published 1989, avg rating 4.00 — 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? 2,629 ratings — An excellent selection of authors and prevailing subjects | Recommended by Antonia Piñeiro, This book studies how architectural production is popularized and inclined to design erotic spaces based on a specific context, demonstrating how different factors of the modern culture shaped the places we inhabit | Recommended by Monica Arellano, According to Habraken, architects consider the context to be the 'ordinary' into which they are challenged to produce the 'extraordinary.' 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. published 2005, avg rating 4.07 — 321 ratings — Architectural Philosophy is the first book to outline a philosophical account of architecture and to establish the singularity of architectural practice and theory. Actually, practically nothing is going on.” Essentials. This little handbook acts as a brief introduction to philosophical ideas and how they intersect with architecture: its reception and appreciation as well as its practice. From essays to monographs, urban theory to graphic novels, each of the following either engage directly with or flirt on the edges of architecture. : Technology and the Threat of Disaster £14.99. For practitioners, citizens interested, and students alike, books on architecture offer invaluable context to the profession, be it practical, inspirational, academic, or otherwise. Refresh and try again. In this fascinating essay, he seeks to establish an intellectual armature for an anthropology of supermodernity | Recommended by Martita Vial, Gehl and Svarre draw from their combined experience of over 50 years to provide a history of public-life study as well as methods and tools necessary to recapture city life as an important planning dimension | Recommended by Eduardo Souza, In a time where the future looks darker than ever, Alex Krieger reminds us of how utopian dreams once galvanized American (city planning) history and shows that our current worries―rather than dreams―require new utopias to be imagined | Recommended by Nicolas Valencia, Making walkability happen is relatively easy and cheap; seeing exactly what needs to be done is the trick. The book is the result of extensive interdisciplinary research, as well as the author's extensive experience as a landscape architect | Recommended by Eduardo Souza, Leonardo Benevolo describes the basic history of the man-made environment in Europe | Recommended by Pedro Vada, If you are interested in urban form issues, this analysis of different cities explains the characteristics of the open system and closed spaces | Recommended by Fabian Dejtiar, The book describes essential elements that contribute to people’s enjoyment of spaces in the public realm | Recommended by Eduardo Souza, The geographer Michael Batty presents the new vision about cities as systems of network and flows | Recommended by Pedro Vada, Economist Edward Glaeser explains how and why cities shape the economy, including how the ways we develop and build we affect the future of cities' inhabitants | Recommended by Becky Quintal, In The Urban Apparatus, Reinhold Martin analyzes urbanization and the contemporary city in aesthetic, socio-economic and political-political terms | Recommended by Antonia Piñeiro, A guide to study the city based on the theories of the situationists and the drift of Guy Débord that studies the simultaneous episodes that make up the urban | Recommended by Monica Arellano, The architect proposes explanations about climatic contexts, forms, and materials that enable energy, water and sanitation solutions that help in the work, through the use of alternative eco-technologies | Recommended by Eduardo Souza, A book that features numerous solutions from Materials, Processes, Structures | Recommended by Eduardo Souza, Augé uses the concept of “supermodernity” to describe a situation of excessive information and excessive space. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. 12 ratings — 137 ratings — In compiling this list, we sought out titles from different backgrounds with the aim of revealing divergent cultural contexts. The Poetics of Space book. 8 ratings — Those enamoured by the post-digital drawing craze will enjoy seeing where the current movement partly stems from | Recommended by Katherine Allen, New York-based architects Reiser+Umemoto use short, informative chapters to explain their design process through a series topics that have driven their work | Recommended by Becky Quintal, This reading offers insight not only to one of the world's most creative practices, but into how to design for a changing climate - a message we'd all be wise to pay attention to | Recommended by Yiling Shen, Jan Gehl presents his latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. 