The Ten Books on Architecture
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, a Roman architect and engineer flourishing in the first century B.C., was the author of the oldest and most influential work on architecture in existence. For hundreds of year…
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Architecture: Form, Space, & Order
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Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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Modern Architecture: A Critical History
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101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
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The classic work on the evaluation of city form.
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Neufert Architects' Data, Third Edition
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In Praise of Shadows
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The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses
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Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
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Thinking Architecture
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The Poetics of Space
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
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