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Building 3000 years of design engineering and construction 

Addis, William

 

Architecture from without theoretical framings for a critical practice

Agrest, Diana  

   
         
       
         
         
         
         
         
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Icons of Architecture: The 20th Century

Wolfgang Bachmann; Sabine Thiel-Siling

       
         
         
     
         

Age of the Masters: A Personal View of Modern Architecture

Reyner Banham

 

The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment

Reyner Banham

   
         
         
   
         

The New Brutalism: Ethic or Aesthetic

Reyner Banham

 

Theory and Design in the First Machine Age

Reyner Banham

 

A Critic Writes: Selected Essays by Reyner 

Banham, Reyner  

         
         
   
         

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

Banham, Reyner  

 

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

Banham, Reyner   

 

Scenes in America Deserta 

Banham, Reyner   

         
         
   
         

The Decorative Twenties

Battersby, Martin

 

Art Nouveau

Battersby, Martin
 

The decorative Thirties 

Battersby, Martin 

         
         
       
         

Art Nouveau

Battersby, Martin
       
         
         
     
         

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

Bayer, Patricia

 

Art Deco Source Book

Bayer, Patricia

   
         
         
   
         

History of modern architecture, Volume 1

Leonardo Benevolo

 

History of Modern Architecture, Volume 2

Leonardo Benevolo

 

The Origins of Modern Town Planning 

Benevolo, Leonardo  

         
         
     
         

The architecture of the Renaissance 

Benevolo, Leonardo  

     

Expressionist Utopias: Paradise, Metropolis, Architectural Fantasy

Benson, Timothy O.
         
         
     
         

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

Benton, Tim

 

Art Deco: 1910–1939 

Benton, Tim

   
         
         
       
         

European Architecture 1750-1890 (Oxford History of Art) 

Bergdoll, Barry

       
         
         
       
         

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

Blake, Peter

       
         
         
   
         

Form Follows Fiasco: Why Modern Architecture Hasn’t Worked

Peter Blake

 

Architectural thought: the design process and the expectant eye

Michael Brawne MARCH (MIT) MA AADIP FRIBA

 

The Failure of Modern Architecture

Brent C. Brolin

         
         
       
         

New directions in Latin American architecture 

Bullrich, Francisco 

       
         
       
         
         
         
         
         
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Against Architecture

Cecla, Franco La
       
         
         
     
       

Architecture: Form, Space, and Order

Francis D. K. Ching

 

Liquid Stone: New Architecture in Concrete 

Cohen, Jean-Louis  

   
         
         
     
       

Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture, 1750-1950

Collins, Peter

 

Modern Architecture 

Colquhoun, Alan  

   
         
         
     
         

Towards a New Architecture

Le Corbusier

 

Twentieth-century World Architecture

Trewin Copplestone

   
       
         
         
         
         
         
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Thinking About Architecture: An Introduction to Architectural Theory

Davies, Colin

 

A New History of Modern Architecture 

Davies, Colin

 

Twentieth-century Architecture

Dennis P. Doordan

         
         
     
         

Architecture in the Public Realm 

Dietsch, Deborah  

     

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

Durand, Jean-Nicolas-Louis  

       
         
         
         
         
         
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Histories of the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural Modernism 

Eisenman, Peter

 

Paris a century of change, 1878-1978 

Evenson, Norma

 

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

Evers, Bernd

         
       
         
         
         
         
         
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The Story of Contemporary Architecture 

Favole, Paolo 

       
         
         
   
         

The Evolution of 20th Century Architecture: A Synoptic Account

Kenneth Frampton

 

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

         
         
     
         

Modern Architecture: A Critical History

Kenneth Frampton

 

Modern architecture, Volume 2 of History of world architecture

Manfredo Tafuri, Francesco Dal Co

 

The New German Architecture

Gerhard G. Feldmeyer, Casey C. M. Mathewson

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

Gelernter, Mark  

 

