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1. Architecture From the Outside In: Selected Essays by Robert Gutman, by Robert Gutman, Dana Cuff, and John Wriedt
ISBN 9781568988962, paperback binding, $40.00

Architecture and sociology have been fickle friends over the past half century: in the 1960s, architects relied on sociological data for design solutions and sociologists ...

2. Architecture of the Everyday, by Deborah Berke, Steven Harris
ISBN 9781568981147, paperback binding, $24.95

Ordinary. Banal. Quotidian. These words are rarely used to praise architecture, but in fact they represent the interest of a growing number of architects looking ...

3. Architecture Oriented Otherwise, by David Leatherbarrow
Series: Writing Matters
ISBN 9781568988115, hardcover binding, $39.95

So much writing about architecture tends to evaluate it on the basis of its intentions: how closely it corresponds to the artistic will of the ...

4. Building (in) the Future: Recasting Labor in Architecture, by Phillip Bernstein, Peggy Deamer
ISBN 9781568988061, paperback binding, $29.95

There is no denying the transformational role of the computer in the evolution of contemporary architectural practice. But does this techno-determinist account tell the whole ...

5. Cold War Hothouses: Inventing Postwar Culture, from Cockpit to Playboy, by Beatriz Colomina, Annemarie Brennan, and Jeannie Kim
Series: Princeton Papers on Architecture
ISBN 9781568983028, paperback binding, $27.50

The technological innovation and unprecedented physical growth of the cold war era permeated American life in every aspect and at every scale. From the creation ...

6. Constructing a New Agenda for Architecture: Architectural Theory 1993-2009, by A. Krista Sykes, K. Michael Hays
ISBN 9781568988597, paperback binding, $45.00

This follow-up to Kate Nesbitt's best-selling anthology Theorizing a New Agenda collects twenty-eight essays that address architecture theory from the mid-1990s, where Nesbitt left off, ...

7. Design Ecologies: Essays on the Nature of Design, by Lisa Tilder, Beth Blostein
ISBN 9781568987835, paperback binding, $35.00

Contemporary architects are under increasing pressure to offer a sustainable future. But with all the focus on green building there has been little investigation into ...

8. Ethics for Architects: 50 Dilemmas of Professional Practice, by Thomas Fisher
Series: Architecture Briefs
ISBN 9781568989464, paperback binding, $24.95

In this new Architecture Brief, Ethics for Architects, Thomas Fisher presents fifty case studies representing a broad range of ethical dilemmas facing today's architects, from ...

9. Fabricating Architecture: Selected Readings in Digital Design and Manufacturing, by Robert Corser
ISBN 9781568988894, paperback binding, $29.95

In this increasingly digitized world, any investigation of architecture inevitably leads to considerations of fabrication. But despite its omnipresence in contemporary practice and theory, digital ...

10. Five Flights Up and Other New York Apartment Stories, by Toni Schlesinger
ISBN 9781568985855, paperback binding, $24.95

A flop house, a pumping station, a maid's room, a homeless center, a former brothel, a Richard Meier building, a circus trailer, a sail boat, ...

11. Five Houses, Ten Details, by Edward R. Ford
Series: Writing Matters
ISBN 9781568988269, hardcover binding, $40.00

Edward Ford's forty years of practicing and teaching architecture have focused on one area: the architectural detail. Yet, despite two hugely influential books (The Details ...

12. From Autos to Architecture: Fordism and Architectural Aesthetics in the Twentieth Century, by David Gartman
ISBN 9781568988139, hardcover binding, $60.00

One of the most interesting questions in architectural history is why modern architecture emerged from the war-ravaged regions of central Europe and not the United ...

13. How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul, new edition, by Adrian Shaughnessy
ISBN 9781568989839, paperback binding, $24.95

Published to instant acclaim in 2005, our best selling How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul has become a trusted resource for ...

14. Instant: The Story of Polaroid, by Christopher Bonanos
ISBN 9781616890858, hardcover binding, $24.95

Pictures in a minute! In the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, Polaroid was the hottest technology company on Earth. They were an innovation machine that cranked ...

15. Minka: My Farmhouse in Japan, by John Roderick
ISBN 9781568987316, hardcover binding, $24.95

In 1959 journalist John Roderick joined the Tokyo bureau of the Associated Press. There, he befriended a Japanese family, the Takishitas. After musing offhandedly that ...

16. Network Practices: New Strategies in Architecture and Design, by Anthony Burke, Therese Tierney
ISBN 9781568987019, paperback binding, $29.95

The twin revolutions of the global economy and omnipresent Internet connectivity have had a profound impact on architectural design. Geographical gaps and, in many cases, ...

17. On Vision and Colors by Arthur Schopenhauer and Color Sphere by Philipp Otto Runge, by Georg Stahl
ISBN 9781568987910, paperback binding, $24.95

During the first two decades of the nineteenth century, two of the most significant theoretical works on color since Leonardo da Vinci's Trattato della Pittura ...

18. Philosophy for Architects, by Branko Mitrovic
Series: Architecture Briefs
ISBN 9781568989945, paperback binding, $24.95

Philosophy for Architects is an engaging and easy-to-grasp introduction to philosophical questions of interest to students of architectural theory. Topics include Aristotle's theories of "visual ...

19. Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design, by Michael Bierut
ISBN 9781568986999, hardcover binding, $35.00

"It's not hard to see why innovation is becoming the design world's favorite euphemism. Design sounds cosmetic and ephemeral; innovation sounds energetic and essential. Design ...

20. Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design, by Michael Bierut
ISBN 9781616890612, paperback binding, $27.50

Now available in paperback, designer Michael Bierut s acclaimed Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design brings together his best critical writing. Whether serious or humorous, flattering ...

21. Sprawltown: Looking for the City on Its Edges, by Richard Ingersoll
ISBN 9781568985664, paperback binding, $19.95

Sprawl. The word calls to mind a host of troublesome issues such as city flight, runaway suburban development, and the conversion of farmland to soulless ...

22. Subnature: Architecture's Other Environments, by David Gissen
ISBN 9781568987774, paperback binding, $35.00

We are conditioned over time to regard environmental forces such as dust, mud, gas, smoke, debris, weeds, and insects as inimical to architecture. Much of ...

23. The Baltimore Rowhouse , by Mary Ellen Hayward, Charles Belfoure
ISBN 9781568982830, paperback binding, $24.95

Perhaps no other American city is so defined by an indigenous architectural style as Baltimore is by the rowhouse, whose brick facades march up and ...

24. The Concrete Dragon: China's Urban Revolution and What it Means for the World, by Thomas J. Campanella
ISBN 9781568986272, hardcover binding, $35.00

China is the most rapidly urbanizing nation in the world, with an urban population that may well reach one billion within a generation. Over the ...
This book has been replaced by a new edition

25. The Concrete Dragon: China's Urban Revolution and What it Means for the World, by Thomas J. Campanella
ISBN 9781568989686, paperback binding, $24.95

China is the most rapidly urbanizing nation in the world, with an urban population that may well reach one billion within a generation. Over the ...

26. The Ethical Architect: The Dilemma of Contemporary Practice , by Tom Spector
ISBN 9781568982854, paperback binding, $25.00

Many believe that the moral mission of architecture has been in serious decline for the last 25 years. In this important new book, Tom Spector ...

27. The Landscape Urbanism Reader, by Charles Waldheim
ISBN 9781568984391, paperback binding, $34.95

With populations decentralizing and cities sprawling ever outward, twenty-first-century urban planners are challenged by the need to organize not just people but space itself. Hence ...

