Best Architecture Books

Based on tag
architecture
1
A Field Guide to American Houses
by Virginia McAlester
1,219 members
5 reviews
½ 4.5
4 Members
pitjrw, lwbooklover, aulsmith, Baconian
2
What Style Is It?: A Guide to American Architecture, Revised Edition
by John C. Poppeliers
408 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
3 Members
lwbooklover, aulsmith, burean,Nicole_VanK
3
The Seven Lamps of Architecture
by John Ruskin
609 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
lilithcat, araliqui
4
Learning from Las Vegas
by Robert Venturi
855 members
5 reviews
3.8
2 Members
pitjrw, mcharum
5
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
by Stewart Brand
1,420 members
29 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
pitjrw, Baconian
6
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
by David McCullough
3,115 members
65 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
marmot, lwbooklover
9
Casa Collage (Spanish Edition)
by Xavier Monteys
15 members
4
2 Members
raulvilar, mcharum
10
You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn
by Wendy Lesser
114 members
½ 4.3
2 Members
pitjrw, mcharum
11
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
by Rem Koolhaas
884 members
4 reviews
4.2
2 Members
raulvilar, mcharum
12
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
by William McDonough
2,084 members
33 reviews
4
2 Members
lwbooklover, raulvilar
13
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
by Henry Adams
1,214 members
13 reviews
3.9
Member
aulsmith
14
Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade
by Vincent Scully
516 members
2 reviews
3.9
Member
pitjrw
15
The Edifice Complex: How the Rich and Powerful Shape the World
by Deyan Sudjic
206 members
2 reviews
3.9
Member
raulvilar
16
Gothic Architecture
by Paul Frankl
90 members
1 review
½ 3.4
Member
AnnaClaire
18
Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail
by Matthys Levy
653 members
11 reviews
3.9
Member
aulsmith
19
Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism
by Rudolf Wittkower
381 members
1 review
3.9
Member
Nicole_VanK
22
In Praise of Shadows
by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
2,553 members
67 reviews
3.9
Member
pitjrw
23
The Architecture of Happiness
by Alain de Botton
2,430 members
45 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
raulvilar
24
The Four Books on Architecture
by Andrea Palladio
751 members
2 reviews
4.1
Member
Baconian
25
Skyscrapers
by Judith Dupre
539 members
8 reviews
3.8
Member
lwbooklover
26
AIA Guide to Chicago
by Alice Sinkevitch
260 members
3 reviews
4.2
Member
lilithcat
27
Architecture in the Age of Reason
by Emil Kaufmann
65 members
3
Member
Nicole_VanK
28
A Guide to Biltmore Estate
by Rachel Carley
680 members
4 reviews
3.8
Member
lwbooklover
29
A Visual Dictionary of Architecture
by Francis D. K. Ching
601 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
Baconian
30
AIA Guide to New York City
by Norval White
571 members
6 reviews
4.2
Member
aulsmith
31
Carolingian and Romanesque architecture, 800 to 1200
by Kenneth John Conant
159 members
1 review
3.8
Member
Nicole_VanK
32
Richard Nickel's Chicago: Photographs of a Lost City
by Richard Cahan
55 members
1 review
5
Member
lilithcat
33
In Ruins
by Christopher Woodward
356 members
5 reviews
3.8
Member
pitjrw
34
Theory and Design in the First Machine Age
by Reyner Banham
339 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
Nicole_VanK
35
Craftsman Homes
by Gustav Stickley
301 members
½ 3.6
Member
lwbooklover
36
Supermodernism
by Hans Ibelings
38 members
5
Member
raulvilar
37
Why Buildings Stand Up: The Strength of Architecture
by Mario Salvadori
783 members
8 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
aulsmith
39
Julius Shulman's Los Angeles
by Christopher Alexander
24 members
1 review
4
Member
pitjrw
41
Architecture without Architects
by Bernard Rudofsky
451 members
4 reviews
4.2
Member
raulvilar
42
Pleasure of Ruins
by Rose Macaulay
175 members
2 reviews
4.2
Member
pitjrw
43
The Cathedrals of England
by Harry Batsford
153 members
½ 3.5
Member
aulsmith
45
Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition
by Sigfried Giedion
429 members
3 reviews
4.1
Member
Nicole_VanK
46
The Geometry of Love: Space, Time, Mystery, and Meaning in an Ordinary Church
by Margaret Visser
274 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
pitjrw
47
La diva en casa
by Adam Bresnick
3 members
Member
raulvilar
48
Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History
by Mark Girouard
853 members
8 reviews
4.2
Member
pitjrw
49
Brickwork: Architecture and Design
by Andrew Plumridge
53 members
1 review
½ 3.5
Member
Nicole_VanK
50
En casa : una breve historia de la vida privada
by Bill Brison
1 member
½ 4.5
Member
raulvilar
51
Ten Books on Architecture
by Vitruvius
1,506 members
11 reviews
3.8
Member
Nicole_VanK
52
The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories
by J. L. Heilbron
220 members
3.8
Member
pitjrw
53
Todo sobre la casa
by Anatxu Zabalbeascoa
11 members
Member
raulvilar
54
On the Art of Building in Ten Books
by Leon Battista Alberti
300 members
4.2
Member
Nicole_VanK
55
Living Architecture
by James F. O'Gorman
43 members
½ 3.7
Member
pitjrw
56
The Place of Houses
by Charles Willard Moore
196 members
4
Member
raulvilar
57
La Buena Vida
by Iñaki Abalos
43 members
1 review
4
Member
raulvilar
58
The Progressive Architecture of Frederick G. Scheibler, Jr.
