Criticism Books


Landmarks of Russian Architecture: A Photographic Survey (Documenting the Image Series ; Vol 5) Best Price: $51.81 It is a short but richly illustrated introduction into the history of Russian architecture....	Building Renaissance Venice: Patrons, Architects, and Builders Best Price: $49.28 This book brings to life the story of the construction of some of the most outstanding early...	Young Blood (Architectural Design) Best Price: $40.05 In Young Blood architect, teacher and critic Neil Spiller brings together the most important...	New Stage for a City: Designing the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (Building Monograph Series) Best Price: $90.52	The Domestic Architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe Best Price: $55.85 College-level architectural collections serious about their in-depth coverage will want to look...



This is Not Architecture: Media Constructions Best Price: $50.44 Terrific little book filled with short provocative pieces about architecture and it's...	The Architectural Treatise in the Italian Renaissance: Architectural Invention, Ornament and Literary Culture Best Price: $140.00 Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture was the fountainhead of architectural theory in the Italian...	Atlas of Shrinking Cities Best Price: $46.77 I have not looked through the book completely, or deeply, but I can very assuredly say the atlas...	A New Design Philosophy: An Introduction to Defuturing Best Price: $32.54 This is a very important book. People these days think that `only good news sells' and that it...	The Tao of Architecture Best Price: $4.89 As the title suggests, the premise of the book (actually an extended essay) is to discuss the...



Landmarks of Soviet Architecture	Victorian Architecture (World of Art) Best Price: $4.33	Variantology 1: On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies (Kunstwissenschaftliche Bibliothek) Best Price: $33.91 On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies--this new journal's subtitle sounds...	Some Among Them Are Killers: Unmanaged Landscapes for Non-U.S. Military and Government Users (Pamphlet Architecture, No 24) Best Price: $5.27 I am a Yosemite Indian and I read that you used the erroneous "Some of them are...	The Walkable City: From Haussmann's Boulevards to Jane Jacobs' Streets and Beyond (Urban Studies) Best Price: $17.90 The idea that a city might not be walkable would never occur to anyone who lived before 1800....

Natural Metaphor: Architectural Papers III Best Price: $27.30 Written by a cross-disciplinary core of authors from Europe, Asia and America, this anthology...	Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Conference Proceedings) Best Price: $31.56	Critical Regionalism: Architecture and Identity in a Globalized World (Architecture in Focus) Best Price: $109.95 This richly illustrated and designed book in the "Architecture in Focus" series...	Origins, Imitation, Conventions: Representation in the Visual Arts Best Price: $39.75 This collection contains studies written by art historian James Ackerman over the past decade....	Why Architects Draw I'm not an anthropologist/ethnographer or an architect, though I've been very interested in both...

Zoomscape: Architecture in Motion and Media Best Price: $11.84 Zoomscape is a terrific read. Unlike most architecture books the writing is very accessible. ...	Twentieth Century Museums I (Architecture 3s) Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Louis I. Kahn, Richard Meier Best Price: $3.12 Part of a series that places buildings within their historical context, this text considers Van...	Glenn Murcutt: A Singular Architectural Practice This basically documents the architect's work but is not a great book. The photos, although...	It's A Great Wall Best Price: $3.99 There is no other book like this one-a fascinating, meticulously researched volume that takes...	West Coast Residential: The Modern and the Contemporary Best Price: $21.13 West Coast Residential demonstrates how modernist traditions are being integrated into...

NOX: Machining Architecture Best Price: $38.29 Not much of a writer, but i've been using this book for awhile now, and it has been source of...	Labour, Work and Architecture Best Price: $21.99 An accurate title, for it is laborious work to extract the nuggets of wisdom from Frampton's...	The Beehive Metaphor : From Gaudi to Le Corbusier Best Price: $28.95 Since time immemorial, bees have been associated with all manner of virtues. The beehive has...	Cleveland Architecture, 1876-1976 Best Price: $19.95 Although conceived as a continuation of Edmund Chapman's Cleveland: Village to Metropolis,...	The Dilemma of Style: Architectural Ideas from the Picturesque to the Postmodern Crook writes one heck of an Architectural history with this book. The title is exactly what the...

