Book Recommendations

Art

  1. Art Book, The, Editors of Phaidon Press, ISBN-10: 0714836257

  2. Artist Directory Younger Than Jesus, Giono, Massimiliano, Hoptman, Laura, ISBN-10: 0714849812

  3. History of Art, Janson, Anthony, F., ISBN-10: 0810941597

  4. Lost Between the Extensivity / Intensivity Exchange, Warren, Neidich, ISBN-10: 9078454261

  5. Op Art, Follin, Frances, Pias, Claus, Weinhart, Martina, ISBN-10: 3865602061 

  6. Art In The Streets, Deitch, Jeffrey, Gastman, Roger, ISBN-10: 084786975X

  7. Beyond The Streets, Gastman, Roger, ISBN-10: 0692074880

  8. Black Ink: Illustrations, Bozaci, Ata, "Toast", ISBN-10: 1584232943

  9. Charles Gaines: Gridwork 1974-1989, Martin, Courtney, Ellegood, Anne, ISBN-10: 1584232943

  10. Brian Jungen, Augaitis, Dana, ISBN-10: 1553651340 

  11. FUCT, Brunetti, Erik,, Rose, Aaron, ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0847839664

  12. Exhibitions 001: Post Graffiti, Control Gallery, Beyond the Streets, 

  13. Tom Friedman, Danto, Arthur, C. Danto, Rugoff, Ralph, ISBN-10: 0300142587

  14. Tom Friedman, Phaidon Series, Hainley, Bruce, Cooper, Dennis, Searle, Adrian, ISBN-10: 0714839868

  15. Os Gemeos, Alonzo, Pedro, ISBN-10: 1584235012

  16. Making of the Diamond Skull, The, Hirst, Damien, ISBN-10: 1904212255

  17. Mary Heilman: Looking at Pictures, Yee, Lydia, Heilmann, Mary, ISBN-10: 0854882472

  18. Judd, Temkin, Ann, ISBN-10: 1633450325

  19. Koons, Holzwarth, Hans, W., ISBN-10: 383650328X

  20. Pantone, Felipe, Praesentia, ISBN 10: 1584237635

  21. Rave Art: Flyers, Invitations and Membership Cards, Berlin, Chelsea L., ISBN-10: 1780975953

  22. Risk: Old Habits Die Hard, Gastman, Roger, Seen, SBN-10: 0692312706

  23. Ryan McGinness Works, Halley, Peter Halley, Byrne, David, Niel, ISBN-10: 0847831965

  24. More Dimensions Than You Know: Jack Whitten, 1979–1989, Whitten, Jack, Shiff, Richard, ISBN-10: 3906915069

  25. Murakami, Hebdige, Dick, ISBN-10: 0847830039

  26. Nara, Yoshitomo, Koon, Yeewan, ISBN-10: 0714879940

  27. Pollock, Jackson, Action Painting, Foundation Beyeler, ISBN-10: 3905632640

  28. Price, Ken, Sculpture, Barron, Stephanie, ISBN-10: 3791352555

  29. Superflat, Murakami, Takashi, ISBN-10: 4944079206

  30. Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space, Ruiz, Alma, ISBN-10: 1933751169

  31. Tomorrow Is Another Day, Bradford, Mark, ISBN-10: 1941366147

  32. Yayoi Kusama: Give Me Love, Kusama, Yayoi, ISBN-10: 1941701213

  33. Yayoi Kusama: Give Me Love, Kusama, Yayoi, ISBN-10: 1941701213

  34. Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech, Darling, Michael, ISBN-10: 1636810748 

