What's Your Favorite Book on Design or Architecture?
Replenish our "to-read" lists with your favorite titles on design or architecture.
We recently created a roundup of 10 books for the design lover's library, and now we're on the hunt for more recommendations. What must-reads would you suggest for the design community?
Since we love hearing what you think, we’re featuring your top picks here. Take a look below and keep sending us your favorite book titles so that we can add them to the list!
1. Fallingwater: A Frank Lloyd Wright Country House by Edgar Kaufmann Jr.
Publisher: Abbeville Publishing Group (November 28, 1993)
2. The Voynich Manuscript by Unknown
Publisher: Unknown (15th Century)
3. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) by Andy Warhol
Publisher: Harvest, 1 edition (April 6, 1977)
4. Space and Anti-Space by Steven Kent Peterson
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Publisher: Unkown (1980)
5. The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
Publisher: Beacon Press, reprint edition (April 1, 1994)
6. The Wood Book by Romeyn Beck Hough
Publisher: Taschen America, new edition edition (December 1, 2013)
7. Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams by Klaus Klemp
Publisher: Gestalten, Slp Blg edition (September 25, 2015)
8. Finn Juhl and His House by Per H. Hansen
Publisher: Hatje Cantz (September 30, 2014)
9. Wabi Sabi by Leonard Cohen
Publisher: Imperfect Publishing, unknown edition (November 1, 2008)
10. A Patter Language by Christopher Alexander, et. al
Publisher: Oxford University Press (1977)
11. Minimum by John Pawson
Publisher: Phaidon Press (April 18, 2006)
12. A Philosophy of Interior Design by Stanley Abercrombie
Publisher: Westview Press; Reprint edition (February 5, 1991)
13. Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning by Timothy Beatley
Publisher: Island Press (October 25, 2010)
14. Handcrafted Modern: At Home with Mid-century Designers by Leslie Williamson
Publisher: Rizzoli, First Edition edition (October 12, 2010)
15. The Language of Post Modern Architecture by Charles Jencks
Publisher: Rizzoli, 6th edition (August 15, 1991)
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