28. The Suburbanization of New York: Is the World's Greatest City Becoming Just Another Town?, by Jerilou Hammett, Kingsley Hammett
ISBN 9781568986784, paperback binding, $24.95

What's next for New York? Is it cooking or cooling? Brimming with vitality or sinking into somnolence? Will it retain its edgy preeminence as global ...

29. The Toaster Project: Or A Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch, by Thomas Thwaites
ISBN 9781568989976, paperback binding, $19.95

Hello, my name is Thomas Thwaites, and I have made a toaster. So begins The Toaster Project, the author s nine-month-long journey from his local ...

30. Volume: Writings on Graphic Design, Music, Art, and Culture, by Kenneth FitzGerald, Rudy VanderLans
ISBN 9781568989648, paperback binding, $24.95

Volume--a word that refers to sound, collections, and the measurement of space--is a crucial characteristic of both graphic design and popular music. While expressing different ...

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14. Minka: My Farmhouse in Japan, by John Roderick
ISBN 9781568987316, hardcover binding, $24.95

In 1959 journalist John Roderick joined the Tokyo bureau of the Associated Press. There, he befriended a Japanese family, the Takishitas. After musing offhandedly that ...

15. Network Practices: New Strategies in Architecture and Design, by Anthony Burke, Therese Tierney
ISBN 9781568987019, paperback binding, $29.95

The twin revolutions of the global economy and omnipresent Internet connectivity have had a profound impact on architectural design. Geographical gaps and, in many cases, ...

16. On Vision and Colors by Arthur Schopenhauer and Color Sphere by Philipp Otto Runge, by Georg Stahl
ISBN 9781568987910, paperback binding, $24.95

During the first two decades of the nineteenth century, two of the most significant theoretical works on color since Leonardo da Vinci's Trattato della Pittura ...

17. Philosophy for Architects, by Branko Mitrovic
Series: Architecture Briefs
ISBN 9781568989945, paperback binding, $24.95

Philosophy for Architects is an engaging and easy-to-grasp introduction to philosophical questions of interest to students of architectural theory. Topics include Aristotle's theories of "visual ...

18. Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design, by Michael Bierut
ISBN 9781568986999, hardcover binding, $35.00

"It's not hard to see why innovation is becoming the design world's favorite euphemism. Design sounds cosmetic and ephemeral; innovation sounds energetic and essential. Design ...

19. Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design, by Michael Bierut
ISBN 9781616890612, paperback binding, $27.50

Now available in paperback, designer Michael Bierut s acclaimed Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design brings together his best critical writing. Whether serious or humorous, flattering ...

20. Sprawltown: Looking for the City on Its Edges, by Richard Ingersoll
ISBN 9781568985664, paperback binding, $19.95

Sprawl. The word calls to mind a host of troublesome issues such as city flight, runaway suburban development, and the conversion of farmland to soulless ...

21. Subnature: Architecture's Other Environments, by David Gissen
ISBN 9781568987774, paperback binding, $35.00

We are conditioned over time to regard environmental forces such as dust, mud, gas, smoke, debris, weeds, and insects as inimical to architecture. Much of ...

22. The Baltimore Rowhouse , by Mary Ellen Hayward, Charles Belfoure
ISBN 9781568982830, paperback binding, $24.95

Perhaps no other American city is so defined by an indigenous architectural style as Baltimore is by the rowhouse, whose brick facades march up and ...

23. The Concrete Dragon: China's Urban Revolution and What it Means for the World, by Thomas J. Campanella
ISBN 9781568986272, hardcover binding, $35.00

China is the most rapidly urbanizing nation in the world, with an urban population that may well reach one billion within a generation. Over the ...
This book has been replaced by a new edition

24. The Concrete Dragon: China's Urban Revolution and What it Means for the World, by Thomas J. Campanella
ISBN 9781568989686, paperback binding, $24.95

China is the most rapidly urbanizing nation in the world, with an urban population that may well reach one billion within a generation. Over the ...

25. The Ethical Architect: The Dilemma of Contemporary Practice , by Tom Spector
ISBN 9781568982854, paperback binding, $25.00

Many believe that the moral mission of architecture has been in serious decline for the last 25 years. In this important new book, Tom Spector ...

26. The Landscape Urbanism Reader, by Charles Waldheim
ISBN 9781568984391, paperback binding, $34.95

With populations decentralizing and cities sprawling ever outward, twenty-first-century urban planners are challenged by the need to organize not just people but space itself. Hence ...

27. The Suburbanization of New York: Is the World's Greatest City Becoming Just Another Town?, by Jerilou Hammett, Kingsley Hammett
ISBN 9781568986784, paperback binding, $24.95

What's next for New York? Is it cooking or cooling? Brimming with vitality or sinking into somnolence? Will it retain its edgy preeminence as global ...

28. The Toaster Project: Or A Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch, by Thomas Thwaites
ISBN 9781568989976, paperback binding, $19.95

Hello, my name is Thomas Thwaites, and I have made a toaster. So begins The Toaster Project, the author s nine-month-long journey from his local ...

29. Volume: Writings on Graphic Design, Music, Art, and Culture, by Kenneth FitzGerald, Rudy VanderLans
ISBN 9781568989648, paperback binding, $24.95

Volume--a word that refers to sound, collections, and the measurement of space--is a crucial characteristic of both graphic design and popular music. While expressing different ...

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1. The Baltimore Rowhouse , by Mary Ellen Hayward, Charles Belfoure
ISBN 9781568982830, paperback binding, $24.95

Perhaps no other American city is so defined by an indigenous architectural style as Baltimore is by the rowhouse, whose brick facades march up and ...

2. The Concrete Dragon: China's Urban Revolution and What it Means for the World, by Thomas J. Campanella
ISBN 9781568989686, paperback binding, $24.95

China is the most rapidly urbanizing nation in the world, with an urban population that may well reach one billion within a generation. Over the ...

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1. A-frame, by Chad Randl
ISBN 9781568984100, hardcover binding, $24.95

"A" was the architectural letterform of leisure building in postwar America. Eager to stake out mountain and lakeside retreats, an entire generation of high-end homebuilders ...

2. Above the Pavement--the Farm!: Architecture & Agriculture at PF1, by Amale Andraos, Dan Wood
Series: Inventory Books
ISBN 9781568989358, paperback binding, $19.95

Forty years after French protestors took to the streets with the rallying cry Sous les pav's, la plage! (Beneath the pavement, the beach!), a new ...

3. After the Crash : Architecture in Post-Bubble Japan, by Thomas Daniell
ISBN 9781568987767, paperback binding, $24.95

In the late 1980s, Japan was awash in seemingly unlimited wealth and rising toward what would be the peak of its modern economic success, power, ...

4. Architects Draw, by Sue Ferguson Gussow
Series: Architecture Briefs
ISBN 9781568987408, paperback binding, $24.95

Where does architectural design begin? In an age obsessed with all things digital, it's tempting to envision a computer screen in a paperless studio. While ...

5. Architectural Photography the Digital Way, by Gerry Kopelow
Series: Architecture Briefs
ISBN 9781568986975, paperback binding, $24.95

More than ever, particularly in this day of online media, architects and designers are increasingly faced with exciting and critical marketing and publishing opportunities. Simply ...

6. Architectural Regionalism: Collected Writings on Place, Identity, Modernity, and Tradition, by Vincent B. Canizaro
ISBN 9781568986166, paperback binding, $39.95

In this rapidly globalizing world, any investigation of architecture inevitably leads to considerations of regionalism. But despite its omnipresence in contemporary practice and theory, architectural ...

