Criticism
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The God Delusion
$21.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERIn the seminal text on atheism in the twenty-first centuy, renowned scientist Richard Dawkins examines the irrationality of believing in God and the g… [more below]
- Author: Dawkins, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0618918248
- Language: English
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New York Art Deco: A Guide to Gotham’s Jazz Age Architecture
$29.95 Add to cartA 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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Building Metabolism: Recipes for Food and Resource Cycles
$49.95 Add to cartHow can we design the architecture of metabolism? How can architecture redefine resources, produce nutrients and contribute to regenerate land and protect communities at risk?
Building Metabolism aims- Author: Kallipoliti, Lydia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1638401802
- Language: English
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Puzzling Assemblies
$50.00 Add to cartPuzzling Assemblies, by award-winning architects and educators Dwayne Oyler and Jenny Wu, is an in-depth investigation into the robust relationship between architectural concepts and puzzle logics.
Or- Author: Wu, Jenny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1961856905
- 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 Add to cart**From the Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism ** Now Updated with New Material**
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“[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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The Limit of the Useful
$34.95 Add to cartThe first English-language translation of an essential, early work key to understanding the French philosopher’s later thought.
In the decade prior to the publication of Inner Experience (L’exp?ience- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047330
- Language: English
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Josef Koudelka: Diaries
$60.00 Add to cartA rare glimpse into the mind and artistic process of one of the world’s greatest photographers.
Distilled from sixty-nine journals kept over the course of fifty-plus years, Josef Koudelka: Diaries offe
- Author: Koudelka, Josef
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1597115932
- 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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Shifting Grounds: The Ground Between Form and Practice in Beirut
$34.95 Add to cartThe book investigates spatial practices at the ground level of Beirut – Appropriation, Commoning, Production, and Activism – that fill the gap between the city’s capital-driven development and the asp… [more below]
- Author: Aramouny, Carla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1638401241
- Language: English
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Our World in Ten Buildings: How Architecture Defines Who We Are and How We Live
$30.00 Add to cartFrom “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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Design and Disability: 10 Tales of Accessible Design
$35.00 Add to cartThis visually rich book celebrates design ingenuity, making the point that inclusive design is better for all
This visually rich book celebrates design ingenuity, acknowledging the significant contri- Author: Kane, Natalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1838510575
- Language: English
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Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists
$26.95 Add to cartIn Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and those of Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern disciplines–psychoanalysis and historicis… [more below]
- Series: Radical Thinkers
- Author: Copjec, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 09 2015
- ISBN10: 1781688885
- Language: English
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The Domestic Stage: When Fashion Image Comes Home
$60.00 Add to cartSince the 1990s, fashion imagery has evolved from the aspirational and glamorous into an experimental genre created by interdisciplinary artists, art directors, and photographers. The domestic space o
- Author: Murray, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0500028443
- Language: English
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Horror of Philosophy: Vols. 1-3
$39.95 Add to cartEugene Thacker’s three cult-classic volumes of supernatural horror come together in this new Zer0 Books omnibus, revised with updated material, offering an essential resource for thinking about the un… [more below]
- Author: Thacker, Eugene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1803415908
- Language: English
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At the Limits of the Gaze: Selected Writings by Takuma Nakahira
$29.95 Add to cartThe first English-language collection of Takuma Nakahira’s influential writings on photography.
At the Limits of the Gaze collects the writings of photographer and critic Takuma Nakahira in English for
- Series: Aperture Ideas
- Author: Nakahira, Takuma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1597115789
- 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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Radical Universalism: Beyond Identity
$17.95 Add to cartA compelling philosophical exploration of the concept of universalism and its role–or lack thereof–in contemporary politics. This accessible study challenges the prioritization of identity politics … [more below]
- Author: Boehm, Omri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1681379856
- 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 Add to cart**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
