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1.
Defensible Space; Crime Prevention Through Urban Design.
by:
Oscar Newman
3.81 avg rating β 75 ratings
2.
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
by:
Janine M. Benyus
4.01 avg rating β 2,539 ratings
3.
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
by:
Jeff Speck
4.32 avg rating β 8,339 ratings
4.
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
by:
Charles Montgomery
4.36 avg rating β 8,995 ratings
5.
The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change
by:
David Harvey
4.17 avg rating β 2,316 ratings
6.
The Art-Architecture Complex
by:
Hal Foster
4.01 avg rating β 180 ratings
7.
Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design
by:
Beatriz Colomina
4.36 avg rating β 399 ratings
8.
Modern Architecture: A Critical History
by:
Kenneth Frampton
4.09 avg rating β 2,091 ratings
9.
Modern Architecture
by:
Alan Colquhoun
3.84 avg rating β 205 ratings
10.
The Living City
by:
Frank Lloyd Wright
3.61 avg rating β 57 ratings
11.
The Natural House
by:
Frank Lloyd Wright
3.91 avg rating β 127 ratings
12.
The Future of Architecture
by:
Frank Lloyd Wright
4.11 avg rating β 144 ratings
13.
Archigram
by:
Peter Cook
4.22 avg rating β 91 ratings
14.
Theory and Design in the First Machine Age
by:
Reyner Banham
4.20 avg rating β 267 ratings
15.
Anti-object: Aa Words 2
by:
Kengo Kuma
4.53 avg rating β 66 ratings
16.
Superstudio: Life without Objects
by:
Peter Lang
4.36 avg rating β 50 ratings
17.
The Works: Anatomy of a City
by:
Kate Ascher
4.10 avg rating β 1,547 ratings
18.
Universal Principles of Design
by:
William Lidwell
4.16 avg rating β 5,855 ratings
19.
Beauty, Neuroscience, and Architecture: Timeless Patterns and Their Impact on Our Well-Being
by:
Donald H. Ruggles
3.58 avg rating β 24 ratings
20.
Imagining the Evident
by:
Γlvaro Siza
4.10 avg rating β 29 ratings
21.
The Language of Post-Modern Architecture
by:
Charles Jencks
4.08 avg rating β 140 ratings
22.
Community and Privacy: Toward a New Architecture of Humanism
by:
Serge Chermayeff
3.80 avg rating β 41 ratings
23.
acceptera
by:
Sven Markelius
3.71 avg rating β 7 ratings
24.
Style and Epoch: Issues in Modern Architecture
by:
Moisei Ginzburg
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 15 ratings
25.
Architecture in the Age of Divided Representation: The Question of Creativity in the Shadow of Production
by:
Dalibor Vesely
4.17 avg rating β 36 ratings
26.
Made in Tokyo: Guide Book
by:
Junzo Kuroda
4.42 avg rating β 154 ratings
27.
A Theory of Architecture
by:
Nikos A. Salingaros
4.15 avg rating β 46 ratings
28.
Condemned Building: An Architect's Pre-Text--Plans, Sections, Elevations, Details, Models, Ideograms, Scriptexts, and Letters for Ten - Allegorical Works of Architecture
by:
Douglas Darden
4.83 avg rating β 30 ratings
29.
Future Practice
by:
Rory Hyde
4.28 avg rating β 60 ratings
30.
Case Study Houses
by:
Elizabeth A.T. Smith
4.29 avg rating β 480 ratings
31.
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
by:
M. Nolan Gray
4.14 avg rating β 1,099 ratings
32.
The Power of Limits: Proportional Harmonies in Nature, Art, and Architecture
by:
GyΓΆrgy Doczi
4.32 avg rating β 266 ratings
33.
The BLDG BLOG Book
by:
Geoff Manaugh
4.22 avg rating β 423 ratings
34.
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation
by:
E.H. Gombrich
4.04 avg rating β 6,024 ratings
35.
Spatializing Politics: Essays on Power and Place
by:
Delia Wendel
3.75 avg rating β 4 ratings
36.
Ethics of the Urban: The City and the Spaces of the Political
by:
Mohsen Mostafavi
3.33 avg rating β 9 ratings
37.
The World as an Architectural Project
by:
Hashim Sarkis
4.25 avg rating β 8 ratings
38.
Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space
by:
Keller Easterling
3.70 avg rating β 387 ratings
39.
What Goes Up: The Right and Wrongs to the City
by:
Michael Sorkin
3.98 avg rating β 41 ratings
40.
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
by:
Rebecca Solnit
3.91 avg rating β 20,206 ratings
41.
The Feeling of Things By Adam Caruso
by:
Adam Caruso
3.96 avg rating β 83 ratings
42.
Lebbeus Woods: Anarchitecture: Architecture is a Political Act (Architectural Monographs No 22)
by:
Lebbeus Woods
4.58 avg rating β 45 ratings
43.
Ghost: Building an Architectural Vision
by:
Brian Mackay-Lyons
4.22 avg rating β 18 ratings
44.
Yona Friedman. The Dilution of Architecture
by:
Yona Friedman
4.56 avg rating β 9 ratings
45.
Cognitive Architecture: Designing for How We Respond to the Built Environment
by:
Ann Sussman
3.82 avg rating β 71 ratings
46.
Toronto Architecture: A City Guide
by:
Patricia McHugh
3.86 avg rating β 22 ratings
47.
A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Vancouver
by:
Christopher Macdonald
3.27 avg rating β 11 ratings
48.
A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Toronto
by:
Margaret Goodfellow
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 15 ratings
49.
