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Books You Should Read
The Champ Phaidon Design Classics: 001–999. Phaidon Press, 2006 This quintessential collection of 999 product designs in three thigh-numbing volumes explores product design from the late 16...
written by: James Nestor08.12.09 -
Design Books: September 2009
Check out this selection of recently released design books culled by our editors and profiled in the September 2009 issue's In The Modern World section.
written by: Dwell Staff08.11.09 -
Waverly Lowell on Greenwood Common
Last week I posted about three new books from William Stout Publishers, one of which is Living Modern: A Biography of Greenwood Commons by Waverly B. Lowell.
written by: Aaron Britt08.03.09 -
Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
On a recent weekend, whilst both sitting on a train and lolling by the river, I read the short, strange novel Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott. Occasionally a novel about architecture comes along,...
written by: Aaron Britt07.31.09 -
Author Q&A: The BLDGBLOG Book
Many of you had the pleasure of reading Geoff Manaugh's work while he was a Senior Editor here at Dwell, but if you've not yet checked out the blog he's been writing for the last five years or so,...
07.28.09 -
New Trio from Stout Publishers
One of the joys of coming in to Dwell every morning is passing by William Stout Architectural Books, maybe the best design bookstore I've seen. In addition to shelves and shelves of books on...
written by: Aaron Britt07.15.09 -
Eight Questions for Brad Cloepfil
Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture of Portland, Oregon, has become the go-to man for museum design these days. He’s built an addition to the Seattle Art Museum, the Contemporary Art...
written by: Aaron Britt06.09.09 -
Q&A with Adam Kalkin
In the In the Modern World section of our June 2009 issue, I reviewed artist-architect Adam Kalkin’s new monograph, Quik Build: Adam Kalkin's ABC of Container Architecture. The book is a...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake05.15.09 -
Michelle Kaufmann Book Reading
These days, it's a common saying that recessions breed creativity. To Michelle Kaufmann, this means creating solutions for affordable, green living. Kaufmann found her calling after she and her...
written by: Ilana Diamond04.27.09 -
The Mosque
The Mosque. Political, Architectural and Social Transformations, compiled and edited by Dutchmen Ergün Erkoçu (an architect) and Cihan Bugdaci (a real estate developer) and out this...
written by: Aaron Britt04.22.09 -
Tiny Houses
Living small is the new way to live big—whether within a tighter, more creatively written budget or physically in fewer square feet. In her new book Tiny Houses, Loud Paper Magazine founder...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake03.28.09 -
Yard Sale Photographs
Yard Sale Photographs, a new book of photography by Adam Bartos, revels in the everyday castoffs and outmoded bric-a-brac that lard the average American garage sale. With a cover that apes a second...
written by: Aaron Britt03.13.09 -
Eat Love: A Book of Food Design
Food designer Marije Vogelzang creates recipes, plated presentations, and even molecular gastronomic buffets, turning the dining experience into a full-sensory immersion that makes us think not...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake03.13.09 -
Bigboxology 101
Now that the last laptop computer and toilet-paper dispenser have been liquidated from the once-mighty Circuit City, some very significant mementos remain: the 567 empty warehouse stores across the...
written by: David A. Greene03.10.09 -
Andrea Cochran Landscapes
Just like modern homes often bring the outside in, San Francisco landscape architect Andrea Cochran’s exterior designs extend the modern aesthetic from indoors to the outdoors. A new book by...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake03.06.09 -
Writer-Gardener Debra Prinzing in SF March 5
While British author Virginia Woolf heralded the benefits of “a room of one’s own,” writer, master gardener, and outdoor shed-enthusiast Debra Prinzing rallies for an entire...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake03.02.09 -
Brand New Color
The fact that your car is tinted a subtle silver or that your running shoes have vibrant orange stripes flaring up their sides is hardly a design afterthought.
written by: Fred A. Bernstein02.02.09 -
A Proper Primer on Modernism
The historicization of modern architecture is quick to lionize Mies, Gropius, Wright and others, but too often treats them as though they existed in a vacuum, a far-sighted brotherhood whose sole...
written by: Aaron Britt01.28.09 -
Bunker Archaeology
Paul Virilio's classic book of wartime architectural history, Bunker Archeology, is finally back in print with a fantastic new edition from Princeton Architectural Press. The book had taken on the...
written by: Geoff Manaugh12.22.08 -
Eutopia! I’ve Found it!
While the rest of my Design Miami/Art Basel cohorts were traipsing around in a sea of expensive gear, white pants, and more stilettos than you can shake a Jean Prouvé side chair at, I...
written by: Aaron Britt12.14.08
