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Architecture Books
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Architecture: Form, Space, & Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 884 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,055 ratings — published 1979
Towards a New Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 764 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,987 ratings — published 1923
The Architecture of Happiness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 735 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.86 — 14,595 ratings — published 2006
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 722 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,467 ratings — published 1977
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School (Hardcover)
by (shelved 721 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,779 ratings — published 2006
Thinking Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 675 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,637 ratings — published 1998
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 672 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,308 ratings — published 1957
The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses (Paperback)
by (shelved 641 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.38 — 4,435 ratings — published 1996
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 614 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,108 ratings — published 1961
The Ten Books on Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 543 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,751 ratings — published -15
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 520 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.00 — 30,860 ratings — published 1933
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 511 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,929 ratings — published 1957
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 474 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,220 ratings — published 1960
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan (Paperback)
by (shelved 467 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,721 ratings — published 1978
Modern Architecture: A Critical History (Paperback)
by (shelved 404 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,133 ratings — published 1980
Atmospheres: Architectural Environments. Surrounding Objects (Hardcover)
by (shelved 402 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,679 ratings — published 2006
Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 396 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,597 ratings — published 1972
Experiencing Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 384 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,183 ratings — published 1959
S, M, L, XL (Hardcover)
by (shelved 381 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,840 ratings — published 1995
The Timeless Way of Building (Hardcover)
by (shelved 367 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,678 ratings — published 1978
The Architecture of the City (Oppositions Books)
by (shelved 363 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,328 ratings — published 1966
A Visual Dictionary of Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 360 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,744 ratings — published 1995
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 327 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,260 ratings — published 1999
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 325 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.10 — 98,146 ratings — published 1972
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (Paperback)
by (shelved 313 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,876 ratings — published 1994
The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 282 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.89 — 338,170 ratings — published 1943
Neufert Architects' Data, Third Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 266 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,857 ratings — published 1936
Modern Architecture Since 1900 (Paperback)
by (shelved 249 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,207 ratings — published 1982
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 239 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.00 — 763,275 ratings — published 2003
Building Construction Illustrated (Paperback)
by (shelved 238 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,590 ratings — published 2014
From Bauhaus to Our House (Paperback)
by (shelved 229 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.77 — 4,237 ratings — published 1981
Architectural Graphics (Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,090 ratings — published 1974
Yes is More: An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,534 ratings — published 2009
The Seven Lamps of Architecture (Dover Architecture)
by (shelved 207 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.83 — 952 ratings — published 1849
The Four Books of Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.14 — 615 ratings — published 1570
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 200 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,436 ratings — published 2010
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 197 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 835,705 ratings — published 1989
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 196 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,414 ratings — published 1971
Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 183 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.23 — 762 ratings — published 1965
Architecture As Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.00 — 740 ratings — published 1948
Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.15 — 490 ratings — published 1941
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.99 — 98,866 ratings — published 2010
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 162 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.36 — 9,463 ratings — published 2012
Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 157 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.26 — 520 ratings — published 1979
Design Like You Give A Damn: Architectural Responses To Humanitarian Crises (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.12 — 852 ratings — published 2006
The Thinking Hand: Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture (Architectural Design Primer)
by (shelved 154 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.36 — 770 ratings — published 2009
A Global History of Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 151 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 — 1,363 ratings — published 1984
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 132 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,441 ratings — published 1973
“Gracie: You have an unusual house. Have you lived here long?
Bobby Tom: A couple of years. I don't much like it myself, but the architect is real proud of it. She calls it urban Stone Age with a Japanese Tahitian influence. I sort of just call it ugly.”
― Heaven, Texas
Bobby Tom: A couple of years. I don't much like it myself, but the architect is real proud of it. She calls it urban Stone Age with a Japanese Tahitian influence. I sort of just call it ugly.”
― Heaven, Texas
“Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.”
― Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure
― Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure












