Name Change Welcome to BookDNA.com (formerly Shepherd.com)
  • Fiction
  • Nonfiction
  • Kids
  • YA
  • 🥇 Best Books 2025
  • My Book DNA
  • Profile
  • Refer friends
  • 🐇 🕳️ ✨
  • Logout
Browse
  • Fiction
  • Nonfiction
  • Kids
  • YA
  • Best Books 2025
  • My Book DNA
  • Home
  • For Authors
  • Our Story
  • Membership
Design All Time Best All Time Best Trending New By Book DNA List by Experts

Design

  • All Time Best
  • Trending
  • New
  • By Book DNA
  • List by Experts

The best design books of the 1990s

The books our community loved the most.

1990

Filter books

  • All Books
By Decade
  • 2020s
  • 2010s
  • 2000s
  • 1990s
  • 1980s
  • 1970s
  • 1900s
By Age
  • Children
  • Middle school
  • Tween
  • Junior high
  • Young adult
  • High school
  • Teen
  • Adult
    • All Books
  • By Decade
    • 2020s
    • 2010s
    • 2000s
    • 1990s
    • 1980s
    • 1970s
    • 1900s
  • By Age
    • Children
    • Middle school
    • Tween
    • Junior high
    • Young adult
    • High school
    • Teen
    • Adult
  • Related shelves
    • History
    • American history
    • European history
    • Modern history
    • Asian history
    • Black history
    • Native American history
    • Art
    • Autobiography
    • Biographies
    • Sports biographies
    • Presidential biography
    • Jeffrey Dahmer
    • Business
Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America
Loved by 3 people

Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves

By Kirk Savage ,

Book cover of Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
Loved by 2 people

How Buildings Learn

By Stewart Brand ,

Book cover of How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Tasha Tudor's Garden
Loved by 2 people

Tasha Tudor's Garden

By Tovah Martin ,

Book cover of Tasha Tudor's Garden
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
The Arcades Project
Loved by 2 people

The Arcades Project

By Walter Benjamin , Howard Eiland (translator) , Kevin McLaughlin (translator)

Book cover of The Arcades Project
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Vivienne Westwood: An Unfashionable Life
Loved by 1 person

Vivienne Westwood

By Jane Mulvagh ,

Book cover of Vivienne Westwood: An Unfashionable Life
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery
Loved by 1 person

Back of the Big House

By John Michael Vlach ,

Book cover of Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Liverpool: City of Architecture
Loved by 1 person

Liverpool

By Quentin Hughes ,

Book cover of Liverpool: City of Architecture
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Taking Tea with Mackintosh: The Story of Miss Cranston's Tea Rooms
Loved by 1 person

Taking Tea with Mackintosh

By Perilla Kinchin ,

Book cover of Taking Tea with Mackintosh: The Story of Miss Cranston's Tea Rooms
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Icon: A Retrospective by the Grand Master of Fantastic Art
Loved by 1 person

Icon

By Frank Frazetta ,

Book cover of Icon: A Retrospective by the Grand Master of Fantastic Art
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Derek Jarman's Garden
Loved by 1 person

Derek Jarman's Garden

By Derek Jarman , Howard Sooley (photographer) ,

Book cover of Derek Jarman's Garden
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why
Loved by 1 person

Homo Aestheticus

By Ellen Dissanayake ,

Book cover of Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to Be as They Are.
Loved by 1 person

The Evolution of Useful Things

By Henry Petroski ,

Book cover of The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to Be as They Are.
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
The Book of the Bath
Loved by 1 person

The Book of the Bath

By Françoise de Bonneville ,

Book cover of The Book of the Bath
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
The Comforts of Home: The American House and the Evolution of Modern Convenience
Loved by 1 person

The Comforts of Home

By Merritt Ierley ,

Book cover of The Comforts of Home: The American House and the Evolution of Modern Convenience
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Tokyo: A Spatial Anthropology
Loved by 1 person

Tokyo

By Hidenobu Jinnai , Kimiko Nishimura (translator) ,

Book cover of Tokyo: A Spatial Anthropology
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Arthur Rackham: A Life with Illustration
Loved by 1 person

Arthur Rackham

By James Hamilton ,

Book cover of Arthur Rackham: A Life with Illustration
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Designing Your Natural House
Loved by 1 person

Designing Your Natural House

By Charles G. Woods , Malcolm Wells ,

Book cover of Designing Your Natural House
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
The New Fine Points of Furniture: Early American: The Good, Better, Best, Superior, Masterpiece
Loved by 1 person

The New Fine Points of Furniture

By Albert Sack ,

Book cover of The New Fine Points of Furniture: Early American: The Good, Better, Best, Superior, Masterpiece
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat
Loved by 1 person

The Science of Art

By Martin Kemp ,

Book cover of The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis
Loved by 1 person