by Martin Aurand
13 members
Member
pitjrw
59
QUE ES UNA CASA? ¿QUE ES EL DISEÑO?
by Charles Eames
4 members
Member
raulvilar
60
A Clearing In The Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
by Witold Rybczynski
769 members
8 reviews
4
Member
pitjrw
62
An Outline of European Architecture
by Nikolaus Pevsner
953 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
lilithcat,Nicole_VanK
63
American Shelter : An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Home
by Lester R. Walker
238 members
1 review
3.9
Member
pitjrw
64
Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (Cultural Studies)
by Marc Augé
671 members
5 reviews
3.8
Member
raulvilar
66
For an Architecture of Reality
by Michael Benedikt
126 members
4
Member
pitjrw
67
Lost New York
by Nathan Silver
376 members
2 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
pitjrw
68
The Spectator and the Topographical City
by Martin Aurand
24 members
5
Member
pitjrw
69
Travels in the History of Architecture
by Robert Harbison
49 members
3 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
pitjrw
70
The Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett
30,423 members
806 reviews
4.2
71
Loving Frank
by Nancy Horan
4,718 members
218 reviews
½ 3.7
Explanations
lilithcat : This is less about architecture than it is about FLW's love life.
72
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
by Ross King
3,295 members
74 reviews
3.9
73
The Wright 3
by Blue Balliett
2,324 members
48 reviews
3.8
Explanations
lilithcat : Look, I enjoyed this a lot. I give tours at Robie House based on it. But it's not about architecture. It's a YA mystery.
74
The Women
by T. Coraghessan Boyle
1,756 members
63 reviews
½ 3.5
Explanations
lilithcat : It's about relationships, not architecture.
75
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
by Lewis Mumford
1,570 members
9 reviews
4.2
76
A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams
by Michael Pollan
1,265 members
19 reviews
3.8
77
The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live
by Sarah Susanka
1,229 members
8 reviews
4
78
The Most Beautiful Libraries in the World
by Jacques Bosser
834 members
14 reviews
½ 4.4
79
Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques
by Stephen King
684 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
81
A Concise History of Western Architecture
by R. Furneaux Jordan
236 members
2 reviews
3.1
82
Eccentric Spaces
by Robert Harbison
172 members
1 review
½ 3.5
83
World Without End
by Ken Follett
14,324 members
339 reviews
4.1
84
From Bauhaus to Our House
by Tom Wolfe
1,496 members
16 reviews
½ 3.5
85
Pillars of the Almighty: A Celebration of Cathedrals
by Ken Follett
177 members
1 review
3.9
86
Cut & Assemble Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House
by Edmund V. Gillon Jr.
58 members
87
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
by Erik Larson
25,236 members
757 reviews
4
Explanations
AnnaClaire : This book is best filed "true crime." The architecture is at best a secondary element.
88
Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction
by David Macaulay
3,472 members
29 reviews
½ 4.3
89
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
by Christopher Alexander
2,749 members
28 reviews
½ 4.5
90
Castle
by David Macaulay
3,801 members
49 reviews
4.2
91
The Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand
20,749 members
278 reviews
3.8
92
Pyramid
by David Macaulay
2,910 members
11 reviews
4.1
93
City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction
by David Macaulay
2,455 members
19 reviews
½ 4.3
94
The Timeless Way of Building
by Christopher Alexander
1,315 members
5 reviews
½ 4.3
95
Towards a New Architecture
by Le Corbusier
1,201 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
96
Architecture: Form, Space, and Order
by Francis D. K. Ching
1,144 members
5 reviews
4.1
97
Modern Architecture: A Critical History
by Kenneth Frampton
966 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
98
The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture
by John Fleming
781 members
1 review
½ 3.5
99
The Poetics of Space
by Gaston Bachelard
3,026 members
24 reviews
4.1
100
A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals
by Spiro Kostof
724 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5