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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  

     

How Buildings Work, The Natural Order of Architecture

Allen, Edward

       
         
         
         
         

       
B        
     

Architectures, Modernism and After

Ballantyne, Andrew

     

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

Banham, Reyner  

     

Age of the Masters, A Personal View of Modern Architecture

Banham, Reyner

     

Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment

Banham, Reyner

     

Critic Writes, Selected Essays by Reyner 

Banham, Reyner  

     
Theory and Design in the First Machine Age

Banham, Reyner

     

Architecture of the Renaissance 

Benevolo, Leonardo  

     

History of modern architecture, Vol. 1

Benevolo, Leonardo

     

History of Modern Architecture, Vol. 2

Benevolo, Leonardo

     

History of the City 

Benevolo, Leonardo   

     

Origins of Modern Town Planning 

Benevolo, Leonardo  

     

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

Benton, Tim

     

European Architecture 1750-1890, Oxford History of Art

Bergdoll, Barry

     

Architecture Matters

Betsky, Aaron 

     

Monumental Era, European Architecture and Design, 1929-1939

Borsi, Franco

     

Puzzle of Architecture

Boyd, Robin

     

Architectural thought, the design process and the expectant eye

Brawne, Michael

     

Failure of Modern Architecture

Brolin, Brent C.

     

Architecture and modern life 

Brownell, Baker 

       
         
         
         
         
         
C        
     
Great Modern Architecture

Cantacuzino, Sherban

     

Against Architecture

Cecla, Franco La
     

Architecture in Uniform, Designing and Building for World War II

Cohen, Jean-Louis   

     

Future of architecture, since 1889

Cohen, Jean-Louis 

     

Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture, 1750-1950

Collins, Peter

     

Modern Architecture 

Colquhoun, Alan  

     

Modernity & the Classical Tradition

Colquhoun, Alan  

     

Twentieth-century World Architecture

Copplestone, Trewin

     

History of Architecture in 100 Buildings

Cruickshank, Dan

     

Modern Architecture since 1900

Curtis, William J. R.

       
         
         
         
         
         
D        
     

Thinking About Architecture, An Introduction to Architectural Theory

Davies, Colin

     

Culture of Building 

Davis, Howard 

     

Constructing Architecture, Materials, Processes, Structures

Deplazes, Andrea

     

Architecture in the Public Realm 

Dietsch, Deborah  

     

Twentieth-century Architecture

Doordan, Dennis P.

     

Transformations in modern architecture 

Drexler, Arthur  

     

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

Durand, Jean-Nicolas-Louis  

       
         
         
         
         
         
E        
     

Histories of the Immediate Present, Inventing Architectural Modernism 

Eisenman, Peter

     

Technics & Architecture, The Development of Materials & Systems for Buildings

Elliott, Cecil D  

     

Architectural Theory From the Renaissance to the Present

Evers, Bernd

       
         
         
         
         
         
F        
     

Story of Contemporary Architecture 

Favole, Paolo 

     

Evolution of 20th Century Architecture, A Synoptic Account

Frampton, Kenneth

     

Modern Architecture, A Critical History

Frampton, Kenneth

     

Studies in Tectonic Culture, The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture 

Frampton, Kenneth  

     

World Architecture 1900-2000, A Critical Mosaic, South Asia, Vol.8

Frampton, Kenneth  

     

World Architecture 1900-2000, A Critical Mosaic, Southeast Asia and Oceania, Vol. 10

Frampton, Kenneth  

       
         
         
         
         
         
G        
     

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

Gelernter, Mark  

     

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

Giedion, Sigfried  

     

Eternal Present, Vol. I, The Beginnings of Art

Giedion, Sigfried  

     

Eternal Present, Vol. II, The Beginnings of Architecture 

Giedion, Sigfried   

     

Space, Time and Architecture, The Growth of a New Tradition

Giedion, Sigfried

     

20th century architecture, the structures that shaped the twentieth century

Glancey, Jonathan

     

Why Architecture Matters 

Goldberger, Paul  

     

Architecture in the Twentieth Century

Gössel, Peter

     

Apollo in the democracy, the cultural obligation of the architect

Gropius, Walter

     

Rebuilding Our Communities

Gropius, Walter

     

Scope of total architecture

Gropius, Walter

     

Mir arkhitektury, Litso goroda (The World of Architecture, The Face of the City) 

Gutnov, A. E.

