 | Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture by Kenneth Frampton
Buy new: $27.72 / Used from: $24.99 Frampton does a wonderful job explaining the work of several key architects whose tectonic explorations have expanded the field of construction.
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 | Felix Candela: Engineer, Builder, Structural Artist (Princeton University Art Museum Series) by Maria E. Moreyra Garlock
Buy new: $29.70 / Used from: $27.95 Strong survey of the life and work of Candela, whose work with thin-shell concrete and paraboloid structures remain singularly inspiring. Lots of biographical material and completed projects, as well as construction photos and reproductions of original drawings.
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 | Alice Aycock: Sculpture and Projects by Robert Hobbs
Buy new: $37.69 / Used from: $29.98 Remarkable sculptor whose work explores the tectonics and schizophrenia of constructed spaces.
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 | Constructing Architecture: Materials, Processes, Structures
Buy used from: $45.87 Both practical and occasionally poetic, this book clearly explains construction means and materials from a European perspective while outlining the metaphysical implications of different building processes.
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 | Strange Details (Writing Architecture) by Michael Cadwell
Buy new: $14.25 / Used from: $13.07 Rewarding essays that investigate the tectonic detailing of four seminal architects.
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 | Tadao Ando by Philip Jodidio
Buy used from: $89.98 I love concrete, and Ando is the master.
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 | Graphic Guide to Frame Construction: Details for Builders and Designers (For Pros by Pros) by Rob Thallon
Buy used from: $9.95 All across America, there is beauty hiding under drywall.
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 | Shigeru Ban by Matilda McQuaid
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $23.00 The structural properties of paper are pushed by this innovative architect, but he demonstrates artistry with all materials.
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 | Eladio Dieste: Innovation in Structural Art by Stanford Anderson
Buy used from: $250.00 Under-appreciated South American architect whose work with thin shell concrete and masonry is like frozen poetry.
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 | Pamphlet Architecture 17: Small Buildings by Mike Cadwell
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $4.90 Construction as inquiry; hands-on investigation of tectonics.
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 | Carlo Scarpa: Architecture and Design
Buy used from: $179.49 Mastery of detail. The joint is everything. Monolithic, subtractive, sublime.
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 | The Construction of Gothic Cathedrals: A Study of Medieval Vault Erection by John Fitchen
Buy new: $14.28 / Used from: $9.64 Lays out the basis of the radical engineering developments that define the Gothic.
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 | Structure Systems
Buy used from: $61.42 Pre-Tectonics. Organized and presented with exceptional clarity, this book provides the most accessible and coherent understanding of architectural structures that I have seen. It largely sidesteps materials and mathematics, but is in no way dumbed down. Important and necessary.
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 | The Stone Skeleton: Structural Engineering of Masonry Architecture by Jacques Heyman
Buy new: $31.49 / Used from: $38.54 Attempts to retrieve a body of knowledge about method and means of building that has been lost in modern construction. Wholly impractical in its practicality.
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 | Alvar Aalto by Richard Weston
Buy new: $30.36 / Used from: $22.35 What could I possibly say...
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 | NOX: Machining Architecture by Lars Spuybroek
Buy used from: $20.00 I don't really like NOX, but this is where it's all going.
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