| | | | Fall 2012 Featured Design & Architecture Thanks for the View, Mr. Mies Edited and with text by Danielle Aubert, Lana Cavar, Natasha Chandani | Placement. Lafayette Park, an affordable middle-class residential area in downtown Detroit, is home to the largest collection of buildings designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in the world. Today, it is one of Detroit’s most >>more
Metropolis Books
ISBN 9781935202929
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 272 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 09/30/2012 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  Diller, Scofidio + Renfro: Inside-Out, and still Lincoln Center The redesign of Lincoln Center is one of the most challenging and innovative civic projects in recent urban history. Over the past eight years, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), in close collaboration with FxFowle, Beyer >>more
Damiani
ISBN 9788862082440
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Clth, 9.25 x 12.5 in. / 288 pgs / 60 gatefolds / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 11/30/2012 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  David Chipperfield Architects Edited by Rik Nys. Intoduction by Fulvio Irace. Text by David Chipperfield, Rik Nys. The British architect David Chipperfield is an exemplary exponent of modernism and its ongoing relevance. The confident elegance of his buildings expresses a belief in the discreet craftsmanship and clarity of early-twentieth-century architecture: “If yo >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783863351342
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Pbk, 10 x 12.75 in. / 352 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2012 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  Wendell Castle: Wandering Forms Introduction by Evan Snyderman. Text by Alastair Gordon. American studio furniture icon Wendell Castle is one of the most important, influential and celebrated designers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. For more than 50 years, he has consistently pioneered new territory in design >>more
Gregory R. Miller & Co./The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
ISBN 9780982681343
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Hbk, 10 x 12 in. / 396 pgs / 200 color / 200 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2012 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  Bio Design Edited and text by William Myers. Foreword by Paola Antonelli. For centuries, designers and artists have looked to nature for inspiration and materials, but only recently have they developed the ability to alter and incorporate living organisms or tissues into their work. This startling development, >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870708442
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Hbk, 8.25 x 10 in. / 288 pgs / 400 color.
Pub Date: 12/31/2012 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  How to Make a Japanese House Text by Cathelijne Nuijsink. Nowhere in the world have architects built homes as small as in Japan, and nowhere have they done so with such ingenuity and success. How to Make a Japanese House presents 21 lessons in how >>more
NAi Publishers
ISBN 9789056628505
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 324 pgs / 146 color.
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|  Food for the City Text by Peter de Rooden, Adam Grubb, Han Wiskerke, Lola Sheppard, Mason White, Gaynor Paradza, et al. By the year 2050 there will be nine billion people living on Earth. Seventy-five percent of them will be living in cities. If the world population continues to grow at this rate, it will take >>more
NAi Publishers
ISBN 9789056628543
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 256 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2012 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  A Place in the Shade By Charles Correa. Charles Correa’s A Place in the Shade explores architectural and urban issues in India, from the house as a machine for dealing with the country’s often hostile climate to the metaphysical role of architecture as >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775734011
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Hbk, 7.25 x 8.5 in. / 246 pgs / 1 color / 200 b&w.
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|  Piecing Together Los Angeles: An Esther McCoy Reader By Esther McCoy. Edited and with text by Susan Morgan. Esther McCoy (1904–1989) is one of the twentieth century’s foremost architecture historians, and one of the greatest chroniclers of the architecture of midcentury southern California. Her 1960 book Five California Architects has long been acknowle >>more
East of Borneo Books
ISBN 9780615528236
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 392 pgs / 6 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/30/2012 Active/In stock
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|  Clyfford Still Museum: Allied Works Architecture Text by Brad Cloepfil, Robert McCarter, Dean Sobel, et al. The Clyfford Still Museum in Denver was created as a home for the artistic vision of American painter Clyfford Still (1904–1980), who helped spearhead the Abstract Expressionist movement. Though acknowledged as one of the country’s >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775733328
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Hbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 112 pgs / 60 color.
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|  Qualities of Duration: The Architecture of Phillip Smith & Douglas Thompson Text by Alastair Gordon. The branch of a sycamore grows through the opening of a wall in a Manhattan studio. A pool-house on Long Island becomes a sod-roofed teahouse. An eighteenth-century farmhouse in Pennsylvania expands to echo the path >>more
Damiani/Gordon De Vries Studio
ISBN 9788862082310
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Hbk, 9 x 9 in. / 221 pgs / illustrated throughout.
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|  MASS Design Group: Empowering Architecture Edited by Michael Murphy, Alan Ricks, et al. Introduction by Dr. Paul Farmer. Text by Michael Murphy, Alan Ricks. Photographs by Iwan Baan. Empowering Architecture is the MASS Design Group’s first publication. MASS partners with governments and various organizations to apply design and architectural thinking to social justice goals and produce equitable infrastructure that assists its >>more
MASS
ISBN 9780615534152
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Pbk, 8 x 8 in. / 172 pgs / 122 color.
Pub Date: 07/31/2012 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  Women in Graphic Design 1890-2012 Edited by Gerda Breuer, Julia Meer. Text by Sabine Bartelsheim, Gerda Breuer, Ute Brüning, Jochen Eisenbrand, Ellen Lupton, Julia Meer, Ada Raev, Bettina Richter, Patrick Rössler, Martha Scotford, Judith Siegmund. Why do so few women feature in the history of design? Why is it still the case that so few women speak at conferences? How have previously celebrated female designers come to be “forgotten”? Are >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783868591538
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Flexi, 7.25 x 9.25 in. / 608 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 10/31/2012 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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