The Vertical Garden: From Nature to the City
In this luscious, oversized, all-color book, Patrick Blanc explains how to create plant walls using over 1,000 plants, drawing on his observation of natural milieus, his technique of growing on vertical surfaces, his savoir faire, and his passion for plants.

Green Roofs: In Sustainable Landscape Design
Green roofs make private and public buildings attractive and environmentally friendly. Landscape architect, Steven Cantor, gives the basic terminology of green roof design, defines the green roof types,  and reviews materials of construction and methods of installation.

Faces in Stone: Architectural Structure in New York City
A delightful collection of quirky faces and figures that people New York City buildings, this gift-sized book is for those who love architectural details and unknown corners of New York City.

The Study of Architectural Design
The only text in English that describes, step by step, the system of architectural education developed in France, commonly known as the Beaux-Arts method.

Stone Sampler: 2nd Edition
This new edition of Stone Sampler provides swatches of natural stone, including marble, travertine, onyx, granite, quartzite, and limestone, available for use in construction and decoration. It is a concise, portable reference for architects, interior designers, and builders.

Trompe L'Oeil: Italy, Ancient and Modern
A treasure trove of pictorial motifs, painting technique, and design ideas, this book offers a wealth of useful advice on using trompe l’oeil painting in a way that is practical and at the cutting edge of modern-day design.

Getting a Job in Architecture and Design
Learn about the complete realm of job possibilities and what makes each an integral part of the profession and the market. You will learn both tried-and-true—and more unusual—strategies for job hunting. No friend or relative in the business is required.

Eero Saarinen: Buildings from the Balthazar Korab Archive
A timely portrait of the work of an architect who expanded the vocabulary of modern architecture, this book illustrates 19 Saarinen commissions.

Harbor Hill: Portrait of a House
A "palace" ruled by a "queen," Harbor Hill in Roslyn, Long Island, was commissioned by the beautiful and imperious Katherine Duer Mackay, wife of one of the country's wealthiest men. The mansion along with its magnificent furnishings, art, gardens, and the owners' striving, hubris, and ultimate failure are the dramatis personae of this saga.

Layered Urbanisms: : Gregg Pasquarelli / Galia Solomonoff / Mario Gooden
Layered Urbanisms presents critical discussions and illustrations of urban research and design analysis as carried out in advanced studios with young architects investigating ways to design new urban spaces for New York.

Leopold Eidlitz, Architecture and Idealism in the Gilded Age
This book offers the first critical examination of the work of New York architect Leopold Eidlitz, America's first Jewish architect, founding member of the American Institute of Architects, and the first American to define a modern organic architecture.

Public Markets: A Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebook
More than 800 historical and contemporary images depict the many types of public markets, including open-air marketplaces; street markets; market sheds and others. A singular resource for designers, urban planners, and all those intrigued by the intersection of history, commerce, and architecture that defines the public market.

Key Contemporary Buildings: Plans, Sections, Elevations
Third in the Key series (following Key Buildings of the Twentieth Century and Key Houses of the Twentieth Century), this book features 95 buildings of the early twenty-first century.

Inspired by Nature: The Building/Botany Connection
This collection of buildings, both vernacular and by contemporary architects, reveals visual analgoies with the plant world and explains why natural forms make good models for structure.

Fabric Architecture: Creative Resources for Shade, Signage, and Shelter
This visual catalog provides a broad array of ideas and green solutions for a wide array of structures—shelter, shade, and water protection, outdoor and indoor, permanent and temporary.

Havana Deco
This colorful book shows the work of Cuban artists, open to the winds of change and to outside influences, who filtered the movement born in Paris through the dazzling beauty of Caribbean nature and made the art their own.

Corrugated Iron: Building on the Frontier
Whether the appeal lies in nostalgia for rain on rusting tin roofs or in the sophistication of contemporary architecture, corrugated iron deserves to be taken seriously. It has a long and fascinating history and a future as bright as its past.

Alden B. Dow: Midwestern Modern
Tells the story of both this exceptional residence and the architect who spent a half century developing his vision of a more humane way of building. Beginning with the family—and the town that encouraged him, the book traces the life and work of Alden Dow.

Newport Villas: The Revival Styles 1885-1935
A survey of the Gilded Age mansions of Newport, RI, for all who love grand houses. Newport Villas describes the architectural and social development of this summer resort town, the nexus of wealth and fashion at the end of the nineteenth century.

Key Urban Housing of the 20th Century: Plans, Sections, and Elevations
The design of multiple housing – a new building type, especially for growing urban populations – was a major new area of activity for architects at the beginning of the twentieth century, and one that continues into the twenty-first century. This book features 87 of the most influential modern housing designs.

Frank Lloyd Wright: Essential Texts
Twenty-one carefully chosen selections from Wright’s extensive literary output span the important period between 1900 and the late 1930s, when the architect exerted a powerful influence on the developing modern movement.

Long Island Landscapes and the Women Who Designed Them
This well-illustrated book covers in depth the work of six designers and focuses on the Long Island projects that constituted a large part of their work and brings these pioneering women to life as people and professionals.

Inspired by Nature: Minerals
The Building/Geology Connection
Second in the Inspired by Nature series, this book gathers together the work of two dozen architects who have looked for solutions in the world of geology, from the models of organization offered by crystals to the inspiration of the earth’s relief, mineral voids, volcanoes, and monoliths.