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  • Top This and Other Parables of Design: Selected Writings by Phil PattonTop This and Other Parables of Design: Selected Writings by Phil Patton
    Cooper-Hewitt Museum

    Top This and Other Parables of Design: Selected Writings by Phil Patton

    Softcover | 10.92 x 2.03 x 17.53 cm | 296 pp Cooper-Hewitt Museum | 2017 | 9781942303152 In September 2015 the world lost Phil Patton – prolific design writer, teacher and tantalising wordsmith. Patton’s insatiable curiosity, sense of humour and keen eye made for the...
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  • Digital Design Theory: Readings from the FieldDigital Design Theory: Readings from the Field
    Princeton Architectural Press

    Digital Design Theory: Readings from the Field

    Helen Armstrong & Keetra Dean Dixon  Softcover | 18.42 x 1.27 x 22.23 cm |152 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2016 | 9781616893088 Digital Design Theory bridges the gap between the discourse of print design and interactive experience by examining the impact of computation on the...
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  • Making Design Theory
    MIT Press

    Making Design Theory

    Johan Redström Hardcover | 22.86 x 16 x 1.52 cm | 192 pp MIT Press | 2017 | 9780262036658 A new approach to theory development for practice-driven research, proposing that theory is something made in and through design. Tendencies toward “academisation” of traditionally practice-based fields...
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  • Serious Play: Design in Midcentury AmericaSerious Play: Design in Midcentury America
    Yale University Press

    Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America

    Hardcover | 25.15 x 2.54 x 28.45 cm | 264 pp Yale University Press | 2018 | 9780300234220 This spirited volume shows how postwar designers and architects embraced whimsy and eclecticism in their work, exploring playfulness as an essential construct of modernity. Following World War...
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  • Design Dictionary: Perspectives on Design TerminologyDesign Dictionary: Perspectives on Design Terminology
    Birkhäuser

    Design Dictionary: Perspectives on Design Terminology

    Softcover | 17.86 x 3.81 x 22.48 cm | 472 pp Birkhäuser  | 2008 | 9783764377397 This dictionary provides a stimulating and categorical foundation for a serious international discourse on design. It is a handbook for everyone concerned with design in career or education, who is interested...
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  • Bauhaus FuturesBauhaus Futures
    MIT Press

    Bauhaus Futures

    Hardcover | 18.75 x 2.92 x 23.65 cm | 376 pp MIT Press | 2019 | 9780262042918 Essays, photo-essays, interviews, manifestos, diagrams, and a play explore the varied legacies, influences, and futures of the Bauhaus. What would keep the Bauhaus up at night if...
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  • Sifting the Trash: A History of Design CriticismSifting the Trash: A History of Design Criticism
    MIT Press

    Sifting the Trash: A History of Design Criticism

    Alice Twemlow Hardcover | 18.75 x 2.34 x 23.65 cm | 312 pp MIT Press | 2017 | 9780262035989 This book looks at how product design criticism has rescued some products from the trash and consigned others to the landfill. Product design criticism operates...
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  • Pretense Design: Surface Over SubstancePretense Design: Surface Over Substance
    MIT Press

    Pretense Design: Surface Over Substance

    Per Mollerup Hardcover | 16.03 x 1.88 x 26.19 cm | 224 pp MIT Press | 2019 | 9780262039482 PLEASE NOTE: This title has been remainder marked by the publisher - a small marker pen dot on one edge. See images. How some design appears...
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  • Jan Tschichold and the New Typography: Graphic Design Between the World WarsJan Tschichold and the New Typography: Graphic Design Between the World Wars
    Yale University Press

    Jan Tschichold and the New Typography: Graphic Design Between the World Wars

    Paul Stirton Softcover | 17.78 x 3.18 x 22.86 cm | 272 pp Yale University Press | 2019 | 9780300243956 Richly illustrated with images from Jan Tschichold’s little-known private collection of design ephemera, this important book explores a legendary figure in the history of modern...
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  • Chatter: Architecture Talks BackChatter: Architecture Talks Back
    Yale University Press

    Chatter: Architecture Talks Back

    Karen Kice  Softcover | 21.6 x 13.7 x 1 cm | 88 pp Yale University Press | 2015 | 9780300210637 A bold, theoretical look at an emerging generation of architects, this volume is devoted to five contemporary practices-Bureau Spectacular, Erin Besler, Fake Industries Architectural Agonism, Formlessfinder,...
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  • Graphic Design: The New BasicsGraphic Design: The New Basics
    Princeton Architectural Press

