Criticism Books


Chicago Architecture and Design Best Price: $21.84 My nephew loved it. He grew up in Milwaukee, went to school and lives in California. He comes to...	The Lost Vanguard: Russian Modernist Architecture 1922-1932 Best Price: $52.05 In the West, we often forget the Modernist agenda was rapidly adopted throughout the World. ...	Architecture and Disjunction Best Price: $18.50 This book was required for our studio (third year), and I am very glad that it was. I found it...	Architectural Regionalism: Collected Writings on Place, Identity, Modernity, and Tradition Best Price: $19.99 The intent of this volume was to construct a coherent history of the idea of regionalism from...	The Look of Architecture Best Price: $3.95 This book consists of three lectures given by Professor Rybczynski at the New York Public...



Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture Best Price: $19.77 Extremely precise, Adrian Forty gives uas a very well conducted guide to a better comprehension...	Pocket Guide to Chicago Architecture Best Price: $6.00 I found this to be a very concise guide of relevant architectural landmarks for any visit to...	Modern Architecture: A Critical History (World of Art) Best Price: $38.21 This is one of those 'must have' books for anyone interested in modern architecture. Although it...	A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals Best Price: $42.50 I was very happy with the purchase, mainly because it was $50 off retail price and was free to ship.	Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture Best Price: $5.49 I am a big fan of architecture critic Witold Rybczynski. If you haven't read his books HOME, or...



Perspecta 40 "Monster": The Yale Architectural Journal (Perspecta) Best Price: $16.50 Contemporary architecture is in many ways a monstrous thing. It is bigger, more broadly defined,...	The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping / Harvard Design School Project on the City 2 Best Price: $138.87 no problems, I live in chile and i receipt my books in less than two months, maybe they could...	Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and Its Political Masquerades Best Price: $10.50 In Enduring Innocence, Keller Easterling tells the stories of outlaw "spatial...	NorCalMod: Icons of Northern California Modernism Best Price: $14.00 Surprisingly good book on SF Bay architecture and its influence on mid-century design throughout...	Verb Crisis (Verb) (Verb) Best Price: $24.79 The latest in the avant-garde Verb series, Verb Crisis explores potential architectural...

The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance Best Price: $7.99 I would have little to say other than that this work is probably the most readable that i have...	Mutations Best Price: $25.98 This ridiculous book is nothing more and nothing less than a sad example of the disdain these...	Architectural Theory: An Anthology from 1871 to 2005 (Architectural Theory) Best Price: $37.34 This second volume of the landmark Architectural Theory anthology surveys the development of...	Tall Buildings Best Price: $16.56 25 selected, half realized and half not projects are very well depicted in this survey by...	Tall Buildings Best Price: $16.56 25 selected, half realized and half not projects are very well depicted in this survey by...

10 X 10 Best Price: $25.66 this is awesome! lots of examples with some comments of each single work and all colors. I...	Salmela Architect Best Price: $21.92 This is a handsome book, well organized and full of excellent photographs and clear, readable...	The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft Best Price: $21.90 The movie screen, the TV screen, and the computer screen have become part of our everyday...	The New Architectural Pragmatism: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader (Harvard Design Magazine) Best Price: $14.17 In response to the contentious process surrounding the selection of a design for the World Trade...	Roman Imperial Architecture (The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art) Best Price: $29.00 I found this book to be an excellent, even masterly, coverage of the subject. It is bound by its...

Chicago's Urban Nature: A Guide to the City's Architecture + Landscape Best Price: $11.00 This book is a small jewel, reflecting all the riches of Chicago's fusion of architecture and...	Architect and Engineer: A Study in Sibling Rivalry Best Price: $40.95 How architects and engineers relate to one another has long been debated but never before...	Blubberland: The Dangers of Happiness Best Price: $7.44 this book is genius. materialism is what is killing us. has been for so long. she so succinctly...	Digital Ground: Architecture, Pervasive Computing, and Environmental Knowing Best Price: $10.49 The book digital ground presents new ideas about place and technology. I was particularly struck...	Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Sacred Best Price: $11.47 This book makes the case for both traditional urbanism and new urbanism by laying the solid...

Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition, Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) This book tells the story of important buildings built since a long time ago, even bridges! Lots...	Warped Space: Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture Best Price: $15.40 If one examines modernism, one is faced with a choice: either reject dialectic discourse or...	Object to Be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark Best Price: $16.22 This book is about all there is on this guy. Kudos to Pamela Lee for sticking her neck out and...	Drafting Culture: A Social History of Architectural Graphic Standards Best Price: $26.37 Architectural Graphic Standards by Charles George Ramsey and Harold Reeve Sleeper, first...	The Felix Candela Lectures Best Price: $27.98 Since 1997, the Structural Engineers Association of New York and The Museum of Modern Art,...

The International Style Best Price: $13.07 The most interesting aspect of the new edition is the recent forward by Philip Johnson (1995). ...	Radical Reconstruction Best Price: $17.99 One of the first architectural books I bought, because it was different. I didn't know who he...	From Control to Design: Parametric/Algorithmic Architecture Best Price: $39.95 Along with the new architectural freedoms offered by contemporary technologies come new...	Essay on Architecture Best Price: $97.45 This translation uses the text of the original 1753 edition. It also includes additions made by...	Essay on Architecture Best Price: $97.45 This translation uses the text of the original 1753 edition. It also includes additions made by...

Artificial Light: A Narrative Inquiry into the Nature of Abstraction, Immediacy, and Other Architectural Fictions Best Price: $12.50 Author Keith Mitnick's first glimpse of an architectural drawing came through the underside of a...	Designing Dreams: Modern Architecture in the Movies (Architecture and Film, 2) Best Price: $19.75 Modernism and commercial cinema were both born at the turn of the century and came into maturity...	Archigram: Architecture without Architecture Best Price: $20.50 Shortlisted for the 2008 Bruno Zevi Award presented by International Committee of Architectural...	Los Angeles: An Architectural Guide Best Price: $219.28 This book is a great resource for those interested in architecture in Los Angeles, but it has...	Richard Neutra: Complete Works (Architecture & Design) Best Price: $140.00 I am a strong believer that any discussion of a good archtiect must contain excellect picures...

Content Best Price: $43.56 First of all, it is very disappointed. This book is basically just hard to read. It may seem...	Herzog & de Meuron: Natural History (Herzog & de Meuron) Best Price: $31.52 H & DeM have always been influenced by art & you can even argue that their body of work...	Transparency Best Price: $28.28 This book is not out of print and is available from the publisher. It has been published in...	The Interior Dimension: A Theoretical Approach to Enclosed Space Best Price: $85.82	The Evolution of 20th Century Architecture: A Synoptic Account Best Price: $25.24 This is the genealogy of architecture in the 20th century by Kenneth Frampton - the doyen of...

Chicago's Loop (IL) (Then & Now) Best Price: $12.26 This is small format book! Simply put, this is not a then and now picture book considering that...	The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries Best Price: $27.59 There have been times when after reading an assignment from this book, my students will ask me...	The Architectural Guidebook to New York City Best Price: $8.98 I was a bit disapointed by this book. There is information on a lot of NY buildings, but the...	Architecture in Italy, 1500-1600 (The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art) Best Price: $28.87 Wolfgang Lotz's Architecture in Italy, 1500-1600 is a wonderful introduction and survey of the...	Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time (The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization) Best Price: $21.94 It is difficult to imagine an architect more genuinely American than Robert Venturi. His...

Architectural Theory: From the Renaissance to the Present (Klotz) Best Price: $10.77 I didn't find this book until the end of the semester, but it covers what we have been...	Architecture from the Outside: Essays on Virtual and Real Space (Writing Architecture) Best Price: $14.00 The most enlightening chapter is "The Future of Space: Toward an Architecture of...	Anti-Architecture and Deconstruction Best Price: $17.25 No, it is IMPERATIVE that this is read and reread by all who are associated with the built...

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