Arts, Architecture & Design Books

Jones Studio Houses: Sensual Modernism is a self-imposed limited look at the 40-year-plus career of Eddie Jones.Almost unheard of outside the southwest of United States, Jones has quietly accumulated a body of work ranging beyond residential designs to...

David Hu's Sea Girt House ocillates gracefully between a sort of proto minimalism and a hyper orchestrated spatial awareness. It's a project that makes no bones about its purpose of providing a single-minded solitude for its inhabitant,...

The concept in the back of the monumental structure located at the IDF officers school is based on receipt of the Torah by Moses on Mount Sinai. Moses received his appointment at the location of the burning bush.At the ceremony revealing their officer...

This award-winning home is located on an eight acre, ex-urban property at the base of the Oakland Hills near San Francisco Bay. Formed of concrete and wrapped with Corten steel panels, the net zero energy residence is an elegant, low maintenance response...

On occasion, an artist is not only from, but of, a place. Imbued with the very spirit of a locale, and thus inspired to return the favour. Such is the nature of the relationship between the legendary architect Foyez Ullah, and Bangladesh' capital city,...

In the early nineteenth century, Indiana was at the intersection of ideas from the East and the frontier - resulting in a unique opportunity to express creative adaptions of residential architectural styles in America. Industrialisation later in the...

Amass makes a case for architectural experiments with massing. By understanding architecture as a collection of interrelationships between multiple masses, plusClover uses pressure, thickness and media - the core subjects of this book - to...

Hyperirrealism is in pursuit of paired antagonistic concepts such as simplicity and complexity, systemic and random order, order and chaos, for generation of 21st Century Architecture. Hyperirrealism suggests architecture should produce knowledge that...

Hardcover: We wanted the house to lie amid the woods. Landscape, esthetics, and common sense are the three axes that direct the work of Argentine architect Luciano Kruk. This book illustrates in great detail one of his most representative works: his own...

The first English-language collection of the titular artist, "The Art of Sachiko Kaneoya" chronicles the creator's work and themes for nearly a decade, showcasing the monstrous, the romantic, and the mortal suffering of her subjects. Inspired by anime...

The "Official Comic of Call of Duty (R): Black Ops 4" collects all 10 issues of the series and introduces the iconic Specialists of the Black Ops Universe. In collaboration with Activision and Treyarch, it features stories from the minds of Greg Rucka,...

The heroes of Overwatch will protect all your notes in this beautiful notebook from tokidoki.Your secrets have never been in better hands!

StarCraft: Legacy of the Void 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle. Featuring artwork from Blizzard Entertainment's best-selling video game StarCraft!

The heroes of Overwatch will protect all your notes in this beautiful notebook from tokidoki. Your secrets have never been in better hands!

The heroes of Overwatch will protect all your notes in this beautiful notebook from tokidoki. Your secrets have never been in better hands!

Starting with the announcement trailer in 2014, Overwatch's award-winning cinematics captured the hearts of millions across the world, introducing them to a hopeful science-fiction world where heroes are needed. chronicles this journey, featuring...

Something stirs in the dark...The second volume of The Art of Hearthstone dives deep into the depths of the Year of the Kraken, the first year of Hearthstone's standard format. Consisting of hundreds of illustrations from the corruptive cults of Whispers...

The heroes of Overwatch will protect all your notes in this beautiful notebook from tokidoki. Your secrets have never been in better hands!

Sanctuary is home to some of the most dangerous creatures to pull themselves from the pits of hell. Tread lightly, and never fall prey to monsters with the Diablo Bestiary. A celebration of the corrupted beasts and grotesque enemies that players have...

A wonderful selection of wave and ripple designs curated by Satoshi Nakamoto, the renowned creator of the digital currency Bitcoin. These beautiful illustrations are based on work by the Japanese artist Mori Yuzan, which has been carefully restored and...

Landsmoderhistrico, the performance poems in Landsmoder retool the laudatory pomp of patriotic ceremony to protest the weaponization of national myth as a mask for erasure, cruelty, and neglect at the hands of the state. This unflinching collection,...

In Inside Studio 54, the former owner takes you behind the scenes of the most famous nightclub in the world, through the crowd, to a place where celebrities, friends, and the beautiful people sip champagne and share lines of cocaine using rolled-up...

A child survivor of the Holocaust, Trudie Strobel settled in California, raising a family and never discussing the horrors she witnessed. After her children grew up, the trauma of her youth caught up with her, triggering a paralyzing depression. A...

Raised on a used-car lot, Charles Phoenix was destined to become the Ambassador of Americana. The photo collector, food crafter, and field tripper is famed for his hilarious live show performances and "theme park" tour of downtown Los Angeles. This...

