| Recommended by Romullo Baratto, You're unlikely to find this book on any typical architecture reading lists, but that doesn't make it any less essential. This is surely the way we should talk about our cities: as shimmering reflections and formless memories. Meine Mediathek. 9 ratings — This book provides a vast variety of examples to help architects consider and design the details | Recommended by Collin Abdallah, The field experiences developed by Elemental and Alejandro Aravena, winner of the 2016 Pritzker Prize and Director of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, are compiled in this book that not only tells the history of the team but also presents its financing strategies and the participatory methods used | Recommended by José Tomás Franco, In an increasingly air-conditioned environment, it can be easy to discount thermal comfort in the design of a building. This book compiles some of the 300+ posts in what is likely the most encompassing insight into his particular genius. Search the world's most comprehensive index of full-text books. published 2002, avg rating 3.96 — Actually, practically nothing is going on.” The popular image of the architect is one of ego and power - but as any practicing architect will tell you, this is rarely (at best) the truth. In compiling this list, we sought out titles from different backgrounds with the aim of revealing divergent cultural contexts. published 1982, avg rating 4.50 — Philosophy for Architects is an engaging and easy-to-grasp introduction to philosophical questions ofinterest to students of architectural theory. From his tentative enthusiasm for Archigram to his views on the high-tech architecture of the 80s and 90s, his opinions need not be a mystery | Recommended by Kaley Overstreet, García Vásquez reveals how the contemporary city has evolved, according to psychologists, historians, and architects | Recommended by Nicolas Valencia, A compilation of Piranesi's etchings of prisons, Le Carceri represents not only a huge artistic accomplishment but also a milestone on architectural perception with its numerous vaults, staircases and other ambiguous structures | Recommended by Romullo Baratto. By this Venturi showed a deep … published 2003, avg rating 4.00 — published 2002, avg rating 3.33 — Discussing cinema as ‘mass art’, they tend to forget that architecture, before cinema, was the only existing ‘mass art’. Read on to see the books we consider valuable to anyone interested in architecture | Last updated in December 2019. 6 ratings — I particularly appreciate the detailed analysis of materials, details, and structure.” —David G. De Long, University of Pennsylvania fashionable architects, for example; have no relation with either construction or its history. In these essays, philosopher Elizabeth Grosz explores the ways in which two disciplines that are fundamentally outside each another—architecture and philosophy—can meet in a third space to interact free of their internal constraints. 7,335 ratings — Essays offer invaluable insight into not just the buildings selected but to the idea of the section itself | Recommended by Kaley Overstreet, Oppositions Reader collects the most important essays from 26 issues of Oppositions, the journal of the New York-based Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS). The Architecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations. published 1978, avg rating 4.17 — Disclosure: ArchDaily earns a commission from Amazon on books and items purchased through their platform. This book exposes the consistency and coherence of the seemingly unrelated episodes of Manhattan's urbanism focusing on its "culture of congestion." published 2006, avg rating 4.50 — Inspired by ceaseless fluctuations of the early 21st Century, it bears the marks of globalism and the market, ideological siblings that, over the past twenty years, have undercut the stability of contemporary life | Recommended by Diego Hernández, Basically, the work that made Rem Koolhaas famous. / Ada Louise Huxtable, MOS: Selected Works / Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample, Rafael Moneo: Remarks on 21 Works / Rafael Moneo, Uneasy Balance / Christopher Platt, Brian Carter, We'll Get There When We Cross That Bridge / Amale Andraos and Dan Wood, Citizens of No Place: An Architectural Graphic Novel / Jimenez Lai, A World History of Architecture / Michael Fazio, Marian Moffett, Lawrence Wodehouse, Architecture of the Islamic World: Its History and Social Meaning / Ernst J. Grube, James Dickie, Oleg Grabar, Eleanor Sims, Ronald Lewcock, Dalu Jones, Gut T. Petherbridge,, George Michell, Barcelona Supermodelo / Alessandro