New & Back in Stock 07-18-2026

Profusely illustrated with full page images, one of the best publications on Casa Luis Barragán. Long out of print, available once again!  With text and photographs by Yukio Futagawa. 

Craig Ellwood: Remembering the Thin Man, the second book of a trilogy on Ellwood, by author Keith York serves as a unique biographical sketch of Ellwood’s early years and a strong rebuke of posthumous claims by his employees that they were in fact the designers of his projects.

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Craig Ellwood: Life is a Bottomless Barrel, the third in a trilogy on Ellwood by author/publisher Keith York collects, for the first time, Ellwood’s autobiographical essays written between 1978-1992. While a few of these chapters have been used as research source material for biographies on Ellwood, York was able to...

Craig Ellwood: Furniture is the first book on the architect’s other passion -- furniture design. Following author Keith York’s essay Designing Elegance: The Furniture of Craig Ellwood in Making L.A. Modern: Craig Ellwood - Myth, Man, Designer (Rizzoli, 2018), he further unveils previously unpublished, photographs and drawings tracing the trajectory...

The only comprehensive volume on James Turrell is back in print--from early prints and light projections to his monumental Roden Crater project.

This definitive book illuminates the origins and motivations of James Turrell's incredibly diverse and exciting body of work--from his Mendota studio days to his monumental work-in-progress Roden Crater....

Between 2010 and 2020, Caruso St John expanded its reputation for sensitive and characterful architecture through a remarkable range of projects. Major buildings in the heart of Swiss, German, and Belgian cities explored the role urban landmarks can play in the present day, while smaller domestic projects provided the opportunity...

The first volume of a collected works, this book covers fifteen years of Caruso St John, one of the most highly acclaimed and influential contemporary archi­tectural practices. Following a thematic course shaped around key phases and aspects of their thinking, this extensive volume offers a detailed reflection on the practice’s...

The second book in the Gumshoe series turns its investigative eye to Oscar Niemeyer's unique construction for the French Communist Party in Paris.

Gumshoe is a new series of architectural books that introduces an original approach to the writing of architectural history. Emulating the detective novel, the focus is on...

Moving beyond the familiar accounts of politics and the achievements of celebrity engineers and designers, Building the Golden Gate Bridge is the first book to primarily feature the voices of the workers themselves. This is the story of survivors who vividly recall the hardships, hazards, and victories of constructing the...

Born from his fascination with ancient architecture and a personal rediscovery of its beauty through materials such as wood, stone, earth and thatch, the aspiring architecture student Yukio Futagawa set out in the mid-1950s to photograph ‘minka’, the traditional rural houses of Japan. This experience would be instrumental in shifting...

San Diego is home to numerous acclaimed modernist buildings. Among these celebrated landmarks are Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute (1962), the Case Study Houses in La Jolla as well as projects by William Pereira, R. M. Schindler, Richard Neutra, John Lloyd Wright and Craig Ellwood among others.

Rather than drawing more...

Not so very long ago, some might have considered wood a material of the past, long since replaced by more modern components such as concrete and steel. The truth is radically different. Bolstered by new manufacturing techniques and ecological benefits, wood has seen a fabulous resurgence in contemporary construction.

This book...

Of all building materials in the world, brick is one of the most enduring and ubiquitous. Traces of brickmaking date back to 7500 BC and fired brick first made its appearance in about 3500 BC. Since then, the trusty brick has shown amazing resilience and remains one of the mainstays...

From an acclaimed architect and investigator, a devastating, meticulous accounting of Israel’s destruction of Gaza and crimes against its people.

Eyal Weizman is one of the world’s leading experts on the relationship between violence, conflict, and the built and natural environment. As director of the organization Forensic Architecture, he and his...

Learning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of "common" people and less immodest in their erections of "heroic," self-aggrandizing monuments.

This revision includes the full texts of Part I of the...

Range of topics are diverse: an architectural phenomenology of water, architecture and landscape rethought, ancient Greece to India, The Buddha’s house to the modern house in India, the architecture and landscapes of Louis Kahn. Le Corbusier in India, the architecture of Balkrishna Doshi, and other original topics such as...

This ode to the spirit of place consists of an exchange of letters in which one author recalls and the other responds to the elements considered essential to the art of successful place-making. Each of the book's chapters forms a chamber, and each chamber is inscribed with the authors' personal...

This philosophical ode to finding joy in simple things explores how walking has influenced history’s greatest thinkers—from Henry David Thoreau and John Muir to Gandhi and Nietzsche.

“It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth.” —Nietzsche

In this French bestseller, leading thinker and philosopher Frédéric Gros charts the many...

Junkspace first appeared in the Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping (2001), a vast compendium of text, images, and data concerning the consumerist transformation of city and suburb from the first department store to the latest mega mall. The architect Rem Koolhaas itemized in delirious detail how our cities are being overwhelmed. His...

Since its initial publication in 1958, The Poetics of Space has been a muse to philosophers, architects, writers, psychologists, critics, and readers alike. The rare work of irresistibly inviting philosophy, Bachelard’s seminal work brims with quiet revelations and stirring, mysterious imagery. This lyrical journey takes as its premise the emergence...

The Compact Edition of Identity: Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv showcases a body of work spanning 60+ years from the seminal New York design firm founded in 1957 by Ivan Chermayeff and Tom Geismar. The firm’s contribution to design has shaped the way corporate identity programs influence culture.

The revised...

In her third book, Kayne, the creator of the quiet-luxury lifestyle brand, presents inspiring interiors from an array of artisanal houses set in beautiful landscapes, showing us how to create spaces that encourage living well and sustainably in comfort and style.

A celebrated fashion and homewares designer, Kayne has become a...

Widely celebrated as the father of the Studio Furniture Movement, Wharton Esherick is one of the most important furniture designers of the twentieth century. Presenting his preserved hillside house and studio, this book showcases seven decades of innovative woodwork and sculpture, embodying his influence on American art and design.

Wharton Esherick...