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By: Claudia Walde
Graffiti Alphabets: Street Fonts from Around the World
$34.95PaperbackAdd to cartClassic graffiti lettering and experimental typographical forms lie at the heart of street culture and have long inspired designers in many different fields. But graffiti
artists, who tend to paint th- Author: Walde, Claudia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0500294291
- Language: English
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By: Rafael Schacter
The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti
$40.00HardcoverAdd to cartBursting with color and energy, this revised edition of the definitive guide to street art and graffiti covers the world’s most significant artists, styles, and the urban landscapes that form their ca… [more below]
- Author: Schacter, Rafael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0300267800
- Language: English
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By: Joselit, David
American Art Since 1945
$26.95PaperbackAdd to cartDavid Joselit traces and analyzes the contradictory formal, ideological, and political conditions during this period that made American art predominant throughout the world. Social and cultural transf… [more below]
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Joselit, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: June 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0500203687
- Language: English
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By: Maki, Fumihiko
Maki Opus
$90.00PaperbackAdd to cart- Author: Maki, Fumihiko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 0500024405
- Language: English
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The Iconic Nordic House: Modern Masterworks Since 1900
$65.00HardcoverAdd to cartThe Nordic region is one of the most influential when it comes to the modern home. Nordic architects and designers such as Alvar Aalto, Arne Jacobsen, and J rn Utzon played a key part in the developme
- Author: Bradbury, Dominic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0500026238
- Language: English
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Summer by the Sea: Cottages from Watch Hill to Little Compton
$64.95HardcoverRead moreNoted architect Thomas Kligerman celebrates the magic of summer, exploring the seaside setting and design of secluded cottages facing the Atlantic along the Rhode Island coast
Summer by the Sea is the
- Author: Kligerman, Thomas A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 04 2026
- ISBN10: 1580937349
- Language: English
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By: Barragan, Luis
Barrag?n Outside Barrag?n: A Journey Through Books, Trips, Exhibitions and Friends
$25.00PaperbackRead moreThe life of Mexico’s greatest 20th-century architect as told by Fernanda Canales, Mexico’s rising star architect of the 21st century
Published with Barragan Foundation, Switzerland.
This publication is- Author: Barragan, Luis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 3945852684
- Language: English
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By: Gehry, Frank
Five Buildings by Frank Gehry: Photographs by Johan Dehlin
$65.00PaperbackAdd to cartExploring Frank Gehry’s early career through five buildings he designed using scrappy materials and low-cost construction
This book presents five lesser-known buildings by Canadian American architect a
- Author: Gehry, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 3753305898
- Language: English
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By: Fisher, Alison
Bruce Goff: Material Worlds
$50.00HardcoverAdd to cartA major exploration of the work of American architect Bruce Goff, including the paintings, objects, and ephemera often overshadowed by his architectural legacy
Celebrated as one of the most innovative- Author: Fisher, Alison
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0300284071
- Language: English
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By: Kurtz, Glenn
Men at Work: The Empire State Building and the Untold Story of the Craftsmen Who Built It
$35.00HardcoverAdd to cart
This little-known ch
The author of Three Minutes in Poland and Practicing uncovers the identities of the Empire State Building construction workers, made famous by Lewis W. Hine’s legendary portraits.- Author: Kurtz, Glenn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1644215020
- Language: English
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The Iconic Tropical House
$65.00HardcoverAdd to cartThis stunningly illustrated volume presents forty-five of the most interesting tropical houses of the last fifty years, surveying India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore,
- Author: Bingham-Hall, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0500027013
- Language: English
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By: Torkar, Felix
Brutalist Berlin
$30.00PaperbackRead moreBrutalist Berlin is the first in a series of beautifully produced and expertly written urban architecture guidebooks by Blue Crow Media. Written and with photography by Berlin-based Dr Felix Torkar, t… [more below]
- Author: Torkar, Felix
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 15 2025
- ISBN10: 191201825X
- Language: English
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New York 2020: Architecture and Urbanism at the Beginning of a New Century
$150.00HardcoverAdd to cart‘To have such a biography, on this scale and with this ambition, of the physical form of the greatest city on earth is little short of a miracle.’ – Ric Burns, Filmmaker
The culmination of Robert A.M.
- Author: Stern, Robert A. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1488
- Publish Date: October 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1580936946
- Language: English
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By: Gopnik, Blake
Brutalist Interiors
$50.00HardcoverAdd to cartBrutalist Interiors reveals the hitherto overlooked interiors of Brutalist and concrete buildings around the world. The book combines photography of select interiors with essays by leading architectur… [more below]
- Author: Gopnik, Blake
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1912018225
- Language: English
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By: Hurtt, Steven
The Urban Design Legacy of Colin Rowe
$70.00HardcoverAdd to cartThe Urban Design Legacy of Colin Rowe describes the ideas developed and described primarily by Colin Rowe, professor of architecture and head of the Urban Design Studio at Cornell, and additionally by… [more below]
- Author: Hurtt, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 684
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1940743516
- Language: English
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By: Kundig, Tom
Tom Kundig: Complete Houses
$100.00HardcoverRead moreThe definitive collection of residential work by celebrated contemporary architect Tom Kundig
Tom Kundig is one of the most sought-after architects working today, known for his extraordinary houses tha
- Author: Kundig, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: October 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1580937047
- Language: English
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Gilardi House: Barragan’s Last Witness
$44.95HardcoverRead moreGilardi House thoroughly documents Luis Barragan ́s last project, la ́CASA GILARDI ́, an emblem of Mexican architecture.
In 1976, 10 years after his retirement from the practice of arch
- Author: Alvarez Tinajero, José Luis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1638400377
- Language: English
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By: Daugherty, Ellen
Black Artists in America: From the Bicentennial to September 11
$45.00HardcoverAdd to cartThis third and final volume in the Black Artists in America series features work from the transitional moment of the late 1970s to the dawn of the twenty-first century
In the 1980s and 1990s, Black a- Author: Daugherty, Ellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0300283563
- Language: English
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Raymond Saunders: Post No Bills
$75.00HardcoverAdd to cartDiscover Raymond Saunders’s dynamic paintings and his extraordinary legacy as an artist and thinker in this first ever monograph.
Saunders’s work brings together his extensive formal training with his- Author: Saunders, Raymond
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1644231654
- Language: English
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By: Nadel, Dan
Sixties Surreal
$50.00PaperbackAdd to cartA reevaluation of American art of the 1960s that foregrounds the role of surrealism during a period of social and political upheaval
Challenging what we think we know about art of the 1960s, this vol- Author: Nadel, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 403
- Publish Date: September 24 2025
- ISBN10: 0300284500
- Language: English















