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Architecture Books
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Architecture: Form, Space, & Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 872 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,045 ratings — published 1979
Towards a New Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 760 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,962 ratings — published 1923
The Architecture of Happiness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 727 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.86 — 14,507 ratings — published 2006
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 718 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,438 ratings — published 1977
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School (Hardcover)
by (shelved 713 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,750 ratings — published 2006
Thinking Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 669 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,593 ratings — published 1998
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 664 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,194 ratings — published 1957
The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses (Paperback)
by (shelved 629 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.38 — 4,368 ratings — published 1996
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 606 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.29 — 19,903 ratings — published 1961
The Ten Books on Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 539 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,738 ratings — published -15
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 512 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.00 — 30,313 ratings — published 1933
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 508 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,917 ratings — published 1957
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 469 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,195 ratings — published 1960
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan (Paperback)
by (shelved 464 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,679 ratings — published 1978
Modern Architecture: A Critical History (Paperback)
by (shelved 403 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,121 ratings — published 1980
Atmospheres: Architectural Environments. Surrounding Objects (Hardcover)
by (shelved 395 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,608 ratings — published 2006
Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 392 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,576 ratings — published 1972
S, M, L, XL (Hardcover)
by (shelved 381 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,837 ratings — published 1995
Experiencing Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 380 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,164 ratings — published 1959
The Timeless Way of Building (Hardcover)
by (shelved 366 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,656 ratings — published 1978
A Visual Dictionary of Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 357 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,740 ratings — published 1995
The Architecture of the City (Oppositions Books)
by (shelved 355 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,325 ratings — published 1966
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 324 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,187 ratings — published 1999
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 321 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.10 — 97,132 ratings — published 1972
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (Paperback)
by (shelved 312 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,873 ratings — published 1994
The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 281 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.89 — 337,192 ratings — published 1943
Neufert Architects' Data, Third Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 264 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,854 ratings — published 1936
Modern Architecture Since 1900 (Paperback)
by (shelved 248 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,202 ratings — published 1982
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 237 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.00 — 757,858 ratings — published 2003
Building Construction Illustrated (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,583 ratings — published 2014
From Bauhaus to Our House (Paperback)
by (shelved 229 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.77 — 4,218 ratings — published 1981
Architectural Graphics (Paperback)
by (shelved 218 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,088 ratings — published 1974
Yes is More: An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,529 ratings — published 2009
The Seven Lamps of Architecture (Dover Architecture)
by (shelved 205 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.83 — 945 ratings — published 1849
The Four Books of Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.15 — 613 ratings — published 1570
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 197 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,414 ratings — published 2010
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 196 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 829,446 ratings — published 1989
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,390 ratings — published 1971
Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.24 — 757 ratings — published 1965
Architecture As Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.00 — 738 ratings — published 1948
Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 169 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.15 — 489 ratings — published 1941
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 162 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.99 — 98,472 ratings — published 2010
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 161 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.36 — 9,358 ratings — published 2012
Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 154 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.26 — 516 ratings — published 1979
Design Like You Give A Damn: Architectural Responses To Humanitarian Crises (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.12 — 850 ratings — published 2006
The Thinking Hand: Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture (Architectural Design Primer)
by (shelved 153 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.37 — 752 ratings — published 2009
A Global History of Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.24 — 400 ratings — published 2006
A Field Guide to American Houses (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,359 ratings — published 1984
Analysing Architecture: The universal language of place-making (Analysing Architecture Notebooks)
by (shelved 135 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.09 — 571 ratings — published 1997
Cathedral: By the Author of The Way Things Work (Sandpiper)
by (shelved 132 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,431 ratings — published 1973
“It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.”
― The Architecture of Happiness
― The Architecture of Happiness
“Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts.”
― Wanderlust: A History of Walking
― Wanderlust: A History of Walking
