Listopia > Eleanor Saitta's votes on the list An Introduction to Architecture (nonfiction) (20 Books)
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Architecture: Form, Space, & Order
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"Mostly visual, but the best introduction to thinking in forms."
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rated it 5 stars
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Introduction to Architecture
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"...and now a more general introduction."
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Building Construction Illustrated
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"Architecture is a material practice."
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Analysing Architecture
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"More tools for how to think about buildings."
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rated it 4 stars
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Body, Memory, and Architecture
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"Because architecture is a lived, embodied practice."
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rated it 4 stars
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Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: An Anthology of Architectural Theory 1965-1995
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"And now a background in architectural theory."
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Constructing a New Agenda: Architectural Theory 1993-2009
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"...including some more modern bits."
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The Image of the City
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"The foundational book on how we see cities."
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rated it 5 stars
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Simulacra and Simulation
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"A critical set of tools for thinking about representation."
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Precedents in Architecture: Analytic Diagrams, Formative Ideas, and Partis
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"Tools for working with how we analyze space."
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Order in Space: A Design Source Book
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"Hard to describe, but worthwhile."
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The Timeless Way of Building
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"A very different way of thinking about building."
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rated it 5 stars
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
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"...and the language that goes with that way of thinking."
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rated it 5 stars
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The Look of Architecture
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"A short antidote to the pretense of aesthetics being driven by theory."
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rated it 4 stars
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African Nomadic Architecture: Space, Place and Gender
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"The role of women in (a set of spaces) and another perspective on the construction of space."
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rated it 5 stars
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Cinematic Architecture 1993-2008
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"Seeing architecture as film."
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Concerning Archigram
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"On one of the more interesting firms of the 20th century."
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Camps: A Guide to 21st-Century Space
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"The architecture of transient spaces."
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rated it 4 stars
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The Infrastructural City: Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles
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Leicht Weit/Light Structures
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