  35. Wall and Piece, Banksy, ISBN-10: 1844137864

  36. Wipe Out in Hong Kong, Invador, ISBN-10 : 9789881403186


Graphic Design

  1. A Book on Books, Victionary

  2. Buro District, Klanten Robert, ISBN-10: 3-89955002-1

  3. Colour Mania, Victionary

  4. Liber Pictorum Sketchbook, Mutabor, ISBN-10: ‎3899550463

  5. Lingua Digitalis: Pictograms of the Interface Age, Mutabor, ISBN-10‏: ‎9783899554557

  6. Lingua Grafica, Plass, Johannes, Raffel, Carsten, Mutabor, ISBN-10‏: ‎3931126595

  7. Lingua Universalis: Global Wordless Understanding, Plass, Johannes, ISBN-10: ‎3899550331

  8. Logotype, Evamy, Michael

  9. Japanese Design Since 1945, Pollock, Naomi

  10. Japan Graphics 2, Sakamoto, Tomoko

  11. Mutabor, I’m Going to Change, Paravicini, Heinrich, Plass, Johannes

  12. Neon, Fluorescent Graphics, Meseck, Adrian, James, Anna

  13. Pantone, The 20th Century in Color, Eiseman, Leatrice, Recker, Keith

  14. Paper Play, Sandu Cultural Media, ISBN-10: 1584235551

  15. Poemotion 1, Kurashima, Takahiro

  16. Poemotion 2, Kurashima, Takahiro

  17. Sagmeister, Sagmeister, Stefan

  18. Sagmiester, Things I Have Learned, Sagmiester, Stefan,

  19. Symbol, Hyland, Angus / Bateman, Steven

  20. 1,000 Type Treatments, Harvey, Wilson

  21. Vectorism, Vector Graphics Today, Viction:workshop Ltd.

  22. Woodtli, Woodtli, Martin


Photography

  1. Frog: A Photographic Portrait, Marent, Thomas, ISBN-10: 0756641322

  2. End Times, Wombell, Paul, Greenberg, Jill, ISBN-10: 1938922077

  3. End Times, Wombell, Paul, Greenberg, Jill, ISBN-10: 1938922077

  4. The Light of New York, Berts, Jean-Michel

  5. The Light of Paris, Berts, Jean-Michel

  6. The Light of Paris, Berts, Jean-Michel

  7. The Light of Paris, Berts, Jean-Michel

  8. The Light of Paris, Berts, Jean-Michel

  9. The Light of Tokyo, Berts, Jean-Michel

  10. X-Ray, Veasey, Nick, Berts, Jean-Michel


Fashion

  1. Alexander Mcqueen: Savage Beauty, Bolton, Andrew

  2. Fragment, Fujiwara, Hiroshi

  3. Fragment #2, Fujiwara, Hiroshi

  4. Icons, Abloh, Virgil

  5. Kenzo, Marras, Antonio, Saillard, Olivier

  6. Mario Testino: Private View, Testino, Mario

  7. Nike: Better is Temporary, Grawe, Sam, ISBN-10: 1838660518

  8. Places and Spaces I’ve Been, Williams, Pharrell

  9. Supreme, Supreme


Architecture - Architects

  1. 10/10: Jim Jennings Architecture : Ten Projects, Ten Years, Jennings, Jim

  2. Ban, Shigeru, Paper in Architecture

  3. Ban, Shigeru, McQuaid, Matilda, 

  4. CAZA

  5. Central Office of Architecture

  6. Archigram

  7. Archigram

  8. Le Crobusier

  9. Harvard Reivew, The, Volume 3, Winter 1984

  10. Ehrlich, Steven, Houses

  11. Denari *Japanese* Book

  12. Denari, Neil, M., Gyroscopic Horizons

  13. Eisenman, Peter

  14. Eisenman, Peter, Blurred Zones

  15. Ellwood, Craig

  16. Darling, Aidlin, Design, Sites and Senses

  17. Instrumental Form, Jones, Wes

  18. Instrumental Form, Jones, Wes

  19. Jones, Wes, El Segundo

  20. Ito, Toyo, Maffei, Andrea

  21. House is a House is a House is

  22. Kundig, Tom

  23. Meier, Richard, Jodidio, Philip

  24. Meier, Richard, MOCA Publication

