 | The Ten Books on Architecture (Bks. I-X) by Vitruvius
Buy new: $9.20 / Used from: $2.86 Vitruvius - the original book on architecture
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 | On the Art of Building in Ten Books by Leon Battista Alberti
Buy new: $34.39 / Used from: $26.89 Alberti - first since roman times
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 | The Four Books of Architecture (Dover Pictorial Archives) by Andrea Palladio
Buy new: $5.39 / Used from: $3.60 Palladio - mature renaisance theory
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 | Essay on Architecture by Marc-Antoine Laugier
Buy used from: $7.52 Laugier - neo classical & important turning point. Famous for the primitive hut on the cover.
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 | Histoire de l'architecture by Auguste Choisy
Buy used from: $108.15 Choisy - beaux arts historian. Rational analysis of historical monuments
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 | Lectures on Architecture (Volume 1) by Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc
Buy used from: $49.12 Viollet Le Duc (1) - gothic structual rationalism & futuristic projects in new materials
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 | Lectures on Architecture (Volume 2) by Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc
Buy used from: $13.95 Viollet Le Duc (2)
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 | The Four Elements of Architecture: And Other Writings (Res Monographs in Anthropology and Aesthetics)
Buy used from: $199.99 Semper - defines 4 elements from anthropology in opposition to Laugier. Defines the idea of the tectonic.
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 | The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $5.00 Ruskin - Arts & Crafts and honest construction.
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 | Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $0.99 Le Corbusier - Engineer's aesthetic, futurism and formalism.
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 | Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition, Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) by Siegfried Giedion
Buy used from: $15.40 Gideon - orthodox modern movement history
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 | Experiencing Architecture, 2nd Edition by Steen Eiler Rasmussen
Buy new: $12.41 / Used from: $2.49 Rasmussen - architecture as an experience, not a concept.
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 | Theory and Design in the First Machine Age by Reyner Banham
Buy new: $30.03 / Used from: $15.89 Banham - the heroic functionalists lied. Their buildings were not functional at all.
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 | Robert Venturi: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Robert Venturi
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $6.95 Venturi - call to arms for messy vitality
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 | A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) by Christopher Alexander
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 | The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays by Colin Rowe
Buy new: $17.30 / Used from: $14.98 Rowe - points out le corbusier was basically a renaissance architect
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 | The Architecture of the City (Oppositions Books) by Aldo Rossi
Buy new: $23.75 / Used from: $16.85 Rossi - rationalism and typological transformation
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 | 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 - tectonic expression and the poetics of construction
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