Scarnato, Clip, Stamp, Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X to 197X / Beatriz Colomina, Los Hechos de la Arquitectura / Alejandro Aravena, Fernando Perez, Modern Architecture: A Critical History (Fourth Edition) / Kenneth Frampton, Palladio, The Villa and the Landscape / Gerrit Smienk, Johannes Niemeijer, Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture / Ulrich Conrads, Project Japan: Metabolism Talks / Rem Koolhaas, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech / Todd Gannon, Teorías e historia de la ciudad contemporánea / Carlos García Vázquez, The Prisons / Le Carceri / Giovanni Battista Piranesi, The Architecture of Image: Existential Space in Cinema / Juhani Pallasmaa, Are We Human? 1 rating — The process is one of balance and reconciliation, illuminated through drawings, photographs, and interviews | Recommended by Niall Patrick Walsh, Set up as a conversation between WORKac co-founders Amale Andraos and Dan Wood, We'll Get there When We Cross that Bridge switches seamlessly between portfolio review and an impassioned discussion of issues relevant to the practice. Collage city offers a more nuanced view on urbanism - one that is as patchworked and diverse as urban societies themselves | Recommended by Kaley Overstreet, This book pioneered the concept of townscape. Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users. A complete historic round-up of architecture styles | Recommended by Dima Stouhi, This book explains the history, evolution, and ornaments of Islamic architecture | Recommended by Dima Stouhi, Alessandro Scarnato explains how Barcelona, an infested city, became a global city after Spain recovered its democracy in the '70s | Recommended by Nicolas Valencia, An explosion of little architectural magazines in the 1960s and 1970s instigated a radical transformation in architectural culture, as the magazines acted as a site of innovation and debate | Recommended by Victor Delaqua, Alejandro Aravena joins Fernando Perez Oyarzún and José Quintanilla to discuss and analyze several architecture projects along with history, all accompanied with drawings, essays, and external references to make understand architecture from all its different angles and points of view | Recommended by Fernanda Castro, An extensive overview of the history, motivations, successes, and failures of the Modernist movement in architecture, offering invaluable and unparalleled context on an already widely published topic | Recommended by Shuang Han, One of the most complete and relevant books on modern architecture, in the fourth edition Frampton added a major new section to his masterpiece that explores the effects of globalization on architecture all over the world | Recommended by Romullo Baratto, This book documents and analyzes ten of Palladio's surviving villas in terms of their relationship with their natural surroundings | Recommended by Niall Patrick Walsh, The most influential architectural manifestos from 1903 to 1963, collected here in chronological order | Recommended by Becky Quintal, An editorial design accomplishment by itself, this book interweaves historical research with interviews with some of the most prominent architects from Japanese Metabolism movement | Recommended by Romullo Baratto, Todd Gannon sheds light on one of architecture's most influential critics, giving readers context to the man and opinions behind the writings. My library Each city is explored in a series of essays that address vital themes, from security to climate change, looking closely at the problems that face contemporary cities and examining a variety of solutions | Recommended by Christele Harrouk, An iconic compilation of explorative chronicles and photo essays about over the hill, middle-scale cities in Chile. All images are © each office/photographer mentioned. This classic examines how architecture defines our understanding of space - and how buildings are sometimes indifferent participants in the urban environment. We thank you! It was essential that these enlightening texts be brought to light for the new generations of architectural scholars | Recommended by Martita Vial della Maggiora, This book presents and discusses part of the works of Brazilian architect Isay Weinfeld, from homes to hotels in Brazil and other regions of the world. In this book, Christopher Alexander proposes a cataloging of the types of problems (or design challenges) and analyzes what lies behind each situation, describing it in its essence and proposing a standard solution | Recommended by Eduardo Souza, The obligatory world-acclaimed book that proposes a critical reflection on the value of the collective memory in the architecture —of the city | Recommended by Fabian Dejtiar, Peter Zumthor shortly highlights the importance of the sensations in the construction of 'Athmospheres', to create a good place for the development of people | Recommended by Fabian Dejtiar, A "gentle manifesto for a non-straightforward architecture," Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture expresses in the most compelling and original terms the postmodern rebellion against the purism of modernism | Recommended by Diego Hernández, Inspiring text based on conversations led by Louis Kahn in different workshops | Recommended by Martita Vial, A classic book with a very sensitive atmosphere about promising architecture and design | Recommended by Martita Vial, This book a quick, delightful, and inspiring read - and entirely essential as we continue on the asymptote towards entirely digital practice in architecture. The book Hundertwasser Architecture & Philosophy is the title of this small book in format 16,5 x 16,5 cm, which should give a better understanding of the world of Friedensreich Hundertwasser in its 48 pages. Keep up to date with architecture and design news on Architectural Digest, including profiles on top talent, building announcements and new projects. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction / Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, The Architecture of the City / Aldo Rossi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture / Robert Venturi, Conversations with Students (Architecture at Rice) / Louis Kahn, Experiencing Architecture / Eiler Rasmussen, In Praise of Shadows / Junichiro Tanizaki, Learning from Las Vegas / Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi, Steven Izenour, Mutations / Rem Koolhaas, Stefano Boeri, Sanford Kwinter, Nadia Tazi, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Neufert Architects' Data / Ernst Neufert, Peter Neufert, The Seven Lamps of Architecture / John Ruskin, Superstudio: Life without objects / Peter Lang, Ten Canonical Buildings: 1950-2000 / Peter Eisenman, Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: An Anthology of Architectural Theory 1965 - 1995 / Kate Nesbitt (org), Theory and Design in the First Machine Age / Reyner Banham, Universal Principles of Design / William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler, The Works: Anatomy of the City / Kate Ascher, Yona Friedman: The Dilution Of Architecture / Yona Friedman, Architecture: Form, Space and Order / Francis D. K. Ching, Detail in Contemporary Architecture Series / Virginia McLeod, Elemental: Incremental Housing and Participatory Design Manual / Alejandro Aravena, Thermal Delight in Architecture / Lisa Heschong, BIG, HOT TO COLD: An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation / Bjarke Ingels, Design Like You Give a Damn / Architecture for Humanity, Eladio Dieste: Innovation in Structural Art / Stanford Anderson, Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability / Eyal Weizman, The Future Of Architecture / Frank Lloyd Wright, Isay Weinfeld: The Brazilian Architect / Gestalten, Kicked a Building Lately? We notice how a wall touches the ground, how a railing curves underneath our hand - but how do you design these things? ISBN-13: 978-0993053009. published 2017, avg rating 4.35 — 0 ratings — It brings questions of design into philosophy and thereby brings diverse philosophical perspectives to bear on conceptual, methodological, epistemological, metaphysical, and ethical issues of design. | Recommended by Katherine Allen, In this 1960s classic, Kevin Lynch presents studies of how cities are perceived and imagined, and shows how his findings can impact the building and rebuilding of cities | Recommended by Becky Quintal, Explains the beauty of oriental architecture through their perception of light and shadows in their art and architectural traditions | Recommended by Martita Vial, Seminal work for the history of architecture, the authors analyze the Las Vegas' strip to better comprehend the common and ordinary architecture, rather than the iconic buildings proclaimed by modernism | Recommended by Romullo Baratto, Mutations' reflects on the transformations that urban accelerating processes inflict on our environment, and on the spaces in which architecture can still operate | Recommended by Victor Delaqua, It presents appropriate standard measures and design tips. Without a clear counterpoint, how can architects situate concepts of innovation in architecture? The legendary British group created visions for cities that still feel fresh and fantastical today, and are carried on by designers such as Neil Denari, Lebbeus Woods, and Morphosis. This specific ISBN edition is currently not available. Architectural Philosophy is the first book to outline a philosophical account of architecture and to establish the singularity of architectural practice and theory. Welcome back. Book Description. In short, the Vitruvian picture of architecture is rooted in experiential knowledge of making, doing, and crafting. 