From an accessible history of design to a facsimile of a super rare architecture magazine, these are the books we loved this year.

With a foreword by her wife Roxane Gay, Debbie Millman’s Why Design Matters contains over 80 of the writer, designer, and curator’s best interviews from her beloved podcast Design Matters. The richly ...

We at Curbed are fairly obsessed with all things design, architecture, and urbanism — which means when a book on, say, the varied architectural landscape of Queens, or a history of the way design has ...

I think about this year-end list of design books all year long, collecting stacks, reading hundreds of pages, pouring over countless images. I keep a list of the books that stick with me and feel like ...

A roundup of publications highlights new findings about the past and present. Broken Glass: Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth, and the Fight Over a Modernist Masterpiece, by Alex Beam. Random House, ...

The standards for classifying good or terrible architecture are usefulness and beauty, or what we commonly refer to as practicality and aesthetics. However, practicality might quickly direct us toward ...

For those hunting for something that will appeal to the design or architecture enthusiasts on their holiday gift lists, a bevy of new books give a glimpse into both public and private spaces in ...

He began by selling reprints of classics from the trunk of his car and created what one architect called “a whole architectural universe.” By Katharine Q. Seelye When Kevin Lippert was a graduate ...

Consider a book from our annual round-up for the architects on your gift list. Drama, by David Rockwell with Bruce Mau, edited by Sam Lubell. Phaidon Press, 312 pages, $59.95. Architect and Tony Award ...

Despite what you may think, shopping for design obsessives is fairly easy: They’re a discerning crowd that will nonetheless always appreciate a good book — ideally one with a tantalizing cover, ...