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An Architect's Library
1.
The Poetics of Space
by:
Gaston Bachelard
4.18 avg rating — 10,888 ratings
2.
Towards a New Architecture
by:
Le Corbusier
3.93 avg rating — 4,879 ratings
3.
Yes is More: An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution
by:
Bjarke Ingels Group
4.05 avg rating — 1,511 ratings
4.
Architecture: Form, Space, & Order
by:
Francis D.K. Ching
4.29 avg rating — 3,992 ratings
5.
Invisible Cities
by:
Italo Calvino
4.10 avg rating — 93,546 ratings
6.
The Image of the City
by:
Kevin Lynch
4.05 avg rating — 4,121 ratings
7.
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
by:
Rem Koolhaas
4.24 avg rating — 3,612 ratings
8.
S, M, L, XL
by:
Rem Koolhaas
4.25 avg rating — 1,829 ratings
9.
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
by:
William McDonough
4.09 avg rating — 12,395 ratings
10.
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
by:
Matthew Frederick
4.08 avg rating — 5,654 ratings
11.
In Praise of Shadows
by:
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
4.01 avg rating — 28,545 ratings
12.
Thinking Architecture
by:
Peter Zumthor
4.24 avg rating — 3,498 ratings
13.
Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
by:
Robert Venturi
4.01 avg rating — 2,522 ratings
14.
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
by:
Robert Venturi
4.09 avg rating — 1,879 ratings
15.
A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals
by:
Spiro Kostof
4.07 avg rating — 609 ratings
16.
A Theory of Good City Form
by:
Kevin Lynch
4.08 avg rating — 302 ratings
17.
From Bauhaus to Our House
by:
Tom Wolfe
3.77 avg rating — 4,139 ratings
17.
Collage City
by:
Colin Rowe
3.88 avg rating — 389 ratings
19.
The Fountainhead
by:
Ayn Rand
3.89 avg rating — 333,865 ratings
20.
Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture
by:
Bernard Rudofsky
4.23 avg rating — 740 ratings
21.
Project Japan. Metabolism Talks...
by:
Rem Koolhaas
4.53 avg rating — 311 ratings
21.
Making Dystopia: The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism
by:
James Stevens Curl
4.19 avg rating — 32 ratings
21.
The Architecture of Community
by:
Léon Krier
4.16 avg rating — 156 ratings
24.
The Aesthetics of Architecture
by:
Roger Scruton
3.82 avg rating — 114 ratings
25.
From Bauhaus to Our House
by:
Tom Wolfe
3.77 avg rating — 4,139 ratings
26.
Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: An Anthology of Architectural Theory 1965-1995
by:
Kate Nesbitt
4.15 avg rating — 286 ratings
27.
Poetry, Language, Thought
by:
Martin Heidegger
4.11 avg rating — 3,638 ratings
28.
Modern Architecture Since 1900
by:
William J.R. Curtis
4.11 avg rating — 1,198 ratings
29.
Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture
by:
Christian Norberg-Schulz
4.26 avg rating — 504 ratings
30.
SHoP: Out of Practice
by:
SHoP Architects
4.16 avg rating — 49 ratings
30.
The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance: How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World
by:
Paul Robert Walker
3.81 avg rating — 481 ratings
30.
Kiat Architects, Gentle Proportions: Residence
by:
Kiat Architects
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
33.
The Barefoot Architect: A Handbook for Green Building
by:
Johan van Lengen
4.28 avg rating — 330 ratings
33.
101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School
by:
Matthew Frederick
4.26 avg rating — 295 ratings
33.
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by:
Christopher W. Alexander
4.42 avg rating — 5,327 ratings
36.
A History of Western Architecture, 4th edition
by:
David Watkin
3.77 avg rating — 222 ratings
36.
Morality and Architecture: The Development of a Theme in Architectural History and Theory from the Gothic Revival to the Modern Movement
by:
David Watkin
3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
38.
The Battle for Home: The Vision of a Young Architect in Syria
by:
Marwa al-Sabouni
3.95 avg rating — 328 ratings
39.
Human Dimension & Interior Space: A Source Book of Design Reference Standards
by:
Julius Panero
4.26 avg rating — 362 ratings
40.
The Architecture of the City (Oppositions Books)
by:
Aldo Rossi
4.04 avg rating — 1,291 ratings
41.
Design Like You Give A Damn: Architectural Responses To Humanitarian Crises
by:
Architecture For Humanity
4.12 avg rating — 845 ratings
42.
The Thinking Hand: Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture
by:
Juhani Pallasmaa
4.37 avg rating — 717 ratings
43.
اندیشه ی معمارانه: فرایند طراحی و چشمانی در انتظار
by:
Michael Brawne
3.57 avg rating — 23 ratings
44.
تئوری اسکیس: گفتمان در طراحی معماری
by:
Kendra Schank Smith
3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
45.
Atlas of Novel Tectonics
by:
Reiser + Umemoto
4.08 avg rating — 264 ratings
45.
شهر درخت نیست
by:
کریستوفر الکساندر
3.38 avg rating — 21 ratings
47.
The Architecture of Image: Existential Space in Cinema
by:
Juhani Pallasmaa
4.47 avg rating — 72 ratings
48.
آفرینش نظریه معماری: نقش علوم رفتاری در طراحی محیط
by:
Jon Lang
4.06 avg rating — 113 ratings
49.
Mind in Architecture: Neuroscience, Embodiment, and the Future of Design
by:
Sarah Robinson
4.07 avg rating — 54 ratings
50.
Mixed Reality In Architecture, Design, And Construction
by:
Xiangyu Wang
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
51.
Mutations
by:
Rem Koolhaas
3.96 avg rating — 295 ratings
51.
طراحی لرزه ای برای معماران
by:
Andrew Charleson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
53.
Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis: Intensities
by:
Paul Lewis
4.55 avg rating — 22 ratings
53.
پرسش های ادراک: پدیدارشناسی معماری
by:
Steven Holl
4.26 avg rating — 272 ratings
55.
Rem Koolhaas: Conversations with Students (Architecture at Rice, 30)
by:
Rem Koolhaas
3.73 avg rating — 119 ratings
56.
Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architechture
by:
Ulrich Conrads
3.92 avg rating — 265 ratings
56.
The Function of Form
by:
Farshid Moussavi
4.06 avg rating — 133 ratings
58.
Refabricating Architecture: How Manufacturing Methodologies are Poised to Transform Building Construction
by:
Stephen Kieran
3.86 avg rating — 113 ratings
58.
Architecture As Space
by:
Bruno Zevi
4.01 avg rating — 714 ratings