AntiPatterns

By William J. Brown , Raphael C. Malveau , Hays W. "Skip" McCormick III , Thomas J. Mowbray

Book cover of AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Natural Art Forms
Loved by 1 person

Natural Art Forms

By Karl Blossfeldt ,

Book cover of Natural Art Forms
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Totalitarian Art: In the Soviet Union, the Third Reich, Fascist Italy and the People's Republic of China
Loved by 1 person

Totalitarian Art

By Igor Golomstock , Robert Chandler (translator) ,

Book cover of Totalitarian Art: In the Soviet Union, the Third Reich, Fascist Italy and the People's Republic of China
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Portrait of Dr. Gachet The Story of a van Gogh Masterpiece (Modernism, Money, Politics, Dealers, Taste, Greed and Loss)
Loved by 1 person

Portrait of Dr. Gachet The Story of a van Gogh Masterpiece (Modernism, Money, Politics, Dealers, Taste, Greed and Loss)

By Cynthia Saltzman ,

Book cover of Portrait of Dr. Gachet The Story of a van Gogh Masterpiece (Modernism, Money, Politics, Dealers, Taste, Greed and Loss)
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Geography of Home: Writings on Where We Live
Loved by 1 person

Geography of Home

By Akiko Busch ,

Book cover of Geography of Home: Writings on Where We Live
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Professional Real Estate Development: The Uli Guide to the Business
Loved by 1 person

Professional Real Estate Development

By Richard B. Peiser , David Hamilton ,

Book cover of Professional Real Estate Development: The Uli Guide to the Business
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Truth, Lies, and Advertising: The Art of Account Planning
Loved by 1 person

Truth, Lies, and Advertising

By Jon Steel ,

Book cover of Truth, Lies, and Advertising: The Art of Account Planning
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture As Mass Media
Loved by 1 person

Privacy and Publicity

By Beatriz Colomina ,

Book cover of Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture As Mass Media
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
A Room of Her Own: Women's Personal Spaces
Loved by 1 person

A Room of Her Own

By Chris Casson Madden , Jennifer Levy ,

Book cover of A Room of Her Own: Women's Personal Spaces
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams
Loved by 1 person

A Place of My Own

By Michael Pollan ,

Book cover of A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Boffin: A Personal Story of the Early Days of Radar, Radio Astronomy and Quantum Optics
Loved by 1 person

Boffin

By Robert Hanbury Brown ,

Book cover of Boffin: A Personal Story of the Early Days of Radar, Radio Astronomy and Quantum Optics
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Rise of the New York Skyscraper: 1865-1913
Loved by 1 person

Rise of the New York Skyscraper

By Sarah Bradford Landau , Carl W. Condit ,

Book cover of Rise of the New York Skyscraper: 1865-1913
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Form Follows Finance: Skyscrapers and Skylines in New York and Chicago
Loved by 1 person

Form Follows Finance

By Carol Willis ,

Book cover of Form Follows Finance: Skyscrapers and Skylines in New York and Chicago
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
The Indoor Garden Book: The Complete Guide to the Creative Use of Plants and Flowers in the Home
Loved by 1 person

The Indoor Garden Book

By John Brookes ,

Book cover of The Indoor Garden Book: The Complete Guide to the Creative Use of Plants and Flowers in the Home
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress
Loved by 1 person

Sex and Suits

By Anne Hollander ,

Book cover of Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
The Gothic Revival: An Essay in the History of Taste
Loved by 1 person

The Gothic Revival

By Kenneth Clark ,

Book cover of The Gothic Revival: An Essay in the History of Taste
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Consuming Fashion: Adorning the Transnational Body
Loved by 1 person

Consuming Fashion

By Anne Brydon (editor) , Sandra Niessen (editor) ,

Book cover of Consuming Fashion: Adorning the Transnational Body
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
The New England Village
Loved by 1 person

The New England Village

By Joseph S. Wood ,

Book cover of The New England Village
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History
Loved by 1 person

The City Shaped

By Spiro Kostof ,

Book cover of The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Reading Egyptian Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Egyptian Painting and Sculpture
Loved by 1 person

Reading Egyptian Art

By Richard H. Wilkinson ,

Book cover of Reading Egyptian Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Egyptian Painting and Sculpture
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
The Pleasure Garden: An Illustrated History of British Gardening
Loved by 1 person

The Pleasure Garden

By Anne Scott-James , Osbert Lancaster ,

Book cover of The Pleasure Garden: An Illustrated History of British Gardening
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan: The Role of Traditional Japanese Art and Architecture in the Work of Frank Lloyd Wright
Loved by 1 person

Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan

By Kevin Nute ,

Book cover of Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan: The Role of Traditional Japanese Art and Architecture in the Work of Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
From Shinto to Ando: Studies in Architectural Anthropology in Japan
Loved by 1 person

