke Up
Daniel Handler et al. $19.99
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Wim Crouwel: A Graphic Odyssey
Tony Brook et al. $27.00
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Wirrwarr
Jürgen Mayer H. et al. $300.00
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Announcements
If Walls Could Speak: My Life in Architecture by Moshe Safdie
If Walls Could Speak: My Life in Architecture
By Moshe Safdie
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
Published: September 2022
One of the world’s greatest and most thoughtful architects recounts his extraordinary career and the iconic structures he has built—from Habitat in Montreal to Marina Bay Sands in Singapore—and offers a manifesto for the role architecture should play in society.
Design Emergency: Building a Better Future by Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli
Design Emergency: Building a Better Future
By Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: May 2022
Rawsthorn and Antonelli tell the stories of the remarkable designers, architects, engineers, artists, scientists, and activists who are at the forefront of positive change worldwide. Focusing on four themes—Technology, Society, Communication, and Ecology—the authors present a unique portrait of how our great creative minds are developing new design solutions to the major challenges of our time, while helping us to benefit from advances in science and technology.
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.
Milton Glaser: POP: by Steven Heller, Mirko Ilić, and Beth Kleber
Milton Glaser: POP
By Steven Heller, Mirko Ilić, and Beth Kleber
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
Published: March 2023
This collection of work from graphci design legend Milton Glaser’s Pop period features hundreds of examples of the designer’s work that have not been seen since their original publication, demonstrating the graphic revolution that transformed design and popular culture.
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.”
Women Holding Things by Maira Kalman
Women Holding Things
By Maira Kalman
Publisher: Harper Design
Published: October 2022
In the spring of 2021, Maira and Alex Kalman created a small, limited-edition booklet, “Women Holding Things,” which featured select recent paintings by Maira, accompanied by her insightful and deeply personal commentary. The booklet quickly sold out. Now, the Kalmans have expanded that original publication into an extraordinary visual compendium. We see a woman hold a book, hold shears, hold children, hold a grudge, hold up, hold her own. In visually telling their stories, Kalman lays bare the essence of women’s lives—their tenacity, courage, vulnerability, hope, and pain.
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