Criticism
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New York Art Deco: A Guide to Gotham’s Jazz Age Architecture
$29.95 Read moreA native New Yorker and twenty-year veteran of the New York City Landmarks Commission, Anthony W. Robins is the author of books on Grand Central Terminal, the World Trade Center, and the art and archi… [more below]
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Robins, Anthony W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1438463960
- Language: English
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Shelter Cookbook
$40.00 Add to cartAn inspiring guide to the history and legacy of Lloyd Kahn’s 1970s countercultural self-build manuals
DIY architect, publisher and pioneer of the self-build movement, Lloyd Kahn (born 1935) is a legend
- Author: Banchini, Leopold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 3959054904
- Language: English
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We the Bacteria: Notes Toward Biotic Architecture
$25.00 Add to cartHow architecture must learn to coexist with bacterial life, from the authors of the bestselling Are We Human?
This provocative book is a manifesto for an alternative architectural philosophy. It treats
- Author: Colomnia, Beatriz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 303778783X
- Language: English
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Our World in Ten Buildings: How Architecture Defines Who We Are and How We Live
$30.00 Read moreFrom “tomorrow’s greatest designer” (The Atlantic), a personal and deeply researched look at how the choices we build into our environment reflect and determind the way we think, connect, and live.
We- Author: Murphy, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1668056550
- Language: English
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Lair: Radical Homes and Hideouts of Movie Villains (Trade Edition)
$27.00 Add to cartNOW IN TRADE EDITION!
*50 Books 50 Covers AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts), Winner, Book Category
*Official Selection Award of the 10th Edition of the Festival International du Livre D’Art e- Series: Design + Film
- Author: Oppenheim, Chad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1962098222
- Language: English
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Rewriting Alberti
$34.95 Add to cartA fresh, groundbreaking analysis of renowned Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti’s five built works, suggesting a new relationship of form to meaning.
Much has been written about Renaissance a- Series: Writing Architecture
- Author: Eisenman, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0262553716
- Language: English
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The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids–Featuring the Author’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning Essays
$20.99 Read more**From the Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism ** Now Updated with New Material**
From bui
“[Lange] might be the most influential design critic writing now.” –The Los Angeles Review of Books- Author: Lange, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1639739289
- Language: English
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Democracy and Urban Form
$27.95 Add to cartIf discourse is the foundation of democracy, how can the design of our cities empower and enable discourse?
“Never have the potential political consequences of architecture been greater, and never has- Series: Sternberg Press / The Incidents
- Author: Sennett, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 191560947X
- Language: English
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From Bauhaus to Our House
$17.00 Add to cart“After 1945 our plutocrats, bureaucrats, board chairmen, CEOs, commissioners, and college presidents undergo an inexplicable change. They become diffident and reticent. All at once they are willing
to- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1250352673
- Language: English
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Architecture of Segregation: The Hierarchy of Spaces and Places
$54.99 Add to cartIn Architecture of Segregation, the intricate interplay between architecture and societal divisions is meticulously explored, providing a comprehensive analysis of how built environments have shaped a
- Author: McCants, Jerel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 9798990152434
- Language: English
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Greatness: Diverse Designers of Architecture
$45.00 Add to cartGREATNESS: Diverse Designers of Architecture is a compelling exploration of the contributions of diverse architects to the field of architecture.
This book delves into the essence of various architec- Author: Sablan, Pascale
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1961856212
- Language: English
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Architecture and Objects
$24.95 Add to cartThinking through object-oriented ontology–and the work of architects such as Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid–to explore new concepts of the relationship between form and function
Object-oriented ontolo- Author: Harman, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1517908531
- Language: English
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Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side
$37.50 Read moreSouthern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side is the first book devoted to the South Side’s rich and unfairly ignored architectural heritage. With lively, insightful text and … [more below]
- Series: Second to None: Chicago Stories
- Author: Bey, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0810140985
- Language: English
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Architecture Depends
$24.95 Read morePolemics and reflections on how to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be.
Architecture depends–on what? On people, time, politics, ethics, mess: the re
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Till, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0262518783
- Language: English
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Mid-Michigan Modern, Expanded Edition: From Frank Lloyd Wright to Googie
$39.95 Read moreFrom 1940 to 1970, mid‐Michigan had an extensive and varied legacy of modernist architecture by well‐known architects and regional firms. Through Susan Bandes’s archival research and oral … [more below]
- Author: Bandes, Susan J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 436
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1611862175
- Language: English
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Architecture’s Theory
$34.95 Read moreA collection of illuminating essays exploring what theory makes of architecture and what architecture makes of theory in philosophical and materialized contexts.
From poststructuralism and deconstruct- Series: Writing Architecture
- Author: Ingraham, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0262544970
- Language: English
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Beyond Digital: Design and Automation at the End of Modernity
$29.95 Read moreRecasting computational design: a new modern agenda for a post-industrial, post-pandemic world.
Mass production was the core technical logic of industrial modernity: for the last hundred years, archit- Author: Carpo, Mario
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0262545152
- Language: English
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Atmospheres: Architectural Environments. Surrounding Objects
$49.00 Read more- Author: Zumthor, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 76
- Publish Date: March 17 2006
- ISBN10: 3764374950
- Language: English
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Speaking of Architecture: Interviews about What Comes Next, with Mark Foster Gage
$29.95 Read moreWhat ideas are currently energizing your architectural work and explorations? Why did these ideas become impactful while others did not? What role did mentors and peers play in the development of thes… [more below]
- Author: Foster Gage, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1957183187
- Language: English
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The Mannerist Mind: An Architecture of Crisis
$24.95 Read moreDeparting from a discussion on what it would be a mannerist attitude in the architecture of today, and theorizing around it, this book analyzes some works of contemporary European practices including … [more below]
- Author: González de Canales, Francisco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1638400369
- Language: English
