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Against Architecture
Denis Hollier
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Ai Weiwei’s Blog: Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006–2009
Ai Weiwei
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AIA Guide to New York City (5th ed.)
Norval White et al.
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Alexander Girard
Todd Oldham et al.
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American Architecture and Urbanism
Vincent Scully
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American Buildings and Their Architects, vol. 5: The Impact of European Modernism in the Mid-twentieth Century
William H. Jordy
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Ancient Greek Architects at Work: Problems of Structure and Design
J. J. Coulton
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Apartments for the Affluent
Alpern Andrew
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The Arcades Project
Walter Benjamin
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An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles
David Gebhard et al.
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Architecture in the Age of Divided Representation
Dalibor Vesely
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Architecture and Politics in Germany: 1918-1945
Barbara Miller Lane
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The Architecture of the City
Aldo Rossi
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Architecture: From Prehistory to Postmodernity
Marvin Trachtenberg et al.
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Architecture in Britain 1530–1830
John Summerson
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The Architecture of Michelangelo
James S. Ackerman
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The Architecture of H. H. Richardson and His Times
Henry-Russell Hitchcock
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The Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the History of Taste
Geoffrey Scott
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The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens
A.S.G. Butler
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Architecture on the Edge of Postmodernism
Robert A. M. Stern et al.
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Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade
Vincent Scully
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The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment
Reyner Banham
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Architecture Without Architects
Bernard Rudofsky
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Architecture: Form, Space, and Order
Francis D. K. Ching
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The Architecture of Ludwig Wittgenstein
Bernhard Leitner
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Architetture nel Segno dei Maestri
Claudio Buttafava et al.
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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.
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.”
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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