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Against Architecture

Cecla, Franco La
 

Age of the Masters: A Personal View of Modern Architecture

Reyner Banham

   
         
         
     
         

Architectural Theory (VOL. 1)

Mallgrave, Harry Francis

 

Architectural Theory (VOL. 2)

Mallgrave, Harry Francis

   
         
         
   
         

Architectural Theory From the Renaissance to the Present : 89 Essays on 117 Treatises 

Evers, Bernd

 

Architecture the whole story 

Jones, Denna

 

Architecture for A Changing World 

Steele, James

         
         
   
         

Architecture and politics in Germany, 1918-1945 

Miller Lane, Barbara

 

Architecture in the Twentieth Century

Peter Gössel, Gabriele Leuthäuser

 

The Architecture of Oppression: The SS, Forced Labor and the Nazi Monumental Building Economy (Architext) 

Jaskot , Paul B.

         
         
   
         

Architecture: Form, Space, and Order

Francis D. K. Ching

 

The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment

Reyner Banham

 

Architecture and Utopia: Design and Capitalist Development

Manfredo Tafuri

         
         
   
         

Architectural thought: the design process and the expectant eye

Michael Brawne MARCH (MIT) MA AADIP FRIBA

 

Architecture in Europe Since 1968: Memory and Invention

Alexander Tzonis, Liane Lefaivre

 

Architectural Surfaces: Details for Artists, Architects, and Designers

Judy A. Juracek

         
         
   
         

Architecture since 1400 

Kathleen, James-Chakraborty

 

Architecture from without theoretical framings for a critical practice

Agrest, Diana  

 

Architectural Culture Around 1900 Critical Reappraisal and Heritage Preservation

Shmidt, Claudia

         
         
   
         

Architecture and its Ethical Dilemmas 

Ray, Nicholas
 

Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization: Peaks and Valleys in the Flat World 

Tzonis, Alexander

 

Architecture in the Public Realm 

Dietsch, Deborah  

         
         
   
       

The architecture of the Renaissance 

Benevolo, Leonardo  

 

The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance

Murray, Peter  

 

Architecture and the Phenomena of Transition: The Three Space Conceptions in Architecture 

Giedion, Sigfried  

         
         
   
         

Art Deco Source Book

Bayer, Patricia

 

Art Deco 

Weber, Eva 

 

Art Deco of the 20s and 30s

Hillier, Bevis

         
         
   
         

Art Deco Architecture Design, Decoration and Detail from the Twenties and Thirties

Bayer, Patricia

 

Art Deco: 1910–1939 

Benton, Tim

 

The Art Deco Style

Brunhammer, Yvonne

         
         
     
         

Art Nouveau

Battersby, Martin
 

Art Nouveau

Tschudi-Madsen, Stephan

   
         
         
       
         

The Aspen papers : twenty years of design theory from the International Design Conference in Aspen 

Banham, Reyner  

       
       
         
         
         
         

 

       
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The Bauhaus Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago

Wingler, Hans Maria 

 

Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge/Mass., 26. September - 10. November 1985

Winfried Nerdinger

 

Brazil builds; architecture new and old, 1652-1942 

Goodwin, Philip Lippincott 

         
         
     
         

Bruno Zevi On Modern Architecture

Oppenheimer Dean, Andrea

     

Building 3000 years of design engineering and construction 

Addis, William

         
         
       
         

Byzantine art and architecture An introduction 

Rodley, Lyn  

       
         
         
       
         
         
         
         
         
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Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture, 1750-1950

Collins, Peter

 

The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History 

Kostof, Spiro

   
         
         
   
         

Classical Architecture 

Porphyrios , Demetri

 

Classical architecture : the poetics of order 

Tzonis, Alexander  

 

Collage City

Rowe, Colin

         
         
   
         

Companions to the History of Architecture, Renaissance and Baroque Architecture (VOL. 1)

Mallgrave, Harry Francis Mallgrave (editor) 

 

Companions to the History of Architecture, Eighteenth-Century Architecture (VOL. 2)

Mallgrave, Harry Francis Mallgrave (editor) 

 

Companions to the History of Architecture, Nineteenth-Century Architecture (VOL. 3)

Mallgrave, Harry Francis Mallgrave (editor) 

         
         
   
       

Companions to the History of Architecture, Twentieth-Century Architecture (VOL. 4)

Mallgrave, Harry Francis Mallgrave (editor) 

 

Concrete Vaulted Construction in Imperial Rome: Innovations in Context 

Lancaster, Lynne C.  

