Best Architecture Books

Based on tag
architecture
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11 participating members
1
A Field Guide to American Houses
by Virginia McAlester
1,003 members
4 reviews
½ 4.5
4 Members
pitjrw, lwbooklover, aulsmith, Baconian
2
The Seven Lamps of Architecture
by John Ruskin
513 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
lilithcat, araliqui
3
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
by Stewart Brand
1,192 members
23 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
pitjrw, Baconian
4
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
by David McCullough
2,462 members
57 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
marmot, lwbooklover
6
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
by William McDonough
1,857 members
30 reviews
4
2 Members
lwbooklover, raulvilar
7
What Style Is It?: A Guide to American Architecture, Revised Edition
by John C. Poppeliers
331 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
lwbooklover, aulsmith,Nicole_VanK
8
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
by Henry Adams
1,037 members
12 reviews
3.9
Member
aulsmith
9
Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade
by Vincent Scully
428 members
1 review
3.9
Member
pitjrw
10
The Edifice Complex: How the Rich and Powerful Shape the World
by Deyan Sudjic
181 members
2 reviews
3.9
Member
raulvilar
11
Gothic Architecture
by Paul Frankl
78 members
1 review
½ 3.6
Member
AnnaClaire
13
Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail
by Matthys Levy
559 members
11 reviews
4
Member
aulsmith
14
Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism
by Rudolf Wittkower
325 members
1 review
3.9
Member
Nicole_VanK
17
The Architecture of Happiness
by Alain de Botton
2,029 members
42 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
raulvilar
18
In Praise of Shadows
by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
1,805 members
48 reviews
4
Member
pitjrw
19
The Four Books on Architecture
by Andrea Palladio
586 members
2 reviews
4
Member
Baconian
20
Skyscrapers
by Judith Dupre
433 members
7 reviews
3.8
Member
lwbooklover
21
AIA Guide to Chicago
by Alice Sinkevitch
217 members
3 reviews
4.2
Member
lilithcat
22
Architecture in the Age of Reason
by Emil Kaufmann
55 members
3
Member
Nicole_VanK
23
Learning from Las Vegas
by Robert Venturi
683 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
pitjrw
24
A Guide to Biltmore Estate
by Rachel Carley
534 members
3 reviews
3.8
Member
lwbooklover
25
AIA Guide to New York City
by Norval White
508 members
6 reviews
4.2
Member
aulsmith
26
A Visual Dictionary of Architecture
by Francis D. K. Ching
495 members
2 reviews
4.2
Member
Baconian
27
Carolingian and Romanesque architecture, 800 to 1200
by Kenneth John Conant
131 members
2 reviews
3.8
Member
Nicole_VanK
29
Richard Nickel's Chicago: Photographs of a Lost City
by Richard Cahan
50 members
1 review
5
Member
lilithcat
30
In Ruins
by Christopher Woodward
321 members
5 reviews
3.8
Member
pitjrw
31
Theory and Design in the First Machine Age
by Reyner Banham
272 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
Nicole_VanK
32
Craftsman Homes
by Gustav Stickley
240 members
½ 3.6
Member
lwbooklover
33
Supermodernism
by Hans Ibelings
33 members
5
Member
raulvilar
34
Why Buildings Stand Up: The Strength of Architecture
by Mario Salvadori
654 members
8 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
aulsmith
36
Julius Shulman's Los Angeles
by Christopher Alexander
17 members
2 reviews
4
Member
pitjrw
38
Architecture without Architects
by Bernard Rudofsky
367 members
4 reviews
4.2
Member
raulvilar
39
Pleasure of Ruins
by Rose Macaulay
154 members
1 review
4
Member
pitjrw
40
The Cathedrals of England
by Harry Batsford
120 members
½ 3.4
Member
aulsmith
42
Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition
by Sigfried Giedion
342 members
3 reviews
4.1
Member
Nicole_VanK
43
The Geometry of Love: Space, Time, Mystery, and Meaning in an Ordinary Church
by Margaret Visser
220 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
pitjrw
44
La diva en casa
by Adam L. Bresnick
1 member
Member
raulvilar
45
Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History
by Mark Girouard
703 members
6 reviews
4.1
Member
pitjrw
46
Brickwork: Architecture and Design
by Andrew Plumridge
42 members
½ 3.5
Member
Nicole_VanK
47
En casa : una breve historia de la vida privada
by Bill Brison
1 member
½ 4.5
Member
raulvilar
48
Ten Books on Architecture
by Vitruvius Pollio
1,151 members
7 reviews
3.8
Member
Nicole_VanK
49
The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories
by J. L. Heilbron
188 members
3.8
Member
pitjrw
50
Todo Sobre La Casa
by Anatxu Zabalbeascoa
10 members
Member
raulvilar
51
On the Art of Building in Ten Books
by Leon Battista Alberti
254 members
1 review
½ 4.5
Member
Nicole_VanK
52
Living Architecture
by James F. O'Gorman
32 members
½ 3.7
Member
pitjrw
53
Casa collage : un ensayo sobre la arquitectura de la casa
by Xavier Monteys
9 members
4
Member
raulvilar
54
The Place of Houses
by Charles Willard Moore
155 members
4
Member
raulvilar
55
You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn
by Wendy Lesser
74 members
4.2
Member
pitjrw
56
La Buena Vida
by Iñaki Abalos
23 members
1 review
½ 3.7
Member
raulvilar
57
The Progressive Architecture of Frederick G. Scheibler, Jr.
