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Classic & Modern: Signature Styles Alan Barlis et al. On list of Books by Julie Iovine Add to My Reading List	Designing Bridges to Burn Stanley Tigerman On list of Books by Stanley Tigerman Add to My Reading List	Distillations Margaret McCurry On list of Books by Margaret McCurry Add to My Reading List	The Language of Luxe Ed Ng et al. On list of Books by Ed Ng Add to My Reading List	Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things William McDonough et al. On Zoë Ryan’s Book List On Philip Freelon’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Deventer Matthew Stadler et al. On John Hill’s Notable Books of 2013 list Add to My Reading List	MVRDV Buildings MVRDV et al. On list of Books by Nathalie de Vries On John Hill’s Notable Books of 2013 list Add to My Reading List	Cino Zucchi: Inspiration and Process in Architecture Cino Zucchi On list of Books by Cino Zucchi Add to My Reading List
What If...?: The Architecture and Design of David Rockwell Chee Pearlman, ed. et al. On Jules Fisher’s Book List On list of Books by David Rockwell Add to My Reading List	100 Years of Architectural Drawing Neil Bingham On Allison Arieff’s Notable Books of 2013 list Add to My Reading List	Authoring David Adjaye et al. On list of Books by David Adjaye Add to My Reading List	Culture:City Wilfried Wang, ed. On John Hill’s Notable Books of 2013 list Add to My Reading List	Five North American Architects Kenneth Frampton On list of Books by Kenneth Frampton Add to My Reading List	A Genealogy of Modern Architecture Kenneth Frampton On list of Books by Kenneth Frampton Add to My Reading List	Imperfect Health Giovanna Borasi et al. On John Hill’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List	In the Life of Cities Mohsen Mostafavi, ed. On list of Books by Mohsen Mostafavi On Hugh Hardy’s Book List Add to My Reading List
Instigations Mohsen Mostafavi et al. On list of Books by Mohsen Mostafavi Add to My Reading List	The Light Pavilion Christoph a. Kumpusch, ed. On John Hill’s Notable Books of 2013 list Add to My Reading List	Sou Fujimoto: Sketchbook Sou Fujimoto On list of Books by Sou Fujimoto Add to My Reading List	Steven Holl—Color Light Time Steven Holl On list of Books by Steven Holl Add to My Reading List	Steven Holl—Scale Lars Müller, ed. On list of Books by Steven Holl Add to My Reading List	Torre David Alfredo Brillembourg et al. On Allison Arieff’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List	Your Private Sky: R. Buckminster Fuller Claude Lichtenstein et al. On Christian Wassmann’s Book List Add to My Reading List	James Turrell: A Retrospective Michael Govan et al. On John Hill’s Notable Books of 2013 list Add to My Reading List
Ballpark Paul Goldberger On list of Books by Paul Goldberger Add to My Reading List	Making Healthy Places Andrew L. Dannenberg et al. Add to My Reading List	Matteo Thun: The Index Book Matteo Thun On list of Books by Matteo Thun Add to My Reading List	Poem of the Right Angle (Le poème de l'angle droit) Le Corbusier On Daniel Libeskind’s Book List Add to My Reading List	The Raw and the Cooked Peter Bialobrzeski On John Hill’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List	Wirrwarr Jürgen Mayer H. et al. On Phil Patton’s Notable Books of 2011 list On list of Books by Jürgen Mayer H. Add to My Reading List	Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940-1990 Wim de Wit et al. On Phil Patton’s Notable Books of 2013 list Add to My Reading List	Mysteries of the Mall Witold Rybczynski On list of Books by Witold Rybczynski Add to My Reading List
You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn Wendy Lesser Add to My Reading List	The Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright David A. Hanks Add to My Reading List	Adolf Loos: A Private Portrait Claire Beck Loos Add to My Reading List	Paul T. Frankl: Autobiography Paul T. Frankl et al. Add to My Reading List	I. M. Pei: Mandarin of Modernism Michael T. Cannell Add to My Reading List	Miami Modern Metropolis Allan T. Shulman, ed. On Jeffrey Beers’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Shape of Sound Victoria Meyers On list of Books by Victoria Meyers Add to My Reading List	Alexander Girard Todd Oldham et al. On Jonathan Adler’s Book List On Wendy Goodman’s Notable Books of 2011 list On list of Books by Todd Oldham Add to My Reading List

Announcements

Now is Better by Stefan Sagmeister

Now is Better

By Stefan Sagmeister
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: October 2023

Combining art, design, history, and quantitative analysis, transforms data sets into stunning artworks that underscore his positive view of human progress, inspiring us to think about the future with much-needed hope.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Die Fläche: Design and Lettering of the Vienna Secession, 1902–1911 (Facsimile Edition) by Diane V. Silverthorne, Dan Reynolds, and Megan Brandow-Faller

Die Fläche: Design and Lettering of the Vienna Secession, 1902–1911 (Facsimile Edition)

By Diane V. Silverthorne, Dan Reynolds, and Megan Brandow-Faller
Publisher: Letterform Archives Books
Published: October 2023

This facsimile edition of Die Fläche, recreates every page of the formative design periodical in full color and at original size, accompanied by essays that contextualize the work, highlighting contributions by pathbreaking women, innovative lettering artists, and key practitioners of the new “surface art,” including Rudolf von Larisch, Alfred Roller, and Wiener Werkstätte founders Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffmann.

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