  25. Meier, Richard, Architect Volume 1 (Soft Cover)

  26. Meier, Richard, Architect Volume 3 (Hard Cover)

  27. Meier, Richard, Architect Volume 3 (Hard Cover)

  28. Meier, Richard, Architect Volume 4 (Soft Cover)

  29. Meier, Richard, Architect Volume 5 (Soft Cover)

  30. Meier, Richard, Architect Volume 5 (Soft Cover)

  31. Meier, Richard, Architect Volume 6 (Hard Cover)

  32. Meier, Richard, Architect Volume 7 (Soft Cover)

  33. Meier, Richard, Architect Volume 8 (Soft Cover)

  34. Mies in America (Soft Cover)

  35. Mies in Berlin (Soft Cover)

  36. Morphosis Buildings and Projects

  37. Morphosis Building and Projects 1989 - 1992

  38. Morphosis Buildings and Projects 1993-1997

  39. Morphosis Buildings and Projects 1998-2004

  40. Sixth Street House, Thom Maybe, Harvard Press

  41. Morphosis Buildings and Projects 1999-2008

  42. Mori, Toshiko, Architect

  43. Nox, Machining Architecture

  44. Pawson, John, Making Life Simpler

  45. Piano, Renzo, Building Workshop Volume 1

  46. Piano, Renzo, Building Workshop Volume 2

  47. Piano, Renzo, Building Workshop Volume 3

  48. Piano, Renzo, Building Workshop Volume 4

  49. Scofidio, Diller, (+Renfro) The Ciliary Function

  50. Sejima _ Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA WORKS 1995-2003

  51. Shift, SANAA AND THE NEW MUSEUM

  52. SANAA, STUDIOS, THE 2006-2008 Learning From Japan, Single Story Urbanism

  53. Schmaling, Johnsen, On Rigor

  54. Studio Gang, Architecture

  55. Tanner, Leddy, Maytum, Stacey, 

  56. Zago Architecture and Office dA: Two Installations


Architecture - Buildings of Locations

  1. Architecture in China, Jodidio, Philip

  2. Architecture in the Emirates, Jodidio, Philip

  3. Architecture in France, Jodidio, Philip

  4. Architecture in Japan, Jodidio, Philip

  5. Architecture in the Netherlands, Jodidio, Philip

  6. Architecture in Spain, Jodidio, Philip

  7. Architecture in Switzerland, Jodidio, Philip

  8. Architecture in the United Kingdom, Jodidio, Philip

  9. Architecture in the United States, Jodidio, Philip

  10. Archilab’s Future House, Simonot, Beatrice, Brayer, Marie-Ange, ISBN-10: ‎0500283575


Architecture - Taschen Series

  1. Alto, Alvar

  2. Ando, Tadao

  3. Ban, Shigeru

  4. Bruer, Marcel

  5. Calatrava, Santiago

  6. Candela, Felix

  7. Case Study Houses

  8. Corbusier, Le

  9. Eames, Charles & Ray

  10. Eames, Charles & Ray

  11. Frey, Albert

  12. Gaudi, Antoni

  13. Gropius, Walter

  14. Hadid, Zaha

  15. Hoffman, Josef

  16. Koenig, Pierre

  17. Kahn, Louise, I.

  18. Lautner, John

  19. Loos, Adolf

  20. Piano, Renzo

  21. Mendelsohn, Erich

  22. Meier, Richard

  23. Neimeyer, Oscar

  24. Nouvel, Jean

  25. Neutra, Richard

  26. Ponti, Gio

  27. Rohe, Mies, Van Der

  28. Saarinen, Eero

  29. Scarpa, Carlo

  30. Scharoun, Hans,

  31. Schindler, R.M.

  32. Schinkel, Karl, Friedrich

  33. Superstudio

  34. UNStudio

  35. Wright, Frank, Lloyd

Product Design

  1. Dieter Rams: The Complete Works, Klemp, Klaus, ISBN-10:‎ 1838661530

  2. Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams, Klemp, Klaus, ISBN-10:‎ 3899555848