       
         
         
         
         
         
H        
     

Good, the bad, and the ugly, cities in crisis

Hackney, Rod  

     

Architecture of The Early 20th Century

Haiko, Peter  

     
 

Forms and Functions of Twentieth-Century Architecture, Building Types, Vol.1 

Hamlin, Talbot  

     
 

Forms and Functions of Twentieth-Century Architecture, Building Types, Vol.2 

Hamlin, Talbot  

     
 

Forms and Functions of Twentieth-Century Architecture, Building Types, Vol.3

Hamlin, Talbot  

     
 

Forms and Functions of Twentieth-Century Architecture, Building Types, Vol.4

Hamlin, Talbot  

     

Lessons for students in architecture

Hertzberger, Herman

     

Architecture, Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

Hitchcock, Henry  

     

Architecture for people, Explorations in a new humane environment 

Holt, Rinehart 

     

Architecture from commission to construction

Hudson, Jennifer

     

On Architecture, Collected Reflections on a Century of Change

Huxtable, Ada Louise  

       
         
         
         
         
         
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J        
     

Twentieth-Century Building Materials, History and Conservation 

Jester, Thomas C.  

     

New Forms, Architecture in the 1990s

Jodidio, Philip

     

Architecture the whole story 

Jones, Denna

     

Modern Architecture Through Case Studies 1945 to 1990

Jones, Peter Blundell  

       
         
         
         
         
         
K        
     

Architecture since 1400 

Kathleen, James-Chakraborty

     

Perfect acts of architecture

Kipnis, Jeffrey

     

Architecture of Modern Italy, Vol. 1, The Challenge of Tradition 1750-1900

Kirk, Terry

     
Architecture of Modern Italy: Vol. 2, Visions of Utopia, 1900–Present

Kirk, Terry

     

20th century architecture, drawings, models

Klotz, Heinrich 

     

Junkspace with Running Room 

Koolhaas, Rem

     

Town and Revolution

Kopp, Anatole

     

City Shaped, Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History 

Kostof, Spiro

     

Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings

Kushner, Marc

       
         
         
         
         
         
L        
     

City of Tomorrow

Le Corbusier  

     

Concerning Town Planning

Le Corbusier

     

Precisions

Le Corbusier  

     

Rethinking Architecture

Leach, Neil

     

Growing Up in Cities

Lynch, Kevin  

     

Image of the City

Lynch, Kevin

       
         
         
         
         
         
M        
     

Investigations in Collective Form 

Maki, Fumihiko
     

Nurturing Dreams, Collected Essays on Architecture and the City

Maki, Fumihiko

     

Architect's Brain, Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture 

Mallgrave, Harry Francis

     

Architectural Theory, Vol. 1

Mallgrave, Harry Francis

     

Architectural Theory, Vol. 2

Mallgrave, Harry Francis

     

Companions to the History of Architecture, Renaissance and Baroque Architecture, Vol. 1

Mallgrave, Harry Francis 

     

Companions to the History of Architecture, Eighteenth-Century Architecture, Vol. 2

Mallgrave, Harry Francis 

     

Companions to the History of Architecture, Nineteenth-Century Architecture, Vol. 3

Mallgrave, Harry Francis 

     

Companions to the History of Architecture, Twentieth-Century Architecture, Vol. 4

Mallgrave, Harry Francis 

     

Introduction to Architectural Theory, 1968 to the Present 

Mallgrave, Harry Francis

     

Modern Architectural Theory, A Historical Survey, 1673-1968 

Mallgrave, Harry Francis  

     

Architecture of Form 

March, Lionel

     

Geometry of environment

March, Lionel  

     

Ancient Wisdom and Modern Knowhow, Learning to Live with Uncertainty 

Maxwell, Robert  

     

Neoclassical and 19th Century Architecture

Middleton, Robin  

     

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

Moneo, José Rafael 

     

Why We Build, Power and Desire in Architecture 

Moore, Rowan

     

News from nowhere, and other writings

Morris, William  

     

Architecture of the Italian Renaissance

Murray, Peter  

     

Sir Banister Fletcher's a History of Architecture 

Musgrove, John

       
         
         
         
         
         
N        
     

Aesthetics and Technology in Building

Nervi, Pier Luigi

     

Friedrich Gilly Essays on Architecture, 1796–1799 

Neumeyer, Fritz

     

Survival Through Design

Neutra, Richard Joseph

     

Architecture presence, language, and place

Norberg-Schulz, Christian  

     

Concept of dwelling, On the way to figurative architecture

Norberg-Schulz, Christian

     

Existence Space and Architecture

Norberg-Schulz, Christian    

     

Genius Loci, Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture

Norberg-Schulz, Christian   

     

Intentions in Architecture

Norberg-Schulz, Christian    

     

Late Baroque and Rococo Architecture 

Norberg-Schulz, Christian     

     

Meaning in Western Architecture

Norberg-Schulz, Christian     

     

Principles of Modern Architecture

Norberg-Schulz, Christian    

     

Story of architecture

Nuttgens, Patrick

       
         
         
         
         
         
