Kids Coffee Table Books Architecture And Design Edition

The coffee table book is arguably designed specifically for, or best manifests its glory in architecture and design titles. Really that’s kind of what they excel at. Trying to pick and choose a library or architecture and design coffee table books that will help to inspire your kids love for the topic seems almost impossible, “well wouldn’t I have to buy every book?”. That’s a hard no. But, how do you choose out of all the titles available on such a wildly diverse subject matter? Think about goals. Why are you buying these books and what do you hope you kids are going to get out of them inspiration-wise. We already did travel and animals. So anything that trends too close to those topics can be set aside. For architecture and design your thoughts should move towards building a collection that at once showcases an overall knowledge of the topic and then secondarily zeroing on more specific subjects. What in the heck does that all mean? Here you go.

A general good coffee table book, although we can also simply call it at this point and for this topic, reference book would be World Architecture The Masterworks by Will Pryce. Is not too overwhelming for kids, has great photography and sticks to the classics.

Modern Architecture A-Z by Taschen is an excellent option which has a much deeper depth of concentration specifically on modern architecture, with many more photos and architects that your kids will almost never really be exposed to unless they become architects themselves. But the buildings themselves are awesome, with multiple photos for all covered. This is book that you don’t casually leaf through but you spend time digesting.

Design is really hard to do, there’s so much out there and the term “design” is so nebulous. Two options, Cabana Anthology, which has interiors, furniture, fabrics, colors, patterns, a whole world of wildness to explore. And Second would be the classic Taschen World of Ornament, it’s a classic, as far as I remember exclusively illustrations, but really good at spanning the whole spectrum of cultures across the world.