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Best Architecture Books

Based on tag: architecture

Members: 12 participating members (show all)

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1
A Field Guide to American Houses
by Virginia McAlester
964 members, 4 reviews
4.48 stars (4.48 stars)

Lists: Baconian (1), lwbooklover (1), aulsmith (3), pitjrw (12)

Score: 13.19

2
The Seven Lamps of Architecture
by John Ruskin
485 members, 2 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

Lists: araliqui (1), lilithcat (2)

Score: 7.36

3
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
by Stewart Brand
1,125 members, 22 reviews
4.29 stars (4.29 stars)

Lists: pitjrw (2), Baconian (2)

Score: 6.73

4
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
by David McCullough
2,267 members, 54 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: marmot (1), lwbooklover (6)

Score: 6.56

6
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
by William McDonough
1,772 members, 29 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: lwbooklover (7), raulvilar (16)

Score: 4.46

7
What Style Is It?: A Guide to American Architecture, Revised Edition
by John C. Poppeliers
312 members, 3 reviews
3.55 stars (3.55 stars)

Lists: lwbooklover (2), aulsmith (5)

Thumbs down: Nicole_VanK

Score: 4.04

8
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
by Henry Adams
978 members, 12 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (1)

Score: 4

9
Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade
by Vincent Scully
405 members, 1 review
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: pitjrw (1)

Score: 4

10
The Edifice Complex: How the Rich and Powerful Shape the World
by Deyan Sudjic
160 members, 2 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: raulvilar (1)

Score: 4

11
Gothic Architecture
by Paul Frankl
73 members, 0 reviews
3.6 stars (3.6 stars)

Lists: AnnaClaire (1)

Score: 4

13
Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail
by Matthys Levy
520 members, 11 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (2)

Score: 3.36

14
Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism
by Rudolf Wittkower
308 members, 0 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: Nicole_VanK (2)

Score: 3.36

17
The Architecture of Happiness
by Alain de Botton
1,912 members, 39 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Lists: raulvilar (3)

Score: 3.04

18
In Praise of Shadows
by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
1,599 members, 43 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: pitjrw (3)

Score: 3.04

19
The Four Books on Architecture
by Andrea Palladio
529 members, 2 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: Baconian (3)

Score: 3.04

20
Skyscrapers
by Judith Dupre
411 members, 7 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: lwbooklover (3)

Score: 3.04

21
AIA Guide to Chicago
by Alice Sinkevitch
197 members, 3 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: lilithcat (3)

Score: 3.04

22
Architecture in the Age of Reason
by Emil Kaufmann
54 members, 0 reviews
3 stars (3 stars)

Lists: Nicole_VanK (3)

Score: 3.04

23
Learning from Las Vegas
by Robert Venturi
642 members, 3 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: pitjrw (4)

Score: 2.83

24
A Guide to Biltmore Estate
by Rachel Carley
489 members, 1 review
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: lwbooklover (4)

Score: 2.83

25
AIA Guide to New York City
by Norval White
486 members, 5 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (4)

Score: 2.83

26
A Visual Dictionary of Architecture
by Francis D. K. Ching
471 members, 3 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: Baconian (4)

Score: 2.83

28
Carolingian and Romanesque architecture, 800 to 1200
by Kenneth John Conant
121 members, 1 review
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: Nicole_VanK (4)

Score: 2.83

29
Richard Nickel's Chicago: Photographs of a Lost City
by Richard Cahan
45 members, 1 review
5 stars (5 stars)

Lists: lilithcat (4)

Score: 2.83

30
In Ruins
by Christopher Woodward
311 members, 4 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: pitjrw (5)

Score: 2.68

31
Theory and Design in the First Machine Age
by Reyner Banham
260 members, 3 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Lists: Nicole_VanK (5)

Score: 2.68

32
Craftsman Homes
by Gustav Stickley
227 members, 0 reviews
3.6 stars (3.6 stars)

Lists: lwbooklover (5)

Score: 2.68

33
Supermodernism
by Hans Ibelings
32 members, 0 reviews
5 stars (5 stars)

Lists: raulvilar (5)

Score: 2.68

34
Why Buildings Stand Up: The Strength of Architecture
by Mario Salvadori
611 members, 8 reviews
3.59 stars (3.59 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (6)

Score: 2.56

36
Julius Shulman's Los Angeles
by Christopher Alexander
16 members, 1 review
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: pitjrw (6)

Score: 2.56

38
Architecture without Architects
by Bernard Rudofsky
343 members, 3 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: raulvilar (7)

Score: 2.46

39
Pleasure of Ruins
by Rose Macaulay
148 members, 1 review
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: pitjrw (7)

Score: 2.46

40
The Cathedrals of England
by Harry Batsford
110 members, 0 reviews
3.4 stars (3.4 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (7)

Score: 2.46

42
Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition
by Sigfried Giedion
314 members, 2 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: Nicole_VanK (8)

Score: 2.38

44
La diva en casa
by Adam L. Bresnick
1 member, 0 reviews

Lists: raulvilar (8)

Score: 2.38

45
Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History
by Mark Girouard
662 members, 5 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: pitjrw (9)

Score: 2.31

46
Brickwork: Architecture and Design
by Andrew Plumridge
41 members, 0 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Lists: Nicole_VanK (9)

Score: 2.31

47
En casa : una breve historia de la vida privada
by Bill Brison
1 member, 0 reviews
4.5 stars (4.5 stars)

Lists: raulvilar (9)

