From an accessible history of design to a facsimile of a super rare architecture magazine, these are the books we loved this year.

With a foreword by her wife Roxane Gay, Debbie Millman’s Why Design Matters contains over 80 of the writer, designer, and curator’s best interviews from her beloved podcast Design Matters. The richly ...

I think about this year-end list of design books all year long, collecting stacks, reading hundreds of pages, pouring over countless images. I keep a list of the books that stick with me and feel like ...

We at Curbed are fairly obsessed with all things design, architecture, and urbanism — which means when a book on, say, the varied architectural landscape of Queens, or a history of the way design has ...

Consider a book from our annual round-up for the architects on your gift list. Drama, by David Rockwell with Bruce Mau, edited by Sam Lubell. Phaidon Press, 312 pages, $59.95. Architect and Tony Award ...

With Salone del Mobile, Three Days of Design, and other industry events soon over for the spring, much of the design world is ready for a summer of quiet reflection. To help provide you with some ...

The standards for classifying good or terrible architecture are usefulness and beauty, or what we commonly refer to as practicality and aesthetics. However, practicality might quickly direct us toward ...

Our picks include a resource on teaching carbon neutral design and the latest from the head of MIT's Sustainable Design Lab. All cover art courtesy the publishers, click to enlarge. Teaching Carbon ...

He began by selling reprints of classics from the trunk of his car and created what one architect called “a whole architectural universe.” By Katharine Q. Seelye When Kevin Lippert was a graduate ...

The editors of Robb Report scour the globe (and the Internet) for the best of the best and only endorse products we love—and think you’ll love, too. If you purchase a product or service through a link ...

One can only imagine what he’d have to say in 2023. Today, vintage design books have taken on cult status: They’re regular features of the stylish interiors posted on Instagram and TikTok, and are ...

Despite what you may think, shopping for design obsessives is fairly easy: They’re a discerning crowd that will nonetheless always appreciate a good book — ideally one with a tantalizing cover, ...