O        
     

Decoding Theoryspeak, An Illustrated Guide to Architectural Theory

Ots, Enn  

     

Bruno Zevi On Modern Architecture

Oppenheimer Dean, Andrea

       
         
         
         
         
         
P        
     

Proportion, Science, Philosophy, Architecture

Padovan, Richard

     

Understanding Architecture

Pallasmaa, Juhani

     

Interventions in historic centres the buildings of Magdalen College, Oxford

Papadakis, Andreas

     

New Spirit in Architecture

Papadakis, Andreas

     

Contemporary World Architecture

Pearman, Hugh
     

Chora 1, Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture 

Perez-Gomez, Alberto
     

Chora 2, Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture 

Perez-Gomez, Alberto

     

Chora 3, Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture 

Perez-Gomez, Alberto  

     

Chora 4, Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture 

Perez-Gomez, Alberto   

     

Oral History of Modern Architecture, Interviews With the Greatest Architects of the Twentieth Century

Peter, John

     

Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture 

Pevsner, Nikolaus   

     

History of Building Types 

Pevsner, Nikolaus

     

Sources of Modern Architecture and Design

Pevsner, Nikolaus

     

Classical Architecture 

Porphyrios, Demetri

     

Rethinking Global Modernism, Architectural Historiography and the Postcolonial

Prakash, Vikramaditya

       
         
         
         
         
         
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R        
     

Goroda budushchego (Cities of the Future)

Ragon, Mishel

     

Experiencing Architecture

Rasmussen, Steen Eiler

     

Towns and Buildings

Rasmussen, Steen Eiler  

     

Architecture and its Ethical Dilemmas 

Ray, Nicholas
     

Critical History of Contemporary Architecture, 1960-2010

Rifkind, Elie G

     

Byzantine art and architecture, An introduction 

Rodley, Lyn  

     

Collage City

Rowe, Colin

     

Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays 

Rowe, Colin

     

Reckoning with Colin Rowe, ten architects take position 

Rowe, Colin  

     

Tvorcheskie protivorechiya v noveyshey arkhitekture Zapada (Creative Contradictions in Contemporary Western Architecture)

Ryabushin, A. V.

     

Look of architecture  

Rybczynski, Witold  

       
         
         
         
         
         
S        
     

Complex fate Gustav Stickley and the Craftsman Movement

Sanders, Barry
     

Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Art and Architecture

Schwartz, Ellen C.  

     

Architecture, The Natural and the Manmade

Scully, Vincent

     

Modern architecture, the architecture of democracy

Scully, Vincent Joseph

     

Twentieth Century Architecture, A Visual History

Sharp, Dennis

     

Architectural Culture Around 1900, Critical Reappraisal and Heritage Preservation

Shmidt, Claudia

     

Ethical architect, the dilemma of contemporary practice

Spector, Tom

     

Modern classicism 

Stern, Robert A. M 

     

Edifice Complex, How the Rich And Powerful and Their Architects shape the World

Sudjic, Deyan

     

Language of Cities

Sudjic, Deyan

     

Genius and the Mobocracy 

Sullivan, Louis Henry

     

Heavenly Mansions, And Other Essays on Architecture

Summerson, John

     

Introduction to Architectural Science

Szokolay, Steven

       
         
         
         
         
         
T        
     

Architecture and Utopia, Design and Capitalist Development

Tafuri, Manfredo
     

History of Italian Architecture, 1944-1985

Tafuri, Manfredo

     

Modern architecture, Vol. 2

Tafuri, Manfredo
     

Theories and History of Architecture 

Tafuri, Manfredo

     

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

Tanović, Sabina  

     

Representing Landscape Architecture

Treib, Marc

     

Architecture in Europe Since 1968

Tzonis, Alexander

     

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

Tzonis, Alexander

     

Critical Regionalism, Architecture and Identity in a Globalised World

Tzonis, Alexander  

     

Classical architecture, the poetics of order 

Tzonis, Alexander  

       
         
         
         
         
         
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V        
     

Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

Venturi, Robert

     

Architecture in the Age of Divided Representation

Vesely, Dalibor

       
         
         
         
         
         
W        
     

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

Wagner, Otto  

     

History of Western Architecture

Watkin, David  

     

Architectural Reflections. Studies in the Philosophy and Practice of Architecture

Wilson, Colin St John

     

Future of Architecture 

Wright, Frank Lloyd 

     

Living City 

Wright, Frank Lloyd  

     

When Democracy Builds 

Wright, Frank Lloyd

       
         
         
         
         
         
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Y        
     

Reality Modeled After Images

Young, Michael  

       
         
         
         
         
         
Z        
     

Architecture As Space

Zevi, Bruno

     

Modern Language of Architecture 

Zevi, Bruno  

       
         
         
         
         
         
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