  3. Simply Packaging, Viction:workshop Ltd., ISBN-10:‎ 9889822954

  4. Woman Made: Great Women Designers, Hall, Jane, ISBN-10: ‎1838662855


Interior Design

  1. 1000 Chairs, Fiell, Charlotte, ISBN-10: 383656369X

  2. Asian Pacific Hotels, Cheng, Kelley, ISBN-10:‎ 393866665X

  3. Color and Space, Color and Space: In Architecture and Interior Design, Gingko Press, ISBN-10: ‎1584235063

  4. Interior Architecture Now, Xx

  5. New Chairs, Xx

  6. Rietveld’s Chair, De stoel can Rietveld, Xx

  7. Kuramata, Shiro

  8. Perriand, Charlotte

  9. Public Toilet Design

  10. Small & Chic Interiors, How to Make the Most of Mini Spaces

Architecture - Residential

  1. Adobe, Mitnik-Miller, Serena, St Peter, Mason

  2. Houses, Sejima, Kazuyo, Nishizawa, Ryue / Sanaa

  3. Japan Living, Iwatate, Mehta, Nacasa & Partners

  4. Japan Houses, Iwatate, Marcia, Geeta, Mehta, K.

  5. Japan Modern, Freeman, Nose

  6. Kitchen Collection, The, Arclinea

  7. Living West New Residential Architecture in Southern California, Xx

  8. Modern Originals At Home with Midcentury European Designers, Xx

  9. Modern Shoestring, Sirefman, Susanna, Xx

  10. New Small Houses, Maisons, Noivelles, Petites, Hauser, Neue, Kleine

  11. Next Houses, Xx

  12. Natural Flair, Hauser, Landliche,

  13. Natural Houses, Andersson and Wise

  14. The New Apartment, Xx

  15. New Small Spaces, Xx

  16. Old Buildings, New Designs, Bloszies, Charles

  17. Open House: Intelligent Living by Design, Huntt, Dana Hutt

  18. Sea Ranch, The, Lydon, Donlyn, Alinder, Jim

  19. Stahl House, The, Cast Study House #22, Stahl Family, Stahl, Bruce, Sthal, Shari G., Stahl, Kim, C.

  20. Trousdale Estates, Midcentury to Modern in Beverly Hills, Price, Steven, M.

  21. Unseen Midcentury Desert Modern, Chavkin, Daniel 

Architecture - Buildings

  1. Armia in Ancient and Medieval Times, Bedrosian, Robert

  2. Buy Me a Mercedes-Benz: The Book of the Museum, UN Studio

  3. Casa da Musica 2014 Annual Programme Book, Casa da Musica

  4. Casa da Musica / Porto, Wigley, Mark

  5. Chicago's Famous Buildings, Webster, Carson, J., ISBN-10: 0226756858

  6. Civic Culture Revisited, The, Almond, Gabriel, A. Verba, Sidney, ISBN-10: 0803935609

  7. De Young, Selected Works, Dreyfus, Renee, ISBN-10: 1857594061

  8. Prada Aoyama Tokyo, Herzog & de Meuron

  9. SAR Guide, The 1967-78, Von Amdt, Hervor, ASIN: B0000ED1Q4

  10. SPL, OMA

  11. Villa Savoye, The, Sbriglio, Jaques

Cat Name TBD

  1. Drosscape, Wasting Landing in Urban America, Berger, Alan

  2. Made in Tokyo, Kuroda, Junzo, Kaijima, Momoyo

  3. Middleburg Lectures, The, Superstudio

  4. Mood River, Kipnis, Jeffry

  5. Post Bubble City, Atelier Bow-Wow

  6. Transformations: Process and Theory, Nelson, Doreen

Culinary Arts

  1. Japan: The Cookbook, Hachisu, Nancy S.

  2. Oz Clarke's Bordeaux: The Wines, the Vineyards, the Winemakers, Clarke’s, Oz 

AI Sapien, Cha Robert, ISBN-10: ‎1961856360

AI Sapien, Cha, Robert, ISBN-10: ‎1961856360

AI Sapien, Cha, Robert, ISBN-10: ‎1961856360

Going Public, Klanten, Robert, Borges, Sofia, ISBN-10 : ‎389955440X 

Once in a Lifetime, Klanten, Robert, ISBN-10: 3899554191

Rock the Shack, Ehmann, Sven, ISBN-10: ‎3899554663

Sky is the Limit, The, Klanten, Robert, ISBN-10: 3899554221

Sublime: New Design and Architecture from Japan, Klanten, Robert, ISBN-10: 3899553721

Architecture - Typologies / Materials / Etc.

