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Architecture & Design

1. Lester Beall: Trailblazer of American Graphic Design

   R. Roger Remington

   Lester Beall, who died in 1969, was the first graphic designer to receive a one-man exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art (in 1937) and was awarded the 1993 Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Institute of Graphic Artists, a sign of his importance in American graphic design.
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2. Lettering Tips: For Artists, Graphic Designers, and Calligraphers

   Bill Gray, Paul Shaw

   Timesaving techniques for producing well-formed, good-looking lettering in all the major styles.More

3. Complete Studio Tips

   Bill Gray, Paul Shaw

   A treasury of practical solutions for graphic arts problems, Complete Studio Tips offers hundreds of easy, clever suggestions for the commonplace problems encountered by amateur and professional artists, graphic designers, desktop publishers, calligraphers, hobbyists, and others who work with illustration, layout, lettering, and print.More

4. Louis Sullivan: The Function of Ornament

   Wim De Wit

   "One of the best-designed architecture books to appear in recent memory . . ., handsomely illustrated with a fuller selection of historical views of Sullivan's work than can be found in any other book now in print, and supplemented by a fine new set of color photographs of Sullivan's most important surviving buildings." —Martin Filler, New York Review of BooksMore

5. Architecture Without Rules: The Houses of Marcel Breuer and Herbert Beckhard

   David Masello

   An armchair tour through twenty strikingly innovative houses.
   
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6. Textiles: A Handbook for Designers

   Marypaul Yates

   Revised Edition

   Practical information usually gained only through years of work experience and word of mouth is presented in this handbook for textile designers, students, interior designers and others who use textiles in their work.More

7. Treasury of Alphabets and Lettering

   Jan Tschichold

   Treasury of Alphabets and Lettering is a classic source book of the most beautiful type and letters of all time selected by Jan Tschichold, internationally renowned typographer and master of lettering. It contains only letters of timeless and lasting beauty--the true mainsprings of the art of lettering. One hundred and seventy-six type specimens are presented, most of them in complete alphabets.More

8. Typographers on Type

   Ruari McLean

   This anthology of key writing about the typographic arts has been assembled by Ruari McLean, himself a designer and a leading writer on graphic design subjects.More

9. Twentieth Century Type Designers

   Sebastian Carter

   New Edition

   This new edition of the text first published in 1987 includes an examination of the latest technological developments in the design and composition of type, and introduces the work of some of the more recent designers to have made their mark this century.
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10. Sermons in Stone: The Stone Walls of New England and New York

    Susan Allport, David Howell

    In 1871 there were 252,539 miles of stone walls in New England and New York—enough to circle the earth ten times.
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11. The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities

    Richard Sennett

    "Visionary, often brilliant." —Los Angeles TimesMore

12. Identifying American Architecture: A Pictorial Guide to Styles and Terms, 1600-1945

    John J. G. Blumenson

    What styles of architecture are found in your neighborhood--Georgian, Prairie, International, Spanish, Colonial Revival?
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13. Shaker Design

    June Sprigg

    "A spellbinding book, depicting the remarkable work of some remarkable men and women. . . . This is a book to cherish." —Woodworking CraftsMore

14. Wallpaper in America: From the Seventeenth Century to World War I

    Catherine Lynn

    Drawing on the extensive collections of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, as well as from sources across America and Europe, the author documents the changing tastes in pattern and color preferences.More