Best Architecture Books

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1
A Field Guide to American Houses
por Virginia McAlester
1,079 membros
5 críticas
½ 4.4
4 Members
pitjrw, lwbooklover, aulsmith, Baconian
2
The Seven Lamps of Architecture
por John Ruskin
547 membros
2 críticas
½ 3.7
2 Members
lilithcat, araliqui
3
Learning from Las Vegas
por Robert Venturi
741 membros
3 críticas
½ 3.7
2 Members
pitjrw, mcharum
4
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
por Stewart Brand
1,290 membros
25 críticas
½ 4.3
2 Members
pitjrw, Baconian
5
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
por David McCullough
2,724 membros
58 críticas
½ 4.3
2 Members
marmot, lwbooklover
6
Identifying American Architecture: A Pictorial Guide to Styles and Terms, 1600-1945
por John J. G. Blumenson
311 membros
1 crítica
½ 3.6
2 Members
lwbooklover, jfontillas
7
Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategies in the Work of Eight Contemporary Architects
por Rafael Moneo
133 membros
3.9
2 Members
raulvilar, mcharum
8
Casa collage : un ensayo sobre la arquitectura de la casa
por Xavier Monteys
9 membros
4
2 Members
raulvilar, mcharum
9
You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn
por Wendy Lesser
90 membros
4.2
2 Members
pitjrw, mcharum
10
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
por Rem Koolhaas
784 membros
2 críticas
4.2
2 Members
raulvilar, mcharum
11
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
por William McDonough
1,954 membros
33 críticas
4
2 Members
lwbooklover, raulvilar
12
What Style Is It?: A Guide to American Architecture, Revised Edition
por John C. Poppeliers
361 membros
3 críticas
½ 3.5
2 Members
lwbooklover, aulsmith,Nicole_VanK
13
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
por Henry Adams
1,113 membros
13 críticas
3.9
Member
aulsmith
14
Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade
por Vincent Scully
461 membros
1 crítica
3.9
Member
pitjrw
15
The Edifice Complex: How the Rich and Powerful Shape the World
por Deyan Sudjic
189 membros
2 críticas
3.9
Member
raulvilar
16
Gothic Architecture
por Paul Frankl
84 membros
½ 3.6
Member
AnnaClaire
17
Architektur und Harmonie : Zahl, Mass und Proportion in der abendländischen Baukunst
por Paul von Naredi-Rainer
3 membros
1 crítica
½ 3.5
Member
Nicole_VanK
18
Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail
por Matthys Levy
605 membros
11 críticas
4
Member
aulsmith
19
Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism
por Rudolf Wittkower
348 membros
1 crítica
3.9
Member
Nicole_VanK
20
Conquering Gotham : a Gilded Age epic : the construction of Penn Station and its tunnels
por Jill Jonnes
336 membros
6 críticas
3.8
Member
AnnaClaire
22
The Architecture of Happiness
por Alain de Botton
2,179 membros
43 críticas
½ 3.7
Member
raulvilar
23
In Praise of Shadows
por Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
2,028 membros
52 críticas
3.9
Member
pitjrw
24
The Four Books on Architecture
por Andrea Palladio
653 membros
2 críticas
4.1
Member
Baconian
25
Skyscrapers
por Judith Dupre
481 membros
7 críticas
3.8
Member
lwbooklover
26
AIA Guide to Chicago
por Alice Sinkevitch
231 membros
