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Robert Redford aims his lens at Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute and Wim Wenders films inside the Berlin Philharmonie in this series of six documentaries that explores iconic buildings, showing at Toronto’s TIFF Lightbox from December 19.

Books make perennially great gifts for everyone on your list. Here are five beautifully fashioned architecture and design books to appeal to readers young and old.

A book on city (and suburb) building, a film on how Frank Gehry and Yves Béhar handle design briefs, and a monograph on German designer Konstantin Grcic.

The Berlin architect, who has captured the world’s imagination with such buildings as the Border Checkpoint in Georgia and the Metropol Parasol in Spain, shares his favourite book, website, film and podcast.

Two recent titles, Aalto and Out of the Blue, engage us once more with the core elements of Finnish culture, and reacquaint us with the country’s reputation for quality, function and design.

Torre David: Informal Urban Communities offers a glimpse of life in an uncompleted 45-storey tower that’s home to thousands of squatters.

The British designer and proponent of the Super Normal fills a book with his photos of ordinary, anonymous – and exceptional – objects and tools found on his travels all over the world.

From Bruce Mau to Lara McCormick, leading figures in graphic design and branding will deliver presentations at Toronto’s DesignThinkers conference, on November 6 and 7. Here, we look at nine speakers who have also published must-read books.

A new book compiles hundreds of sketches and offers a glimpse into the minds of the designing French brothers.

For lovers of Eames, Schindler and all things mid-century, these five books celebrate the era’s best architecture and design.