My 10 All-Time Favorite Architecture Books by @FrankCunhaIII
Posted: December 26, 2012 Filed under: Architecture, JustArch | Tags: Architects, Architecture, Books, FC3, List, Philosophy, Theory 11 Comments »These are my top Architecture books to read:
A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals
By Spiro Kostof
Architecture and Disjunction
By Bernard Tschumi
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
By Rem Koolhaas
Intertwining
By Steven Holl
Learning from Las Vegas – Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
By Robert Venturi, Steven Izenour, Denise Scott Brown
Mask of Medusa
By John Hejduk
S M L XL
Rem Koolhaas
The Space of Encounter
By Daniel Libeskind
Ten Books on Architecture
By Vitruvius
Towards a New Architecture
By Le Corbusier
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What about ‘Form, Space, & Order’ by Francis D.K. Ching ???
AND ‘The Dictionary of Architecture’ also by Ching ???
You list should be 12 …
Alrightyyyyy then….. We are going to need a bigger boat, I mean list!!!
Yeah….There are LOTS more!
Brian, This was just off the top of my head (ass I was dozing off last night). Help us compile the “Best 100 Architecture Books of All-Time” post. -Frank
We are going to repost a larger list
Vol. 1, ‘The Timeless Way of Building’ & Vol. 2 ‘A Pattern Language’ by Christopher Alexander.
Thanks so much for sharing!
Right off the top of my head, before even thinking:
Building with Frank Lloyd Wright by Herbert Jacobs and
From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe.
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Great selection!
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Frank:
I blogged about my ten favorite books about architecture a while ago. Check out my list here: http://sworegonarchitect.blogspot.com/2012/03/toptenbooks-challenge.html