31 ratings — published 1959, avg rating 3.77 — Architecture as Philosophy, The Works of Imre Makovecz. This book systematically reviews the intense structural experimentation that marked Kahn’s work since the beginning and would eventually lead him to an almost constant adoption of ‘hollow’ structural forms. Essentials. Topics include Aristotle's theories of "visual imagination" and their relevance to digital design, the problem of optical correction as explored by Plato, Hegel's theory of zeitgeist, and Kant's examinations of space and aesthetics, among others. The leveling of buildings in war is less often the byproduct of hostilities than it is the hostilities themselves. Showing 52 Items Novel Houses: Twenty Famous Fictional Dwellings £25.00. published 2008, avg rating 3.46 — Easily readable in parts, this book is the perfect detox for those needing an escape from all the unbearable talk about smart cities and circular economies - and a reminder why we fall in love with cities in the first place | Recommended by Katherine Allen. One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings, and streets that surround us. 2,629 ratings — published 2011, avg rating 4.50 — Publisher: Edition Axel Menges, 2006. Design Like You Give a Damn is the resource for socially-conscious design, gathering together projects, history, and information about the movement - and what's possible with a little optimism | Recommended by Katherine Allen, This book deals with the work of the Uruguayan engineer-architect Eladio Dieste, whose greatest production was developed in the capital of his native country and adjunctive cities in the second half of the twentieth century | Recommended by Matheus Pereira, Forensic Architecture, a research group led by Eyal Weizman at Goldsmiths, leverages architecture as a framework to investigate a world in conflict, from armed violence to environmental destruction. Louis Kahn kept form, structure and history paradigmatically together. The hope? Each city is lushly, if fragmentarily described. 65 ratings — 2,743 ratings — Architecture has deep wells of research, thought, and theory that are unseen on the surface of a structure. published 1991, avg rating 4.19 — Robert Bevan guides the reader through the architectural landscape in times of and after a conflict, giving words to what we know but don't often say: that the built environment has cultural and personal significance that stretches far beyond shelter. 267 ratings — | Recommended by Nicolas Valencia, People like to keep certain distances between themselves and other people or things. 'Townscape' is the art of giving visual coherence and organization to the jumble of buildings, streets, and space that make up the urban environment | Recommended by Winnie Wu, The New York Times describes this book as “perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning." Since its publication in 2009, we've all joined BIG's hedonistic revolution, and it's shaped architecture for the better | Recommended by Katherine Allen, A scathing literary satire by Australia's most influential architect on how ugly Australian suburbs are still relevant today | Recommended by Yiling Shen, In this book, architect Jimenez Lai creates a collection of short stories on architecture and urbanism, represented through manga-style storyboards | Recommended by Romullo Baratto, In this book, somewhere between a novel and a set of essays, Marco Polo describes the cities he's visited to emperor Kublai Khan. 2 ratings — Error rating book. published 2004, avg rating 3.67 — 321 ratings — Philosophers on the art of cinema mainly remain silent about architecture. 1 rating — published, avg rating 4.36 — 1st Edition. Kate Ascher reviews the systems that manage traffic, water, heat, electricity, and much more, tying architecture not just to an image of the urban environment, but to the actual workings of the city | Recommended by Collin Abdallah, Yona Friedman takes up the work of groups such as Archigram to propose cities that propose new ways of inhabiting cities | Recommended by Monica Arellano, This book systematically and exhaustively analyzes the foundations of architectural form, space, and arrangement based on prototypes and historical examples from all periods, cultures and geographical areas | Recommended by Martita Vial, For many architects, designing for the senses often means simply designing for sight and touch. Quotations of Hundertwasser which inspire contemplation and explain his philosophy alternate with photographs of impressive Hundertwasser architecture projects. 