From Shinto to Ando

By Gunter Nitschke ,

Book cover of From Shinto to Ando: Studies in Architectural Anthropology in Japan
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
The Artless Word: Mies van der Rohe on the Building Art
Loved by 1 person

The Artless Word

By Fritz Neumeyer ,

Book cover of The Artless Word: Mies van der Rohe on the Building Art
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
No Place Like Utopia: Modern Architecture and the Company We Kept
Loved by 1 person

No Place Like Utopia

By Peter Blake ,

Book cover of No Place Like Utopia: Modern Architecture and the Company We Kept
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Japanese Design: A Survey Since 1950
Loved by 1 person

Japanese Design

By Kathryn B. Hiesinger (editor) , Felice Fischer (editor) ,

Book cover of Japanese Design: A Survey Since 1950
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Le Corbusier: An Analysis of Form
Loved by 1 person

Le Corbusier

By Geoffrey Baker ,

Book cover of Le Corbusier: An Analysis of Form
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Discovering Timber-Framed Buildings
Loved by 1 person

Discovering Timber-Framed Buildings

By Richard Harris ,

Book cover of Discovering Timber-Framed Buildings
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
The Timber-Frame Home: Design, Construction, Finishing
Loved by 1 person

The Timber-Frame Home

By Tedd Benson ,

Book cover of The Timber-Frame Home: Design, Construction, Finishing
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
The Moonlit Garden
Loved by 1 person

The Moonlit Garden

By Scott Ogden ,

Book cover of The Moonlit Garden
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Ben Shahn
Loved by 1 person

Ben Shahn

By Frances K. Pohl , Ben Shahn ,

Book cover of Ben Shahn
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Hitler's State Architecture: The Impact of Classical Antiquity
Loved by 1 person

Hitler's State Architecture

By Alex Scobie ,

Book cover of Hitler's State Architecture: The Impact of Classical Antiquity
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Cabin Fever: Sheds and Shelters, Huts and Hideaways
Loved by 1 person

Cabin Fever

By Marie-France Boyer ,

Book cover of Cabin Fever: Sheds and Shelters, Huts and Hideaways
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600
Loved by 1 person

A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600

By Michelle P. Brown ,

Book cover of A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
American Building: The Environmental Forces That Shape It
Loved by 1 person

American Building

By James Marston Fitch , William Bobenhausen ,

Book cover of American Building: The Environmental Forces That Shape It
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Cave Paintings of Baja California: Discovering the Great Murals of an Unknown People
Loved by 1 person

Cave Paintings of Baja California

By Harry Crosby , Joanne H Crosby (illustrator) , Lowell Lindsay (editor)

Book cover of Cave Paintings of Baja California: Discovering the Great Murals of an Unknown People
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Landscape and Englishness
Loved by 1 person

Landscape and Englishness

By David Matless ,

Book cover of Landscape and Englishness
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City
Loved by 1 person

The New Urban Frontier

By Neil Smith ,

Book cover of The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
The Empire State Building
Loved by 1 person

The Empire State Building

By John Tauvanac ,

Book cover of The Empire State Building
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Twin Towers: The Life of New York City's World Trade Center
Loved by 1 person

Twin Towers

By Angus Kress Gillespie ,

Book cover of Twin Towers: The Life of New York City's World Trade Center
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
New York, New York: How the Apartment House Transformed the Life of the City (1869-1930)
Loved by 1 person

New York, New York

By Esme Hawes ,

Book cover of New York, New York: How the Apartment House Transformed the Life of the City (1869-1930)
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
The Disintegration of a Heritage: Country Houses and Their Collections, 1979-1992
Loved by 1 person

The Disintegration of a Heritage

By Michael Sayer , Hugh Massingberd (editor) ,

Book cover of The Disintegration of a Heritage: Country Houses and Their Collections, 1979-1992
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
People's Parks: The Design and Development of Victorian Parks in Britain
Loved by 1 person

People's Parks

By Hazel Conway ,

Book cover of People's Parks: The Design and Development of Victorian Parks in Britain
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time
Loved by 1 person

A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time

By John Brinckerhoff Jackson ,

Book cover of A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Angel Behind the Rocking Chair
Loved by 1 person

Angel Behind the Rocking Chair

By Pam Vredevelt ,

Book cover of Angel Behind the Rocking Chair
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...

Copyright © 2026 - Bookdna.com

NLP Powered By Wikifier.org

Shepherd is a participant in the Bookshop.org and Amazon Associate Affiliate Programs. As a participant, we may earn from qualifying purchases made on those sites.

Discover
  • Discover The Best Books
  • Follow Our Development
About
  • Our Story
  • For Authors
  • Media Inquiries
  • Contact Us
  • Become Founding Member
  • Donate
Legal
  • Affiliate Disclosure
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Website Disclosure

Login

Create Account

Continue with Google

or

Forgot Password?
Continue with Google

or