 | For an Architecture of Reality by Michael Benedikt
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $7.00 A short, clear-eyed response to Postmodernism, this book still has much to say about what makes architecture resonant.
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 | Ideas That Shaped Buildings by Fil Hearn
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $2.99 Gives a good overview of dominant historical theories in architecture and how they relate to the buildings of their respective eras.
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 | Questions of Perception: Phenomenology of Architecture by Steven Holl
Buy used from: $168.94 Beautifully designed, this contains several good essays about meaning and experience in architecture. Sole weakness: the authors' argument against the primacy of vision is confirmed by the painfully tiny print.
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 | Informal by Cecil Balmond
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $14.99 Check out the big brain on Cecil!
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 | Parallax by Steven Holl
Buy new: $29.70 / Used from: $24.12 This little book is crammed with interesting projects and ideas, along with many of Holl's trademark watercolors.
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 | Thinking Architecture by Peter Zumthor
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $20.86 Zumthor is a quiet titan of architecture.
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 | Strange Details (Writing Architecture) by Michael Cadwell
Buy new: $14.25 / Used from: $12.94 Engaging essays that uncover something real and important in the tectonics of four historic projects.
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 | Built upon Love: Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics by Alberto Pérez-Gómez
Buy new: $12.44 / Used from: $9.39 Dense, chewy and ambitious, this book is radical in the original sense; it explores a return to origins in architecture that lead to new understandings of the discipline.
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 | Adjusting Foundations by John Hejduk
Buy used from: $39.95 Poetically subversive work from a great thinker.
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 | Pamphlet Architecture 21: Situation Normal by Paul Lewis
Buy new: $12.78 / Used from: $8.82 Early LTL work, but still pertinent, and with those terrific renderings they used to do.
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 | Folding Architecture: Spatial, Structural And Organization Diagrams by Sophia Vyzoviti
Buy used from: $107.91 Smart little book of design strategies.
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 | Architecture Studio: Cranbrook 1986-93 by Rizzoli
Buy used from: $19.51 Cranbrook student projects that demonstrate the generative possibilities of philosophical inquiry in architecture.
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 | The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses by Juhani Pallasmaa
Buy new: $29.75 / Used from: $21.00 Eighty brilliant pages stressing a de-emphasis of visual dominance in architecture. Surprisingly, unavailable in a Braille version.
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 | A Scientific Autobiography by Aldo Rossi
Buy used from: $88.58 An exuberant and passionate recounting of a life in architecture.
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