224pp 2021, Large issue celebrating new residential architecture - 12 houses in Spain, 12 in the world. All in bursts of material and light, of intellect and image, from Aires Mateus, Tunon, to Aravena, Smiljan Radic.

142 pp, cloth ed, Lise Juel, with photos by Helene Binet. Lovely study of the reconstruction/repair of the famous Utzon house in Mallorca. Walls and surface, turns and catches, each room explored, sustained and recsued, to turn the house over to the Utzon Foundation. Astudy of rescue, a study of a brilliant residence.

New edition 2020, cloth, 264pp, 143 color, 345 illus, edited by LAN Architects, Jallon et Napolitano, ex. cat. Pavillon de L'Arsenal Brilliant review of Haussmann plan and work in the 1840s, to completely update Paris. Adding schools and sewers, roads and neighborhoods. To then consider the plan from the needs, today, from the task, today.

298pp, large paper, full color, includes the newest work of SANAA, from Connecticut to Chile, from Japan to China. The extraordinary relations to the land, to texture, to material to structure, the very lightest touch.

320 pp cloth, publ 11/20/20, printed Italy, Louise Rogers Lalaurie, France, a study of Matisse livre d'artiste Matisse , in Vence, 1941, when he is seventy-one, gave new attention to les livres, books of art, of both his art and artists, to create works of book art. This is a fine study of the books, of each title and each page, as Matisse creates a form to hold such art, into time.

258pp, cloth full color, foreword Robert Macfarlane. Includes fifteen sheets of the 1815 geologic strata map as well as tables of strata and fossil. Smith is the 19th century geologist fully responsible for the establishment of geologic timescale, as groundbreaking to geology and mining and mapping and hydrology as computers now are to data. It is a presentation of the earth, itself, in the bones of strata.

paperback, 288pp, Lars Muller/Yale School of Architecture, publ 12/28/2020, Tatiana Bilbao, Ayesha Ghosh, photos Iwan Baan 13 Architecture studios, under the directions of Tatiana Bilbao, studying, diagramming, researching, imagining the US/Mexico border - industry, production, migration, housing, tradition, and territory. It is the power of architecture, in the hands and minds of these studios, to analize and to see and to propose and to believe.

paperback 264pp, pub 1/5/2021, Lars Muller, Silvia Benedito The relation, in all its complexity of landscape and land and atmosphere, the nature of weather as factor and force. The finally inevitable, atmosphere in the full council of spheres. Includes the case studies of 18th century French garden design to contemporary work, including Chnadigarh. Atmosphere as threshold, atmosphere as program, atmosphere as situation, atmosphere as conrast.

288pp, large cloth ed, Die Gestalten, editors Openhouse published 12/1/20 Includes many of the best new residential designers - Pawson Vervoordt, Caruncho, Silvestrin - but also Lautner, Neutra, Mies, Mallet-Stevens. A very fine collection, time and time.

280 pp slipcased. Full color study of the furniture Kuma has designed for his projects, from Missoni to residential and retail.

230pp, Lovely study of Milanese designer, Magistretti, from the University archives in Lausanne, of his work from 1960 to 2000.

210 pp, cloth edition, Stockholm. First study of the Icelandic firm, doing work from visitor centers, to glacial lookout towers, to rugged Icelandic villas, color and some drawings. The remarkable alliance of nature and design on this volcanic, bustling island.

A fine new study of Miralles, via drawings, sketches, plans and linking with buildings and projects. A study of process, the brillianr ways of Miralles.

A wonderful new piece from Alessi, for children. DORAFF, 2020, design Ben van Berkel, Alessi, Italy , boxed, 26”x21”x11”, $250 The Doraff has come, travelling from Italy, in red, yellow and light blue shades - a lovely new figure of design by the Dutch architect Van Berkel and his UNStudio. It is a child’s furniture, a piece that can flip from a loyal pup to a peering giraffe, a table, a top, a seat, a pal. To each, one’s own Doraff.

Price includes shipping. Doonan has worked with Diana Vreeland and the Met, Barneys and Slate, been a judge on Making It, and now has written a very cool little pocket guide, a literary GPS, to what he calls Yourself. With six chapters (werk, people, love, decor, family, style) and irrepressible momentum, he bounds through everything, coming out each time with be yourself, and proof to boot. “ If the glove fits, you must buy it.” As he writes, “I am not trying to sell you me, I am trying to sell you, you.” Very good, he keeps feet out of any muck, off the phone and on the beat.

224 pp, cloth ed, full color, William Morgan, PAP Press, surveys the newest relation of design and architecture and the mountains and the snow. Projects in Finland, Austria, Norway, Scotland Connecticut, Vermont, Utah, Chile, Jaoan, Noa Scotia

Motifs set in motion, by the brilliance that brought us the Poemotion trilogy, Takahiro Kurashima. It is a carnival, entering Moirémotion, with movement in every space. The great ingenious spirit of Kurashima and moire. 96 pp, hardcover.

A good book, a true book, is a brave one. It comes alone. Such is Materialising Colour, a brilliant new title, from Phaidon, presenting the color sense, the color history and philosophy of Giulio Ridolfo. Ridolfo is perhaps the most acclaimed design colourist in the world - it is not every table that might even know what that could mean. He is a metaphysic to color, an anthropologist to color, an explorer and historian and botanist to color. He sees colour as music, as a garden, as a story, as a context, as a moment in time, as a food and physic. He is the doctor that you call when you must have the colour be perfect. The famous Danish textile company Kvadrat has taken his work to the heart of their production. To Ridolfo, colour is the breath of the land, of the seasons and the soil and the water and the light - and that is the breadth of this book. Traveling from Friuli, his home in Northern Italy, to quarries and the Scandinavian sea, to Denmark and India, he hunts, almost as a forager, for the intimate conditions of colour. It is the long way, the complicated, long way to the soul of things. This is such a book.