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25 Books Every Architect and Architecture Lover Should Read

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Cityscapes give us a glimpse of metropolitan architecture but it’s important to recognize where it all stems from.

Thats why we have compiled 25 of our favoritebooks for architects and architecture lovers.

We also included great resource books that show how architectural drawings can truly be works of art.

A Visual Dictionary of Architecture - 25 Books Every Architect and Architecture Lover Should Read

Francis D. K. Ching| $55

If you love flipping through beautifully detailed drawings, youll loveManual of Sectionor evenA Visual Dictionary to Architecture.

Keep scrolling to find 25 great books about architecture.

The Architecture of Community - 25 Books Every Architect and Architecture Lover Should Read

Leon Krier| $56.35

The Architecture of Happiness- 25 Books Every Architect and Architecture Lover Should Read

Alain De Botton| $23.20

The Architecture of the City - 25 Books Every Architect and Architecture Lover Should Read

Aldo Rossi| $54

Black Architecture in Monochrome - 25 Books Every Architect and Architecture Lover Should Read

Stella Paul and Phaidon Press| $18.55

Cities for People - 25 Books Every Architect and Architecture Lover Should Read

Jan Gehl| $65.55

Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture - 25 Books Every Architect and Architecture Lover Should Read

Robert Venturi| $27.85

The Death an Life of Great American Cities - 25 Books Every Architect and Architecture Lover Should Read

Jane Jacobs| $17.67

Delirious New York - 25 Books Every Architect and Architecture Lover Should Read

Rem Koolhaas| $32.55

Design Like You Give a Damn - 25 Books Every Architect and Architecture Lover Should Read

Architecture for Humanity| $47.12

The Eyes of the Skin - 25 Books Every Architect and Architecture Lover Should Read

Juhani Pallasmaa| $46.95

Experiencing Architecture - 25 Books Every Architect and Architecture Lover Should Read

Steen Eiler Rasmussen| $42

The Four Books of Architecture - 25 Books Every Architect and Architecture Lover Should Read

Andrea Palladio| $46.45

Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings - 25 Books Every Architect and Architecture Lover Should Read

Marc Kushner| $20.45

In Praise of Shadows - 25 Books Every Architect and Architecture Lover Should Read

Junichiro Tanizaki| $9.25

Jutaku: Japanese Houses - 25 Books Every Architect and Architecture Lover Should Read

Naomi Pollock| $23.20

Learning from Las Vegas - 25 Books Every Architect and Architecture Lover Should Read

Robert Ventury, Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour| $27.85

Lo-TEK Design by Radical Indigenism - 25 Books Every Architect and Architecture Lover Should Read

Julia Watson| $46.50

Manual of Section - 25 Books Every Architect and Architecture Lover Should Read

Marc Tsurumaki, David J. Lewis, Paul Lewis| $27.85

A Pattern Language - 25 Books Every Architect and Architecture Lover Should Read

Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein| $63.23

The Poetics of Space - 25 Books Every Architect and Architecture Lover Should Read

Gaston Bachelard| $16.74

Vitruvious The Ten Books of Architecture - 25 Books Every Architect and Architecture Lover Should Read

Vitruvius| $11.99

Towards a New Architecture - 25 Books Every Architect and Architecture Lover Should Read

Le Corbusier| $15.76

The Works Anatomy of the City - 25 Books Every Architect and Architecture Lover Should Read

Kate Ascher| $25.11

Yes is More - 25 Books Every Architect and Architecture Lover Should Read

Bjarke Ingels Group| $27.90