Italy: Modern Architectures in History

Ghirardo, Diane

   
         
         
   
     

The Eternal Present, Volume I: The Beginnings of Art

Giedion, Sigfried  

 

The Eternal Present, Volume II: The Beginnings of Architecture 

Giedion, Sigfried   

 

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

Giedion, Sigfried  

         
         
       
         

Why Architecture Matters 

Goldberger, Paul  

       
         
         
   
         

Brazil builds; architecture new and old, 1652-1942 

Goodwin, Philip Lippincott 

 

Architecture in the Twentieth Century

Peter Gössel, Gabriele Leuthäuser

 

Venice: The City and Its Architecture

Goy, Richard
         
         
       
         

The New Architecture and the Bauhaus

Walter Gropius

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

Elie G. Haddad & David Rifkind  

 

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

Hamlin, Talbot  

   
         
         
     
         

DICTIONARY OF ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION

Cyril Harris

 

Lessons for students in architecture

Herman Hertzberger

   
         
         
     
         

Art Deco of the 20s and 30s

Hillier, Bevis

 

The International Style

Henry Russell Hitchcock, Philip Johnson

   
         
         
       
       

On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change

Huxtable, Ada Louise  

       
         
       
         
         
         
         
         
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Public Bildings

Arne Jacobsen

 

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

Jaskot , Paul B.

 

New Moderns From Late to Neo Modernism

Charles Jencks; Jencks

         
         
     
         

New Moderns From Late to Neo Modernism

Charles Jencks; Jencks

 

20th Century Building Materials: History and Conservation 

Jester, Thomas C.  

   
         
         
       
         

Architecture the whole story 

Jones, Denna

       
         
         
       
         

Architectural Surfaces: Details for Artists, Architects, and Designers

Judy A. Juracek

     

Philip Johnson/John Burgee: Architecture 1979-1985

Philip Johnson, John Burgee, Carleton Knight

         
       
         
         
         
         
         
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Louis Kahn: Conversations with Students

Louis I. Kahn

 

Architecture since 1400 

Kathleen, James-Chakraborty

 

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

Klotz, Heinrich 

         
         
     
         

The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History 

Kostof, Spiro

 

New Directions in African Architecture

Kultermann, Udo

   
         
       
         
         
         
         
         
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Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Architecture

Vittorio M. Lampugnani

 

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

Lampugnani, Vittorio Magnago

 

Concrete Vaulted Construction in Imperial Rome: Innovations in Context 

Lancaster, Lynne C.  

         
         
     
         

Image of the City

Kevin Lynch

 

Victorian Houses and their Details

Helen Long

   
         
       
         
         
         
         
         
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Nurturing Dreams: Collected Essays on Architecture and the City

Fumihiko Maki

       
         
         
   
         

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) 

 

Architectural Theory (VOL. 1)

Mallgrave, Harry Francis

 

Architectural Theory (VOL. 2)

Mallgrave, Harry Francis

         
         
     
       

An Introduction to Architectural Theory: 1968 to the Present 

Mallgrave, Harry Francis

 

Modern Architectural Theory: A Historical Survey, 1673-1968 

Mallgrave, Harry Francis  

   
         
         
       
         

Total Design: Architecture and Interiors of Iconic Modern Houses

Marcus, George H.

       
         
         
   
         

The History of Interior Decoration

McCorquodale, Charles

 

Understanding Architecture

McCarter, Robert
 

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

Meadmore, Clement

         
         
       
         

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

Middleton, Robin  

       
         
         
   
         

Architecture and politics in Germany, 1918-1945 

Miller Lane, Barbara

 

Modern architecture in Brazil 

Mindlin, Henrique E.