by Martin Aurand
11 members
Member
pitjrw
58
¿Qué es una casa? ¿Qué es el diseño?
by Charles Eames
4 members
Member
raulvilar
59
A Clearing In The Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
by Witold Rybczynski
650 members
7 reviews
4
Member
pitjrw
61
An Outline of European Architecture
by Nikolaus Pevsner
809 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
lilithcat,Nicole_VanK
62
American Shelter : An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Home
by Lester R. Walker
193 members
1 review
4
Member
pitjrw
63
Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (Cultural Studies)
by Marc Augé
496 members
2 reviews
3.9
Member
raulvilar
65
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
by Rem Koolhaas
727 members
1 review
½ 4.3
Member
raulvilar
66
For an Architecture of Reality
by Michael Benedikt
111 members
4
Member
pitjrw
67
Lost New York
by Nathan Silver
314 members
1 review
½ 4.5
Member
pitjrw
68
Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett
25,632 members
724 reviews
4.2
69
Loving Frank
by Nancy Horan
4,324 members
207 reviews
½ 3.7
Explanations
lilithcat : This is less about architecture than it is about FLW's love life.
70
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
by Ross King
2,718 members
66 reviews
3.9
71
The Wright 3
by Blue Balliett
1,846 members
44 reviews
3.9
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.
72
The Women
by T. C. Boyle
1,525 members
57 reviews
½ 3.5
Explanations
lilithcat : It's about relationships, not architecture.
73
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
by Lewis Mumford
1,302 members
9 reviews
4.1
74
The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live
by Sarah Susanka
1,085 members
7 reviews
4
75
A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder
by Michael Pollan
1,031 members
18 reviews
3.8
76
The Most Beautiful Libraries in the World
by Jacques Bosser
745 members
14 reviews
½ 4.4
77
Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques
by Stephen King
562 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
79
A Concise History of Western Architecture
by R. Furneaux Jordan
209 members
2 reviews
3.1
80
Eccentric Spaces
by Robert Harbison
156 members
1 review
½ 3.3
81
The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson
20,474 members
668 reviews
4
Explanations
AnnaClaire : This book is best filed "true crime." The architecture is at best a secondary element.
82
World Without End
by Ken Follett
11,841 members
300 reviews
4
83
From Bauhaus to Our House
by Tom Wolfe
1,265 members
16 reviews
½ 3.5
84
Pillars of the Almighty: A Celebration of Cathedrals
by Ken Follett
165 members
1 review
3.9
85
Cut & Assemble Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House
by Edmund V. Gillon Jr.
45 members
86
Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction
by David Macaulay
2,618 members
24 reviews
½ 4.3
87
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
by Christopher Alexander
2,281 members
25 reviews
½ 4.5
88
The Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand
18,341 members
250 reviews
3.9
89
Castle
by David Macaulay
2,870 members
44 reviews
4.2
90
Pyramid
by David Macaulay
2,216 members
11 reviews
4.1
91
The Timeless Way of Building
by Christopher Alexander
1,085 members
5 reviews
½ 4.3
92
Towards a New Architecture
by Le Corbusier
964 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
93
City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction
by David Macaulay
1,862 members
15 reviews
½ 4.3
94
Architecture: Form, Space, and Order
by Francis D. K. Ching
909 members
5 reviews
4.1
95
Modern Architecture: A Critical History
by Kenneth Frampton
766 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
96
The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture
by John Fleming
653 members
1 review
½ 3.6
97
A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals
by Spiro Kostof
605 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
98
The Poetics of Space
by Gaston Bachelard
2,365 members
19 reviews
4.1
99
Gaudí : 1852-1926 : Antoni Gaudí i Cornet, a life devoted to architecture
by Rainer Zerbst
542 members
2 reviews
4.1
100
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
by Matthew Frederick
733 members
9 reviews
3.9