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Designed for the Future 80 Practical Ideas for a Sustainable World In Designed for the Future, author Jared Green asks eighty of today's most innovative architects, urban planners, landsc ...	Transmaterial Next A Catalog of Materials that Will Redefine Our Future Virtually every revolution in architecture has been preceded by a revolution in materials: think iron, glass, steel, con ...	The Toaster Project Or A Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch "Hello, my name is Thomas Thwaites, and I have made a toaster." So begins The Toaster Project, the author's nine-month-l ...
Guastavino Vaulting The Art of Structural Tile Since the time of ancient Rome, architects, engineers, and builders have struggled with the problem of building domed ce ...	Coffee Lids Peel, Pinch, Pucker, Puncture If you're one of the 200 million Americans who drink coffee every day, you may have marveled at the ubiquitous plastic c ...	Model Making The ancient craft of architectural model making may seem unnecessary in today's age of digital renderings and virtual to ...
Tom Kundig: Works In Tom Kundig: Works, the celebrated Seattle-based architect presents eighteen new projects, from Hawaii to New York Cit ...	Bent Ply The Art of Plywood Furniture Plywood is arguably the most modern design artifact: it is a material born of natural wood and formed by vigorous indust ...	The Senses Design Beyond Vision A powerful reminder to anyone who thinks design is primarily a visual pursuit, The Senses accompanies a major exhibition ...
Twentieth-Century Pattern Design, Revised Edition Patterns---bold, colorful, muted, delicate, intricate, splashy, spare, figurative, abstract, dizzying, calming---are the ...	The Bike Deconstructed A Grand Tour of the Modern Bicycle On first glance, bicycles look pretty straightforward. And yet, even today's most stripped down bicycles can feature as ...	Instant The Story of Polaroid "Pictures in a minute!" In the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, Polaroid was the hottest technology company on Earth. They were an ...
Digital Fabrications Architectural and Material Techniques Architectural pioneers such as Frank Gehry and Greg Lynn introduced the world to the extreme forms made possible by digi ...	Beautiful Users Designing for People In the mid-twentieth century, Henry Dreyfuss, widely considered the father of industrial design, pioneered a user-center ...	Curious Boym Design Works This whimsical book presents the whimsical designs of Constantin Boym and his partner Laurene Leon Boym in all their goo ...
Outside the Box Hand-Drawn Packaging from Around the World In an age of slick, computer-generated type and Photoshopped perfection, hand-drawn packing is enjoying a global resurge ...	Sustainable Design A Critical Guide Written for students and practitioners in the fields of architecture and interior design, our new Architecture Brief Sus ...	Goat Man How I Took a Holiday from Being Human The dazzling success of The Toaster Project, including TV appearances and an international book tour, leaves Thomas Thwa ...
Elements of Design Rowena Reed Kostellow and the Structure of Visual Relationships A hands-on book design students and designers alike will welcome. Elements of Design is a tribute to an exceptional teac ...	Printing Architecture Innovative Recipes for 3D Printing Although 3D printing promises a revolution in many industries, primarily industrial manufacturing, nowhere are the possi ...	Geometry of Design, Revised and Updated Second Edition Studies in Proportion and Composition The very first volume in our acclaimed Design Briefs series is now available in a revised and updated second edition. Ge ...
Extreme Textiles Designing for High Performance Stronger, faster, lighter, safer, smarter--these are the textiles of tomorrow. From the carbon-fiber composite bicycle f ...	Cold War Hothouses Inventing Postwar Culture, from Cockpit to Playboy The technological innovation and unprecedented physical growth of the cold war era permeated American life in every aspe ...	Eero Saarinen An Architecture of Multiplicity Eero Saarinen was one of the great masters of American twentieth-century architecture, and the only whose career and wor ...
Reinventing the Wheel As inventive as instructive, information wheels-or volvelles-have been used since the fourteenth century to measure, rec ...	Materials for Design 2 As architecture and design programs throughout the world break out of the classroom and adopt the holistic methods of de ...