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Giancarlo De Carlo: Inspiration & Process in Architecture
Francesca Serrazanetti & Matteo Schubert, editors
Moleskine, 2012

Zaha Hadid: Inspiration & Process in Architecture
Francesca Serrazanetti & Matteo Schubert, editors
Moleskine, 2012

U:D/R 04 England's Burning: The Story of the English riots told in pictograms.
Stephen McCarthy
Unit Editions, 2012

Next Nature: Nature Changes Along with Us
Koert van Mensvoort & Hendrik Jan Grievink, editors
Actar, 2012

Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
Simon & Schuster, 2011

Otto Neurath - City Planning: Proposing a socio-political Map for Modern Urbanism
Sophie Hochhäusl
Innsbruck University Press , 2011

Ship Shape, a Dazzle Camouflage Sourcebook
Roy R. Behrens
Bobolink Books, 2012

Drawing Techniques
Peter Jenny
Princeton Architectural Press, 2012

Figure Drawing
Peter Jenny
Princeton Architectural Press, 2012

The Artist's Eye
Peter Jenny
Princeton Architectural Press, 2012

Design Dossier: Architecture
Pamela Pease
Paintbox Press, 2011

Camoupedia: A Compendium of Research on Art, Architecture and Camouflage
Roy R. Behrens
Bobolink Books, 2009

How to Architect
Doug Patt
The MIT Press, 2012

Wandering the Garden of Technology and Passion
Pierluigi Serraino
Balcony Press, 2012

The Bioregional Imagination: Literature, Ecology, and Place
Tom Lynch & Cheryll Glotfelty, editors
University of Georgia Press, 2012

Swiss Photobooks from 1927 to the Present
Edited by Peter Pfrunder, Fotostiftung Schweiz, Martin Gasser, Sabine Münzenmaier
Lars Muller Publishers, 2011

Wicked Problems: Problems Worth Solving
Jon Kolko
Austin Center For Design, 2012

Now in Lemon, Issue One.
Dan Drakeford
, 2011

Design with the Other 90%: Cities
Cynthia E. Smith
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 2011

The Electric Information Age Book: Mcluhan/Agel/Fiore and the Experimental Paperback
Jeffrey Schnapp, Adam Michaels
Princeton Architectural Press, 2012

Why the Law Is So Perverse
Leo Katz
University Of Chicago Press, 2011

344 Questions: The Creative Person's Do-It-Yourself Guide to Insight, Survival, and Artistic Fulfillment
Stefan G. Bucher
New Riders Press, 2011

Make Space: How to Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration
Scott Doorley & Scott Witthoft
Wiley, 2012

The New Mathematics of Architecture
Jane Burry & Mark Burry
Thames & Hudson, 2012

Designing For Social Change: Strategies for Community-Based Graphic Design
Andrew Shea
Princeton Architectural Press, 2012

Inventing the Medium: Principles of Interaction Design as a Cultural Practice
Janet H. Murray
The MIT Press, 2011

This is Service Design Thinking: Basics, Tools, Cases
Marc Stickdorn
Wiley, 2012

Town Planning In The Netherlands 1800 - 2000
Cor Wagenaar
010, 2008

Bicycle Travel Journal
Nigel Peake
Laurence King Publishers, 2011

Design Things
Pelle Ehn, Thomas Binder, Giorgio de De Michelis, Per Linde, Giulio Jacucci, Ina Wagner
The MIT Press, 2011

Polish Cold War Neon
Ilona Karwinska
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The Campaign for Domestic Happiness
Isabella Beeton
Penguin, 2011

Learn World Calligraphy
Margaret Shepherd
Watson-Guptill, 2011

All the Roads are Open: The Afghan Journey
Annemarie Schwarzenbach
Seagull Books, 2011

R 20th Century: 10 Years in Tribeca
Zesty Meyers & Evan Snyderman, editors
R 20th Century, 2011

Cultural Emergency in Conflict and Disaster
Els van der Plas, Georg Frerks & Berma Klein Goldewijk
NAi Publishers, 2011

A Book of Liszts: Variations on the Theme of Franz Liszt
John Spurling
Seagull Books, 2011

Hannes Wettstein: Seeking Archetypes
Studio Hannes Wettstein
Lars Muller, 2011

Learn Calligraphy: The Complete Book of Lettering and Design
Margaret Shepherd
Watson-Guptill, 2001

The First Panoramas: Visions of British Imperialism
Denise Blake Oleksijczuk
University of Minnesota, 2011

A History of Graphic Design for Rainy Days
Studio 3
Gestalten, 2011

Participate (Design Briefs)
Helen Armstrong & Zvezdana Stojmirovic
Princeton Architectural Press, 2011

Tales of the Jazz Age
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Penguin Classics, 2011

Maharam Agenda
Michael Maharam
Lars Muller Publishers, 2011

Paste Papers of the Pioneer Valley
David P. Bourbeau
Kat Ran Press/Catawba Press, 2011

Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books
Leah Price, editor
Yale University Press, 2011

Victor Halfwit: A Winter's Tale
Thomas Bernhard
Seagull Books, 2011

I Swear I Saw This: Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own
Michael Taussig
University Of Chicago Press, 2011

The Perfectly Imperfect Home: How to Decorate and Live Well
Deborah Needleman
Clarkson Potter, 2011

DESIGNerd
Kevin Finn, Steven Heller, Lita Talarico & Stefan Sagmeister
DESIGNerd, 2011

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