INFLUENCES   05.18.09 6:00 AM Picture Pages These 10 new books are brimming with architecture, art, design, and cultural references sure to inspire.   —Mark Mavrigian Norwegian Sverre Fehn's striking works, strongly influenced by the Scandinavian landscape, are examined in Sverre Fehn: The Pattern of Thoughts, from the Monacelli Press. Photo: Nils Petter Dale/Courtesy of the Monacelli Press Innovative structures built amid boughs and branches around the globe fill Abrams' New Treehouses of the World. Photo: Pete Nelson/Courtesy of Abrams  Rizzoli New York's Oscar Niemeyer Buildings showcases the once-futuristic architecture of this modern master through a visual tour of his daring large-scale civic and institutional structures. Photo: Courtesy of Rizzoli New York A visual compilation of Russian cultural and intellectual icons that references the likes of Fabergé, Catherine the Great, Erté, Leo Tolstoy—even caviar—appears in Russian Style, from Assouline. Photo: Courtesy of Assouline Andrea Cochran: Landscapes, from the Princeton Architectural Press, details the living sculptural settings of the San Francisco-based landscape architect. Photo: Courtesy of Princeton Architectural Press, 2009 The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography, from Aperture, looks at the arresting forms, images, and experiments produced by photographers working outside the realist mode. Photo: Untitled [Number 179]," © Richard Caldicott Japanese Design, a new volume in the MoMA Design Series, examines the evolution of the country's modern innovations in furniture and industrial design. Photo: Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art Vitamin 3-D, New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation, from Phaidon Press, presents 120 international artists working in three dimensions, from large-scale projects to delicate works crafted from paper, selected by some of the world's most influential curators and critics. Photo: "Rotating Labyrinth," Jeppe Hein/Courtesy of Phaidon Press  Made in Cassina, from Skira/Rizzoli New York, covers the history of Italian furniture firm Cassina and the influence of designers such as Gaetano Pesce, Gio Ponti, and Philippe Starck. Photo: Courtesy of Skira/Distributed by Rizzoli New York Green Archtecture Now!, from Taschen, showcases sustainable designs from leading architects and artists around the globe, including Tadao Ando and Zaha Hadid. Photo: CaixaForum Vertical Garden, Madrid, Spain, Patrick Blanc/© Roland Halbe; courtesy of Taschen