 

A Concrete Atlantis: U.S. Industrial Building and European Modern Architecture 

Banham, Reyner   

         
         
   
         

A Critic Writes: Selected Essays by Reyner 

Banham, Reyner  

 

A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture, 1960-2010. Edited by Elie G. Haddad with David Rifkind

Elie G. Haddad & David Rifkind  

 

Critical Regionalism: Architecture and Identity in a Globalised World

Tzonis, Alexander  

         
       
         
         
         
         
         
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Deconstruction Omnibus Volume 

Papadakis, Andreas
       
         
         
     
         

The Decorative Twenties

Battersby, Martin

 

The decorative Thirties 

Battersby, Martin 

   
         
         
       
       

Designing Memory: The Architecture of Commemoration in Europe, 1914 to the Present 

Tanović, Sabina  

       
         
         
       
         

The De Stijl environment

Troy, Nancy J 

       
         
         
       
         

DICTIONARY OF ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION

Cyril Harris

       
         
         
         
       
         
         
         
         
         
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Encyclopedia of twentieth century architecture, Vol.1 (A-F)

R.Stephen Sennott

 

Encyclopedia of 20th century architecture, Vol.3 (P-Z)

R Stephen Sennott

 

Encyclopedia of Modern Architecture

Wolfgang Pehnt

         
         
       
         

Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Architecture

Vittorio M. Lampugnani

       
         
         
     
       

The Eternal Present, Volume I: The Beginnings of Art

Giedion, Sigfried  

 

The Eternal Present, Volume II: The Beginnings of Architecture 

Giedion, Sigfried   

   
         
         
       
       

Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture 

Pevsner, Nikolaus   

       
         
         
     
         

European Architecture 1750-1890 (Oxford History of Art) 

Bergdoll, Barry

 

European Architecture in the 20th Century

Whittick, Arnold  

   
         
         
   
       

The Evolution of 20th Century Architecture: A Synoptic Account

Kenneth Frampton

 

Expressionist Utopias: Paradise, Metropolis, Architectural Fantasy

Timothy O. Benson; David Frisby

 

Expressionist Architecture 

Pehnt, Wolfgang

         
       
         
         
         
         
         
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The Failure of Modern Architecture

Brent C. Brolin

 

Form Follows Fiasco: Why Modern Architecture Hasn’t Worked

Peter Blake

 

Form and Function: A Source Book for the History of Architecture and Design 1890-1939 

Benton, Tim

         
         
       
         

Forms and Functions of 20th Century Architecture. V. 2

Hamlin, Talbot  

       
         
         
       
         

Friedrich Gilly Essays on Architecture, 1796–1799 

Neumeyer, Fritz  

       
         
       
         
         
         
         
         
G        
         
         
     
         

Great Buildings

Wilkinson, Philip

 

The Great Builders 

Powell, Kenneth
   
       
         
         
         
         
         
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Heavenly Mansions- And Other Essays on Architecture

Summerson, John

 

History of Italian Architecture 1944 – 1985

Tafuri. M

   
         
         
   
         

History of modern architecture, Volume 1

Leonardo Benevolo

 

History of Modern Architecture, Volume 2

Leonardo Benevolo

 

The History of Interior Decoration

McCorquodale, Charles

         
         
   
         

Histories of the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural Modernism 

Eisenman, Peter

 

A History of Building Types 

Pevsner, Nikolaus

 

Historical Dictionary of Architecture

Allison Lee Palmer

         
         
       
         

How Buildings Work. The Natural Order of Architecture

Edward Allen, David Swoboda

       
         
       
         
         
         
         
         
I        
         
         
     
         

Icons of Architecture: The 20th Century

Wolfgang Bachmann; Sabine Thiel-Siling

 

Image of the City

Kevin Lynch

   
         
         
   
         

The International Style

Henry Russell Hitchcock, Philip Johnson

 

An Introduction to Architectural Theory: 1968 to the Present 

Mallgrave, Harry Francis

 

Italy: Modern Architectures in History

Ghirardo, Diane

         
       
         
         
         
         
         
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Lessons for students in architecture

Herman Hertzberger

         
         
         
         
   
       

Light, Air and Openness- Modern Architecture Between the Wars

Overy, Paul  

 

Liquid Stone: New Architecture in Concrete 

Cohen, Jean-Louis  

 

Louis Kahn: Conversations with Students

Louis I. Kahn

         
       
         
         
         
         
         
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Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume II: From Le Corbusier to Rem Koolhaas

Martin Filler

 

Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume III: From Antoni Gaudí to Maya Lin

Martin Filler

         
         
     
         
   

The master builders : Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright

Blake, Peter

 

The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays 

Rowe, Colin

         
         
       
         

Mediterranean Basin (v. 4) (World Architecture 1900-2000: A Critical Mosaic) 

Lampugnani, Vittorio Magnago

       
         
         
     
         

Modern classicism 

Stern, Robert A. M 

 

Modern Architecture: A Critical History

Kenneth Frampton

 

Modern architecture, Volume 2 of History of world architecture

Manfredo Tafuri, Francesco Dal Co

         
         
   
         

Modern architecture in Brazil 

Mindlin, Henrique E.