7. Architecture and Film, by Mark Lamster
ISBN 9781568982076, paperback binding, $24.95

Architecture and Film looks at the ways architecture and architects are treated on screen and, conversely, how these depictions filter and shape the ways we ...

8. Architecture and the Sciences: Exchanging Metaphors, by Antoine Picon, Alessandra Ponte
ISBN 9781568983653, paperback binding, $27.50

Since antiquity, the sciences have served as a source of images and metaphors for architecture and have had a direct influence on the shaping of ...

9. Architecture From the Outside In: Selected Essays by Robert Gutman, by Robert Gutman, Dana Cuff, and John Wriedt
ISBN 9781568988962, paperback binding, $40.00

Architecture and sociology have been fickle friends over the past half century: in the 1960s, architects relied on sociological data for design solutions and sociologists ...

10. Architecture of the Everyday, by Deborah Berke, Steven Harris
ISBN 9781568981147, paperback binding, $24.95

Ordinary. Banal. Quotidian. These words are rarely used to praise architecture, but in fact they represent the interest of a growing number of architects looking ...

11. Architecture Oriented Otherwise, by David Leatherbarrow
Series: Writing Matters
ISBN 9781568988115, hardcover binding, $39.95

So much writing about architecture tends to evaluate it on the basis of its intentions: how closely it corresponds to the artistic will of the ...

12. Architecture: In Fashion, by Deborah Fausch
ISBN 9781878271990, paperback binding, $19.95

Feuding architects often accuse one another of being "fashionable." It is, after all, one of the worst insults that can be leveled in a field ...

13. Around the World: The Grand Tour in Photo Albums, by Barbara Levine, Kirsten Jensen
ISBN 9781568987088, hardcover binding, $55.00

Snapshots, passenger lists, itineraries, and postcards from San Francisco flapper Vera Talbot's Far East adventure. Chicagoan Clara E. Whitcomb's travel diary containing pages filled with ...

14. Artificial Light: A Narrative Inquiry into the Nature of Abstraction, Immediacy, and other Architectural Fictions, by Keith Mitnick
ISBN 9781568987491, paperback binding, $24.95

Author Keith Mitnick's first glimpse of an architectural drawing came through the underside of a glass kitchen table. Overcome by the sight of blueprints created ...

15. Bernard Tschumi/Zenith De Rouen: Source Books in Architecture 3, by Todd Gannon, Jeffrey Kipnis
Series: Source Books in Architecture
ISBN 9781568983820, paperback binding, $29.95

Source Books in Architecture is a new series focusing on new single works by significant architects. Sponsored by Ohio State University, the series reveals the ...

16. Beyond the Edge: New York's New Waterfront, by Raymond W. Gastil
ISBN 9781568983271, paperback binding, $30.00

Before September 11, 2001, New York City was in the process of transforming its waterfront after decades of neglect. The tragic events of that day ...

17. Blackstock's Collections: The Drawings of an Artistic Savant, by Gregory L. Blackstock
ISBN 9781568985794, paperback binding, $21.95

Modern life is an ever-accelerating barrage of people, buildings,vehicles, creatures, and things. How much can a curious mind take in? And what can it do ...

18. Breaking News: How the Associated Press Has Covered War, Peace, and Everything Else, by Associated Press
ISBN 9781568986890, hardcover binding, $35.00

"Even as I write, there are in some parts of the world where events are not yet of front page merit, some young men and ...

19. Brothels of Nevada: Candid Views of America's Legal Sex Industry, by Timothy Hursley
ISBN 9781568984186, paperback binding, $24.95

The state of Nevada is known as a place for quick money, 24-hour marriages, and easy divorces. But it's also the only place in the ...

20. Building (in) the Future: Recasting Labor in Architecture, by Phillip Bernstein, Peggy Deamer
ISBN 9781568988061, paperback binding, $29.95

There is no denying the transformational role of the computer in the evolution of contemporary architectural practice. But does this techno-determinist account tell the whole ...

21. Building Envelopes: An Integrated Approach, by Jenny Lovell
Series: Architecture Briefs
ISBN 9781568988184, paperback binding, $24.95

Few parts of a building work harder than its envelope (also known as its facade). The envelope is the part of the building most visible ...

22. Bunker Archeology, by Paul Virilio
ISBN 9781568980157, paperback binding, $40.00

In Bunker Archeology, urban philosopher and cultural theorist Paul Virilio turns his attention--and camera--to the ominous yet strangely compelling German bunkers from WW II that ...

23. By Its Cover: Modern American Book Cover Design, by Ned Drew, Paul Sternberger
ISBN 9781568984971, paperback binding, $29.95

We all know we're not supposed to judge books by their covers, but the truth is that we do just that nearly every time we ...

24. Capital Dilemma: Germany's Search for a New Architecture of Democracy, by Michael Z. Wise
ISBN 9781568981345, hardcover binding, $25.00

The decision to move Germany's government seat from Bonn to Berlin by the year 2000 poses an epic architectural challenge and has fostered an international ...

25. Catalog: The Illustrated History of Mail Order Shopping, by Robin Cherry
ISBN 9781568987392, hardcover binding, $35.00

Since 1872 when traveling salesman Aaron Montgomery Ward realized he could eliminate the middleman and sell goods directly to his customers, Americans have had an ...

26. Cocinando!: Fifty Years of Latin Album Cover Art, by Pablo Yglesias
ISBN 9781568984605, paperback binding, $19.95

Driving beats, coursing rhythms, swaying skirts, and swaggering bandleaders playing deep into the sultry night: Latin music is a celebration of life and sensuality, and ...

27. Coney Island: The Parachute Pavilion Competition, by Zoe Ryan, Jonathan Cohen-Litant
ISBN 9781568986234, paperback binding, $29.95

For almost 100 years, Coney Island was the most popular seaside destination in the United States. Each year, millions escaped the heat of New York ...

28. Constructing a New Agenda for Architecture: Architectural Theory 1993-2009, by A. Krista Sykes, K. Michael Hays
ISBN 9781568988597, paperback binding, $45.00

This follow-up to Kate Nesbitt's best-selling anthology Theorizing a New Agenda collects twenty-eight essays that address architecture theory from the mid-1990s, where Nesbitt left off, ...

29. Contemporary Curtain Wall Architecture, by Scott Murray
ISBN 9781568987972, hardcover binding, $75.00

Recent years have seen a rapidly growing interest among contemporary architects in the use of curtain walls to create innovative, attention-grabbing building facades. With new ...

30. Conversations with Mies van der Rohe, by Moises Puente
Series: Conversations with Students
ISBN 9781568987538, paperback binding, $19.95

It has been said that modernist legend Mies van der Rohe's thirty years spent working in America reflected his most consistent and mature efforts toward ...

31. Crafting a Modern World: The Designs of Antonin and Noemi Raymond, by Kurt G. F. Helfrich, William Whitaker
ISBN 9781568985831, hardcover binding, $75.00

Kurt G. F. Helfrich and William Whitaker, editors, with contributions by Ann Lutun, Mari Sakamoto Nakahara, Ken Tadashi Oshima, and Christine Vendredi-Auzanneau. Foreword by Kenneth ...

32. Cyber Cities: Visual Perception in the Age of Electronic Communication, by M. Christine Boyer
ISBN 9781568980485, hardcover binding, $19.95

Noted urban historian M. Christine Boyer turns to the new frontier--cybercities--in this important and compelling book. Boyer argues that the computer is to contemporary society ...

