Vincent Scully

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1. 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)

2. Frank Lloyd Wright

   Author of The Natural House, Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography, The Future of Architecture

3. Arthur Drexler

   Author of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, The Architecture of the Ecole des beaux-arts, The architecture of Richard Neutra : from international style to California modern

4. Spiro Kostof

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

5. Ada Louise Huxtable

   Author of Will they ever finish Bruckner Boulevard?, Pier Luigi Nervi

6. Henry-Russell Hitchcock

   Author of The International Style, In the Nature of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941 (Da Capo Paperback), The Architecture of H.H. Richardson and His Times

7. Bates Lowry

   Author of Renaissance architecture, Building a National Image: Architectural Drawings for the American Democracy, 1789-1912

8. John Brickerhoff Jackson

   Author of Discovering the Vernacular Landscape, The Necessity for Ruins, and Other Topics

9. James F. O'Gorman

   Author of The Architecture of Frank Furness, Three American Architects: Richardson, Sullivan, and Wright, 1865-1915, Living Architecture

10. William Harvey Pierson

    Author of American Buildings and Their Architects, Volume 1: The Colonial and Neo-Classical Styles, American Buildings and Their Architects, Volume 2: Technology and the Picturesque: The Corporate and the Early Gothic Styles

11. David B. Brownlee

    Author of Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture, Out of the Ordinary: Architecture/Urbanism/Design

12. Robert Venturi

    Author of Learning from Las Vegas, Robert Venturi: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

13. Esther McCoy

    Author of Five California Architects, Richard Neutra

14. Robert A. M. Stern

    Author of New Directions in American Architecture, New York 1930: Architecture Between the Two World Wars

15. Kenneth Frampton

    Author of Modern Architecture: A Critical History, Modern Architecture 1851-1945

16. Charles Jencks

    Author of The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, Daydream Houses of Los Angeles

17. Leland M. Roth

    Author of A Concise History of American Architecture, Shingle Styles. Innovation and tradition in American architecture, 1874 to 1982

18. Frederick Gutheim

    Author of Alvar Aalto

19. Francoise Choay

    Author of Le Corbusier

20. Rudolf Wittkower

    Author of Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism, Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600-1750