BEST ARCHITECTURE BOOKS
We have curated a list of essential architecture books every architect must read. The list ranges over many architectural disciplines and subjects. All books featured have been carefully selected from over 10 years of experience.
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Architect's Pocket Book (Routledge Pocket Books)
Form, Space, and Order, by Francis D.K. Ching
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School, by Matthew Frederick
A World History of Architecture, Third Edition
Detail in Contemporary Residential Architecture
A History of Architecture, by Spiro Kostof
The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs
Contemporary Japanese Architecture, by Philip Jodidio
World Architecture: The Masterworks, by Will Pryce
Delirious New York, by Rem Koolhaas
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, by Robert Venturi
Learning from Las Vegas, by Robert Venturi
Modern Architecture: A Critical History: 1 (World of Art) by Kenneth Frampton
S M L XL, by Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau
The Architecture of Change, by Jerilou Hammett and Maggie Wrigley
The Architecture of Community, by Leon Krier
The Architecture of Happiness, by Alain de Botton
The Architecture of Light, by Mary Ann Steane
The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment, by Reyner Banham
The New Old House: Historic & Modern Architecture Combined by Marc Kristal
The Urban Sketcher: Techniques for Seeing and Drawing on Location
Thinking Architecture, by Peter Zumthor
Towards a New Architects, by Le Corbusier
The Architecture Reference & Specification Book: Everything Architects Need To Know Every Day by Julia McMorrough