33. D.I.Y. Kids , by Ellen Lupton, Julia Lupton
ISBN 9781568987071, paperback binding, $14.95

All over the world, parents are raising kids to get active and embrace the "design-it-yourself" spirit of homemade arts and crafts. D.I.Y. Kids encourages young ...

34. Dartmouth College: The Campus Guide, by Scott Meacham
Series: Campus Guides
ISBN 9781568983486, paperback binding, $24.95

Organized as a series of walks through the distinct neighborhoods of Dartmouth College and parts of the surrounding town of Hanover, New Hampshire, Dartmouth College ...

35. Dean/Wolf Architects: Constructive Continuum, by Kathryn Dean
ISBN 9781568988290, paperback binding, $40.00

New York City-based Dean/Wolf Architects have been praised for their uncanny ability to turn architectural constraints into powerful generators of form. Since founding their firm ...

36. Design Ecologies: Essays on the Nature of Design, by Lisa Tilder, Beth Blostein
ISBN 9781568987835, paperback binding, $35.00

Contemporary architects are under increasing pressure to offer a sustainable future. But with all the focus on green building there has been little investigation into ...

37. Design Studies: Theory and Research in Graphic Design, by Audrey Bennett
ISBN 9781568985862, paperback binding, $40.00

In an age of globalization and connectivity, the idea of "mainstream culture" has become quaint. Websites, magazines, books, and television have all honed in on ...

38. Detail in Process, by Christine Killory, Rene Davids
Series: AsBuilt
ISBN 9781568987187, hardcover binding, $65.00

What separates good architecture from great architecture? The difference lies in the details. The way an architect chooses to treat architectural detailing--screens and walls, doors ...

39. Drawing from Life: The Journal As Art , by Jennifer New
ISBN 9781568984452, paperback binding, $29.95

Who hasn't, at one time or other, kept a journal? The impulse to record our daily lives on paper is nothing if not universal. Still, ...

40. Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America, by Alan Berger, Lars Lerup
ISBN 9781568987132, paperback binding, $27.50

Do you really know what is under that new house you just bought? How about what lies beneath the neighborhood playground? Was that "big box" ...

41. Eisenman Architects/The University of Phoenix Stadium for the Arizona Cardinals, by Todd Gannon
Series: Source Books in Architecture
ISBN 9781568987200, paperback binding, $29.95

The basic form of the American sports stadium has not changed much in the last century. But in an unexpected and controversial act of daring, ...

42. Eladio Dieste: Innovation in Structural Art, by Stanford Anderson
ISBN 9781568983714, hardcover binding, $60.00

In an industry so often enamored by media-coddled superstars with trendy clients, Eladio Dieste stands out as a refreshing and inspiring figure. Born in Uruguay, ...

43. Elements of Design: Rowena Reed Kostellow and the Structure of Visual Relationships, by Gail Greet Hannah, Designed by Tucker Viemeister and Seth Kornfeld
Series: Design Briefs
ISBN 9781568983295, paperback binding, $24.95

A hands-on book design students and designers alike will welcome. Elements of Design is a tribute to an exceptional teacher and a study of the ...

44. Ethics for Architects: 50 Dilemmas of Professional Practice, by Thomas Fisher
Series: Architecture Briefs
ISBN 9781568989464, paperback binding, $24.95

In this new Architecture Brief, Ethics for Architects, Thomas Fisher presents fifty case studies representing a broad range of ethical dilemmas facing today's architects, from ...

45. Exploring Materials: Creative Design for Everyday Objects, by Inna Alesina, Ellen Lupton
ISBN 9781568987682, paperback binding, $35.00

Exploring Materials invites you to get inspired by physical forms and substances. Materials are like words. The richer your design vocabulary, the more design solutions ...

46. Fabricating Architecture: Selected Readings in Digital Design and Manufacturing, by Robert Corser
ISBN 9781568988894, paperback binding, $29.95

In this increasingly digitized world, any investigation of architecture inevitably leads to considerations of fabrication. But despite its omnipresence in contemporary practice and theory, digital ...

47. Fast-Forward Urbanism: Rethinking Architecture's Engagement with the City, by Dana Cuff, Roger Sherman
ISBN 9781568989778, paperback binding, $34.95

In the wake of recent failures in America's urban infrastructure, an emerging group of activist designers are calling on architects to rethink their relationship to ...

48. Finnish Summer Houses, by Jari Jetsonen, Sirkkaliisa Jetsonen
ISBN 9781568987521, hardcover binding, $50.00

Summer is when Finland is at its spellbinding best. Emerging from a seven-month long winter, Finns head outdoors to savor the magical light of the ...

49. Five Houses, Ten Details, by Edward R. Ford
Series: Writing Matters
ISBN 9781568988269, hardcover binding, $40.00

Edward Ford's forty years of practicing and teaching architecture have focused on one area: the architectural detail. Yet, despite two hugely influential books (The Details ...

50. FOBA / Buildings, by Katsu Umebayashi, Thomas Daniell, and Michael Webb
ISBN 9781568985275, paperback binding, $40.00

Pure. Minimal. Simple. These are the words commonly used to describe the work of contemporary Japanese architects. FOBA, an internationally celebrated architectural practice based in ...

51. Forget Me Not: Photography and Remembrance, by Geoffrey Batchen
ISBN 9781568984506, hardcover binding, $29.95

Since its invention, photography has always been inextricably tied up with remembrance: photographs recall family, beloved friends, special moments, trips and other events, speaking across ...
This book has been replaced by a new edition

52. Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture, by Casey Reas, Chandler McWilliams, and Jeroen Barendse
Series: Design Briefs
ISBN 9781568989372, paperback binding, $24.95

The last decade has witnessed a proliferation of artists whose primary medium is software. Algorithmic processes, harnessed through the medium of computer code, allow artists ...

53. Fresh Dialogue 6: Friendly Fire, by AIGA New York Chapter , James Victore
Series: Fresh Dialogue
ISBN 9781568985824, paperback binding, $16.95

The 62 is a Brooklyn-based design and art collective that works with designers, artists, and social and not-for-profit organizations on projects that involve a vision ...

54. Fresh Dialogue 7: Making Magazines, by AIGA New York Chapter , James Truman
Series: Fresh Dialogue
ISBN 9781568986982, paperback binding, $16.95

The New York Chapter of AIGA's Fresh Dialogue series brings together emerging designers in annual panel discussions and provides them with a forum to talk ...

55. Fresh Dialogue 8: Designing Audiences, by AIGA New York Chapter , Ze Frank
Series: Fresh Dialogue
ISBN 9781568987514, paperback binding, $16.95

Each year the New York chapter of AIGA brings together emerging designers for Fresh Dialogue, a panel discussion that provides a forum to present and ...

56. Fresh Dialogue 9: In/Visible: Graphic Data Revealed, by AIGA New York Chapter
Series: Fresh Dialogue
ISBN 9781568988160, paperback binding, $16.95

Each year, the New York chapter of the AIGA invites a group of emerging designers to participate in the Fresh Dialogue forum. In/Visible: Graphic Data ...

57. From Autos to Architecture: Fordism and Architectural Aesthetics in the Twentieth Century, by David Gartman
ISBN 9781568988139, hardcover binding, $60.00

One of the most interesting questions in architectural history is why modern architecture emerged from the war-ravaged regions of central Europe and not the United ...

58. Full Irish: New Architecture in Ireland, by Sarah A. Lappin
ISBN 9781568988689, hardcover binding, $45.00

From Georgian cities to modernist masterpieces, architecture in Ireland has a long history of excellence. The last fifteen years, however, witnessed more social, economic, and ...

