The 2025 Holiday Book List December 08, 2025
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The 2025 Holiday Book List Season's Readings! We've compiled a list of must-read titles on architecture and design as well as recommended books to get you thinking about about Los Angeles, our host city for the 19th Annual International °®¶¹app Conference – Multiple Moderns: Climate, Community, Creativity – happening March 17-22, 2026.
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The Palm Springs School Desert Modernism 1934-1975 Alan Hess, Christine Madrid French, Eddie Jones,
, 2025
Architecture and Energy Building in the Age of Climate Change Annette Becker, Peter Cachola Schmal, Werner Sobek
, 2025
Back from Utopia The Challenge of the Modern Movement Hubert-Jan Henket, Hilde Heynen , 2002
Exiled in L.A. The Untold Story of Leopold Fischer's Domestic Architecture Becoming Los Angeles Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place Elements of Los Angeles Earth, Water, Air, Fire D J Waldie, Rosecrans Baldwin
, 2025
Suspended Moment The Architecture of Frida Escobedo Max Hollein, Abraham Thomas, David Breslin, Jeff L Rosenheim
, 2025
California Changing 50 Sites of Climate Change in Augmented Reality Five Buildings by Frank Gehry Photographs by Johan Dehlin; Written by Frank Gehry, Tom Emerson, Hilary Sample
, 2025
Bruce Goff Material Worlds Alison Fisher, et al
, 2025
Tom Kundig Tom Kundig, Dung Ngo
, 2025
Soft Sites & Hard Truths A Wry New York Glossary of Housing, Land Use, and Displacement for the Civically Minded and Mildly Disillusioned What a Building Does The Hoosier Modernisms of Evans Woollen Phillip Cox, Niall Cronin
, 2025
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Stanley Tigerman Drawing on the Ineffable George Papamattheakis, Patrick Burke, Deborah Doyle
, 2025
Albert Kahn's Daylight An Architect Reconsidered Chris Meister, Thomas A Klug
, 2025
Gordon Bunshaft Form Through Technics Nicolás Sica Palermo
, 2025
Vitra The Anatomy of a Design Company Deyan Sudjic, Iwan Baan, Karen Stein
, 2025
Danish Textile Prints 100 Years of Craft and Design Kirsten Toftegaard
, 2025
Design and Visual Communication Bruno Munari, Jeffrey Schnapp
, 2025
Archigram The Magazine Peter Cook, Thomas Evans, Steve Kroeter, et al.
, 2025
Crossed Histories Gae Aulenti, ADA Louise Huxtable, Phyllis Lambert on Architecture and the City Catherine Bedard, Léa-Cathérine Szacka
, 2025
Azurest Blue The Life and Legacy of Amaza Lee Meredith Essays by Shantel Aurora, Ferren Gipson, Briona Simone Jones, Jerald “Coop” Cooper, and Pascale Sablan , 2025
Le Corbusier on Camera The Unknown Films of Ernest Weissmann Lair Radical Homes and Hideouts of Movie Villains Chad Oppenheim, Andrea Gollin
, 2025
Making Space Interior Design by Women Arne Jacobsen Furniture, Lighting, Textile Design and Architectural Renovations, 1925-1971 Thomas Dickson, Henrik Lund-Larsen
, 2025
Reinventing Heritage A Design Compass on Adaptive Reuse Filippo Pagliani, Michele Rossi, Michele Versaci
, 2025
Tashkent Modernism XX/XXI Boris Chukhovich, Davide del Curto, Ekaterina Golovatyuk
, 2025
That's Brutal, What's Modern? The Smithsons, Banham, and the Mies-Image Arab Modern Architecture and the Project of Independence Nadi Abusaada, Wesam Al Asali
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Bangkok Modern Architecture of the 1950s–1970s The Story of the Interior The Design of Childhood How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids (Now in paperback!)
Alexandra Lange
, 2025
Garden Apartments The History of a Low-Rent Utopia The Glass House Color Book Scott Drevnig, Paul Goldberger
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