 

Modern Architecture: A Guidebook for His Students to This Field of Art 

Wagner, Otto  

 

The Modern Chair: Classic Designs by Thonet, Breuer, Le Corbusier, Eames and Others 

Meadmore, Clement

         
         
   
     

The Modern Language of Architecture 

Zevi, Bruno  

 

Modern Architecture 

Colquhoun, Alan  

 

Modern Architectural Theory: A Historical Survey, 1673-1968 

Mallgrave, Harry Francis  

       
         
         
         
         
         
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Neoclassical and 19th Century Architecture (History of World Architecture) 

Middleton, Robin  

       
         
   
         

New Moderns From Late to Neo Modernism

Charles Jencks; Jencks

 

The new art - the new life the collected writings of Piet Mondrian

Mondrian, Piet 

 

New directions in Latin American architecture 

Bullrich, Francisco 

         
         
   
         

The New Brutalism: Ethic or Aesthetic

Reyner Banham

 

A New Spirit in Architecture

A. Papadakēs

 

The New German Architecture

Gerhard G. Feldmeyer, Casey C. M. Mathewson

         
         
   
         

The New Architecture and the Bauhaus

Walter Gropius

 

New Directions in African Architecture

Kultermann, Udo

 

A New History of Modern Architecture 

Davies, Colin

         
         
       
         

Nurturing Dreams: Collected Essays on Architecture and the City

Fumihiko Maki, Mark Mulligan, Eduard F. Sekler

       
         
       
         
         
         
         
         
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On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change

Huxtable, Ada Louise  

 

The Origins of Modern Town Planning 

Benevolo, Leonardo  

 

An Outline of European Architecture 

Pevsner, Nikolaus  

         
         
       
       

The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Art and Architecture (Oxford Handbooks) 

Schwartz, Ellen C.  

       
       
         
         
         
         
         
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Paris a century of change, 1878-1978 

Evenson, Norma

 

The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture : Travel Edition.

Harnish Muir and Lisa Drake, designed by Muir

   
         
         
     
         

Philip Johnson: Life and Work

Franz Schulze

 

Philip Johnson/John Burgee: Architecture 1979-1985

Philip Johnson, John Burgee, Carleton Knight

 

Pioneers of Modern Design, From William Morris to Walter Gropius

Nikolaus Pevsner

         
         
     
         

Plans, Sections and Elevations: Key Buildings of the Twentieth Century

Weston, Richard  
     

Précis of the Lectures on Architecture: With Graphic Portion of the Lectures on Architecture 

Durand, Jean-Nicolas-Louis  

         
         
     
         

Proportion: Science, Philosophy, Architecture

Padovan, Richard

 

Public Bildings

Arne Jacobsen

   
         
       
         
         
         
         
         
Q        
         
         
       
         
         
         
         
         
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Reckoning with Colin Rowe: ten architects take position 

Rowe, Colin  

       
         
     
         

Rome: An Urban History from Antiquity to the Present

Rabun Taylor, Katherine Wentworth Rinne, Spiro Kostof 

 

The Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece 

Roy, David Le  

   
         
         
       
         
         
         
         
         
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Scenes in America Deserta 

Banham, Reyner   

       
         
       
         

Shelter in Saudi Arabia

Talib, Kaizer 

       
         
         
     
         
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 

Sources of Architectural Form: A Critical History of Western Design Theory 

Gelernter, Mark  

   
         
         
   
         

The story of architecture

Nuttgens, Patrick

The Story of Contemporary Architecture 

Favole, Paolo 

 

Studies in Art, Architecture, and Design: Victorian and After 

Pevsner, Nikolaus

       
         
         
         
         
         
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The Theater of the Bauhaus

Molnár, Farkas

 

Theoretical anxiety and design strategies in the work of eight contemporary architects

Moneo, José Rafael 

 

Theory and Design in the First Machine Age

Reyner Banham

         
         
       
         

Theories and History of Architecture 

Tafuri, Manfredo

       
         
       
         

Thinking About Architecture: An Introduction to Architectural Theory

Davies, Colin

       
         
         
     
         

Total Design: Architecture and Interiors of Iconic Modern Houses

Marcus, George H.

 

Towards a New Architecture

Le Corbusier

   
         
         
   
         

Twentieth-century World Architecture

Trewin Copplestone

 

Twentieth-century Architecture

Dennis P. Doordan

 

Twentieth Century Architecture: A Visual History

Sharp, Dennis

         
       
         
         
         
         
         
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Understanding Architecture

Robert McCarter, Juhani Pallasmaa

       
         
       
         
         
         
         
         
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Venice: The City and Its Architecture

Goy, Richard
 

Victorian Houses and their Details

Helen Long

   
         
       
         
         
         
         
         
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Why Architecture Matters 

Goldberger, Paul  

       
         
       
         
         
         
         
         
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20th century architecture drawings, models, furniture from the exhibition of the Deutschen Architekturmuseums, Frankfurt am Main 

Klotz, Heinrich 

 

20th Century Building Materials: History and Conservation 

Jester, Thomas C.  

   
         

 

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