59. Geography of Home: Writings on Where We Live, by Akiko Busch
ISBN 9781568984292, paperback binding, $19.95

Geography of Home has been hailed as "an appealing, insightful collection of musings on the architecture, psychology, and history of house and home in America" ...

60. Ghost: Building an Architectural Vision, by Brian MacKay-Lyons
ISBN 9781568987361, paperback binding, $35.00

For two weeks each summer, architect Brian MacKay-Lyons uses his family farm on the east coast of Nova Scotia for a special event. Among ...

61. Good Deeds, Good Design: Community Service through Architecture, by Bryan Bell
ISBN 9781568983912, paperback binding, $34.95

It may come as no surprise that only two percent of new homebuyers work directly with an architect to design the space in which they ...

62. Graphic Design: The New Basics, by Ellen Lupton, Jennifer Cole Phillips
ISBN 9781568987026, paperback binding, $35.00

How do designers get ideas? Many spend their time searching for clever combinations of forms, fonts, and colors inside the design annuals and monographs of ...

63. Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field, by Helen Armstrong
Series: Design Briefs
ISBN 9781568987729, paperback binding, $24.95

The titles in our best-selling Design Brief series are highly praised by graphic design students, educators, and professionals worldwide as invaluable resources. Each beautifully designed, ...

64. Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft, and Design, by Faythe Levine, Cortney Heimerl
ISBN 9781568987873, paperback binding, $24.95

Today's crafters are no longer interested in simply cross-stitching samplers or painting floral scrolls on china. Instead, the contemporary craft movement embraces emerging artists, crafters, ...

65. Hello World: A Life in Ham Radio, by Danny Gregory, Paul Sahre
ISBN 9781568982816, paperback binding, $24.95

To an outsider, the world of ham radio is one of basement transmitters, clunky microphones, Morse code, and crackly, possibly clandestine, worldwide communications, a world ...

66. Hill-Stead: The Country Place of Theodate Pope Riddle, by James F. O'Gorman, Edward S. Cooke, Jr., and Allyson M. Hayward
ISBN 9781568987590, hardcover binding, $45.00

Nestled in the bucolic village of Farmington, Connecticut, at the summit of 152 hilltop acres, sits what many architectural historians consider to be the finest ...

67. Holidays on Display, by William L. Bird, Jr.
ISBN 9781568986951, paperback binding, $24.95

For millions of people the world over, the annual visit to a department store to view the festive window displays and visit Santa in his ...

68. Hyperborder: The Contemporary U.S.-Mexico Border and Its Future Fernando Romero, LAR, by Fernando Romero, LAR
ISBN 9781568987064, paperback binding, $35.00

Roving vigilantes, fear-mongering politicians, hysterical pundits, and the looming shadow of a 700-mile-long fence: the U.S.-Mexico border is one of the most complex and dynamic ...

69. I Am My Family: Photographic Memories and Fictions, by Rafael Goldchain
ISBN 9781568987385, hardcover binding, $40.00

Old family photo albums are fascinating. If you're lucky enough to own one, you've probably spent hours poring over half-faded black-and-white portraits of your ancestors, ...

70. Ian McHarg: Dwelling in Nature, by Lynn Margulis, James Corner, and Brian Holt Hawthorne
Series: Conversations with Students
ISBN 9781568986203, paperback binding, $19.95

One of the legendary figures in twentieth-century landscape design, Ian McHarg transformed the fields of landscape architecture and planning through his personal methodology, his unique ...

71. Illinois Institute of Technology: The Campus Guide, by Franz Schulze
Series: Campus Guides
ISBN 9781568984827, paperback binding, $24.95

The newest title in the Princeton Architectural Press Campus Guide series takes readers on a tour of Illinois Institute of Technology, one of the landmarks ...

72. Indie Publishing: How to Design and Produce Your Own Book, by Ellen Lupton
Series: Design Briefs
ISBN 9781568987606, paperback binding, $24.95

Once referred to derisively as "vanity publishing," self-published books are finally taking their place alongside more accepted indie categories such as music, film, and theater. ...

73. Inside the Painter's Studio, by Joe Fig
ISBN 9781568988528, paperback binding, $35.00

Inside an art gallery, it is easy to forget that the paintings there are the end products of a process involving not only creative inspiration, ...

74. Interactive Architecture, by Michael Fox, Miles Kemp
ISBN 9781568988368, hardcover binding, $50.00

Every year, a bevy of new phones, games, televisions, and electronic reading devices ride into our lives on a tidal wave of interactive hype. These ...

75. Iowa State Fair: Country Comes to Town, by Thomas Leslie
ISBN 9781568985688, paperback binding, $19.95

More than 150 years old and still going strong, the Iowa State Fair is an American institution that was recently selected by bestselling author Patricia ...

76. Julie Snow Architects, by Julie Snow, Janet Abrams
Series: Graham Foundation/PA Press: New Voices in Architecture
ISBN 9781568984872, hardcover binding, $40.00

It's an unfortunate reality that architects practicing in the great expanse between the East and West coasts all too often find themselves beyond the radar ...

77. Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau: The Cathedral of Erotic Misery, Building Studies 5, by Elizabeth Gamard
Series: Building Studies
ISBN 9781568981369, paperback binding, $29.95

German artist Kurt Schwitters' Hannover Merzbau, a combination of collage, sculpture, and architecture, began, according to Schwitters, in 1923 with a small construction in a ...

78. Kuth/Ranieri Architects, by Byron Kuth, Elizabeth Ranieri, and Ila Berman
Series: Graham Foundation/PA Press: New Voices in Architecture
ISBN 9781568988658, paperback binding, $40.00

"In a world obsessed with an international cast of ego-driven starchitects, San Francisco architects Elizabeth Ranieri and Byron Kuth are the thoughtful, versatile, low-key, detail-obsessed ...

79. Large Parks, by Julia Czerniak, George Hargreaves
ISBN 9781568986241, paperback binding, $34.95

The discipline of landscape architecture encompasses many typologies, from domestic gardens and neighborhood playgrounds to urban designs and state parks. Most critical studies of the ...

80. Le Corbusier, Homme de Lettres, by M. Christine Boyer
ISBN 9781568989808, paperback binding, $45.00

On his French identity card, legendary architect Le Corbusier listed his profession as "Homme de Lettres" (Man of Letters). Celebrated for his architecture, which numbers ...

81. Leisurama Now: The Beach House for Everyone, by Paul Sahre
ISBN 9781568987095, hardcover binding, $40.00

Who doesn't dream of owning a second home at the beach? Well, in the early 1960s, it was a snap even for the working class. ...

82. Lettering and Type: Creating Letters and Designing Typefaces, by Bruce Willen, Nolen Strals, and Ellen Lupton
Series: Design Briefs
ISBN 9781568987651, paperback binding, $24.95

No component of graphic design has attracted as much interest or inspired as much innovation in recent years as lettering and type. These fundamentals of ...

83. Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis: Opportunistic Architecture, by Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, and David J. Lewis
Series: Graham Foundation/PA Press: New Voices in Architecture
ISBN 9781568987101, paperback binding, $40.00

What if the constraints and limitations of architecture became the catalyst for design invention? The award-winning young architecture firm Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis calls their answers to this ...

84. Louis I. Kahn: Conversations with Students, by Louis Kahn
Series: Conversations with Students
ISBN 9781568981499, paperback binding, $19.95

Louis Kahn (1901-74) is one of the most renowned practitioners of international modernism, on a par with Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe in ...

85. Louisville Guide, by Gregory A. Luhan, Dennis Domer, and David Mohney
Series: Guidebooks
ISBN 9781568984513, paperback binding, $19.95

Louisville is one of the overlooked gems of American architecture, a city of Southern charm and grace with a catalog of buildings by such masters ...

86. Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects/Knowlton Hall: Source Books in Architecture 6, by Todd Gannon
Series: Source Books in Architecture
ISBN 9781568985213, paperback binding, $29.95

Some buildings are famous. Others deserve to be, but in their modesty remain satisfied to stand simply as excellent works of architecture. Such is the ...

87. Marina City: Bertrand Goldberg's Urban Vision, by Igor Marjanovic, Katerina Ruedi Ray
ISBN 9781568988634, paperback binding, $35.00

Chicago has many iconic buildings, but perhaps none as instantly recognizable as Bertrand Goldberg's Marina City. Occupying an entire city block--number 1 of the original ...

88. Mies Van der Rohe's Krefeld Villas, by Kent Kleinman, Leslie Van Duzer
ISBN 9781568985039, hardcover binding, $35.00

With all of the attention Mies van der Rohe has received over the last few years, it's hard to believe that there could be a ...

89. Minka: My Farmhouse in Japan, by John Roderick
ISBN 9781568987316, hardcover binding, $24.95

In 1959 journalist John Roderick joined the Tokyo bureau of the Associated Press. There, he befriended a Japanese family, the Takishitas. After musing offhandedly that ...

90. Nanoarchitecture: A New Species of Architecture, by John Johansen, Lebbeus Woods
ISBN 9781568983011, hardcover binding, $ 0.00

John Johansen, now 95 years old, has been one of the preeminent architects in the United States for more than half a century. After studying ...

91. Narrow Houses: New Directions in Efficient Design, by Avi Friedman
ISBN 9781568988733, hardcover binding, $45.00

Since the beginning of the housing boom of the 1950s, the size of the average North American house has steadily grown while the size of ...

92. Network Practices: New Strategies in Architecture and Design, by Anthony Burke, Therese Tierney
ISBN 9781568987019, paperback binding, $29.95

The twin revolutions of the global economy and omnipresent Internet connectivity have had a profound impact on architectural design. Geographical gaps and, in many cases, ...

93. Northwestern University: The Campus Guide, by Jay Pridmore
Series: Campus Guides
ISBN 9781568987552, paperback binding, $24.95

Northwestern University: The Campus Guide takes readers on a vivid trip through this campus's compelling history from the 19th century to the present day. This ...

94. O'Donnell + Tuomey: Selected Works, by Sheila O'Donnell, John Tuomey
ISBN 9781568986012, paperback binding, $40.00

In today's Ireland, it's not only the economy that's booming. Dublin-based architects O'Donnell Tuomey have brought a wealth of exciting buildings to the Emerald Isle ...

95. On Vision and Colors by Arthur Schopenhauer and Color Sphere by Philipp Otto Runge, by Georg Stahl
ISBN 9781568987910, paperback binding, $24.95

During the first two decades of the nineteenth century, two of the most significant theoretical works on color since Leonardo da Vinci's Trattato della Pittura ...

96. Pamphlet Architecture 19: Reading Drawing Building, by Michael Silver
Series: Pamphlet Architecture
ISBN 9781568980799, paperback binding, $12.95

Number 19 in the Pamphlet Architecture series, Reading Drawing Building, is an exquisitely designed volume that juxtaposes two projects; the Library and the Drawing Machine. ...

97. Pamphlet Architecture 20: Seven Partly Underground Rooms..., by Mary-Ann Ray
Series: Pamphlet Architecture
ISBN 9781568981031, paperback binding, $16.95

The latest in the Pamphlet Architecture series, Seven Partly Underground Rooms and Buildings investigates unusual spaces in Italy, ranging from a honeycombed and mazelike series ...

98. Pamphlet Architecture 28: Augmented Landscapes, by Smout Allen
Series: Pamphlet Architecture
ISBN 9781568986258, paperback binding, $19.95

In 1977 Steven Holl and William Stout created a grittier alternative to mainstream architectural publishing called Pamphlet Architecture. With Holl's Bridges, the landmark series was ...

99. Pamphlet Architecture 29: Ambiguous Spaces, by Nannette Jackowski, Ricardo de Ostos
Series: Pamphlet Architecture
ISBN 9781568987958, paperback binding, $16.95

Ambiguous Spaces, the newest installment in the Pamphlet Architecture series and a return to Pamphlet's own progressive roots, features the architectural fictions "The Pregnant Island" ...

100. Pamphlet Architecture 31: New Haiti Villages, by Steven Holl
Series: Pamphlet Architecture
ISBN 9781568989815, paperback binding, $19.95

After the devastating earthquake in Haiti, on January 12, 2010, Steven Holl had the idea of devoting the next Pamphlet Architecture book to solutions for ...

101. Peter Rose: Houses, by Peter Rose
ISBN 9781568988214, hardcover binding, $40.00

Cambridge, Massachusetts-based architect Peter Rose has built on every scale during the first three decades of his practice. High-profile projects, such as his master plan ...

102. Plain Modern: The Architecture of Brian MacKay-Lyons, by Malcolm Quantrill
Series: Graham Foundation/PA Press: New Voices in Architecture
ISBN 9781568984773, paperback binding, $40.00

It's been our distinct pleasure over the past few years to publish monographs on a select group of young architects and firms whose work represents ...

103. Plumbing: Sounding Modern Architecture, by Daniel S. Friedman, Nadir Lahiji
ISBN 9781568981079, paperback binding, $21.95

Plumbers mediate between the pure and the abject. They order everyday fluids, they manage flow, they straighten things out and keep things clean. Sounding depths, ...

104. Postmodern Urbanism: Revised Edition, by Nan Ellin
ISBN 9781568981352, paperback binding, $29.95

"Like a good city, Postmodern Urbanism can be read from many perspectives as a rich conversation of world views, languages, and artifacts"...."It's a generous and ...

105. Proceed and Be Bold: Rural Studio After Samuel Mockbee, by Andrea Oppenheimer Dean, Timothy Hursley
ISBN 9781568985008, paperback binding, $30.00

"Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul."---Samuel Mockbee

Based on this simple premise, in 1992 Samuel Mockbee launched the Rural Studio to create ...

106. Provisional: Emerging Modes of Architectural Practice USA, by Elite Kedan, F. Jonathan Dreyfous, and Craig Mutter
ISBN 9781568988788, paperback binding, $40.00

Provisional profiles nine of the United States most exciting architectural practices. They all share a pragmatic, "roll-up-your-sleeves" approach that seeks opportunities to redefine the role ...

107. Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Theory, by James Corner
ISBN 9781568981796, paperback binding, $24.95

The past decade has been witness to a remarkable resurgence of interest in landscape. While this recovery invokes a return of past traditions and ideas, ...

108. Revolving Architecture: A History of Buildings that Rotate, Swivel, and Pivot, by Chad Randl
ISBN 9781568986814, hardcover binding, $35.00

Alternately lauded as the future of architecture or dismissed as pure folly, revolving buildings are a fascinating missing chapter in architectural history with surprising relevance ...

109. Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency, by Andrea Oppenheimer Dean, Timothy Hursley
ISBN 9781568982922, paperback binding, $34.95

"I tell my students, it's got to be warm, dry, and noble" --Samuel Mockbee

For almost ten years, Samuel Mockbee, a MacArthur Grant recipient, and his ...

110. Santiago Calatrava: The MIT Lectures, by Santiago Calatrava, Cecilia Lewis Kausel, and Ann Pendleton Jullian
Series: Conversations with Students
ISBN 9781568983257, paperback binding, $17.95

This is the first time that I have made the commitment to give a series of talks with the specific intention of communicating my experience. ...

111. Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design, by Michael Bierut
ISBN 9781616890612, paperback binding, $27.50

Now available in paperback, designer Michael Bierut s acclaimed Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design brings together his best critical writing. Whether serious or humorous, flattering ...

112. Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design, by Michael Bierut
ISBN 9781568986999, hardcover binding, $35.00

"It's not hard to see why innovation is becoming the design world's favorite euphemism. Design sounds cosmetic and ephemeral; innovation sounds energetic and essential. Design ...

113. Shallow Water Dictionary: A Grounding in Estuary English, 2nd edition, by John R. Stilgoe
ISBN 9781568984087, hardcover binding, $14.95

Shallow Water Dictionary is both a celebration of the richness of our vernacular language and a lament on its passing--and with it, the passing of ...

114. Sidewalk Critic: Lewis Mumford's Writings on New York, by Robert Wojtowicz
ISBN 9781568982526, paperback binding, $17.95

Best known for his "Sky Line" column in the New Yorker, where he served as architecture critic for over 30 years, Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) is ...

115. Sidewalk Critic: Lewis Mumford's Writings on New York, by Robert Wojtowicz
ISBN 9781568981338, hardcover binding, $27.50

Best known for his "Sky Line" column in the New Yorker, where he served as architecture critic for over 30 years, Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) is ...

116. Small Scale: Creative Solutions for Better City Living, by Keith Moskow, Robert Linn
ISBN 9781568989754, paperback binding, $34.95

Think big, design small. This is the rallying cry of a new generation of architects and artists who aim to improve the lives of city-dwellers ...

117. Solid States: Concrete in Transition, by Michael Bell, Craig Buckley
ISBN 9781568988955, hardcover binding, $65.00

By far the most pervasive and affordable building material in the world, concrete has undergone ever-more widespread dissemination, standardization, and technological innovation in the last ...

118. Source Book of American Architecture: 500 Notable Buildings from the 10th Century to the Present, by G. E. Kidder Smith
ISBN 9781568980256, paperback binding, $34.95

The Architecture of the United States, GE Kidder Smith's 1981 three-volume masterwork, was hailed as the most comprehensive and insightful overview of the architectural heritage ...
This book has been replaced by a new edition

119. Sprawltown: Looking for the City on Its Edges, by Richard Ingersoll
ISBN 9781568985664, paperback binding, $19.95

Sprawl. The word calls to mind a host of troublesome issues such as city flight, runaway suburban development, and the conversion of farmland to soulless ...

120. Stanford University, revised edition : The Campus Guide, by David J. Neuman, Richard Joncas, and Paul V. Turner
Series: Campus Guides
ISBN 9781568985381, paperback binding, $24.95

With the many additions to the campus of Stanford University since the publication of our book, including the Frances Arrillaga Alumni Center by Hoover Associates ...

121. Steven Holl Architects/Simmons Hall: Source Books in Architecture 5, by Todd Gannon, Michael Demson
Series: Source Books in Architecture
ISBN 9781568984643, paperback binding, $29.95

With its striking, gridded facade and amoeba-shaped internal cavities, Steven Holl's new dormitory for MIT, Simmons Hall, is without question one of the most original ...

122. Street Value: Shopping, Planning, and Politics at Fulton Mall, by Rosten Woo, Meredith TenHoor, and Damon Rich
Series: Inventory Books
ISBN 9781568988979, paperback binding, $19.95

Street Value: Shopping, Planning, and Politics at Fulton Mall offers an in-depth look at one of Downtown Brooklyn's longest redevelopment sagas. Once referred to as ...

123. Subnature: Architecture's Other Environments, by David Gissen
ISBN 9781568987774, paperback binding, $35.00

We are conditioned over time to regard environmental forces such as dust, mud, gas, smoke, debris, weeds, and insects as inimical to architecture. Much of ...

124. Suburban Discipline, by Peter Lang, Tam Miller
Series: Front Books
ISBN 9781568981062, paperback binding, $14.95

Historically, suburbia has been defined in relation to the city. Today, however, the city is no longer the undisputed arbiter for civilization; suburbia has infiltrated ...

125. Suburban Transformations, by Paul Lukez
ISBN 9781568986838, paperback binding, $40.00

Smart Growth advocates, environmentalists, and New Urbanists have all tried in their own ways to spread the message of reforming current land use patterns. Their ...

126. The Architecture of Modern Italy: The Challenge of Tradition, 1750-1900, Vol. 1, by Terry Kirk
ISBN 9781568984209, hardcover binding, $35.00

This groundbreaking and authoritative two-volume survey is the first truly comprehensive history of modern Italian architecture and urbanism to appear in any language. Told in ...

127. The Architecture of the Ozarks, An : The Works of Marlon Blackwell, by Marlon Blackwell
Series: Graham Foundation/PA Press: New Voices in Architecture
ISBN 9781568984889, paperback binding, $40.00

"I live, practice, teach, and build in northwest Arkansas, in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains. It's a place considered to be in the middle ...

128. The Baltimore Rowhouse , by Mary Ellen Hayward, Charles Belfoure
ISBN 9781568982830, paperback binding, $24.95

Perhaps no other American city is so defined by an indigenous architectural style as Baltimore is by the rowhouse, whose brick facades march up and ...

129. The Best of LCD: The Art and Writing of WFMU, by Dave the Spazz
ISBN 9781568987156, paperback binding, $29.95

Named the best radio station in America by Rolling Stone magazine four years running, WFMU is considered the alternative radio station. The New York-area noncommercial, ...

130. The Business of Design: Balancing Creativity and Profitability, by Keith Granet
ISBN 9781616890186, hardcover binding, $40.00

The Business of Design debunks the myth that business sense and creative talent are mutually exclusive and, unlike other lackluster business books, is written and ...

131. The Codewriting Workbook: Creating Computational Architecture in AutoLISP, by Robert J. Krawczyk
ISBN 9781568987927, paperback binding, $50.00

The Codewriting Workbook introduces students and practi-tioners to basic programming concepts for computer-aided design (CAD). Through a series of guided exercises and examples, readers learn ...

132. The Concrete Dragon: China's Urban Revolution and What it Means for the World, by Thomas J. Campanella
ISBN 9781568986272, hardcover binding, $35.00

China is the most rapidly urbanizing nation in the world, with an urban population that may well reach one billion within a generation. Over the ...
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133. The Concrete Dragon: China's Urban Revolution and What it Means for the World, by Thomas J. Campanella
ISBN 9781568989686, paperback binding, $24.95

China is the most rapidly urbanizing nation in the world, with an urban population that may well reach one billion within a generation. Over the ...

134. The Day-to-Day Life of Albert Hastings, by Albert Hastings, KayLynn Deveney
ISBN 9781568987040, hardcover binding, $19.95

When Albert Hastings was eighty-five years old, photographer KayLynn Deveney moved near his small flat in Wales. KayLynn took notice of the small rituals and ...

135. The Emerald City: And Other Essays on the Architectural Imagination, by Daniel Willis
ISBN 9781568981741, paperback binding, $19.95

In The Emerald City, Dan Willis takes us on a flight of imagination that paradoxically never strays far from the most tangible, even intimate subjects. ...

136. The Ethical Architect: The Dilemma of Contemporary Practice , by Tom Spector
ISBN 9781568982854, paperback binding, $25.00

Many believe that the moral mission of architecture has been in serious decline for the last 25 years. In this important new book, Tom Spector ...