 

The Theater of the Bauhaus

Molnár, Farkas

         
         
     
         

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

Mondrian, Piet 

     

The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance

Murray, Peter  

         
         
       
         
         
         
         
         
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Friedrich Gilly Essays on Architecture, 1796–1799 

Neumeyer, Fritz  

 

The story of architecture

Nuttgens, Patrick
   
         
       
         
         
         
         
         
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Bruno Zevi On Modern Architecture

Oppenheimer Dean, Andrea

     

Light, Air and Openness- Modern Architecture Between the Wars

Overy, Paul  

         
         
       
         
         
         
         
         
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Proportion: Science, Philosophy, Architecture

Padovan, Richard

       
         
         
     
         
   

Historical Dictionary of Architecture

Allison Lee Palmer

 

A New Spirit in Architecture

A. Papadakēs

         
         
       
         

Deconstruction Omnibus Volume 

Papadakis, Andreas
       
         
         
     
       

Expressionist Architecture 

Pehnt, Wolfgang

 

Encyclopedia of Modern Architecture

Wolfgang Pehnt

   
         
         
   
         

Pioneers of Modern Design, From William Morris to Walter Gropius

Nikolaus Pevsner

 

A History of Building Types 

Pevsner, Nikolaus

 

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus

         
         
     
     

An Outline of European Architecture 

Pevsner, Nikolaus  

 

Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture 

Pevsner, Nikolaus   

   
         
         
     
         

Classical Architecture 

Porphyrios , Demetri

 

The Great Builders 

Powell, Kenneth
   
         
       
         
         
         
         
         
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Architecture and its Ethical Dilemmas 

Ray, Nicholas
       
         
         
     
         

Byzantine art and architecture An introduction 

Rodley, Lyn  

 

The Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece 

Roy, David Le  

   
         
         
   
       

Reckoning with Colin Rowe: ten architects take position 

Rowe, Colin  

 

The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays 

Rowe, Colin

 

Collage City

Rowe, Colin

         
       
         
         
         
         
         
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Philip Johnson: Life and Work

Franz Schulze

 

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

Schwartz, Ellen C.  

   
         
         
     
         

Twentieth Century Architecture: A Visual History

Sharp, Dennis

 

Architectural Culture Around 1900 Critical Reappraisal and Heritage Preservation

Shmidt, Claudia

   
         
         
       
         

Architecture for A Changing World 

Steele, James

       
         
         
   
         

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

R.Stephen Sennott

 

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

R Stephen Sennott

 

Modern classicism 

Stern, Robert A. M 

         
         
       
         

Heavenly Mansions- And Other Essays on Architecture

Summerson, John

       
         
       
         
         
         
         
         
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Architecture and Utopia: Design and Capitalist Development

Manfredo Tafuri

 

History of Italian Architecture 1944 – 1985

Tafuri. M

 

Theories and History of Architecture 

Tafuri, Manfredo

         
         
   
       

Shelter in Saudi Arabia

Talib, Kaizer 

 

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

Tanović, Sabina  

 

Rome: An Urban History from Antiquity to the Present

Taylor, Rabun

         
         
   
         

The De Stijl environment

Troy, Nancy J 

 

Art Nouveau

Tschudi-Madsen, Stephan

 

Architecture in Europe Since 1968: Memory and Invention

Alexander Tzonis, Liane Lefaivre

         
         
   
         

Classical architecture : the poetics of order 

Tzonis, Alexander  

 

Critical Regionalism: Architecture and Identity in a Globalised World

Tzonis, Alexander  

 

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

Tzonis, Alexander

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

Wagner, Otto  

       
         
         
   
         

Art Deco 

Weber, Eva 

 

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

Weston, Richard  
 

European Architecture in the 20th Century

Whittick, Arnold  

         
         
   
         

Great Buildings

Wilkinson, Philip

 

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

Winfried Nerdinger

 

The Bauhaus Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago

Wingler, Hans Maria 

         
         
         
       
         
         
         
         
         
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The Modern Language of Architecture 

Zevi, Bruno  

       
         
         
         
       
         
         
         
         
         
         
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