Yale University Press
Yale University Press is one of the world’s leading publishers of art and architecture books. Our publishing program includes beautiful exhibition catalogues from the world’s finest museums, important and diverse monographs, critical anthologies, catalogues raisonné, and much more.
Featured Books
Interaction of Color

The Interaction of Color mobile app for iPad is packed with elegant and innovative features that help you understand the book’s ideas, view the plates, experiment, and create and share your own designs. This interactive edition of one of the most influential books on color ever written offers users an entirely new way to experience Josef Albers’s original masterwork.
Selected Backlist
Stanford Anderson
Gail Fenske David Fixler 2012
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Bianca du Mortier
Ninke Bloemberg 2012
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book
Andrew Bolton
2011
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book
Jean-Louis Cohen
2011
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Kate Irvin Editor
Laurie Anne Brewer Editor 2013
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Mark Rothko
Edited and with an introduction by Christopher Rothko 2004
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Nicholas Fox Weber
2011
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book of 2013
Phyllis Lambert
Foreword by Barry Bergdoll 2013
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Jeanne Gang Editor
Zoë Ryan Editor 2012
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Jérôme Gautier
2011
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Harold Koda
Jan Glier Reeder Preface by Ralph Rucci 2014
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Valerie Steele
2003
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Valerie Steele
Daphne Guinness 2011
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Charles Eames
Ray Eames Daniel Ostroff Editor 2015
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Judith Clark
Amy de la Haye 2013
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Nina Rappaport
Erica Stoller 2012
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Stephen Eskilson
2012
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Pat Kirkham Editor
Susan Weber Editor 2013
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Josef Albers
Foreword by Nicholas Fox Weber 2013
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Josef Albers
Foreword by Nicholas Fox Weber 2009
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Josef Albers
Foreword by Nicholas Fox Weber 1963
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book of 2013
Amanda Reeser Lawrence
2013
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Deborah D. Waters
Joseph Cunningham Bruce Barnes 2012
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Diana Balmori
Introduction by Michael Conan 2010
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Jennifer A. Watts Editor
Essays by Christopher Hawthorne Sam Watters et al. 2012
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Harold Koda
Sarah Jessica Parker 2011
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Styliane Philippou
2008
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Andrew Bolton
Richard Hell Jon Savage 2013
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Valerie Steele Editor
2013
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Andrew Bolton
Harold Koda Judith Thurman 2012
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Stanley Tigerman
Emmanuel Petit Editor 2011
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Valerie Steele
Colleen Hill 2013
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Rosemarie Haag Bletter Editor
Joan Ockman Editor With Nancy Ecklund Later Editor 2015
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book
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Steven Heller
Gail Anderson 2017
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Paul Goldberger
2009
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William Kent
Susan Weber Editor 2013
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Rafael Schacter
Forward by John Fekner 2013
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book of 2013
Tod Williams
Billie Tsien 2013
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Announcements
Louis Kahn: The Importance of a Drawing
Louis Kahn: The Importance of a Drawing
Edited by Michael Merrill
Publisher: Lars Müller Publishers
Published: October 2021
The first in-depth study of drawings as primary sources of insight into architect Louis Kahn’s architecture and creative imagination. Based on unprecedented archival research, with over 900 illustrations and written contributions by Michael Benedikt, Michael Cadwell, David Leatherbarrow, Louis Kahn, Nathaniel Kahn, Sue Ann Kahn, Michael J. Lewis, Robert McCarter, Michael Merrill, Marshall Meyers, Jane Murphy, Gina Pollara, Harriet Pattison, Colin Rowe, David Van Zanten, Richard Wesley, and William Whitaker.
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.
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 25, 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.
Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn by Harriet Pattison
Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn
By Harriet Pattison
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: October 2020
An intimate glimpse into the professional and romantic relationship between Harriet Pattison and the renowned architect Louis Kahn. Harriet Pattison, FASLA, is a distinguished landscape architect. She was Louis Kahn’s romantic partner from 1959 to 1974, and his collaborator on the landscapes of the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, and the F.D.R. Memorial/Four Freedoms Park, New York. She is the mother of their son, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn.
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.”
David King: Designer, Activist, Visual Historian by Rick Poynor
David King: Designer, Activist, Visual Historian
By Rick Poynor
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: September 2020
A comprehensive overview of the work and legacy of David King (1943–2016), whose fascinating career bridged journalism, graphic design, photography, and collecting. King launched his career at Britain’s Sunday Times Magazine in the 1960s, starting as a designer and later branching out into image-led journalism, blending political activism with his design work.
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