 | S M L XL by Rem Koolhaas
Buy new: $53.55 / Used from: $50.00 A great collection of Rem's work, with inspiring layouts and thought.
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 | Modern Architecture Since 1900 by William J R Curtis
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $27.99 Historic catalog of the great works in Modernism. (includes some good plans and details)
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 | UN Studio: Design Models - Architecture, Urbanism, Infrastructure by Ben Van Berkel
Buy new: $50.62 / Used from: $41.08 Covers most of UN studio's modern takes on design, culminating in the Mercedes building.
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 | SuperDutch : New Architecture in the Netherlands by Bart Lootsma
Buy used from: $27.45 Over-seas inspiration that has been built.
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 | Visionary Architecture: Blueprints of the Modern Imagination by Neil Spiller
Buy new: $60.00 / Used from: $33.92 Expand beyond the 'typical' or 'real' ideas of architecture. A great balance to the real world.
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 | 10 X 10 by Haig Beck
Buy used from: $14.88 Great Resource.
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 | 10 X 10 _ 2 100 Architects 10 Critics by Editors of Phaidon Press
Buy new: $52.50 / Used from: $30.01 the sequel.
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 | Calatrava: Complete Works, 1979-2007
Buy new: $94.50 / Used from: $84.38 Marvels in engineering. Pushing design material limits.
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 | Le Corbusier: Architect of the Twentieth Century by Kenneth Frampton
Buy used from: $62.50 Philosopher and architect, everyone should know and appreciate his work.
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 | Bohemian Modern LTD: Living in Silver Lake by Barbara Bestor
Buy new: $40.46 / Used from: $15.53 Creative takes on modern living. Fun.
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 | The Nature of Dwellings: The Architecture of David Hovey by Cheryl Kent
Buy new: $33.75 / Used from: $29.50 A nod to the residence.
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 | Flexible: Architecture that Responds to Change by Robert Kronenburg
Buy new: $33.75 / Used from: $26.00 Always pushing the boundries of architeture thru form.
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 | ARCHILAB 2006 (French and English Edition) by edited
Buy new: $84.50 / Used from: $68.99 Great works from Japan, a great creative resource (and fun!)
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 | Mies van der Rohe: Mies in Berlin by Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani
Buy used from: $149.67 Truly an inspired architect for his time!
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 | Frank O. Gehry: The Complete Works by Francesco Dal Co
Buy used from: $44.95 Gehry is a clutch for any library.
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 | Alvar Aalto: Through the Eyes of Shigeru Ban by Juhanni Pallasamaa
Buy new: $29.70 / Used from: $24.03 "His career overlapped both chronologically and idelogically with those of Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe, but his commitment to a humanitarian ideal, inspired by nature set him apart from his purist modernist contemporaries."
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 | Constructing Architecture: Materials, Processes, Structures
Buy used from: $45.86 Great resource!
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 | Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency by Andrea Oppenheimer Dean
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $13.95 It is always inspiring to see Mockbee's design-built works extended to and enhanced another layer of communities with creative uses of materials.
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 | Morphosis: Volume IV (Morphosis; Buildings and Projects) (Vol. 4) by Thom Mayne
Buy new: $50.62 / Used from: $29.99 Taking budgets out of the question, some amazing things can be accomplished, as Morphosis studio proves.
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 | Zaha Hadid by Gordana Fontana Giusti
Buy new: $97.45 / Used from: $28.99 Lacking in plans and elevations, still a great collection of the work.
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 | Boundaries by Maya Lin
Buy new: $19.00 / Used from: $13.51 The ever-important landscape design.
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 | Richard Meier Architect by Richard Meier
Buy new: $33.75 / Used from: $26.03 A collection of insightful essays and commentaries illuminates various formal, theoretical, and practical issues at work in Meier's ever-evolving approach to the art of architecture.
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