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Architecture: Form, Space, & Order
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Neufert Architects' Data, Third Edition
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A Visual Dictionary of Architecture
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The Architecture of the City (Oppositions Books)
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The Poetics of Space
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The Image of the City
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
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In Praise of Shadows
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The Four Books of Architecture
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The Hidden Dimension
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The Ten Books on Architecture
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Architecture: Presence, Language, Place
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Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
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101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
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Matthew Frederick (Goodreads Author)
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Architectural Graphics
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Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
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Architecture As Space
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Wastu Citra
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Atmospheres: Architectural Environments. Surrounding Objects
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4.42 avg rating — 2,503 ratings
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Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience
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The Timeless Way of Building
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From Bauhaus to Our House
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The Seven Lamps of Architecture
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The Fountainhead
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The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses
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A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals
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Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition
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Thinking Architecture
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Modern Architecture Since 1900
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
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A Global History of Architecture
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4.25 avg rating — 395 ratings
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The Classical Language of Architecture
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4.02 avg rating — 629 ratings
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Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
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3.91 avg rating — 27,968 ratings
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Arsitektur yang Membodohkan
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Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail
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Drawing: A Creative Process
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4.15 avg rating — 201 ratings
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Houses Made of Wood and Light: The Life and Architecture of Hank Schubart
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Michele Dunkerley (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Analysing Architecture
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Simon Unwin (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 569 ratings
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My Passion for Design
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Louis Kahn: Conversations with Students (Architecture at Rice, 26)
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Poetry, Language, Thought
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
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Design Drawing
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Cities for People
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50 Buildings You Should Know (50 You Should Know)
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Simple Rules: What the Oldtime Builders Knew
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Shannon Taylor Scarlett (Goodreads Author)
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An Outline of European Architecture
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Against Architecture
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Traditional Construction Patterns: Design and Detail Rules-of-Thumb
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Stephen A. Mouzon (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability
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David Owen (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 1,569 ratings
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The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture: Dissertation 1963, Facsimile
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Space in Architecture: The Evolution of a New Idea in the Theory and History of Modern Movements
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Interior Design Illustrated
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Experiencing Architecture
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50 Bauhaus Icons You Should Know (50...you Should Know)
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Architecture and Disjunction
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Room 606: The Sas House and the Work of Arne Jacobsen
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Film Architecture: From Metropolis to Blade Runner
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Dietrich Neumann (Editor)
3.82 avg rating — 50 ratings
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China's New Dawn: An Architectural Transformation
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S, M, L, XL
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The Architecture of Happiness
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Alain de Botton (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 14,305 ratings
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1001 Traditional Construction Details
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Stephen A. Mouzon (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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New London Architecture
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The Slate Roof Bible: Understanding, Installing, and Restoring the World's Finest Roof
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Moment of Grace: The American City in the 1950s
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Case Study Houses
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Green Illusions
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Ozzie Zehner (Goodreads Author)
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Towards a New Architecture
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Structure and Architecture
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Concepts of Space in Traditional Indian Architecture
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Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture
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Charles Jencks (Editor)
3.84 avg rating — 63 ratings
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The Submission
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Amy Waldman (Goodreads Author)
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The Inner Harmony of the Japanese House
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Women of Steel and Stone: 22 Inspirational Architects, Engineers, and Landscape Designers (6) (Women of Action)
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Anna M. Lewis (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Invisible Cities
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The LEGO Architect
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Tom Alphin (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 379 ratings
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Monticello in Measured Drawings
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The Continuing City: Urban Morphology in Western Civilization
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The Smart Growth Manual
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The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History
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Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography
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Art & Architecture Florence
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Elements of Spacemaking
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The Aesthetics of Architecture
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KM3-EXCURSIONS ON CAPACITIES
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The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History
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How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
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Heinrich Tessenow, 1876-1950: Opera completa
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Florence: A Walking Guide to Its Architecture
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Refer la memòria: Dietaris complets
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The Oregon Experiment (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
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Architecture for the Poor: An Experiment in Rural Egypt
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Paralaks Oda 3407
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10 clefs pour s'ouvrir à l'architecture
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The Archisutra
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Life at the Dakota: New York's Most Unusual Address
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Madrid And The Prado: Art and Architecture
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The Singular Objects of Architecture
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I would have included 101 Things I learned in Architecture School. A small book that punches above it's weight.
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