 | Architectural Graphic Standards, Tenth Edition (Book only) by Charles George Ramsey
Buy used from: $255.52 aw yeah, kiss your money good bye, and get this book--it's your new bible.
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 | Mastering AutoCAD 2002 (With CD-ROM) by George Omura
Buy new: $37.33 / Used from: $0.74 you thought you went to college to be an architect? HAH! Get drafting, monkey!
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 | Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture:: An Anthology of Architectural Theory 1965 - 1995
Buy new: $29.70 / Used from: $17.94 this book will keep you comany, since you won't be able to discuss theory with the office-drones that will make more money than you, and keep their jobs, while you hit the unemployment lines.
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 | Architecture Theory since 1968
Buy new: $30.36 / Used from: $25.99 get a better understanding of how to think, and how to really design--then get to design the office web page.
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 | Radical Reconstruction by Lebbeus Woods
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $27.21 an excellent book about things you'll only read about--don't bring this book to work, your boss won't understand it and be threatened by it.
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 | Gyroscopic Horizons by Neil Denari
Buy new: $29.20 / Used from: $15.00 you can DREAM about designing like this; chances are your boss will have zero vision, and he's never even HEARD of Neil Denari--who is a GOD.
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 | Lebbeus Woods: Anarchitecture Architecture Is a Political Act (Architectural Monographs, No. 22) by Academy
Buy used from: $633.36 Lebbeus is a genius, but you'll only design strip malls and single family homes (yawn)
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 | Florence: The City and Its Architecture by Richard Goy
Buy new: $47.25 / Used from: $25.10 how can you know where you're going, if you don't know where you've been? Get this book, or better yet, go live in Italy for a year or two. It will be the only good thing about your education.
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 | Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design (Compass) by Laurence G. Boldt
Buy used from: $1.11 the book you should look at when you get pink slipped for the third time in two years, and begin getting tired of earning less than all your friends, and working more hours.
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 | How to Find the Work You Love (Arkana) by Laurence G. Boldt
Buy used from: $0.01 When you've wasted so many years of your life, with so much focus and drive; even if you were an ace in school, you'll need to rethink it all when you're tired of starving, and getting the shaft.
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 | The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $7.55 an excellent book--but no one you'll work with will have read it.
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 | Design and Crime and Other Diatribes by Hal Foster
Buy used from: $5.75 another excellent book that will depress you while you commute in on the morning. Wrap it in brown paper so your co-workers won't suspect you got a better education than they did and get this stuff.
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 | Impossible Exchange by Jean Baudrillard
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $1.69 thoroughly engaging. you'll be thinking about this for months--bring it to the unemployement office to stand in line! great cause it's light, too.
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 | Visual Notes for Architects and Designers by Norman Crowe
Buy new: $43.74 / Used from: $17.00 some wonderful examples of how to make a comprehensive sketchbook. This skill will come in handy when you're drawing on the street for spare change. I love this book !
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 | Grammars of Creation by Mr. George Steiner
Buy new: $39.00 / Used from: $3.25 another great book--you'll be pushing this one around in your shopping cart when telling everyone you used to be an architect!
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