3 críticas
4.2
Member
lilithcat
27
Architecture in the Age of Reason
por Emil Kaufmann
62 membros
3
Member
Nicole_VanK
28
A Guide to Biltmore Estate
por Rachel Carley
583 membros
4 críticas
3.8
Member
lwbooklover
29
A Visual Dictionary of Architecture
por Francis D. K. Ching
538 membros
2 críticas
4.2
Member
Baconian
30
AIA Guide to New York City
por Norval White
529 membros
6 críticas
4.2
Member
aulsmith
31
Carolingian and Romanesque architecture, 800 to 1200
por Kenneth John Conant
140 membros
1 crítica
3.8
Member
Nicole_VanK
32
Richard Nickel's Chicago: Photographs of a Lost City
por Richard Cahan
53 membros
1 crítica
5
Member
lilithcat
33
In Ruins
por Christopher Woodward
330 membros
5 críticas
3.8
Member
pitjrw
34
Theory and Design in the First Machine Age
por Reyner Banham
302 membros
4 críticas
½ 3.7
Member
Nicole_VanK
35
Craftsman Homes
por Gustav Stickley
265 membros
½ 3.6
Member
lwbooklover
36
Supermodernism
por Hans Ibelings
33 membros
5
Member
raulvilar
37
Why Buildings Stand Up: The Strength of Architecture
por Mario Salvadori
711 membros
8 críticas
½ 3.6
Member
aulsmith
38
On Adam's House in Paradise: The Idea of the Primitive Hut in Architectural History
por Joseph Rykwert
99 membros
4
Member
Nicole_VanK
39
Julius Shulman's Los Angeles
por Christopher Alexander
18 membros
2 críticas
4
Member
pitjrw
41
Architecture without Architects
por Bernard Rudofsky
391 membros
4 críticas
4.2
Member
raulvilar
42
Pleasure of Ruins
por Rose Macaulay
167 membros
1 crítica
4.1
Member
pitjrw
43
The Cathedrals of England
por Harry Batsford
133 membros
½ 3.5
Member
aulsmith
44
The Skyward Trend of Thought: The Metaphysics of the American Skyscraper
por Thomas A. P. van Leeuwen
26 membros
4
Member
Nicole_VanK
45
Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition
por Sigfried Giedion
382 membros
3 críticas
4.1
Member
Nicole_VanK
46
The Geometry of Love: Space, Time, Mystery, and Meaning in an Ordinary Church
por Margaret Visser
236 membros
5 críticas
½ 3.7
Member
pitjrw
47
La diva en casa
por Adam Bresnick
2 membros
Member
raulvilar
48
Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History
por Mark Girouard
754 membros
6 críticas
4.1
Member
pitjrw
49
Brickwork: Architecture and Design
por Andrew Plumridge
45 membros
1 crítica
½ 3.5
Member
Nicole_VanK
50
En casa : una breve historia de la vida privada
por Bill Brison
1 membro
½ 4.5
Member
raulvilar
51
Ten Books on Architecture
por Vitruvius Pollio
1,298 membros
10 críticas
3.8
Member
Nicole_VanK
52
The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories
por J. L. Heilbron
201 membros
3.8
Member
pitjrw
53
Todo Sobre La Casa
por Anatxu Zabalbeascoa
11 membros
Member
raulvilar
54
On the Art of Building in Ten Books
por Leon Battista Alberti
279 membros
4.1
Member
Nicole_VanK
55
Living Architecture
por James F. O'Gorman
34 membros
½ 3.7
Member
pitjrw
56
The Place of Houses
por Charles Willard Moore
175 membros
4
Member
raulvilar
57
La Buena Vida
por Iñaki Abalos
25 membros
1 crítica
½ 3.7
Member
raulvilar
58
The Progressive Architecture of Frederick G. Scheibler, Jr.
por Martin Aurand
11 membros
Member
pitjrw
59
¿Qué es una casa? ¿Qué es el diseño?
