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Museum of Complaint
Matthew Bakkom, editor
Steidl, 2009
Before blogs and tweets and digital petitions, the letter was the primary vehicle for voicing dissatisfaction. This book features some 132 letters written to the Mayor of New York between 1751 and 1969, which chronicle, both individually and collectively, the kinds of absurd problems that faced metropolitain dwellers in an earlier, arguably cell phone and email-free time. This beautiful book offers up a side of material culture not frequently seen — or imagined — and obliges us to reconsider the lost art of letter-writing in a new and unusual way. [JH]
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Perspecta 44: Domain
Tala Gharagozlou, David Sadighian & Ryan Welch, editors
The MIT Press, 2011
The latest edition of the distinguished journal from the Yale School of Architecture centers on a question: How do we establish the domain of architecture? [NL]
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The Cruel Radiance
Susie Linfield
University Of Chicago Press, 2010
Brilliantly crafted, exquisitely written and exceptionally powerful in its argument, Susie Linfield looks at our complex relationship with what are essentially disquieting images: pictures of war, of violence, of unthinkable terror. Linfield debates theorists and critics from Charles Baudelaire to Walter Benjamin and fearlessly takes issue with Susan Sontag whose seminal 1977 book On Photography is reconsidered with fascinating new insight. [JH]
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Giancarlo De Carlo: Inspiration & Process in Architecture
Francesca Serrazanetti & Matteo Schubert, editors

Zaha Hadid: Inspiration & Process in Architecture
Francesca Serrazanetti & Matteo Schubert, editors

U:D/R 04 England's Burning: The Story of the English riots told in pictograms.
Stephen McCarthy

Next Nature: Nature Changes Along with Us
Koert van Mensvoort & Hendrik Jan Grievink, editors

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Otto Neurath - City Planning: Proposing a socio-political Map for Modern Urbanism
Sophie Hochhäusl

Ship Shape, a Dazzle Camouflage Sourcebook
Roy R. Behrens

Drawing Techniques
Peter Jenny

Figure Drawing
Peter Jenny

The Artist's Eye
Peter Jenny

Design Dossier: Architecture
Pamela Pease

Camoupedia: A Compendium of Research on Art, Architecture and Camouflage
Roy R. Behrens

How to Architect
Doug Patt

Wandering the Garden of Technology and Passion
Pierluigi Serraino

The Bioregional Imagination: Literature, Ecology, and Place
Tom Lynch & Cheryll Glotfelty, editors

Swiss Photobooks from 1927 to the Present
Edited by Peter Pfrunder, Fotostiftung Schweiz, Martin Gasser, Sabine Münzenmaier

Wicked Problems: Problems Worth Solving
Jon Kolko

Now in Lemon, Issue One.
Dan Drakeford

Design with the Other 90%: Cities
Cynthia E. Smith

The Electric Information Age Book: Mcluhan/Agel/Fiore and the Experimental Paperback
Jeffrey Schnapp, Adam Michaels

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