Score: 2.31

48
Ten Books on Architecture
by Vitruvius Pollio
1,077 members, 7 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: Nicole_VanK (10)

Score: 2.25

49
The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories
by J. L. Heilbron
182 members, 0 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: pitjrw (10)

Score: 2.25

50
Todo Sobre La Casa
by Anatxu Zabalbeascoa
10 members, 0 reviews

Lists: raulvilar (10)

Score: 2.25

51
On the Art of Building in Ten Books
by Leon Battista Alberti
240 members, 1 review
4.5 stars (4.5 stars)

Lists: Nicole_VanK (11)

Score: 2.2

52
Living Architecture
by James F. O'Gorman
32 members, 0 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Lists: pitjrw (11)

Score: 2.2

53
Casa collage : un ensayo sobre la arquitectura de la casa
by Xavier Monteys
7 members, 0 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: raulvilar (11)

Score: 2.2

54
The Place of Houses
by Charles Willard Moore
147 members, 0 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: raulvilar (12)

Score: 2.15

55
You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn
by Wendy Lesser
63 members, 0 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: pitjrw (13)

Score: 2.11

56
La Buena Vida
by Iñaki Abalos
23 members, 1 review
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Lists: raulvilar (13)

Score: 2.11

58
¿Qué es una casa? ¿Qué es el diseño?
by Charles Eames
4 members, 0 reviews

Lists: raulvilar (14)

Score: 2.07

61
An Outline of European Architecture
by Nikolaus Pevsner
763 members, 3 reviews
3.6 stars (3.6 stars)

Lists: lilithcat (1)

Thumbs down: Nicole_VanK

Score: 2

65
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
by Rem Koolhaas
685 members, 1 review
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: raulvilar (18)

Score: 1.94

66
For an Architecture of Reality
by Michael Benedikt
105 members, 0 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: pitjrw (18)

Score: 1.94

67
Lost New York
by Nathan Silver
298 members, 1 review
4.5 stars (4.5 stars)

Lists: pitjrw (19)

Score: 1.92

68
Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett
24,373 members, 702 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

Score: 0

69
World Without End
by Ken Follett
11,224 members, 294 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Thumbs down: lilithcat

Score: < 0

70
Loving Frank
by Nancy Horan
4,214 members, 206 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

Thumbs down: lilithcat

Score: < 0

Explanations:

lilithcat (0): This is less about architecture than it is about FLW's love life.

71
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
by Ross King
2,572 members, 62 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Thumbs down: lilithcat

Score: < 0

72
The Wright 3
by Blue Balliett
1,738 members, 44 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Thumbs down: lilithcat

Score: < 0

Explanations:

lilithcat (0): 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.

73
The Women
by T. C. Boyle
1,450 members, 56 reviews
3.54 stars (3.54 stars)

Thumbs down: lilithcat

Score: < 0

Explanations:

lilithcat (0): It's about relationships, not architecture.

74
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
by Lewis Mumford
1,227 members, 9 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Thumbs down: aulsmith

Score: < 0

75
The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live
by Sarah Susanka
1,036 members, 7 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Thumbs down: lilithcat

Score: < 0

76
A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder
by Michael Pollan
965 members, 17 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

Thumbs down: lilithcat

Score: < 0

77
The Most Beautiful Libraries in the World
by Jacques Bosser
714 members, 14 reviews
4.43 stars (4.43 stars)

Thumbs down: lilithcat

Score: < 0

78
Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques
by Stephen King
522 members, 8 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Thumbs down: Nicole_VanK

Score: < 0

80
A Concise History of Western Architecture
by R. Furneaux Jordan
192 members, 2 reviews
3.08 stars (3.08 stars)

Thumbs down: Nicole_VanK

Score: < 0

81
Pillars of the Almighty: A Celebration of Cathedrals
by Ken Follett
155 members, 1 review
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Thumbs down: lilithcat

Score: < 0

82
Eccentric Spaces
by Robert Harbison
143 members, 1 review
3.33 stars (3.33 stars)

Thumbs down: Nicole_VanK

Score: < 0

83
The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson
19,252 members, 646 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Thumbs down: AnnaClaire, lilithcat

Score: < 0

Explanations:

AnnaClaire (0): This book is best filed "true crime." The architecture is at best a secondary element.

84
From Bauhaus to Our House
by Tom Wolfe
1,185 members, 16 reviews
3.57 stars (3.57 stars)

Thumbs down: Nicole_VanK, lilithcat

Score: < 0

86
Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction
by David Macaulay
2,390 members, 22 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)
88
The Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand
17,646 members, 243 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)
89
Castle
by David Macaulay
2,602 members, 36 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)
90
The Timeless Way of Building
by Christopher Alexander
1,015 members, 4 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)
91
Pyramid
by David Macaulay
2,017 members, 11 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)
92
Towards a New Architecture
by Le Corbusier
921 members, 3 reviews
3.6 stars (3.6 stars)
93
City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction
by David Macaulay
1,669 members, 15 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)
95
Architecture: Form, Space, and Order
by Francis D. K. Ching
856 members, 5 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)
96
Modern Architecture: A Critical History
by Kenneth Frampton
718 members, 3 reviews
3.45 stars (3.45 stars)
97
The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture
by John Fleming
618 members, 1 review
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)
98
A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals
by Spiro Kostof
585 members, 3 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)
99
The Poetics of Space
by Gaston Bachelard
2,192 members, 18 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)
100
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
by Jane Jacobs
3,625 members, 35 reviews
4.32 stars (4.32 stars)
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