por Charles Eames
4 membros
Member
raulvilar
60
A Clearing In The Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
por Witold Rybczynski
696 membros
7 críticas
4
Member
pitjrw
61
Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises
por Architecture for Humanity
321 membros
3 críticas
4.1
Member
raulvilar
62
An Outline of European Architecture
por Nikolaus Pevsner
860 membros
3 críticas
½ 3.6
Member
lilithcat,Nicole_VanK
63
American Shelter : An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Home
por Lester R. Walker
207 membros
1 crítica
4
Member
pitjrw
64
Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (Cultural Studies)
por Marc Augé
561 membros
3 críticas
3.8
Member
raulvilar
65
Frederick Law Olmsted: Writings on Landscape, Culture, and Society: (Library of America #270)
por Frederick Law Olmsted
93 membros
1 crítica
4
Member
pitjrw
66
For an Architecture of Reality
por Michael Benedikt
119 membros
4
Member
pitjrw
67
Lost New York
por Nathan Silver
330 membros
1 crítica
½ 4.5
Member
pitjrw
68
The Spectator and the Topographical City
por Martin Aurand
23 membros
Member
pitjrw
69
The Pillars of the Earth
por Ken Follett
27,366 membros
754 críticas
4.2
70
Loving Frank
por Nancy Horan
4,480 membros
208 críticas
½ 3.7
Explicações
lilithcat : This is less about architecture than it is about FLW's love life.
71
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
por Ross King
2,961 membros
69 críticas
3.9
72
The Wright 3
por Blue Balliett
2,019 membros
45 críticas
3.8
Explicações
lilithcat : Look, I enjoyed this a lot. I give tours at Robie House based on it. But it's not about architecture. It's a YA mystery.
73
The Women
por T.C. Boyle
1,611 membros
58 críticas
½ 3.5
Explicações
lilithcat : It's about relationships, not architecture.
74
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
por Lewis Mumford
1,404 membros
8 críticas
4.2
75
The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live
por Sarah Susanka
1,163 membros
8 críticas
4
76
A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams
por Michael Pollan
1,122 membros
20 críticas
3.8
77
The Most Beautiful Libraries in the World
por Jacques Bosser
778 membros
14 críticas
½ 4.4
78
Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques
por Stephen King
603 membros
8 críticas
½ 3.7
79
Then and Now: The Wonders of the Ancient World Brought to Life in Vivid See-Through Reproductions
por Stefania Perring
387 membros
2 críticas
4
80
A Concise History of Western Architecture
por R. Furneaux Jordan
219 membros
2 críticas
3.1
81
Eccentric Spaces
por Robert Harbison
163 membros
1 crítica
½ 3.6
82
World Without End
por Ken Follett
12,752 membros
317 críticas
4
83
From Bauhaus to Our House
por Tom Wolfe
1,353 membros
15 críticas
½ 3.5
84
Pillars of the Almighty: A Celebration of Cathedrals
por Ken Follett
167 membros
1 crítica
3.9
85
Cut & Assemble Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House
por Edmund V. Gillon Jr.
52 membros
86
The Devil in the White City
por Erik Larson
22,251 membros
701 críticas
4
Explicações
AnnaClaire : This book is best filed "true crime." The architecture is at best a secondary element.
87
Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction
por David Macaulay
2,934 membros
26 críticas
½ 4.3
88
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
por Christopher Alexander
2,464 membros
27 críticas
½ 4.5
89
The Fountainhead
por Ayn Rand
19,240 membros
261 críticas
3.8
90
Castle
por David Macaulay
3,229 membros
48 críticas
4.2
91
Pyramid
por David Macaulay
2,502 membros
11 críticas
4.1
92
The Timeless Way of Building
por Christopher Alexander
1,166 membros
5 críticas
½ 4.3
93
City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction
por David Macaulay
2,092 membros
16 críticas
½ 4.3
94
Towards a New Architecture
por Le Corbusier
1,057 membros
5 críticas
½ 3.6
95
Architecture: Form, Space, and Order
por Francis D. K. Ching
989 membros
5 críticas
4.1
96
Modern Architecture: A Critical History
por Kenneth Frampton
839 membros
2 críticas
½ 3.4
97
The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture
por John Fleming
710 membros
1 crítica
½ 3.4
98
The Poetics of Space
por Gaston Bachelard
2,628 membros
20 críticas
4.1
99
A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals
por Spiro Kostof
655 membros
2 críticas
½ 3.5
100
Gaudí : 1852-1926 : Antoni Gaudí i Cornet, a life devoted to architecture
por Rainer Zerbst
591 membros
2 críticas
4