Architecture

Architecture (Latin architectura, from the Greek ἀρχιτέκτων – arkhitekton, from ἀρχι- "chief" and τέκτων "builder, carpenter, mason") is both the process and product of planning, designing, and construction, usually of buildings and other physical structures. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols and as works of art. Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements. ...more

The Colony Club
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Philosophy of the Home: Domestic Space and Happiness
Maintenance of Everything: Part One
Feng Shui Modern
Cathedral
Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread
American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest
Bauhaus. L'idea che ha cambiato il mondo
Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen
Architecture: Form, Space, & Order
Towards a New Architecture
The Architecture of Happiness
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
Thinking Architecture
The Poetics of Space
The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The Ten Books on Architecture
In Praise of Shadows
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
The Image of the City
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
Atmospheres: Architectural Environments. Surrounding Objects
Clytemnestra by Costanza CasatiGod of Malice by Rina KentParmenides by PlatoGod of Wrath by Rina KentElektra by Jennifer Saint
Greek/Roman Columns on Covers
43 books — 18 voters
Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds by Leslie UmbergerTorching the Fink Books and Other Essays on Vernacular Culture by Archie GreenSouls Grown Deep Vol. 1 by William Arnett...i listen to the wind that obliterates my traces by Steve RodenHarry Smith by Andrew Perchuk
"Vernacular"
79 books — 2 voters

The Book of Kells by Bernard MeehanEarly Medieval Art by John BeckwithArt Through the Ages by Fred S. KleinerArt and Beauty in the Middle Ages by Umberto EcoThe Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial by Rupert Bruce-Mitford
Medieval Art (nonfiction)
134 books — 35 voters
The Urban Mystique by Josh StephensCities for People by Jan GehlGroundswell by Peter ReedRadical Cities by Justin McGuirkThe Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler
Urban/Urban Landscape (nonfiction)
95 books — 16 voters


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The Talmud states, "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now, love mercy now, walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it. ...more
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Ezra Pound
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
Ezra Pound

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