Did you make a New Year’s resolution to read more, or do you want to add more to your to-be-read list? Well, worry not: AN editors have you covered, with a (non-exhaustive) list of design- and ...

Architecture books can take you places, allowing you to visit fascinating buildings around the world without the hassle of getting there. The German-born architect Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) helped ...

Designing Social Equality: Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Perception of Democracy, by Mark Foster Gage. Routledge, 131 pages, $44.95 (paper). Aesthetics Equals Politics: New Discourses Across Art, ...

How did modern architecture develop to its present state? Three new monographs trace that path, even if they don't cover every direction the field has taken over the last century. In Mies van der Rohe ...

Sometime in the mid–17th century, the French philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal wrote, “The sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he cannot stay quietly in his room.” Some 400 years later, ...

William Stout Architectural Books carries over 20,000 titles on two floors in the fields of architecture, art, urban planning, graphic and industrial design, furniture and interior design, and ...

With a foreword by her wife Roxane Gay, Debbie Millman’s Why Design Matters contains over 80 of the writer, designer, and curator’s best interviews from her beloved podcast Design Matters. The richly ...

Historically, drawing has been the lingua franca of architects, but today, software reigns. 3D modeling has displaced hand-drawing and photorealist renderings are the standardthe only way to meet ...