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Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students (Design Briefs)
Ellen Lupton
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February 1, 2007
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Step Inside Design, Dec. 2004
"dense enough to cover all vital type subjects...condensed enough for easy referencing."...
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Transmaterial: A Catalog of Materials that Redefine our Physical Environment
Blaine Brownell
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December 31, 1899
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New Scientist (UK), Februaury 2006
Colorful and stimulating, and you don't have to be an architect to appreciate it. . . there is endless inspiration here....
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How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul
Adrian Shaughnessy
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September 1, 2005
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Communication Arts, November 23, 2005
His likable and generous voice guides young designers toward civility and integrity in their approach to a life in design....
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Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type (Design Briefs)
Kimberly Elam
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August 1, 2005
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Although grid systems are the foundation for almost all typographic design, they are often associated with rigid, formulaic solutions. However, the belief that all great design is nonetheless based on grid systems (even if only subverted ones) suggests tha...
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Geometry of Design: Studies in Proportion and Composition
Kimberly Elam
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October 1, 2001
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"This small eye-opening paperback is a ‘rare gem’!"...
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Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency
Andrea O. Dean
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February 1, 2002
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From Publishers Weekly
The genius of an architect who made beautiful and functional homes out of inexpensive materials is celebrated in Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency. The book showcases work Mockbee (1944-2002) undertook in Hale County, Ala., where ...
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Visual Grammar (Design Briefs)
Christian Leborg
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May 1, 2006
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Life in the image world has made us all voracious, if not always deliberate, consumers of visual messages. Easy access to computer graphic tools has turned many of us into either amateur or professional image producers. But without a basic understanding of...
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Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: An Anthology of Architectural Theory 1965-1995
Kate Nesbitt
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December 1, 1997
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This is a thorough and comprehensive introduction to a small but challenging field of intellectual endeavor. ...
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Graphic Design 20th Century
Alston Purvis
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November 1, 2003
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With over five hundred color reproductions, Graphic Design 20th Century represents a pictorial history of the last hundred years in graphic design. Alston Purvis presents all the significant designers of the twentieth century as well as the many styles that characterized this rich and tumultuous period: Art Nouveau, Arts ...
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Big and Green: Sustainable Skyscrapers for the Twenty-First Century
David Gissen
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January 13, 2003
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Cities operate as unnatural ecosystems. Buildings breathe in and out. They consume and waste resources. They foul the air. Now more architects and engineers are working with greater regard for the environmental consequences of big buildings. "Green archite...
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Elements of Design: Rowena Reed Kostellow and the Structure of Visual Relationships
Gail G. Hannah
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August 1, 2002
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A hands-on book design students and designers alike will welcome. Elements of Design is a tribute to an exceptional teacher and a study of the abstract visual relationships that were her lifelong pursuit. Rowena Reed Kiostellow taught industrial design at ...
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Geography of Home
Akiko Busch
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September 26, 2003
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An appealing, insightful collection of musings on the architecture, psychology, and history of house and home in America. Busch, a contributing editor at Metropolis magazine, has assembled 14 essays originally published there. Analyzing the domestic space...
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Good Deeds, Good Design: Community Service through Architecture
Bryan Bell
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March 1, 2004
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It may come as no surprise that only two percent of new homebuyers work directly with an architect to design the space in which they will live indeed, architects are usually seen as a luxury most of us, the other ninety-eight percent, can t afford....
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Rem Koolhaas: Conversations with Students (Architecture at Rice, 30)
Sanford Kwinter
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December 1, 1997
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Award-winning Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas is the founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and has become one of the most intriguing and exciting architectural thinkers of our time. This small-scale, affordable paperback presents a selecti...
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A History of Architectural Theory
Hanno-Walter Kruft
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December 1, 1997
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I am as astonished to find this book written, so great was the scholarship and labor involved, as I am to find it previosly unwritten, so great is the need for it. Its scale and scope is unique. ...
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Louis Kahn: Conversations with Students (Architecture at Rice)
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December 1, 1998
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It is possible to admire without reservation Kahn's moving and pellucid architecture, but to be less enthusiastic about his sometimes recondite lectures and writings. On the other hand, every new insight into the great man's thinking about design should b...
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Santiago Calatrava: Conversations with Students -The MIT Lectures
Santiago Calatrava
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October 2, 2002
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"This is the first time that I have made the commitment to give a series of talks with the specific intention of communicating my experience. The things I am saying, I am saying for the next generation-people who will set and invent other styles and who wi...
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Le Corbusier Talks with Students
Le Corbusier
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January 24, 2000
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First published in France in 1943 and translated for English-speaking readers in 1961, ...
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The Ethical Architect: the dilemma of contemporary practice
Tom Spector
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August 6, 2001
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Many believe that the moral mission of architecture has been in serious decline for the last 25 years. In this important new book, Tom Spector points out the dilemmas of architectural practice and offers a theoretical and practical basis for an examination...
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Peter Smithson: Conversations with Students: A Space for Our Generation
Catherine Spellman
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January 1, 2007
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Monument Magazine, Feb/Mar 2006
Unglaub and Spellman have developed a neat structure...giving the reader direct insight into Smithson's recollections, opinions and ideas....
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