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Inigo Jones
Vaughan Hart
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Children’s Picturebooks
Martin Salisbury
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Apple Design
Sabine Schulz
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Most Frequently Chosen Books
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
Robert Venturi
On 14 lists
Towards a New Architecture (Vers une Architecture)
Le Corbusier
On 9 lists
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
On 6 lists
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In the Cube: James Biber Interviewed by Michael Bierut (unabridged: 30:08)
Graphic designer Michael Bierut visits architect James Biber’s “Book Cube” and talks with Biber about the books that have interested and inspired him.
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Newly Chosen Books
News From Nowhere
William Morris
Classic Style
Judith Miller
Mastering Tradition: The Residential Architecture of John Russell Pope
James B. Garrison
Newest Designers
Cesar Pelli
Architect; United States
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Architect, Interior Designer, Product Designer; United Kingdom
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Interior Designer; United States
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Interior Designer; United States
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Recent Books by Our Contributors
Horizontal Skyscraper
Steven Holl
Schlepping Through Ambivalence
Stanley Tigerman
Maps
Paula Scher
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Notable and Quotable
Thoughts on Design
By Paul Rand
First edition, 1947
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