Architectural History and Theory Books
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Oblique Drawing: A History of Anti-Perspective (Writing Architecture)
by (shelved 2 times as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 3.56 — 25 ratings — published 2012
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,659 ratings — published 1978
Water and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Matter (The Bachelard Translations)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 623 ratings — published 1942
The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 687 ratings — published 1960
Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement (Bachelard Translation Series)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 255 ratings — published 1943
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,099 ratings — published 1957
Postmodern Architecture: Less is a Bore (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 19 ratings — published
How Architecture Works: A Humanist's Toolkit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 3.74 — 400 ratings — published 2013
The Thinking Hand: Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture (Architectural Design Primer)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 4.36 — 743 ratings — published 2009
Between Silence and Light: Spirit in the Architecture of Louis I. Kahn (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 4.38 — 212 ratings — published 1979
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,863 ratings — published 1994
The Timeless Way of Building (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,631 ratings — published 1978
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,406 ratings — published 1977
Questions of space: Lectures on architecture (Text / Architectural Association)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published
Toward A Minor Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 3.95 — 83 ratings — published 2012
Viollet-Le-Duc: The French Gothic Revival (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published 2002
A History of Housing in New York City (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 45 ratings — published 1990
The architecture of war (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 1973
Verb Connection (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 3.20 — 5 ratings — published 2003
Herzog & de Meuron: Natural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 49 ratings — published 2005
Prophets of Zoom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 3.15 — 13 ratings — published 2007
Le Corbusier: Le Modulor and Modulor 2 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 232 ratings — published 1954
Ten Canonical Buildings: 1950-2000 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 62 ratings — published 2008
Mayan (Architecture of the World, 10)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 3.17 — 6 ratings — published
The Place of Houses (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 3.70 — 122 ratings — published 1974
The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope: How Renaissance Linear Perspective Changed Our Vision of the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 26 ratings — published 2009
Architecture Since 1945: Sources and Directions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
The International Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 3.75 — 93 ratings — published 1966
First Moderns: The Architects of the Eighteenth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 6 ratings — published 1980
Minimalisms (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 3.82 — 11 ratings — published 2000
Bernini (Penguin Art and Architecture)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 246 ratings — published 1966
The New Architecture and The Bauhaus (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 244 ratings — published 1965
Modern Movements in Architecture (Penguin Art & Architecture)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 3.81 — 93 ratings — published 1973
Point and Line to Plane (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,693 ratings — published 1926
Adolf Loos (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 11 ratings — published 1996
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 3.83 — 92,310 ratings — published 1912
The Dynamics of Architectural Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 103 ratings — published 1977
Towards a New Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,939 ratings — published 1923
Leon Battista Alberti: Universal Man of the Early Renaissance (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 1969
The Architecture of Michelangelo (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 4.16 — 32 ratings — published 1971
Socrates' Ancestor: An Essay on Architectural Beginnings (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 4.44 — 34 ratings — published 1993
Against Architecture: The Writings of Georges Bataille (October Books)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 3.90 — 82 ratings — published 1974
Bernard Tschumi: Questions of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 4.46 — 13 ratings — published 2004
The Master Builders: Le Corbusier, Mies Van Der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 3.92 — 128 ratings — published 1960
Mannerism (Style and Civilization)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 3.76 — 83 ratings — published 1967
Architecture and Modernity: A Critique (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 4.20 — 46 ratings — published 1999
Perspective as Symbolic Form (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 648 ratings — published 1927
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,904 ratings — published 1957
Heavenly Mansions and other essays on architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 3.96 — 24 ratings — published 1949
The Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the History of Taste (Classical America Series in Art and Architecture)
by (shelved 1 time as architectural-history-and-theory)
avg rating 3.44 — 39 ratings — published 1914
