Holiday Gift Books: 2010 Edition

As in the last five years, I'm presenting a list of gift books just in time for the holidays. This year I'm presenting one each by close to 40 publishers, posted in one long list.

010 Publishers:

Megacities: Exploring a Sustainable Future edited by Steef Buijs, Wendy Tan, Devisari Tunas

Actar:

Total Housing: Alternatives to Urban Sprawl edited by Albert Ferre and Tihamer Salij (It is also a recent competition.)

a+t:
Strategy Public

AVA Academia:

Basics Architecture: Architectural Design by Jane Anderson

Birkh�user:

Thinking Architecture (Third Edition) by Peter Zumthor (Edition is expanded, with two new essays.)

Douglas & McIntyre:

Sketches: From Here and There by A.J. Diamond

Elsevier:

Architecture in Detail II by Graham Bizle

Gestalten:

Closer to God: Religious Architecture and Sacred Spaces edited by L. Feireiss, R. Klanten

Gingko Press:

Conceptual Architecture by Sandu Cultural Media

Gregory R. Miller & Co.:

Brad Cloepfil / Allied Works Architecture by Brad Cloepfil with Sandy Isenstadt, Kenneth Frampton

Hatje Cantz:

Raimund Abraham and the Austrian Cultural Forum NY edited by Andreas Stadler

Island Press:

Cities for People by Jan Gehl (Read my review here.)

Lars M�ller Publishers:

Brasilia-Chandigarh: Living with Modernity by Iwan Baan

Laurence King Publishing:

Towards Zero-Energy Architecture: New Solar Design by Mary Guzowski

Merrell Publishers:

New Architecture in Japan by Yuki Sumner and Naomi Pollock (Read my review here.)

Metropolis Books:

The Power of Pro Bono edited by John Cary and Public Architecture

MIT Press:

Event Cities 4: Concept-Form by Bernard Tschumi

The Monacelli Press:

Remarks on 21 Works by Rafael Moneo

ORO Editions:

Small Projects by Kevin Mark Low

Oxford University Press:

AIA Guide to New York City, Fifth Edition by Norval White, Elliot Willensky, Fran Leadon (Read my review here.)

Papadakis Publishers:

Fair World: A History of World's Fairs and Expositions from London to Shanghai 1851-2010 by Paul Greenhalgh

Phaidon:

John Pawson: Plain Space by Alison Morris

Princeton Architectural Press:

Narrow Houses: New Directions in Efficient Design by Avi Friedman

Reaktion Books:

Architecture's Evil Empire?: The Triumph and Tragedy of Global Modernism by Miles Glendinning

Rizzoli:

Frank O. Gehry: Since 1997 by Germano Celant

Routledge:

Will Alsop: The Noise by Tom Porter

Scribner:

Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities by Witold Rybczynski

Skira Rizzoli:

Thomas Phifer and Partners by Stephen Fox and Sarah Amelar

SUN Architecture:

Cultivating the City: London Before and After 2012 by Bob Allies

Taschen:

Coop Himmelb(l)au: Complete Works 1968-2010 by Michael M�nninger, Peter G�ssel (Also of note is an acrylic bookstand for your mondo Taschen titles and Phaidon Atlases.)

Thames & Hudson:

Architect: The Work of the Pritzker Prize Laureates in Their Own Words edited by Ruth Peltason and Grace Ong-Yan

Toto:

Tadao Ando: Process and Idea

University of Chicago Press:

Terror and Wonder: Architecture in a Tumultuous Age by Blair Kamin

University of Minnesota Press:

Architecture's Historical Turn: Phenomenology and the Rise of the Postmodern by Jorge Otero-Pailos

Wiley:

What is Architectural History? by Andrew Leach

W.W. Norton:

Greening Modernism: Preservation, Sustainability, and the Modern Movement by Carl Stein

Yale University Press:

A Landscape Manifesto by Diana Balmori