NEW: AD at Home: Architectural Digest (2025)
Editor in chief Amy Astley has revolutionized AD, and the interior design world, with her emphasis on how home is about the people who live there.
150 Best New Interior Design Ideas (2021)
With full-colour photographs, diagrams, and detailed descriptions, this exciting volume in the 150 Best series is a fount of ideas that will inspire students, young professionals, and seasoned pros alike to create beauty in everyday surroundings.
Feels Like Home (2021)
Each case study in this book explores a hardworking design aspect (such as proportion, scale, and colour), while also focusing on the emotional aspect of the home. The chapters are inspired by the following themes: comfort, calm, excitement, belonging, carefree, love, and contentment.
Hare + Klein Interior (2020)
Featuring alluring photography, sketches, mood boards and fabric samples, this new edition of the bestselling title offers a glimpse into the design process of this acclaimed Australian practice and the beautiful homes it creates.
Interior & Lighting Design (2020)
Light is an essential element of the design itself. If often determines important aspects of the design and is a crucial factor to highlight elements of the interior design and promote a healthy living / working environment
Interior Design Concept (2022)
Interior Design Concept combines a comprehensive introduction to design concept, with a reflective examination upon the various ways it can be understood, harnessed, and implemented.
McAlpine: Romantic Modernism (2023)
McALPINE, the award-winning architectural and interior design firm, with a collection of residences embracing modernism, classicism, and romanticism.
A New Leaf (2021)
This book spotlights 20 houses around the world (including United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Switzerland, Italy and the Netherlands), each illustrated with a selection of images of the entire home with particular emphasis on their plant life.
Universal Principles of Interior Design (2022)
Universal Principles of Interior Design is a concise visual presentation of 100 fundamental elements of interior design.
Dictionary of 20th Century Design and Designers (1993)
In over 500 entries, this book examines not only the work of important designers worldwide, but also the many dramatic changes that have influenced design and its uses in the 20th-century.
Drawing on Courage
A practical, illustrated guide to overcoming the challenges of creative work, including where to start, how to give or get feedback, when to change direction, and how to stand up for what matters, from Stanford University's world-renowned d.school.
Creative Hustle
Humans have always been creative hustlers-problem solvers who seek to live beyond the limits suggested by society. Yet we live in a world where the place you were born, the amount of money you have, and the level of melanin in your skin indicate the precise path you are expected to follow.
This Is a Prototype
Prototyping is a way to test an idea to see if it can be successful before investing too much time and too many resources. But it's not only designers who "prototype" as they work.
Design for Belonging
A practical, illustrated guide to using the tools of design to create feelings of inclusion, collaboration, and respect in groups of any type or size-a classroom, a work team, an international organization
You Need a Manifesto
An essential how-to for crafting a guiding motto that sets intentions, increases creativity, and helps accomplish your goals.
Universal Principles of Interior Design (2022)
This comprehensive reference book is the standard for interior design students, practitioners, and educators, and others who seek to broaden and improve their understanding of and expertise in interior design.
The Visual Dictionary of Interior Architecture and Design; !st ed. (2018)
The dictionary covers traditional terms still in current usage as well as modern terminology such as hyper-reality and sustainability. It also defines a wide variety of practical terms, such as elevation, installation, and function, and conceptual terms including constructivisim, minimalism, and formalism.
The BIID Interior Design Job Book (2019)
Suitable for all interior design projects - whether small or large - and for both interior designers working in an integrated design team and those acting as lead consultant, it brings a codified procedure and a professional rigour to the way your practice works and the way your projects run.
Below are some links of governing bodies and registration boards for Architects in Australia. Their role is to advocate and set the standards for architectural design in Australia.