Style and Time: Essays on the Politics of Appearance (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies) Best Price: $22.00 Interruption is often read as the foundational gesture of modernity - the means through which...	Morphosis/Diamond Ranch High School (Source Books in Architecture) Best Price: $4.97 "Diamond Ranch High School: Source Book in Architecture" is perhaps one of the best...	Architecture Is Elementary - Visual Thinking Through Architectural Concepts Best Price: $13.60 Students of architecture today do not know the meaning of the Modern Architecture, this...	Inchoate Best Price: $53.18 Teaching is about initiating excitement. It entails the deployment of pleasure, the build-up of...	How Architecture Got Its Hump Best Price: $5.50 I don't mean to be argumentative, but the book produces no clear argument because none can be...

Oase No. 64: Landscape And Mass Tourism Best Price: $25.00 Relevant in the way it presents tourism/Landscape relation. A nust have for architects and...	Design City Melbourne (Interior Angles) Best Price: $19.00 Design City Melbourne Leon Van Schaik Photography by John Gollings Wiley Academy, 2006 ...	Old Mexico: An Architectural Pilgrimage (Dover Books on Architecture) Best Price: $8.99 London-born architect Bossom's detailed sketches and commentary, and his wife's fine...	The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright Best Price: $33.00 then this is a great book to start... The book provides great details on Wright as well as his...	Perspecta 34 "Temporary Architecture": The Yale Architecture Journal (Perspecta) Best Price: $14.17 Founded in 1950, Perspecta is the oldest and most distinguished of the student-edited American...

Architecture Tours L.A. Guidebook: Silver Lake Best Price: $6.80 If you'd like to take any of several self-guided automobile tours of Los Angeles and nearby...	Transnational Spaces (Edition Bauhaus) Best Price: $20.07 In this era of economic globalization, multimedia communication and cross-border migration,...	Contemporary World: Architecture Best Price: $30.00 In the pages of Contemporary World Architecture, London-based writer, lecturer and architectural...	Urban Ecology Best Price: $4.72 Under the confluence of nomadic economics, technologies, and industries--commonly known as...	Buildings of Michigan (Buildings of the United States) Best Price: $15.00 In Buildings of Michigan, Kathryn Bishop Eckert provides the first study of Michigan's...

The End of Tradition? Best Price: $46.06 Rooted in real world observations, this book questions the concept of tradition - whether...	The Alhambra	Greene & Greene: The Passion and the Legacy (Greene & Greene) If you like Craftsman style homes or even Post and Beam homes this is a fabulous book. I have...	No Place Like Utopia: Modern Architecture and the Company We Kept Best Price: $21.77 Peter Blake had long been one of the defining voice in Modern Architecture. In this book, he...	Eco-Tech: Sustainable Architecture and High Technology very immportant issue indeed, but i would have thought that a more thorough text, with richer...

Commodification and Spectacle in Architecture: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader (Harvard Design Magazine) Best Price: $14.45 More than ever, architectural design is seen as a means to promote commercial goals rather than...	Gritty Brits: New London Architecture Best Price: $141.62 Gritty Brits presents the work of six emerging architectural practices--all based in London, and...	Small Apartments Best Price: $7.94 This book is not nearly good as Bartolucci's Living Large.... I think a designer and photo...	Modern Architecture Best Price: $10.00 From Louis Sullivan's first successful attempts to give steel construction its own form and...	Zaha Hadid: The Complete Buildings and Projects Best Price: $23.82 Some 20 years after she won the Hong Kong Peak Competition, Hadid is still churning out the...

Herculean Ferrara: Ercole d'Este (1471-1505) and the Invention of a Ducal Capital (Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture) Best Price: $69.18 The court of Ercole d'Este was one of the most glittering in Renaissance Italy. The duke was a...	Sprawl and Suburbia: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader (Harvard Design Magazine) Best Price: $13.96 Sprawl is the single most significant and urgent issue in American land use at the turn of the...	Design and Feminism: Re-Visioning Spaces, Places, and Everyday Things Best Price: $22.00 How well do our designed environments - the places and spaces where we live, work and play -...

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