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Diversity in the NYSID Book Collection: Asian Designs & Designers

Asian and Asian American Designs and Designers

The Life & Work of an Asian Woman Architect

by: Minnette De Silva

*Minnette De Silva was the first Sri Lankan woman architect and the first Asian woman to be elected as an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects*

 

Living in Sri Lanka

by: James Fennell

 

 

Young Asian Architects

by: Katharina Feuer

*Highlights 57 practitioners and designers*

 

The New East: Design and Style in Asia

by: Michael Freeman

 

 

Japanese Design: Art, Aesthetics & Culture

by: Patricia Jane Graham

 

Pacific Island Style 

by: Glenn Iowitt and Peter Shaw

 

I.M. Pei: Complete works

by: Philip Jodidio 

 

Living in Paradise

by: Annie Kelly

 

 

Japonisme: Cultural Crossings between Japan and the West

by: Lionel Lambourne

 

Maya Lin

by: Bettina Ling

 

The Hawaiian House Now

by: Malia Mattach MaManus

 

Japanese Design 

by: Moma Design Series 

 

Hawaiian Modern

by:  Vladimir Ossipoff

 

 

India Contemporary Design: Fashion, Graphics, Interiors

by: Divia Patel

 

 

Vintage Remix

by: Kishani Perera

 

 

Oriental Interiors: Design, Identity, Space

by: John Potvin

Book Blurb: "Orientalist spaces in the West have taken many forms since the 18th century to the present day, and this collection reflects that diversity. It explores how furnishings, ornament, and other devices are deployed to enhance the exoticism and pleasures of Oriental spaces, looking across a wide range of international examples.”

 

Architecture of Thailand

by: Nithi Sthapitanonda

 

André Fu: Crossing Cultures with Design

by: Catherine Shaw

 

India Modern 

by: Herbert J.M.Ypma

 


Pattern and Ornament in the Arts of India

by: Henry Wilson