Focused on post-labor, psychopathology, and plasticity of human mind and body, this book introduces insight, critiques, and propositions in the area of "self-design," ranging from design and architecture to science, media, history, philosophy, and...

A homage to the 1973 publication of Architecture and Utopia by Manfredo Tafuri, this book is devoted to the radical experiences of the 1960s and to their consequences for the most recent developments in contemporary architecture.As a response to the...

Mute Icons dwells in the paradox between silence and sign and aims to debunk a false dichotomy within critical discourse about the cultural need and socio-political relevance of the architectural image. Mute Icons challenges fixed...

A selection of architecture, landscape and urbanism with selected comments on the perspectives of its authors like other independent perspectives in the academic realm, the world of the profession and the users.This is a collection of projects - designed...

This book is a tribute to the first modern urban planner and his product: the Eixample, which is today the thriving and undisputed center of the Barcelona metropolitan area. The city of Barcelona as constructed over the last 150 years on the strength of...

Welcome to the evolution of adult coloring! New York Times bestselling illustrator Marty Noble has added a new dimension to the coloring craze: mazes! Cut out some of the stress from your daily life in this fun and innovative new series as you color and...

Coloring is one of the simplest arts, but it's not just for children. Adults need to explore their imaginations, too! Take a break and get inspired while coloring these dynamic doodles! Part of the Peaceful Adult Coloring Book Series, the pages of this...

Experience the soothing power of adult coloring with these intricate animal tangles created by New York Times bestselling illustrator and master of the abstract Zen style Angela Porter!Zentangle is a fun and relaxing art form that has emerged in the last...

Experience the soothing power of adult coloring with these intricate animal tangles created by New York Times bestselling illustrator and master of the abstract Zen style Angela Porter!Zentangle, a fun and relaxing art form that emerged in the last...

A diary for a world-wide pandemic, #ICPConcerned captures 263 days in 2020 recorded by 820 photographers curated from over 60,000 submissions. This is the book form of an exhibition at the International Center of Photography Museum (ICP) that became a...

Take a trip down memory lane to witness 22 years (1976-1998) of Mortimer's, one of the most notable restaurant hotspots that ever existed for an international celebrity clientele. Found in these pages is a feast of ephemera, including menus, recipes,...

Georgia O'Keeffe once described her artistic muse New Mexico as "more sky than earth." As photographer Rob Atkins discovered over two decades, beneath that cerulean stretch of ether, the golden sun spills across the sumptuous adobe architecture and the...

Where should they go? 70 million displaced refugees and asylum seekers with no passport, no money, and no worldly goods. In 380 B.C. Plato wrote about the "Ideal City," but it wasn't until 1516 AD that Sir Thomas More invented the word,...

Digital Fabrications is a collection of essays and half-truestories about design software and hardware. Written from the perspective ofarchitectural design, each piece expands on emerging trends, devices, foibles,and phenomena engendered by an...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST NPR "BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR" SELECTION NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE A virtuosic debut from a gifted violinist searching for a new mode of artistic becomingHow does time shape consciousness and consciousness, time? Do we...

Beth Kephart is a writing teacher and the award-winning author of more than thirty books; her many fans and students will embrace this intimate and beautiful memoir in essays The author's books on how to write memoir as well as previous memoirs have...

How do we move from defensive tactics that respond to the latest stages of capitalist urbanization, to transformative, strategic revolts, attacking the root causes and putting into practice alternative forms of urban life? One proposal for such a...

In Stepford Daughters, Johanna Isaacson explores an emerging wave of horror films that get why class horror and gender horror must be understood together.In doing so, Isaacson makes the case that this often-maligned genre is in fact a place where...

An examination of NASA's Golden Record that offers new perspectives and theories on how music can be analysed, listened to, and thought about - by aliens and humans alike.In 1977 NASA shot a mixtape into outer space. The Golden Record aboard the...

From a leading art historian, a provocative exploration of the intersection of art, politics, and history in 1960s ItalyFlashback, Eclipse is a groundbreaking study of 1960s Italian art and its troubled but also resourceful relation to the history and...

Remains to be Seen explores a disappearing but still tangible American landscape, from the rust-belt towns of the Midwest to the borscht-belt resorts of the Catskill mountains. Using drone photography with documentary candor and precision, Travis Fox...

Jenny Sampson's follow-up to her acclaimed collection of tintype skateboarder portraits (Skaters, Daylight 2017) focuses on female skateboarders. Although historically a male-dominated sport, there have always been girls in the skate- boarding landscape...

This is the story in pictures of Atlantic City, the iconic American shore resort, as it emerges from its latest crisis.

The American Boys project is an in-depth photographic book of young Americans across the country united through their expression of trans masculine gender identity.American Boys is a book of portraits capturing the trans-masculine community across the...