137. The Handy Book of Artistic Printing: A Collection of Letterpress Examples with Specimens of Type, Ornament, Corner Fills, Borders, Twisters, Wrinklers, and other Freaks of Fancy, by Doug Clouse, Angela Voulangas
ISBN 9781568987057, paperback binding, $40.00

During the late nineteenth century, letterpress printers, engravers, and lithographers boldly challenged the rational sobriety of traditional design by introducing intricate borders, corner embellishments, quirky ...

138. The Landscape Urbanism Reader, by Charles Waldheim
ISBN 9781568984391, paperback binding, $34.95

With populations decentralizing and cities sprawling ever outward, twenty-first-century urban planners are challenged by the need to organize not just people but space itself. Hence ...

139. The Liberal Monument: Urban Design and the Late Modern Project, by Alexander D'Hooghe
ISBN 9781568988245, hardcover binding, $29.95

Architect Alexander D'Hooghe believes urban design has lost its way. Once among the most articulate and avant-garde of disciplines, the field now lacks, he suggests, ...

140. The Library Book: Design Collaborations in the Public Schools, by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi
ISBN 9781568988320, paperback binding, $30.00

It's often said a child's lifelong love of reading begins at home. But declining literacy rates among the nation's public elementary school students suggests this ...

141. The Miller|Hull Partnership: Public Works, by Miller|Hull Partnership, The
ISBN 9781568987545, hardcover binding, $50.00

Our popular 2001 monograph Miller|Hull: Architects of the Pacific Northwest introduced the world to the work of architects David Miller and Robert Hull. Their energy-conscious ...

142. The National Park Architecture Sourcebook, by Harvey H. Kaiser
Series: Guidebooks
ISBN 9781568987422, paperback binding, $40.00

For more than a century, the National Park Service, private individuals, and small businesses have constructed a variety of structures on America's national parklands. Some ...

143. The Pragmatist Imagination: Thinking About Things in the Making , by Joan Ockman
ISBN 9781568982878, paperback binding, $19.95

What would it mean today to think or to imagine, to design or to construct, in relation not to "things made" but to "things in ...

144. The Presence of Mies, by Detlef Mertins
ISBN 9781568980133, paperback binding, $19.95

The Presence of Mies is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that reconsiders the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, putting forth new ways of ...

145. The Projectionist, by Kendall Messick, Brooke Anderson
ISBN 9781568989334, hardcover binding, $40.00

"The ideal artist is unwilling to sacrifice his or her individuality to anything or anyone, particularly commercialism or outside control. Such artists often work in ...

146. The Suburbanization of New York: Is the World's Greatest City Becoming Just Another Town?, by Jerilou Hammett, Kingsley Hammett
ISBN 9781568986784, paperback binding, $24.95

What's next for New York? Is it cooking or cooling? Brimming with vitality or sinking into somnolence? Will it retain its edgy preeminence as global ...

147. The Wayfinding Handbook: Information Design for Public Places, by David Gibson
Series: Design Briefs
ISBN 9781568987699, paperback binding, $24.95

Where am I? What can I do here? Where can I go from here? How do I get out of here?

Consciously or not, we ...

148. Thinking with Type, Second, Revised, Expanded Edition: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students, by Ellen Lupton
Series: Design Briefs
ISBN 9781568989693, paperback binding, $24.95

Our all-time best selling book is now available in a revised and expanded second edition. Thinking with Type is the definitive guide to using typography ...

149. Tilting: House Launching, Slide Hauling, Potato Trenching, and other Tales from a Newfoundland Fishing Village, by Robert Mellin
ISBN 9781568988078, paperback binding, $24.95

There is an almost elemental appeal in the rural fishing villages of Nova Scotia, Maine, and Newfoundland. Their intimate connection to nature, to the land, ...

150. Tom Leader Studio: Three Projects, by Jason Kentner
Series: Source Books in Landscape Architecture
ISBN 9781568988917, paperback binding, $29.95

Tom Leader Studio, a collaborative and experimental design office formed in 2001, is among the most exciting new voices in landscape architecture today. Wit, playfulness, ...

151. University of California, San Diego, by Dirk Sutro, David Hewitt, and Anne Garrison
Series: Campus Guides
ISBN 9781568988603, paperback binding, $29.95

Founded during the Space Age boom of the fifties, the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) campus showcases some of California's finest postwar architecture, ranging ...

152. Unnatural Horizons: Paradox and Contradiction in Landscape Architecture, by Allen Weiss
ISBN 9781568981390, paperback binding, $14.95

Unnatural Horizons presents a selective history of the last five centuries of landscape architecture at the intersection of poetics and science, rhetoric and technology, and ...

153. Urbanisms: Working with Doubt, by Steven Holl
ISBN 9781568986791, hardcover binding, $55.00

Contemporary urban development is increasingly characterized by a reliance on diagrams, maps, and graphs to convey the rational, statistical point of view of the professional ...

154. Virtual Dimension: Architecture, Representation, and Crash Culture, by John Beckmann
ISBN 9781568981208, paperback binding, $24.95

In a century immersed in technological acceleration, we have reached a strange new plateau in the human condition. Advanced technologies such as biometrics and DNA ...

155. Visual Grammar, by Christian Leborg
Series: Design Briefs
ISBN 9781568985817, paperback binding, $21.95

Life in the image world has made us all voracious, if not always deliberate, consumers of visual messages. Easy access to computer graphic tools has ...

156. Volume: Writings on Graphic Design, Music, Art, and Culture, by Kenneth FitzGerald, Rudy VanderLans
ISBN 9781568989648, paperback binding, $24.95

Volume--a word that refers to sound, collections, and the measurement of space--is a crucial characteristic of both graphic design and popular music. While expressing different ...

157. Waiting for the End of the World, by Richard Ross
ISBN 9781568984667, paperback binding, $19.95

Where will you go when the trouble starts? For countless people around the world, the answer is that bomb shelter down in the basement. In ...

158. West Point U.S. Military Academy: The Campus Guide, by Rod Miller
Series: Campus Guides
ISBN 9781568982946, paperback binding, $24.95

West Point's rolling geography, originally chosen for military reasons, has had a profound effect on the campus plan and architectural design. Founded in 1802 by ...

159. Yankee Modern: The Houses of Estes/Twombly, by William Morgan
ISBN 9781568988177, hardcover binding, $40.00

Architects James Estes and Peter Twombly have described their nearly two decades of work as "quiet modernism." Their Rhode Island-based firm, Estes/Twombly Architects, builds modestly ...

160. Young Architects 10: Resonance, by Architectural League of New York, The
Series: Young Architects
ISBN 9781568988092, paperback binding, $24.95

Resonance is the tenth in an annual series of publications that features the best young practicing architects as selected by the Architectural League of New ...

161. Young Architects 11: Foresight, by Architectural League of New York, The
Series: Young Architects
ISBN 9781568988870, paperback binding, $24.95

Foresight is the eleventh in an annual series of publications that features the best young practicing architects as selected by the Architectural League of New ...

162. Young Architects 7: Situating, by Architectural League of New York, Keller Easterling, and Anne Rieselbach
Series: Young Architects
ISBN 9781568985732, paperback binding, $24.95

Architecture has become an increasingly multidisciplinary profession, where concepts, techniques, and materials are readily shared with other disciplines, and the many ways an architect can ...

163. Young Architects 8: Instability, by Architectural League of New York
Series: Young Architects
ISBN 9781568986371, paperback binding, $24.95

Instability is the eighth in an annual series of publications that feature the best young architects as selected by the Architectural League of New York ...