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. published, avg rating 4.07 — by Christian Illies (Author), Nicholas Ray (Author) 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings. Hall introduced the science of proxemics to demonstrate how human's use of space can affect personal and business relations, cross-cultural interactions, architecture, city planning, and urban renewal | Recommended by Christele Harrouk, Edited by dpr-Barcelona's Ethel Baraona, Het Nieuwe Instituut's Marina Otero and FAST's Malkit Shoshan, Drone brings together researchers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds whose work seeks to understand and represent the nature and extent of drone operations | Recommended by Nicolas Valencia, The city’s development from ancient times to the modern age. 64 ratings — published, avg rating 3.30 — Without a clear counterpoint, how can architects situate concepts of innovation in architecture? Zumthor presents his philosophy through the lens of his own work and experience. 90 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. This is in parallel with the term “artobjects” in use, across aesthetics and philosophy of art, torefer to objects created by artists independent of the artform andwithout regard to o… | Recommended by Katherine Allen, This book documents the work of the architecture studio Flores & Prats, approaching its way of doing architecture through an artisan design process with different types of handmade drawings and details | Recommended by Fabian Dejtiar, An intriguing look inside the design and construction of Steven Holl's Reid Building next to the famed Glasgow School of Art. Unlike older, more conservative engineering manuals, this design guide emphasizes the core principle that urban streets have a larger role to play in communities | Recommended by Eduardo Souza. published 2004, avg rating 3.67 — In this essential new book, Speck reveals the invisible workings of the city, how simple decisions have cascading effects, and how we can all make the right choices for our communities | Recommended by Eduardo Souza, A must-read comprehensive catalog to understand the legacy of the most relevant architecture movement from the XX century in Peru | Recommended by Nicolas Valencia, Soft City is about ease and comfort, where density has a human dimension, adapting to our ever-changing needs, nurturing relationships, and accommodating the pleasures of everyday life | Recommended by Paula Pintos, Beginning with the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889, Cohen compiles developments that have shaped the world in which we live today. published 2002, avg rating 3.96 — 134 ratings — 267 ratings — Philosophy and Design: From Engineering to Architecture is a significant contribution to the expanding field of design studies. Arguing for the indissolubility of form and function, Architectural Philosophy … To be outside allows one a fresh perspective on the inside. 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. 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. It's an invaluable insight into how one of the most exciting contemporary firms works, thinks, and plans for the future | Recommended by Kaley Overstreet, If non-architects know any practicing architect today, it's probably Bjarke Ingels. This is one of the best philosophy books in the history of medical practice, and forms the foundation of our current understanding of human health and disease. Showing 52 Items Novel Houses: Twenty Famous Fictional Dwellings £25.00. published 1960, avg rating 4.45 — published, avg rating 5.00 — Texts by Rodolphe El-Khoury, Andrew Payne (Hardcover), Architecture and Participation (Paperback), Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined (Hardcover), The Architecture of the Visible: Technology and Urban Visual Culture (Paperback), You Have to Pay for the Public Life: Selected Essays of Charles W. Moore (Paperback), Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents (Paperback), 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School (Hardcover), Heterotopia and the City: Public Space in a Postcivil Society (Hardcover). 6 ratings — In Zevi's capable hands the components of architecture come alive, offering an illuminating and provocative perspective on the field of architecture | Recommended by Martita Vial. What are their favorite foods? This book details some of their work with activist groups, NGOs, and the UN | Recommended by Katherine Allen, Junya Ishigami is known for a singular portfolio, one in which structures blur into near invisibility, taking on the appearance of forests, strands of ribbon, and even the sky | Recommended by Shuang Han, This work by Frank Lloyd Wright brings together a large part of the writings and conferences that, over an intense decade of its prolonged existence, offered to the eagerness of qualified audiences, collaborators and students. published 2000, avg rating 4.03 — An essential read for architects young and old | Recommended by Niall Patrick Walsh, The city is an extension of nature and the urban projects must be in tune with this same nature. Philosophers on the art of cinema mainly remain silent about architecture. Architecture, under their idiosyncratic gaze, is lively, ironic, and even a bit awkward. Philosophy of Architecture. Read 415 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. R. Venturi first lead attention of architects to pop-art. 