  1. Building: 3,000 Years of Design, Engineering, and Construction, Addis, Bill

  2. Carchitecture, Bell, Jonathan

  3. Concrete Architecture, Croft, Catherine

  4. Digital Architecture Now, Spiller, Neil

  5. Flexible, Kronenburg Robert

  6. Japanese Garden, The, Walker, Sophie, ISBN-10 ‏: ‎0714874779

  7. Modern Architecture, Hassle, Bayle, & Hanrwood

  8. Modernism Rediscovered, Shulman, Julius

  9. New Architects, Architecture Foundation, The

Complete Plan Atlas, The, Links

Architecture - Theory

  1. Bldg Blog Book, The, 

  2. Far From Equilibrium,

  3. Folds, Bodies, & Blobs, Lynn, Greg

  4. Living in the Endless City,

  5. Megastructure Reloaded, Cantz, Hatje

  6. Forclosured: Rehousing the American Dream, Martin, Bergdoll

  7. Function of Ornament, The

  8. Massive Change, Mau, Bruce

  9. Matters, Verb, Architecture Boogazine

  10. Meet the Nelsons, Jones, Wes

  11. Opop, 

  12. Program and Manifestoes on 20th Century Architecture

  13. Provisional-Emerging Modes of Architectural Practice USA

  14. Reader, Reading the American Landscape, An Index on Books and **

  15. Sociopolis

  16. System of Objects, The, Baudrillard, Jean

Architecture - History

  1. Architecture Theory Since 1968, Xx

  2. History of Architecture, A, Xx

  3. In The Beginning, Hamilton, Virginia, Moser, Barry

  4. Latin American Architecture, Xx

  5. Light Construction Reader, The,

  6. Modern Architecture Since 1900, Curtis, William, J.R.

  7. 10x10, Xx

  8. Thousand Years of Nonlinear History, A, De Landa, Manuel

  9. Understanding Architecture, Roth, Leland, M.

Building/Environmental Strategies

  1. Constructing Architecture, Deplazes, Andrea,

  2. Earth Buildings, Archilab

  3. Earth Buildings, Archilab

  4. Sun, Wind, & Light, Dekay, Brown

Graphic Standards

  1. Architectural Graphics, Ching, Francis

  2. Glass Construction Manual, Schittich, Christian, Staib, Gerald, Staib

  3. Form of the Book, The, Occasional Papers

  4. Neubau Welt Catalogue, Neubau 

Diagraming and Infographics

  1. Beautiful Evidence, Tufte, Edward

Taschen Icons Series

  1. Architecture now, Jodidio, Philip, ISBN-10: 3822825077

  2. Design for the 21st Century, Charlotte Fiell, Peter & Charlotte, ISBN-10: 3822827797

  3. Graphic Design for the 21st Century, Charlotte Fiell, Peter & Charlotte, ISBN-10: 3822838772

Pamphlet Architecture Series

  1. PA#12 Building Machines, McCarter, Robert,  ISBN-10: 0910413401

  2. PA#15 War and Architecture, Woods Lebbeus, ISBN-10: 1568980116

  3. PA#28 Augmented Landscapes, Allen, Smout, ISBN-10: 1568986254

Monographs of Offices

  1. Imagination, Techniques, Effects, UNStudio

  2. KM3, MVRDV

  3. Mutations, OMA

  4. Project Japan, Metabolism Talks…, Koolhaas, Rem

  5. S,M,,L,XL, Koolhaas, Rem

  6. Urbanism, Working with Doubt, Holl, Steven

Encyclopedia Snaidero, ***

Lifestyle

  1. Life Style, Mau, Bruce

  2. California Design, Kaplan, LACMA

Journals / Large Publications

  1. Architecture and Science, Di Cristina, Giuseppa

  2. Glass House, Johnston Philip

  3. Morphosis Design Peak Volumes 09 10

  4. El Croquis - Ito, Toyo, 1986-1995

  5. El Croquis - Ando, Tadao, 1983-2000

  6. El Croquis - Sanaa Sejima + Nishizawa, 1999-2004

  7. El Croquis - Sanaa Sejima + Nishizawa, 2004-2008

  8. El Croquis - Ito, Toyo, 2005-2009

  9. El Croquis - Souto de Moura, Eduardo, 2005-2009

  10. El Croquis - John Pawson - June 10, 2022

  11. GA Houses Special 02 - Masterpieces 1971-2000, Tokio, Edita

  12. GA Houses 86 - Project, Futagawa, Yuki

  13. GA Houses 120 - Project, Futagawa, Yukio

  14. GA Houses 122 - Project, Futagawa, Yoshio

  15. GA Houses 125 - Project, Nakayama, Hideyuki, Sambuichi, Radic. H.

World Architecture