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Architecture: Form, Space, & Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 897 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,070 ratings — published 1979
Towards a New Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 769 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,017 ratings — published 1923
The Architecture of Happiness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 741 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.86 — 14,726 ratings — published 2006
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School (Hardcover)
by (shelved 730 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,804 ratings — published 2006
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 730 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,498 ratings — published 1977
Thinking Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 679 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,673 ratings — published 1998
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 675 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,422 ratings — published 1957
The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses (Paperback)
by (shelved 647 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,520 ratings — published 1996
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 618 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,370 ratings — published 1961
The Ten Books on Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 547 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,764 ratings — published -15
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 525 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.00 — 31,580 ratings — published 1933
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 514 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,950 ratings — published 1957
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 481 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,241 ratings — published 1960
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan (Paperback)
by (shelved 474 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,746 ratings — published 1978
Modern Architecture: A Critical History (Paperback)
by (shelved 408 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,141 ratings — published 1980
Atmospheres: Architectural Environments. Surrounding Objects (Hardcover)
by (shelved 407 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,736 ratings — published 2006
Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 397 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,618 ratings — published 1972
Experiencing Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 388 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,200 ratings — published 1959
S, M, L, XL (Hardcover)
by (shelved 384 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,850 ratings — published 1995
The Timeless Way of Building (Hardcover)
by (shelved 372 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,700 ratings — published 1978
The Architecture of the City (Oppositions Books)
by (shelved 369 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,336 ratings — published 1966
A Visual Dictionary of Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 364 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,747 ratings — published 1995
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 333 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,372 ratings — published 1999
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 328 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.09 — 99,495 ratings — published 1972
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (Paperback)
by (shelved 316 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,886 ratings — published 1994
The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 285 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.89 — 339,369 ratings — published 1943
Neufert Architects' Data, Third Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 267 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,863 ratings — published 1936
Modern Architecture Since 1900 (Paperback)
by (shelved 252 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,208 ratings — published 1982
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 244 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.00 — 770,021 ratings — published 2003
Building Construction Illustrated (Paperback)
by (shelved 240 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,595 ratings — published 2014
From Bauhaus to Our House (Paperback)
by (shelved 230 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.77 — 4,273 ratings — published 1981
Architectural Graphics (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,094 ratings — published 1974
Yes is More: An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 214 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,540 ratings — published 2009
The Seven Lamps of Architecture (Dover Architecture)
by (shelved 210 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.83 — 954 ratings — published 1849
The Four Books of Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.14 — 617 ratings — published 1570
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 203 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,470 ratings — published 2010
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 199 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 843,400 ratings — published 1989
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 197 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,435 ratings — published 1971
Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 183 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.23 — 767 ratings — published 1965
Architecture As Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.00 — 743 ratings — published 1948
Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 173 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.16 — 493 ratings — published 1941
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.99 — 99,346 ratings — published 2010
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 162 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,598 ratings — published 2012
Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 157 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.26 — 525 ratings — published 1979
The Thinking Hand: Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture (Architectural Design Primer)
by (shelved 156 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 779 ratings — published 2009
Design Like You Give A Damn: Architectural Responses To Humanitarian Crises (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.12 — 853 ratings — published 2006
A Global History of Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 152 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.24 — 402 ratings — published 2006
A Field Guide to American Houses (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,374 ratings — published 1984
Analysing Architecture: The universal language of place-making (Analysing Architecture Notebooks)
by (shelved 137 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.10 — 571 ratings — published 1997
A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.08 — 614 ratings — published 1985
“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
“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
