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An Introduction to Architecture (nonfiction)
Here's a set of books I've found useful as an introduction to architectural design and theory, plus a few more eclectic selections from the expanded field.
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Architecture: Form, Space, & Order
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4.29 avg rating — 4,015 ratings
score: 598,
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Building Construction Illustrated
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4.31 avg rating — 1,568 ratings
score: 397,
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
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4.42 avg rating — 5,351 ratings
score: 384,
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The Image of the City
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4.05 avg rating — 4,139 ratings
score: 288,
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The Timeless Way of Building
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4.37 avg rating — 2,586 ratings
score: 286,
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Analysing Architecture
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Simon Unwin (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 568 ratings
score: 197,
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2 people voted
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Introduction to Architecture
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4.27 avg rating — 143 ratings
score: 196,
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Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: An Anthology of Architectural Theory 1965-1995
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Kate Nesbitt (editor)
4.15 avg rating — 286 ratings
score: 195,
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2 people voted
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Body, Memory, and Architecture
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4.01 avg rating — 73 ratings
score: 194,
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Constructing a New Agenda: Architectural Theory 1993-2009
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4.42 avg rating — 31 ratings
score: 193,
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Proportion: Science, Philosophy, Architecture
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4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
score: 191,
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Simulacra and Simulation
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16,140 ratings
score: 190,
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Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture
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4.26 avg rating — 508 ratings
score: 190,
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The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses
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4.38 avg rating — 4,250 ratings
score: 188,
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Camps: A Guide to 21st-Century Space
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Charlie Hailey (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 26 ratings
score: 178,
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2 people voted
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Housing a divided community
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score: 100,
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The Archisutra
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Miguel Bolivar (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
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Matthew Frederick (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 5,676 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Ancient Egyptian Art and Architecture: A Very Short Introduction
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Christina Riggs (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 82 ratings
score: 100,
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The World by Design: The Story of a Global Architecture Firm
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4.34 avg rating — 35 ratings
score: 100,
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Neon Spectacular: Japan: A Photographic Documentary of the Japanese Neon Industry
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Bon Courage! A French Renovation in Rural Limousin
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Richard Wiles (Goodreads Author)
3.44 avg rating — 108 ratings
score: 99,
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101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School
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Matthew Frederick (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 300 ratings
score: 99,
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Bricks & Balloons: Architecture in comic-strip form
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 99,
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London Under London: A Subterranean Guide
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4.15 avg rating — 117 ratings
score: 98,
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Architecture for Beginners
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3.65 avg rating — 88 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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Vernacular Architecture
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3.93 avg rating — 85 ratings
score: 97,
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Art & Architecture Rome
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4.19 avg rating — 117 ratings
score: 96,
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Simple Rules: What the Oldtime Builders Knew
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Shannon Taylor Scarlett (Goodreads Author)
3.36 avg rating — 22 ratings
score: 95,
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1 person voted
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Andalusia: Art and Architecture
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4.19 avg rating — 27 ratings
score: 95,
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Precedents in Architecture: Analytic Diagrams, Formative Ideas, and Partis
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4.08 avg rating — 127 ratings
score: 91,
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Order in Space: A Design Source Book
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4.39 avg rating — 31 ratings
score: 90,
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The Look of Architecture
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3.85 avg rating — 253 ratings
score: 87,
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African Nomadic Architecture: Space, Place and Gender
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4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
score: 86,
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Cinematic Architecture 1993-2008
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4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 85,
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Concerning Archigram
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Dennis Crompton (Editor)
4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 84,
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1 person voted
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The Infrastructural City: Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles
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Kazys Varnelis (Editor)
4.28 avg rating — 54 ratings
score: 82,
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1 person voted
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Leicht Weit/Light Structures
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4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 81,
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38 books ·
16 voters ·
list created May 7th, 2014
by Eleanor Saitta (votes) .
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