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1. Witold Rybczynski

   Author of Home; a Short History of an Idea, City Life, The Most Beautiful House in the World

2. John J. G. Blumenson

   Author of Identifying American Architecture: A Pictorial Guide to Styles and Terms : 1600-1945

3. Rachel Carley

   Author of The Visual Dictionary of American Domestic Architecture

4. Carole Rifkind

   Author of A Field Guide to American Architecture

5. John C. Poppeliers

   Author of What style is it?: A guide to American architecture

6. Spiro Kostof

   Author of A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals

7. A. J. Downing

   Author of The Architecture of Country Houses: Including Designs for Cottages, and Farmhouses, and Villas, with Remarks on Interiors, Furniture, and the Best Modes of Warming and Ventilating

8. Lester R. Walker

   Author of American Shelter : An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Homes

9. Stewart Brand

   Author of How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

10. Cyril M. Harris

    Author of Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Architecture

11. Vincent Scully

    Author of Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade

12. James Howard Kunstler

    Author of Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape

13. Stephen Calloway

    Author of The Elements of Style: A Practical Encyclopedia of Interior Architectural Details from 1485 to the Present

14. Nikolaus Pevsner

    Author of An Outline of European Architecture

15. Andres Duany

    Author of Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

16. Jane Jacobs

    Author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities

17. Joel Garreau

    Author of Edge City: Life on the New Frontier

18. John Fleming

    Author of Dictionary of Architecture

19. Vitruvius

    Author of Ten Books on Architecture

20. Steen Eiler Rasmussen

    Author of Experiencing Architecture