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Architecture: Form, Space, & Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 859 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,019 ratings — published 1979
Towards a New Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 760 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,917 ratings — published 1923
The Architecture of Happiness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 718 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.86 — 14,335 ratings — published 2006
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 715 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,364 ratings — published 1977
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School (Hardcover)
by (shelved 704 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,688 ratings — published 2006
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 665 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,011 ratings — published 1957
Thinking Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 663 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,541 ratings — published 1998
The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses (Paperback)
by (shelved 621 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.38 — 4,272 ratings — published 1996
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 602 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.29 — 19,484 ratings — published 1961
The Ten Books on Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 533 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,707 ratings — published -15
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 506 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,894 ratings — published 1957
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 502 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.01 — 29,290 ratings — published 1933
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan (Paperback)
by (shelved 461 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,637 ratings — published 1978
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 461 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,150 ratings — published 1960
Modern Architecture: A Critical History (Paperback)
by (shelved 398 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,111 ratings — published 1980
Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 389 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,544 ratings — published 1972
Atmospheres: Architectural Environments. Surrounding Objects (Hardcover)
by (shelved 387 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,520 ratings — published 2006
S, M, L, XL (Hardcover)
by (shelved 376 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,829 ratings — published 1995
Experiencing Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 374 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,126 ratings — published 1959
The Timeless Way of Building (Hardcover)
by (shelved 359 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,607 ratings — published 1978
A Visual Dictionary of Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 355 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,730 ratings — published 1995
The Architecture of the City (Oppositions Books)
by (shelved 353 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,306 ratings — published 1966
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 323 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.91 — 27,994 ratings — published 1999
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 315 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.10 — 95,103 ratings — published 1972
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (Paperback)
by (shelved 310 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,851 ratings — published 1994
The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 283 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.89 — 335,280 ratings — published 1943
Neufert Architects' Data, Third Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 260 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,852 ratings — published 1936
Modern Architecture Since 1900 (Paperback)
by (shelved 247 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,201 ratings — published 1982
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 235 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.00 — 747,118 ratings — published 2003
Building Construction Illustrated (Paperback)
by (shelved 233 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,572 ratings — published 2014
From Bauhaus to Our House (Paperback)
by (shelved 227 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.77 — 4,176 ratings — published 1981
Architectural Graphics (Paperback)
by (shelved 216 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,082 ratings — published 1974
Yes is More: An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 212 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,515 ratings — published 2009
The Seven Lamps of Architecture (Dover Architecture)
by (shelved 207 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.83 — 932 ratings — published 1849
The Four Books of Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 201 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.16 — 607 ratings — published 1570
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 197 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,370 ratings — published 2010
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 194 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 817,481 ratings — published 1989
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,361 ratings — published 1971
Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.23 — 744 ratings — published 1965
Architecture As Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.01 — 720 ratings — published 1948
Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 166 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.15 — 488 ratings — published 1941
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 161 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.36 — 9,162 ratings — published 2012
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.99 — 97,907 ratings — published 2010
Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 154 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.26 — 510 ratings — published 1979
Design Like You Give A Damn: Architectural Responses To Humanitarian Crises (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.12 — 847 ratings — published 2006
A Field Guide to American Houses (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,353 ratings — published 1984
A Global History of Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.25 — 396 ratings — published 2006
The Thinking Hand: Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.37 — 734 ratings — published 2009
Analysing Architecture: The universal language of place-making (Analysing Architecture Notebooks)
by (shelved 136 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.10 — 570 ratings — published 1997
Cathedral: By the Author of The Way Things Work (Sandpiper)
by (shelved 130 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,407 ratings — published 1973
“We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.”
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“But I don’t understand. Why do you want me to think that this is great architecture? He pointed to the picture of the Parthenon.
That, said the Dean, is the Parthenon.
- So it is.
- I haven’t the time to waste on silly questions.
- All right, then. - Roark got up, he took a long ruler from the desk, he walked to the picture. - Shall I tell you what’s rotten about it?
- It’s the Parthenon! - said the Dean.
- Yes, God damn it, the Parthenon!
The ruler struck the glass over the picture.
- Look,- said Roark. - The famous flutings on the famous columns – what are they there for? To hide the joints in wood – when columns were made of wood, only these aren’t, they’re marble. The triglyphs, what are they? Wood. Wooden beams, the way they had to be laid when people began to build wooden shacks. Your Greeks took marble and they made copies of their wooden structures out of it, because others had done it that way. Then your masters of the Renaissance came along and made copies in plaster of copies in marble of copies in wood. Now here we are, making copies in steel and concrete of copies in plaster of copies in marble of copies in wood. Why?”
― The Fountainhead
That, said the Dean, is the Parthenon.
- So it is.
- I haven’t the time to waste on silly questions.
- All right, then. - Roark got up, he took a long ruler from the desk, he walked to the picture. - Shall I tell you what’s rotten about it?
- It’s the Parthenon! - said the Dean.
- Yes, God damn it, the Parthenon!
The ruler struck the glass over the picture.
- Look,- said Roark. - The famous flutings on the famous columns – what are they there for? To hide the joints in wood – when columns were made of wood, only these aren’t, they’re marble. The triglyphs, what are they? Wood. Wooden beams, the way they had to be laid when people began to build wooden shacks. Your Greeks took marble and they made copies of their wooden structures out of it, because others had done it that way. Then your masters of the Renaissance came along and made copies in plaster of copies in marble of copies in wood. Now here we are, making copies in steel and concrete of copies in plaster of copies in marble of copies in wood. Why?”
― The Fountainhead
