Akiko Busch

How to Disappear

Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency

It is time to reevaluate the merits of the inconspicuous life, to search out some antidote to continuous exposure, and to reconsider the value of goin...

Geography of Home

Essays on Architecture, Psychology, and the History of House and Home in America

'Geography Of Home' is a meditative tour of the home. Busch looks at the emotional attachments we have to a house and the way those attachments change...

Everything Else is Bric-a-Brac

Notes on Home

A collection of 60 short prose pieces by best-selling author and design critic Akiko Busch that reflect, in her classic style of observation, on the h...

Patience

Taking Time in an Age of Acceleration

In a day and age when rapid-fire text messaging and the "Slow" movement are both offered as strategies for making the most out of life, our ability to...

The Incidental Steward

Reflections on Citizen Science

DIV A search for a radio-tagged Indiana bat roosting in the woods behind her house in New York’s Hudson Valley led Akiko Busch to assorted othe...

The Photography of Architecture

Twelve Views

"This book examines the development of architectural photography and its growing influence on our own perceptions of architecture. Including spectacul...

Floorworks

Bringing Rooms to Life with Surface Design and Decoration

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The Print Casebooks: The best in environmental graphics (V4)

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Geography of Home

Writings on where We Live

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Then Again

Vintage Photography Reimagined by One Artist and Thirty Writers

anthology of fine art images from Laura Christensen, and fiction and poetry from numerous authors...

Objects for Use

Handmade by Design

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The Uncommon Life of Common Objects

Essays on Design and the Everyday

"In The Uncommon Life of Common Objects, Akiko Busch devotes a chapter each to twelve objects, looking at the reasons these items took the forms they ...

Then Again (Remix)

Vintage Photography Reimagined by One Artist and Ten Writers

anthology of fine art images from Laura Christensen, and fiction and poetry from numerous authors -- compared to the larger THEN AGAIN featuring over ...

In/animate

Recent Work by Myra Mimlitsch-Gray

Documents the groundbreaking art of nationally renowned metalsmith Myra Mimlitsch-Gray....

Bearing His Flowers

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