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The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual--And the Modern Home Began
Joan Dejean
Today, it is difficult to imagine a living room without a sofa. When the first sofas on record were delivered in seventeenth-century France, the result was a radical reinvention of interior space. Symptomatic of a new age of casualness and comfort, ...
Design Thinking: Understanding How Designers Think and Work
Nigel Cross
Design thinking is the core creative process for any designer; this book explores and explains this apparently mysterious "design ability".Focusing on what designers do when they design, Design Thinking is structured around a series of in-depth case...
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand, Peikoff Rand
A special edition hardcover in celebration of Ayn Rand's centennial.When it was first published in 1943, The Fountainhead--containing Ayn Rand's daringly original literary vision with the seeds of her groundbreaking philosophy, Objectivism—won immedi...
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
Stewart Brand
Buildings have often been studies whole in space, but never before have they been studied whole in time. How Buildings Learn is a masterful new synthesis that proposes that buildings adapt best when constantly refined and reshaped by their occupants...