For those still looking for Christmas gifts, we round up this year's top architecture and design books as part of our review of 2024.

Some of the boldest projects of modern architecture were never realized. Many had their best moments on paper.

There is no more comprehensive yet compact alternative than Kenneth Frampton 's Modern Architecture: A Critical History, originally published in 1980 by Thames & Hudson. Its much-expanded latest fifth ...

From an atlas of never-built architecture to a monograph on Alexander Girard, 2024 had a wealth of exciting design books.

Review by Barton Swaim Read the review The close of 1914 brought a momentary pause in the grinding combat at a World War I ...

This volume examines the concept of place as it relates to architectural production and building knowledge in early modern Europe (1400-1800). The places explored in the book's ten essays take various ...

mid-century modernist architecture quickly spread around the globe. A new book from publisher Phaidon gives this period a ...

The American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona showcases more than 200 examples of the original midcentury pottery that inspired a million knockoffs.

In this series of geographically and methodologically wide-ranging essays, thirteen leading historians of art and architecture grapple with the complex ways that early modern actors negotiated these ...

The monograph, looking at the post-war architecture of a single south London borough, might feel a bit niche, but as Sutherland’s book reveals, this became a focal point of an incredibly rich era of ...