90 ratings — Read Online Now; 77.6k. Ruskin's writing describes lamps as characteristics that any piece of architecture must have in order to be considered this real architecture - in turn, the principles he deems necessary for architecture to be considered art | Recommended by Martita Vial, This book exposes the work of one of the most famous architecture groups for the radicalization and criticism of utopias | Recommended by Monica Arellano, Based on interesting diagrams and drawings, Peter Eisenman provides evidence of how some renowned architects of the 20th century changed our way of thinking | Recommended by Fabian Dejtiar, A collection of the most important and seminal essays in the field of architecture published between 1965 and 1995 | Recommended by Romullo Baratto, Banham's response to the second industrial revolution | Recommended by Diego Hernández, This book explains the disciplines of designing anything —from a house to a coffee cup | Recommended by Dima Stouhi, After years in architecture school, you may understand how a building is put together - but how much do you actually understand the processes that make that building function in the first place? published 2005, avg rating 4.07 — published 2002, avg rating 4.23 — 64 ratings — Arguing for the indissolubility of form and function, Architectural Philosophy … Notes On Archeology Of Design / Beatriz Colomina, Arquitectura y política / Josep Maria Montaner, Zaida Muxí, The Art-Architecture Complex / Hal Foster, Cities of Hope: Australian Architecture and Design by Edmond and Corrigan / Conrad Hamann, The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change / David Harvey, Constructing a New Agenda: Architectural Theory 1993-2009 / A. Krista Sykes, Delirious New York: A retroactive manifesto for Manhattan / Rem Koolhaas, The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War / Robert Bevan, Future Practice: Conversations from the Edge of Architecture / Rory Hyde, The Good Life: A Guided Visit to the Houses of Modernity / Iñaki Ábalos, The Language of Architecture / Andrea Simitch and Val Warke, The Manual of Section / Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, and David J. Lewis, Oppositions Reader: Selected Essays 1973-1984 / Michael Hays, Pornotopia: An Essay on Playboy's Architecture and Biopolitics / Paul B. Preciado, The Structure of the Ordinary: Form and Control in the Built Environment / N.J. Habraken, Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategies in the Work of Eight Contemporary Architects / Rafael Moneo, Toward an Other Globalization: From the Single Thought to Universal Conscience / Milton Santos, Tschumi on Architecture: Conversations with Enrique Walker / Enrique Walker, Why Architecture Matters / Paul Goldberger, Building Brasilia / Marcel Gautherot and Kenneth Frampton, Cities for a Small Planet / Richard Rogers, The City of Tomorrow: Sensors, Networks, Hackers, and the Future of Urban Life / Carlo Ratti, Matthew Claudel, Cities Without Ground / Adam Frampton, Jonathan D. Solomon, Clara Wong, Collage City / Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter, The Death and Life of Great American Cities / Jane Jacobs, The Granite Garden: Urban Nature And Human Design / Anne W. Spirn, The History of the City / Leonardo Benevolo, Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space / Jan Gehl, The New Science of Cities / Michael Batty, The Urban Apparatus: Mediapolitics and the City / Reinhold Martin, Walkscapes: walking as an aesthetic practice / Francesco Careri, The Barefoot Architect / Johan van Lengen, Constructing Architecture / Andrea Deplazes, How to Study Public Life / Jan Gehl & Birgitte Svarre, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time / Jeff Speck, Catálogo Arquitectura Movimiento Moderno Perú / Alejandra Acevedo & Michelle Llona, Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life / David Sim, The Future of Architecture Since 1889: A Worldwide History / Jean-Louis Cohen, Landscapes of Modern Architecture: Wright, Mies, Neutra, Aalto, Barragán / Marc Treib, Heroínas del espacio: mujeres arquitectos en el movimiento moderno / Carmen Espegel, Living in the endless city / Ricky Burdett, The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects / Lewis Mumford, City Sense and City Design: Writings and Projects of Kevin Lynch / Kevin Lynch, Urban Street Design Guide / National Association of City Transportation Officials. 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