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Books in Architecture School (nonfiction)
In attendance of architecture school, here are the books that the professors might recommend. Please vote the ones that are recommended by your professors!
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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4.29 avg rating — 19,379 ratings
score: 770,
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Architecture: Form, Space, & Order
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4.29 avg rating — 4,015 ratings
score: 588,
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6 people voted
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Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
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4.01 avg rating — 2,536 ratings
score: 496,
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5 people voted
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Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
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4.09 avg rating — 1,893 ratings
score: 296,
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3 people voted
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Critique of Everyday Life
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4.10 avg rating — 649 ratings
score: 291,
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The Image of the City
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4.05 avg rating — 4,139 ratings
score: 290,
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The Ten Books on Architecture
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4.04 avg rating — 2,704 ratings
score: 288,
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The City of To-morrow and Its Planning
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3.90 avg rating — 589 ratings
score: 287,
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
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4.42 avg rating — 5,352 ratings
score: 200,
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2 people voted
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Historia Critica De La Arquitectura Moderna
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4.09 avg rating — 2,108 ratings
score: 198,
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Thinking Architecture
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4.24 avg rating — 3,530 ratings
score: 198,
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The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses
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4.38 avg rating — 4,251 ratings
score: 198,
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On Adam's House in Paradise: The Idea of the Primitive Hut in Architectural History
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3.98 avg rating — 54 ratings
score: 192,
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The Timeless Way of Building
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4.37 avg rating — 2,589 ratings
score: 192,
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Cómo funciona un edificio: Principios elementales
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4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Simple Rules: What the Oldtime Builders Knew
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Shannon Taylor Scarlett (Goodreads Author)
3.36 avg rating — 22 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Archisutra
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Miguel Bolivar (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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What Time is This Place?
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3.89 avg rating — 104 ratings
score: 100,
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101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
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Matthew Frederick (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 5,679 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Solar Energy On A Shoestring Budget
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2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 100,
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Buildings Across Time: An Introduction to World Architecture
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Michael Fazio (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 111 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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Proportion: Science, Philosophy, Architecture
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4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
score: 99,
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A Theory of Good City Form
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4.08 avg rating — 302 ratings
score: 99,
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101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School
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Matthew Frederick (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 301 ratings
score: 99,
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Architecture: Presence, Language, Place
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4.19 avg rating — 99 ratings
score: 97,
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
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4.09 avg rating — 12,433 ratings
score: 97,
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Invisible Cities
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4.10 avg rating — 94,612 ratings
score: 97,
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The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses
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4.38 avg rating — 4,251 ratings
score: 96,
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Architecture As Space
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4.01 avg rating — 721 ratings
score: 95,
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Architecture Depends
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4.17 avg rating — 227 ratings
score: 93,
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House Form and Culture
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4.11 avg rating — 125 ratings
score: 91,
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Henry & The Kite Dragon
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4.29 avg rating — 220 ratings
score: 89,
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32 books ·
18 voters ·
list created November 26th, 2014
by Barbara Hahijary (votes) .
Barbara
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Celeste
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Andrea
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16 friends
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anna
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31 friends
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Jasikedevicius
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Tanish
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90 friends
Wajor
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Shannon
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11 friends
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