Spiro Kostof (1936–1991)

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1. Spiro Kostof

   Author of A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals, The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History, The City Assembled: The Elements of Urban Form through History

2. Kevin Lynch

   Author of The Image of the City, Site Planning, Good City Form

3. Robert Venturi

   Author of Learning from Las Vegas, Robert Venturi: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, A View from the Campidoglio: Selected Essays, 1953-1984 (Icon Editions)

4. Vincent Scully

   Author of Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade, American Architecture and Urbanism, The Shingle Style and the Stick Style: Architectural Theory and Design from Downing to the Origins of Wright; Revised Edition (Yale Publications in the History of Art)

5. Francis D. K. Ching

   Author of Architecture: Form, Space, and Order, Building Construction Illustrated

6. Rem Koolhaas

   Author of Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan, S,M,L,XL

7. Colin Rowe

   Author of Collage City, The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays

8. Reyner Banham

   Author of Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment, Buffalo Architecture: A Guide

9. Kenneth Frampton

   Author of Modern Architecture: A Critical History

10. Le Corbusier

    Author of Towards a New Architecture, The City of To-morrow and Its Planning

11. John Ruskin

    Author of The Seven Lamps of Architecture

12. M. Christine Boyer

    Author of The City of Collective Memory: Its Historical Imagery and Architectural Entertainments, Dreaming the Rational City: The Myth of American City Planning

13. Robert Fishman

    Author of Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia, Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier

14. Steen Eiler Rasmussen

    Author of Experiencing Architecture

15. Vitruvius

    Author of Ten Books on Architecture

16. Jane Jacobs

    Author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Cities and the Wealth of Nations

17. Rudolf Wittkower

    Author of Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism

18. Henry-Russell Hitchcock

    Author of The International Style, In the Nature of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941 (Da Capo Paperback)

19. James Sloss Ackerman

    Author of Palladio (Architect and Society)

20. John Summerson

    Author of The Classical Language of Architecture