As in the last six years, I'm presenting a list of gift books just in time for the holidays. This year I'm presenting one each from over 40 publishers, posted in one long list. Click on the cover or book title to get more information or to purchase, in most cases, at Amazon.
AA Publications:
Manifest Destiny: A Guide to the Essential Indifference of American Suburban Housing by Jason Griffiths
Actar:
Roberto Burle Marx: The Modernity of Landscape edited by Lauro Cavalcanti, Francis Rambert, Farès el-Dahdah
a+t:
a+t 37: Strategy Space
Birkhäuser:
Floor Plan Manual Housing, 4th revised and extended edition edited by Oliver Heckmann, Friederike Schneider
CCA:
Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War by Jean-Louis Cohen
Columbia University GSAPP:
Erieta Attali: In Extremis: Landscape into Architecture by Erieta Attali (Read my review here.)
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum:
Design with the Other 90%: Cities by Cynthia Smith
Da Capo Press:
Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted by Justin Martin
Éditions Xavier Barral:
Dark Lens edited by Cédric Delsaux
eVolo:
eVolo Skyscrapers edited by Carlo Aiello
Gestalten:
Sublime: New Architecture and Design from Japan edited by R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, K. Bolhöfer, A. Kupetz, B. Meyer
Hatje Cantz:
Wim Wenders: Places, Strange and Quiet by Wim Wenders
Images Publishing Group:
New York Dozen: Gen X Architects by Michael J. Crosbie
Island Press
The Architecture of Community by Leon Krier (The 2009 book, now in paperback.)
Lars Müller Publishers:
Landform Building: Architecture's New Terrain edited by Stan Allen and Marc McQuade
Laurence King Publishing:
100 Ideas that Changed Architecture by Richard Weston (Also of note: Magma Sketchbook: Design and Art Direction, designed by Studio8)
Metropolis Books:
Architects' Sketchbooks by Will Jones (Read my review here.)
MIT Press:
Urban Code: 100 Lessons for Understanding the City by Anne Mikoleit and Moritz Pürckhauer
The Monacelli Press:
Carrot City: Creating Places for Urban Agriculture by Mark Gorgolewski, June Komisar, Joe Nasr
Multi-Story Books:
By the City/For the City: An Atlas of Possibility for the Future of New York edited by Anne Guiney and Brendan Crain
NAi Publishers:
Housing Design: A Manual (More information at NAi Publishers.)
ORO Editions:
Banham in Buffalo: 5 Years of the P. Reyner Banham Fellowships at the University at Buffalo School of Architecture
Oxford University Press:
New York's Golden Age of Bridges paintings by Antonio Masi, essays by Joan Marans Dim
Penguin:
The Heights: Anatomy of a Skyscraper by Kate Ascher (Read my review here.)
Phaidon:
The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture Travel Edition
Princeton Architectural Press:
The Architectural Detail by Edward R. Ford
Princeton University Press:
Kissing Architecture by Sylvia Lavin
Reaktion Books:
Italy: Modern Architectures in History by Diane Yvonne Ghirardo
Rizzoli:
Frank Lloyd Wright Designs: The Sketches, Plans, and Drawings by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer
Routledge:
Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture edited by Nishat Awan, Tatjana Schneider, Jeremy Till
Skira:
Promenade: The City of Culture of Galicia by Maxwell L. Anderson, Lawrence Chua, Rachel Healy, Andres Perea and Ramon Villares
Springer:
Wonderland Manual for Emerging Architects edited by Silvia Forlati and Anne Isopp
SUN Architecture:
How the city moved to Mr. Sun: China's new megacities by Michiel Hulshof and Daan Roggeveen
Taschen:
Project Japan: Metabolism Talks... by Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist
teNeues:
Growth: Prix Pictet 3
Thames and Hudson:
Adjaye · Africa · Architecture by David Adjaye
Tuns:
Designing & Building: Rockhill and Associates, second edition edited by Brian Carter
Verso:
All Over the Map: Writing on Buildings and Cities by Michael Sorkin (Read my review here.)
Walther König, Köln:
Oswald Mathias Ungers: Morphologie: City Metaphors by O.M. Ungers (This is a new printing of the 1982 book.)
Wiley:
The Story of Post-Modernism: Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture by Charles Jencks (Read my review here.)
W.W. Norton:
Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture by John Hill (Yes, I couldn't resist recommending my own book.)
Yale University Press:
Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention edited by Zoë Ryan
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