    Graphic Design: The New Basics

    Ellen Lupton & Jennifer Cole Phillips Hardcover | 20.96 x 2.54 x 23.5 cm | 248 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2008 | 9781568987705 How do designers get ideas? Many spend their time searching for clever combinations of forms, fonts, and colours inside the design...
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  • Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic DesignersExtra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers
    Princeton Architectural Press

    Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers

    Softcover | 15.37 x 2.41 x 22.99 cm | 176 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2021 | 9781616899189  Extra Bold is the inclusive, practical, and informative career handbook for designers that we've all been waiting for. Written collaboratively by a diverse team of authors, the...
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  • Bauhaus Imaginista: A School in the WorldBauhaus Imaginista: A School in the World
    Thames & Hudson

    Bauhaus Imaginista: A School in the World

    Hardcover | 24.89 x 3.3 x 31.5 cm | 312 pp Thames & Hudson | 2019 | 9780500021934  Bauhaus Imaginista is a major international project marking the centenary of this fascinating and popular school, which championed the idea of artists working together as a community....
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  • The Modern Architectural LandscapeThe Modern Architectural Landscape
    University of Minnesota Press

    The Modern Architectural Landscape

    Caroline Constant Softcover | 17.78 x 2.03 x 22.86 cm | 344 pp University of Minnesota Press | 2012 | 9780816676354 In The Modern Architectural Landscape Caroline Constant examines diverse approaches to landscape in the work of architects practicing in Europe and the United States between...
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  • Flintstone Modernism: or The Crisis in Postwar American CultureFlintstone Modernism: or The Crisis in Postwar American Culture
    MIT Press

    Flintstone Modernism: or The Crisis in Postwar American Culture

    Jeffery Lieber Hardcover | 16.21 x 2.39 x 23.65 cm | 296 pp MIT Press | 2018 | 9780262037495 Ancient history, midcentury modernism, Cinemascope, humanism and monumentality, totalitarianism and democracy: transformations in American culture and architecture. In Flintstone Modernism, Jeffrey Lieber investigates transformations in postwar...
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  • Infinite SuburbiaInfinite Suburbia
    Princeton Architectural Press

    Infinite Suburbia

    Alan Berger & Joel Kotkin Hardcover | 21.3 x 5.1 x 26 cm | 784 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2017 | 9781616895501 Infinite Suburbia is the culmination of the MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism's year-long study of the future of suburban development....
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  • Rethinking The Modular: Adaptable Systems in Architecture and DesignRethinking The Modular: Adaptable Systems in Architecture and Design
    Thames & Hudson

    Rethinking The Modular: Adaptable Systems in Architecture and Design

    Burkhard Meltzer & Tido von Oppeln Softcover | 16.76 x 2.29 x 24.13 cm | 298 pp Thames and Hudson | 2016 | 9780500292358 The modular did not have to be invented: it can be found everywhere. We divide surfaces into grids, spaces into parts, and...
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  • Blue Papers: Studies on Digitational ArchitectureBlue Papers: Studies on Digitational Architecture
    ORO Editions

    Blue Papers: Studies on Digitational Architecture

    Giuseppe Bono Softcover | 14.61 x 1.27 x 20.96 cm | 156 pp ORO Editions | 2022 | 9781951541910 This book analyses the current digital evolution of architecture through a series of considerations related to several aspects of the ongoing digital era, ranging from the...
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  • Ian Ritchie: LightIan Ritchie: Light
    Unicorn Press

    Ian Ritchie: Light

    Ian Ritchie Hardcover | 16.8 x 1.1 x 14.5 cm | 64 pp Unicorn Press | 2023 | 9781911397755 Light is the material of Architecture. Ian Ritchie is one of the UK’s most visionary architects, and remarkable for synthesising multiple creative disciplines to bring the...
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  • Mid-Century Modern Interiors: The Ideas that Shaped Interior Design in America
    Bloomsbury

    Mid-Century Modern Interiors: The Ideas that Shaped Interior Design in America

    Lucinda Kaukas Havenhand Softcover | 15.6 x 0.94 x 23.39 cm | 176 pp Bloomsbury | 2019 | 9781350045712 Mid-Century Modern Interiors explores the history of interior design during arguably its most iconic and influential period. With an extended introduction setting the case studies...
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