Calling all design-loving bookworms ?Tis the season for curling up by a roaring fire (or a ten-hour video of a burning Yule log on Netflix, which is a thing). What better hearthside accessory than a good book"
We?ve rounded up 17 of the year?s best books about architecture and design?from the engaging textbook-style tome to the heavy-on-the-pictures monograph and many other genres in between.
Fan of Frank Lloyd Wright" There?s something for you. Want to think about how architecture, psychology, and history intersect" We know a book you?ll want to meet. Won?t get around to buying books from this list before the holidays" Fret not! In the northern hemisphere, at least, it?ll be winter long after December 25.

Never Built New York by Greg Goldin, Sam Lubell (Foreword by Daniel Libeskind)
From the authors of successful Never Built Los Angeles, Never Built New York imagines what the city might have looked like if unrealized parks, skyscrapers, and bridges had moved beyond the drawing board.
Filled with engaging sketches and renderings, the book illustrates the ideas of architects who could have drastically transformed the city. Highlights include Frank Lloyd Wright?s last project, his dream city and Key Plan for Ellis Island; Stephen Holl?s Bridge of Houses, which would have taken over the High Line; and Buckminster Fuller?s design for the Brooklyn Dodger?s Stadium, complete with his iconic geodesic dome.
Paola Antonelli, senior curator of the Archite...