Here are our top 25 bestselling titles for the month: (Click here to see the same list for the year)
1.
Manhattan Skyscrapers: Third Edition, by Eric P. Nash
ISBN 9781568989679, hardcover binding, $50.00
What do you picture when you think of New York City? For most, it is the city's distinctive skyline, made famous by countless movies and ...
2.
A Conversation with Frei Otto, by Juan María Songel
Series: Conversations with StudentsISBN 9781568988849, paperback binding, $19.95
One of the twentieth century's most important design visionaries, German architect and structural engineer Frei Otto (b. 1925) made his mark with a series of ...
4.
LEED Materials: A Resource Guide to Green Building, by Ari Meisel, Steven Winter
ISBN 9781568988856, paperback binding, $40.00
Leadership in Energy and Environment Design LEED is the most widely recognized green building rating system, and arguable the most coveted certification, in the world. ...
8.
Atlas of Novel Tectonics, by Jesse Reiser, Nanako Umemoto
ISBN 9781568985541, paperback binding, $29.95
Architects Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto have been generating some of the most provocative thinking in the field for nearly twenty years. With
Atlas of ...
9.
Natural Architecture, by Alessandro Rocca
ISBN 9781568987217, paperback binding, $39.95
Never has the relationship between art and nature been more complicated and more fragile, but also richer and more fascinating. The artists and architects in ...
10.
Andrea Cochran: Landscapes, by Mary Myers
ISBN 9781568988122, hardcover binding, $50.00
Studies in repetition and order, orchestrations of movement in the landscape, and elements placed in geometric conversation," is how author Mary Myers describes the twenty-five-year ...
11.
Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency, by Andrea Oppenheimer Dean, Timothy Hursley
ISBN 9781568982922, paperback binding, $30.00
"I tell my students, it's got to be warm, dry, and noble" —Samuel Mockbee
For almost ten years, Samuel Mockbee, a MacArthur Grant recipient, and his ...
13.
Materials for Design, by Victoria Ballard Bell, Patrick Rand
ISBN 9781568985589, paperback binding, $50.00
As architecture programs throughout the country break out of the classroom and adopt the holistic methods of design/build programs, the need for a textbook that ...
14.
Earth Architecture, by Ronald Rael
ISBN 9781568989457, paperback binding, $24.95
Dirt–as in clay, gravel, sand, silt, soil, loam, mud–is everywhere and it's free. The ground we walk on and grow crops in also just happens ...
15.
Tom Kundig: Houses, by Dung Ngo
ISBN 9781568986050, hardcover binding, $40.00
The work of Seattle-based architect Tom Kundig has been called both raw and refined, as well as super-crafted and warm. Kundig's projects, especially his houses, ...
18.
History of Architectural Theory: From Vitruvius to the Present, by Hanno-Walter Kruft
ISBN 9781568980102, paperback binding, $45.00
As the first comprehensive encyclopedic survey of Western architectural theory from Vitruvius to the present, this book is an essential resource for architects, students, teachers, ...
19.
Landscape Urbanism Reader, The, by Charles Waldheim
ISBN 9781568984391, paperback binding, $34.95
With populations decentralizing and cities sprawling ever outward, twenty-first-century urban planners are challenged by the need to organize not just people but space itself. Hence ...
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21.
Material Immaterial: The New Work of Kengo Kuma, by Botond Bognar
ISBN 9781568987798, paperback binding, $40.00
In our 2005 monograph
Kengo Kuma: Selected Works, celebrated architect Kengo Kuma boldly declared that his ultimate aim was to "erase architecture" so that his ...
22.
Mary Colter: Architect of the Southwest, by Arnold Berke
ISBN 9781568983455, paperback binding, $35.00
Mary Colter may well be the best-known unknown architect in the world: her buildings at the Grand Canyon National Park-which include Lookout Tower, Hopi House, ...
23.
City Building: Nine Planning Principles for the Twenty-First Century , by John Lund Kriken, Philip Enquist, and Richard Rapaport
ISBN 9781568988818, paperback binding, $40.00
"Good city building is not created by complex statistics, functional problem solving, or any particular decision-making process. Successful cities instead come from people advocating easily ...
25.
Harvard University: The Campus Guide, by Douglas Shand-Tucci
Series: Campus GuidesISBN 9781568982809, paperback binding, $24.95
The newest titles in the
Princeton Architectural Press Campus Guide series take readers on an insider's tour of Harvard University and the University of Cincinnati. ...
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3. Building Envelopes: An Integrated Approach, by Jenny Lovell
5. Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: An Anthology of Architectural Theory 1965–1995, by Kate Nesbitt
6. Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques, by Lisa Iwamoto
7. Constructing a New Agenda for Architecture: Architectural Theory 1993–2009
12. Transmaterial 3: A Catalog of Materials that Redefine our Physical Environment, by Blaine Brownell
16. Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis: Opportunistic Architecture, by Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, and David J. Lewis
17. Green Roof — A Case Study: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates' Design For the Headquarters of the American Society of Landscape Architects, by Christian Werthmann
20. Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Theory, by James Corner
24. University of California—Berkeley: The Campus Guide, by Harvey Helfand