Architecture Books

Selection of publications on architecture history, interior design, urban planning, landscape design, and more.

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Black book cover with illustration of earth in dark green and black. Title in white upper right

Brown book cover featuring three outlined figures of two men and a woman characteristically dressed in the style of the Victorian era. The title reads in blue bold font: Chronicles of Old New York.

Chronicles of Old New York

Book cover showing gold and silver metalwork of a classical figure with art deco ornamentation. Title vertically rotated in sans serf font in navy blue field to the left

The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s

Square book cover in the form of a ceramic tile complete with crackling glaze. Blue and red floral shapes frame the title in red and green sans serif letters in the center

White book cover featuring a white chair. Both the cover and the chair are covered in handwritten words

Can Design Change Society?

A hardcover book with swiss binding. The cover depicts a photo of two bridges made of tree roots, one hanging above the other. Six people carrying various supplies walk in opposite directions across the bridges and are surrounded by foliage from the nearby forest. The title of the book is featured in large white text at the top left corner of the book.

Julia Watson: Lo—TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism

Book cover with photograph of a landscaped environment in the foreground and lower manhattan in the background undera blue sky. The title is overlaid vertically stacked through the center in white sans serif letters.

NYC Walks: Guide to New Architecture

Book cover with a floral pattern in blues and greens. A space near the center is indented in the shape of a vial with a white box in the middle with the title information in orange vintage type

Bitten by Witch Fever: Wallpaper & Arsenic in the Nineteenth-Century Home

Small, tall book cover with stacked rectangulars in shades of blue at top green in the middle and brown at the bottom. Title in serif white letters near the center

Mid-Century Modern Architecture Travel Guide: East Coast USA

Green book cover and spine with black and green photograph of figures standing in front of a booth. Title and architectural illustration printed in orange lines over the green and black image

Social Design: Participation and Empowerment

Cover of the book Basic Architecture: Morris published by Taschen. The cover is white with black text and features a drawing of a floral display in shades of dark green, blue, yellow, and white. The style of drawing is from the 20th century and was most likely used as a wallcovering.

Basic Architecture: Morris

Book cover with large timelapsed photography of figures in a chic hotel room with an image of figures on the ceiling. Title in red on center right of cover backlit by hotel room window

New Hotels for Global Nomads

Square book cover showing a modern kitchen with blue appliances cabinets and flooring. Title overlaid at a slant with yellow sans serif letters

The Midcentury Kitchen

Book cover with orange field at top with title in yellow and black sans serif letters above a black and white photograph of a geodesic dome

Your Private Sky: R. Buckminster Fuller

The Future of Public Space

The Future of Public Space

Lavendar cover with black and white image of Eileen Gray.

Eileen Gray: Her Life and Work

Book cover with beige and black sketch of globe ship and large geometric forms. Title in white sans serif font in orange field near the top

Education Automation

Large book cover featuring a scenic woodblock wallpaper. Text overlaid reads Zuber: Two Centuries of Panoramic Wallpapers.

Zuber: Two Centuries of Panoramic Wallpaper

Book cover with delicate watercolor depiction of a central park bridge over well dressed figures. To the left is a architectural elevation sketch of landscape ornament

The Central Park: Original Designs for New York's Greatest Treasure

Square book cover with image of a landscape design featuring a glossy red curving architectural element. Title in retro yellow font overlaid in the center

Futurescapes: Designers for Tomorrow's Outdoor Spaces

Book cover with a photograph of a bald figure walking on a highway overpass holding a phone to their ear, framed by a black and white square filled with black and white dots over the title in white sans serif font

Check In / Check Out: The Public Space as an Internet of Things

White book cover with photograph of a modernist house with a pool in the foreground where two figures are lounging. Title above in black sans serif letters

Basic Architecture: Case Study Houses

The beige book cover features a graphic image of a perspectival view on a house layout in red, yellow, and light blue colors. The title, the subtitle, and the author's name are places at the top in three rows using bold font.

The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness

Book cover with black and white schematic of figures in wheelchairs from different angles. Title in white font in transparent blue field across the top

Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability

Book cover featuring an all-white paper model of the modernist home Villa Savoye, designed by famed architect Le Crobusier. the model display sits in a dark grey to light grey gradient background. The title is centered at the top of the book cover, using a cut-out font with yellow edging.

Le Corbusier Paper Models

Dark purple-gray book cover featuring a gray amorphous shape made up of different grayscale collages materials. White text overlaid, broken up across the page, reads "Dust & Data"

Dust & Data: Traces of the Bauhaus Across 100 Years

Book cover featuring a figure in a cave like interior with white porous panels casting intricate shadows on the floor

Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques

Red book cover with two offset yellow orange lines in the center and large yellow orange text: Breaking Ground: Architecture by Women.

Breaking Ground: Architecture by Women

White book cover with black square askew and a smaller white and red cube inside. Title in black sans serif font slanted with the square

Walter Gropius: International Architecture

Book cover with photograph of a row of trees in a storm with high winds and a gray sky. Title in italicized sans serif font in white fading to transparent with the word "Broken" in red

Critical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet

Basic Architecture: Gaud’

Basic Architecture: Gaudí

White book cover with black and white photograph of a modernist building and lawn with lawn chairs and pool in front of a mountain range. Title in black sans serif letters at top

Basic Architecture: Neutra

Cover of Black Landscapes Matter featuring a mostly black cover with a small section at the bottom of the cover that features a landscape drawing of an urban environment. 6 people are placed into the drawing, which includes a bike path, some trees, and street signage.

Black Landscapes Matter

A black and white photograph of a light-skinned woman seated in a chair. The woman wears thick black round-framed glasses and a black long sleeve dress. She has a sly smile on her face and is posed in a direction that looks slightly passed the viewer. A navy trim covers the spine of the book.

Essays on Jane Jacobs

Book cover features a photo of a town in the mountains taken from above. Two lines of the title in bold gray font are separated by the image. The background of the cover is black with a visible pore texture of concrete.

Justice Is Beauty: MASS Design Group

Book cover features an image of skyscrapers looking up to the sky, buildings engage the open skyspace at the center on all four sides. the title and author's name centrally grouped in five lines using a white bold font. The subtitles are visible in between in a smaller typewritten black font.

What Goes Up: The Rights and Wrongs to the City

Book cover featuring a light grey to white gradient background, paper model of the famous "FALLINGWATER" home, in the center. At the bottom of the cover, there are three smaller images of architectural accomplishments of Frank Lloyd Wright as paper models.

Frank Lloyd Wright Paper Models: 14 Kirigami Buildings to Cut and Fold

Cover image with photograph of the designer and smaller images showing sample of his iconic designs.

Michael Graves: Design for Life

Book cover with image of a layered possibly torn topographic white surface. Title in angular futuristic font in the center

Book cover with dense curvilinear maze like pattern punctuated by the title in black sans serif font

Joris Laarman Lab

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