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Architecture: Form, Space, & Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 902 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,090 ratings — published 1979
Towards a New Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 776 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,054 ratings — published 1923
The Architecture of Happiness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 750 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.86 — 14,869 ratings — published 2006
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 743 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,537 ratings — published 1977
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School (Hardcover)
by (shelved 739 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,839 ratings — published 2006
Thinking Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 686 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,725 ratings — published 1998
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 681 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,565 ratings — published 1957
The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses (Paperback)
by (shelved 659 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,640 ratings — published 1996
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 621 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,723 ratings — published 1961
The Ten Books on Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 555 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,788 ratings — published -15
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 525 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.99 — 32,471 ratings — published 1933
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 516 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,960 ratings — published 1957
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 484 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,279 ratings — published 1960
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan (Paperback)
by (shelved 472 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,776 ratings — published 1978
Atmospheres: Architectural Environments. Surrounding Objects (Hardcover)
by (shelved 415 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,801 ratings — published 2006
Modern Architecture: A Critical History (Paperback)
by (shelved 408 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,146 ratings — published 1980
Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 398 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,655 ratings — published 1972
Experiencing Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 388 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,224 ratings — published 1959
S, M, L, XL (Hardcover)
by (shelved 387 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,855 ratings — published 1995
The Timeless Way of Building (Hardcover)
by (shelved 379 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,734 ratings — published 1978
The Architecture of the City (Oppositions Books)
by (shelved 372 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,346 ratings — published 1966
A Visual Dictionary of Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 368 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,756 ratings — published 1995
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 336 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,546 ratings — published 1999
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 332 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.09 — 101,441 ratings — published 1972
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (Paperback)
by (shelved 315 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,902 ratings — published 1994
The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 286 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.89 — 340,966 ratings — published 1943
Neufert Architects' Data, Third Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 270 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,866 ratings — published 1936
Modern Architecture Since 1900 (Paperback)
by (shelved 254 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,209 ratings — published 1982
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 246 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.00 — 778,839 ratings — published 2003
Building Construction Illustrated (Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,603 ratings — published 2014
From Bauhaus to Our House (Paperback)
by (shelved 234 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.77 — 4,304 ratings — published 1981
Architectural Graphics (Paperback)
by (shelved 224 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,098 ratings — published 1974
Yes is More: An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 212 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,544 ratings — published 2009
The Seven Lamps of Architecture (Dover Architecture)
by (shelved 210 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.83 — 960 ratings — published 1849
The Four Books of Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.14 — 619 ratings — published 1570
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 207 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,504 ratings — published 2010
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 200 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 853,697 ratings — published 1989
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 197 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,451 ratings — published 1971
Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.23 — 768 ratings — published 1965
Architecture As Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.00 — 748 ratings — published 1948
Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 175 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.16 — 495 ratings — published 1941
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,766 ratings — published 2012
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.99 — 99,931 ratings — published 2010
Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 159 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.26 — 530 ratings — published 1979
A Global History of Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.24 — 402 ratings — published 2006
The Thinking Hand: Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture (Architectural Design Primer)
by (shelved 156 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 792 ratings — published 2009
Design Like You Give A Damn: Architectural Responses To Humanitarian Crises (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.12 — 854 ratings — published 2006
A Field Guide to American Houses (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,384 ratings — published 1984
Analysing Architecture: The universal language of place-making (Analysing Architecture Notebooks)
by (shelved 139 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.10 — 573 ratings — published 1997
A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.08 — 616 ratings — published 1985
“The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather than chance, to strip the world of its wide-open possibilities and replace them with freedom of choice in the marketplace.”
― Wanderlust: A History of Walking
― Wanderlust: A History of Walking
“We are sometimes astounded by the behavior of emotional outlaws, as they act in line with their own standards, but proceed like bulls-in-a-china-shop, create one heck of a mess in their living environment and bring about shocking disturbing dissensions, ever since their inner construction clashes with our emotional architecture. (“Disruption”)”
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