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. Each city is lushly, if fragmentarily described. published 2002, avg rating 3.33 — published 1957, avg rating 0.0 — Search the world's most comprehensive index of full-text books. | 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. Order the book. 65 ratings — Plastic Emotions £9.99. By John Lobell Publisher: The Monacelli Press Published: June 2020. published 2016, avg rating 3.44 — Architectural Philosophy is the first book to outline a philosophical account of architecture and to establish the singularity of architectural practice and theory. published 1978, avg rating 4.17 — The hope? 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. published 2011, avg rating 4.50 — | Recommended by Nicolas Valencia, People like to keep certain distances between themselves and other people or things. published, avg rating 3.93 — 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. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. In her canny eyes, the city was not something abstract or academic, but something that was living, tangible - kickable. We notice how a wall touches the ground, how a railing curves underneath our hand - but how do you design these things? fashionable architects, for example; have no relation with either construction or its history. I particularly appreciate the detailed analysis of materials, details, and structure.” —David G. De Long, University of Pennsylvania They are all available on his still (thankfully) open blog. 1st Edition. Error rating book. Noted Louis I.Kahn expert John Lobell explores how Kahn’s focus on structure, respect for materials, clarity of program, and reverence for details come together to manifest an overall philosophy. Winner of the National Book Award | Recommended by Christele Harrouk, An invaluable sourcebook of design knowledge, City Sense and City Design completes the record of one of the foremost environmental design theorists of our time and leads to a deeper understanding of his distinctively humanistic philosophy | Recommended by Christele Harrouk, This book shows how streets of every size can be reimagined and reoriented to prioritize safe driving and transit, biking, walking, and public activity. This book gives a comprehensive overview of designing for sound, from detailed drawings to texts on the subject. But never fear! 1 rating — The active and systematic erasure of an urban landscape is the strategic and leveling of identity, culture, and people | Recommended by Katherine Allen, Beatriz Colomina studies the phenomenon of postwar architecture as well as the factors that helped to build the idea of modern architecture based on the work of Charles and Ray Eames | Recommended by Monica Arellano, Seventeen conversations with practitioners from the fields of architecture, policy, activism, design, education, and research speculating on the future direction of the architectural profession | Recommended by Niall Patrick Walsh, It is a critical tour about concepts for living in seven iconic twentieth-century homes | Recommended by Pedro Vada, This book provides students and professional architects with the basic elements of architectural design, divided into twenty-six easy-to-comprehend chapters | Recommended by Winnie Wu, A selection of articles that address the notion of the ordinary in architecture over the last 40 years | Recommended by Nicolas Valencia, The section is the greatest and most legible tool of architecture - who among us did not grow up entranced by the cut sections of buildings such as the Pantheon or Kowloon Walled City? published 1971, avg rating 3.58 — published 1962, avg rating 3.77 — Publisher: Edition Axel Menges, 2006. All images are © each office/photographer mentioned. 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 Hotel Years: Wanderings in Europe between the Wars £9.99. 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. Through illustrations, drawings, and photographs, the book presents the evolution of the early twenty-first century's globalized architectural culture | Recommended by Romullo Baratto, An authoritative study of the interrelationship between modern architecture, landscape, and site strategy as viewed through the work of the five prominent architects | Recommended by Paula Pintos, A monograph compilation of forerunner women architects that should be recognized for their contribution to the modernism movement in the XX century | Recommended by Nicolas Valencia, The cities of Mumbai, Sao Paulo and Istanbul were added to the six cities of the first volume with the same mix of compelling photographs, in-depth and beautifully presented data, and smart writing by global thinkers. Quotations of Hundertwasser which inspire contemplation and explain his philosophy alternate with photographs of impressive Hundertwasser architecture projects.

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