A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Montreal
by:
Helen Malkin
3.56 avg rating β 16 ratings
50.
Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius
by:
Nikolaus Pevsner
3.78 avg rating β 247 ratings
51.
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
by:
Roman Mars
4.03 avg rating β 7,319 ratings
52.
Precedents in Architecture: Analytic Diagrams, Formative Ideas, and Partis
by:
Roger H. Clark
4.08 avg rating β 127 ratings
53.
Analysing Architecture
by:
Simon Unwin
4.09 avg rating β 568 ratings
54.
Constructing a New Agenda: Architectural Theory 1993-2009
by:
A. Krista Sykes
4.34 avg rating β 32 ratings
55.
Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: An Anthology of Architectural Theory 1965-1995
by:
Kate Nesbitt
4.15 avg rating β 286 ratings
56.
Notes on the Synthesis of Form
by:
Christopher W. Alexander
4.06 avg rating β 742 ratings
57.
The Phenomenon of Life
by:
Christopher W. Alexander
4.49 avg rating β 350 ratings
58.
How Architecture Works: A Humanist's Toolkit
by:
Witold Rybczynski
3.75 avg rating β 383 ratings
59.
The Production of Space
by:
Henri Lefebvre
4.16 avg rating β 2,209 ratings
60.
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space
by:
Jan Gehl
4.35 avg rating β 1,339 ratings
61.
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
by:
William H. Whyte
4.33 avg rating β 898 ratings
62.
Delirious New York
by:
Rem Koolhaas
4.24 avg rating β 3,612 ratings
63.
Towards a New Architecture
by:
Le Corbusier
3.93 avg rating β 4,879 ratings
64.
The Architecture of Happiness
by:
Alain de Botton
3.86 avg rating β 14,210 ratings
65.
S, M, L, XL
by:
Rem Koolhaas
4.25 avg rating β 1,829 ratings
66.
Architecture and Disjunction
by:
Bernard Tschumi
3.98 avg rating β 345 ratings
67.
Cities for People
by:
Jan Gehl
4.35 avg rating β 2,335 ratings
68.
Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture
by:
Christian Norberg-Schulz
4.26 avg rating β 504 ratings
69.
Modern Architecture Since 1900
by:
William J.R. Curtis
4.11 avg rating β 1,198 ratings
70.
Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition
by:
Siegfried Giedion
4.15 avg rating β 486 ratings
71.
From Bauhaus to Our House
by:
Tom Wolfe
3.77 avg rating β 4,139 ratings
72.
The Seven Lamps of Architecture
by:
John Ruskin
3.83 avg rating β 925 ratings
73.
Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience
by:
Yi-Fu Tuan
4.05 avg rating β 1,137 ratings
74.
The Timeless Way of Building
by:
Christopher W. Alexander
4.37 avg rating β 2,573 ratings
75.
Atmospheres: Architectural Environments. Surrounding Objects
by:
Peter Zumthor
4.42 avg rating β 2,456 ratings
76.
Architecture As Space
by:
Bruno Zevi
4.01 avg rating β 714 ratings
77.
Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
by:
Robert Venturi
4.01 avg rating β 2,522 ratings
78.
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
by:
Robert Venturi
4.09 avg rating β 1,879 ratings
79.
The Ten Books on Architecture
by:
Vitruvius
4.04 avg rating β 2,685 ratings
80.
The Hidden Dimension
by:
Edward T. Hall
4.03 avg rating β 1,529 ratings
81.
The Four Books of Architecture
by:
Andrea Palladio
4.16 avg rating β 604 ratings
82.
The Image of the City
by:
Kevin Lynch
4.05 avg rating β 4,121 ratings
83.
The Architecture of the City (Oppositions Books)
by:
Aldo Rossi
4.04 avg rating β 1,291 ratings
84.
Neufert Architects' Data, Third Edition
by:
Ernst Neufert
4.40 avg rating β 1,807 ratings
85.
Thomas Heatherwick: Making
by:
Thomas Heatherwick
4.59 avg rating β 132 ratings
86.
Experiencing Architecture
by:
Steen Eiler Rasmussen
4.03 avg rating β 2,111 ratings
87.
Blinking and Flapping
by:
Yasuhiro Suzuki
4.85 avg rating β 13 ratings
88.
BIG. Hot to Cold. An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation
by:
Taschen
4.22 avg rating β 225 ratings
89.
Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architechture
by:
Ulrich Conrads
3.92 avg rating β 265 ratings
90.
Tadao Ando: Conversations with Students
by:
Tadao AndΕ
4.27 avg rating β 175 ratings
91.
Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives
by:
Sarah Williams Goldhagen
3.60 avg rating β 388 ratings
92.
Designing for the Homeless: Architecture That Works
by:
Sam Davis
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 13 ratings
93.
Who's Next: Homelessness, Architecture and Cities
by:
Daniel Talesnik
4.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
94.
In Praise of Shadows
by:
Jun'ichirΕ Tanizaki
4.01 avg rating β 28,549 ratings
95.
The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses
by:
Juhani Pallasmaa
4.38 avg rating β 4,207 ratings
96.
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
by:
Jane Jacobs
4.29 avg rating β 19,193 ratings
97.
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by:
Christopher W. Alexander
4.42 avg rating β 5,328 ratings
98.
Thinking Architecture
by:
Peter Zumthor
4.24 avg rating β 3,498 ratings
99.
The Poetics of Space
by:
Gaston Bachelard
4.18 avg rating β 10,888 ratings
100.
Architecture: Form, Space, & Order
by:
Francis D.K. Ching
4.29 avg rating β 3,989 ratings