Norton Books for Architects and Designers

Landscapes create obvious environmental benefits but can have unrecognised negative impacts.  >> more

Cecil Ross Pinsent was responsible for the design and construction of new villas and gardens such as La Foce, and the renovation of historically sensitive ones, including Villa I Tatti, Villa Le Balze and Villa Medici.  >> more

Advertising covers the conceptual process—from developing a smart strategy to executing it with strong, persuasive thinking and writing—with abundant new material on brand voice, storytelling, interactive advertising and social media.  >> more

Alexander Garvin explains the "rules" of the planning game, who the players are, what works and what doesn’t, and the activities that go into successfully transforming a community as exemplified by four cities: Paris (Haussmann), New York (Moses), Chicago (Burnham) and Philadelphia (Bacon).  >> more

The first publication of the 1942–43 diary of an apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright, with notes, contextual essays and contemporaneous photographs.  >> more

"Colossus", "visionary", "giant" are superlatives used at mid-century to describe this celebrity architect whose "new romanticism" gave form to the aspirations of the emerging consumer culture.  >> more

Photography is a critical component of all historic documentation and preservation efforts.  >> more

Hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and other disasters are increasingly destroying homes and lives and displacing large populations of people.  >> more

Treating New York City as an open-air museum of signs, Thomas E. Rinaldi captures the glow of 200 surviving early- and mid-twentieth-century signs.  >> more

Caroline Rob Zaleski has uncovered a trove of buildings designed by a roster of renowned architects, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Marcel Breuer, Edward Durell Stone, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson and Richard Meier.  >> more