Holiday Book List 2014

Docomomo US is pleased to present the fourth annual Docomomo US Holiday Book List. This year we are featuring 28 of our favorite books including a number that were just recently published. As we begin to catch up on all this reading, we hope you bookmark this list and return here throughout 2015 for expanded reviews. And when you decide to purchase one of these books through the links below, every purchase includes a small donation to Docomomo US, via our partnership with Amazon Associates. Additionally you can make sure EVERY purchase includes a donation to Docomomo US by using http://smile.amazon.com/ and then choosing Docomomo US as your chartiable organization.


Peter Adam Eileen Gray: Her Life and Her Work. The Ultimate Biography Schirmer/Mosel, 2014.	Alexandra Lange Formica Forever Metropolis Books, 2013. Forward by Mark Adamson.	Françoise Astorg Bollack Old Buildings New Forms: New Directions in Architectural Transformations Monacelli Press, 2013. Foreword by Kenneth Frampton.	Kevin Bone (ed.) Lessons from Modernism: Environmental Design Strategies in Architecture 1925-1970 Monacelli Press, 2014.

Robert Carter Carlo Scarpa Phaidon Press Ltd., 2013.	Annie Cohen-Solal, Paul Goldberger, Robert Gottlieb New York Mid-Century Vendome Press, 2014.	Eames Demetrios, Charles Eames, Ray Eames Eames: Beautiful Details AMMO Books, 2014.	Jochen Eisenbrand & Mateo Kries (ed.) Alvar Aalto: Second Nature Vitra Design Museum, 2014.

Víctor Escudero & Alberto Martín Photography & Modern Architecture in Spain 1925-1965 La Fábrica/Museo ICO; Bilingual edition, 2014.	Anthony Flint Modern Man: The Life of Le Corbusier, Architect of Tomorrow New Harvest, 2014.	John Grindrod Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain Old Street Publishing, 2014.	Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat, Ivo Hammer, Wolf Tegethoff The Tugendhat House: Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Birkhauser; 2 edition, 2014.

Thomas C. Jester Twentieth-Century Building Materials: History and Conservation Getty Conservation Institute, 2014.	Jari Jetsonen & Sirkkaliisa Jetsonen Saarinen Houses Princeton Architectural Press, 2014.	Zeuler R. M. de A. Lima Lina Bo Bardi Yale University Press, 2013. Forword by Barry Bergdoll.	Richard Longstreth Frank Lloyd Wright: Preservation, Design, and Adding to Iconic Buildings University of Virginia Press, 2014.

Peter McMahon & Christine Cipriani Cape Cod Modern: Midcentury Architecture and Community on the Outer Cape Metropolis Books, 2014. Forward by Kenneth Frampton. Photographs by Raimund Koch.	Detlef Mertins Mies Phaidon Press, 2014. Forword by Barry Bergdoll.	Lorenzo Ottaviani, Jeffrey Matz & Cristina A. Ross Midcentury Houses Today The Monacelli Press, 2014. Photographs by Michael Biondo.	Susan M. Rademacher Mellon Square: Discovering a Modern Masterpiece Princeton Architectural Press, 2014. With essays by Charles A. Birnbaum, Patricia M. O'Donnell, Richard C. Bell and Barry W. Starke.

Phyllis Richardson Superlight: Rethinking How Our Homes Impact the Earth Metropolis Books, 2014.	Timothy Rohan The Architecture of Paul Rudolph Yale University Press, 2014.	Anna Rosellini Louis I. Kahn: Towards the Zero Degree of Concrete, 1960-1974 EPFL Press, 2014.	Robert Sharoff & William Zbaren Last Is More: Mies, IBM, and the Transformation of Chicago Images Publishing Dist Ac, 2014.

Michael Sheridan The Modern House in Denmark Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2014.	Twentieth Century Society 100 Buildings 100 Years Batsford Ltd, 2014.	Matthew Welch & Richard Bresnahan Body of Clay, Soul of Fire: Richard Bresnahan and the Saint John's Pottery Afton Historical Society Press, 2002.	Clare Zimmerman Photographic Architecture in the Twentieth Century Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2014.

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