Criticism Books


Architecture Today Best Price: $21.50 this book is great, it takes you through all the big moments in architecture and explains why it...	Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture (The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art) Best Price: $25.90	Structure and Architecture, Second Edition Best Price: $37.11 This book describes the different types of structural elements in buildings (steel, wood,...	Bauhaus Culture: From Weimar To The Cold War Best Price: $18.00 The Bauhaus was the site of one of the most influential experiments in the art world, moving...	The Ethical Function of Architecture Best Price: $27.64 Harries, a professor of philosophy at Yale, has a long-standing interest in architecture....



Architecture Tours L.A. Guidebook: Downtown Best Price: $6.64 If you're planning a trip to L.A., happened to like architecture from the 1920's and 1930's and...	Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism Best Price: $20.35	Rooftop Architecture Best Price: $29.47 For Westerners, there is a distinct cachet attached to living on a rooftop. Maybe its attraction...	The Stones of Venice: Volume II. The Sea-Stories (Stones of Venice) Best Price: $31.90 No architect ignorant of "The Stones of Venice", or incapable of understanding the...	The Stones of Venice: Volume III. The Fall (Stones of Venice) Best Price: $10.97 No architect ignorant of "The Stones of Venice", or incapable of understanding the...



Venice: The City and Its Architecture Best Price: $25.46 The author has certainly accomplished what he set out to do, "The purpose of this book is...	Intertwining: Best Price: $24.20 Steven Holl has become one of great architect in our time. He already discover the way to handle...	Hagia Sophia: Architecture, Structure, and Liturgy of Justinian's Great Church Best Price: $29.16 This is one of the most thorough books about the Hagia Sophia church ever printed. However, it...	Sense of the City: An Alternate Approach to Urbanism Best Price: $37.80 Challenging the dominance of the visual in the urban environment, the exhibition catalogue ...	Creationin Space: Fundamentals of Architecture Best Price: $73.08 I'm a freak for how-to books and this one is awesome. Friedman's Creation in Space is lucid and...

AIA Guide to Boston, 2nd Best Price: $38.70 This is a good guide book for walking around Boston and trying to understand some history behind...	Architecture: From Pre-History to Postmodernism i had used this book for a survey history course on architecture. since we only learn about...	NOX: Machining Architecture Best Price: $32.00 Not much of a writer, but i've been using this book for awhile now, and it has been source of...	Constructions (Writing Architecture) Best Price: $13.41 In this series of overlapping essays on architecture and art, John Rajchman attempts to do ...	A Landscape of Events (Writing Architecture) Best Price: $10.50 In A Landscape of Events, consisting of 13 essays written between 1984 and 1996, French thinker...

306090 06: Shifting Infrastructures (306090) Best Price: $4.78 This new journal, fast becoming a staple in the architectural community, aims to revitalize,...	Perspecta 38 "Architecture After All": The Yale Architectural Journal (Perspecta) Best Price: $12.96 The profession of architecture is increasingly characterized by divergent architectural ideas...	Eero Saarinen: An Architecture of Multiplicity Best Price: $8.92 A handsome, long-overdue monograph on an architect who, between 1948 and his untimely death in...	Written into the Void: Selected Writings, 1990-2004 Best Price: $26.69 A prominent practitioner, an influential theorist, and an esteemed educator, the architect Peter...	Queer Space Best Price: $20.00 In Building Sex, architecture critic and curator Aaron Betsky looked at how traditional gender...

The Strange Death of Architectural Criticism: Martin Pawley Collected Writings Best Price: $35.00 The Strange Death of Architectural Criticism is a collection of 100 essays and articles by...	San Francisco Architecture: The Illustrated Guide to Over 600 of the Best Buildings, Parks, and Public Artworks in the Bay Area Best Price: $14.51 San Francisco is a city with a long and unique history. With this history comes a wide variety...	Carlo Scarpa--Layers Best Price: $44.80 This book does a terrific job focusing on several of Scarpa's notable projects and does so with...	The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture Best Price: $31.00 He was the most iconoclastic of architects, and at the height of his career his output of...	Santa Barbara Architecture: From Spanish Colonial To Modern (California Architecture and Architects) Best Price: $49.84 This book is fantastic, the images are first rate and the book is very thorough, I found the...

L A Lost & Found: An Architectural History of Los Angeles (California Architecture and Architects) Best Price: $23.10 L A Lost & Found was a very good resource for the "history" of how the City of...	Zoomscape: Architecture in Motion and Media Best Price: $11.98 Zoomscape is a terrific read. Unlike most architecture books the writing is very accessible. ...	Desert Style Best Price: $3.05 This book is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Perfect condition and rapid delivery. Excellent...	Ant Farm: Living Archive 7 (Living Archive) (Living Archive) (Living Archive) Best Price: $34.89 Felicity D. Scott presents a detailed and extensively illustrated reconsideration of the early...	At Home in Maine Best Price: $24.30 Beautiful houses and a lot of different styles of houses. A great gift for anyone who has lived...

Art Deco New York Best Price: $77.17 For lovers of the 1920s and 1930s this is a fabulous book. From New York's stunning architecture...	Architecture as Metaphor: Language, Number, Money (Writing Architecture) Best Price: $22.00 First, let me assure you that this outstanding text by influencial Professor Kojin Karatani is...	Living Gaudi Best Price: $34.00 Antoni Gaudi is celebrated as one of the most important architects of the early 20th century....	Observations for Young Architects In 200 pages or so and generously illustrated with photographs of his work, Cesar Pelli had...	On Tour with Renzo Piano Best Price: $18.96 This small album at only 6.5 x 6.5 inches (16.5 x 16.5 cm) contains almost exclusively photos,...

Merchant Prince and Master Builder Best Price: $138.07 Frank Lloyd Wright advised in his autobiography that "no home should ever be on a...	San Francisco Modern: Interiors, Architecture and Design Best Price: $12.30 What a great book packed with pictures. The design is very modern and unconventional (read...	Inside Outside: Between Architecture and Landscape Best Price: $40.00 Don't waste your money on this book- states the obvious in an over-inflated language that serves...	Order in Space: A Design Source Book Best Price: $17.85 This was one of the books that first showed many people the interrelationships between the...	Lucien Lagrange: Search For Elegance: The Search for Elegance: The Master Architect Series Best Price: $42.14 A monograph on the work of Lucien Lagrange.

Atlas of Shrinking Cities Best Price: $41.65 I have not looked through the book completely, or deeply, but I can very assuredly say the atlas...	Folds, Bodies & Blobs : Collected Essays (Books-by-architects) (Books-by-architects) Best Price: $46.20 Again we should be amazed at these wonderful algorithmic creatures that have continued to sprawl...	City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn Best Price: $5.71 It's interesting to read after all these years the comments made some time after the publication...	Rethinking Modernism for the Developing World: The Complete Architecture of Balkrishna Doshi	The Virtual Dimension: Architecture, Representation, and Crash Culture Best Price: $6.97 It is hard to find books on architecture and information technology which do not read like a...

Oppositions Reader: Selected Essays 1973-1984 Best Price: $49.98 a great project, a necessary book to understand the Seventeens, not only in the architecture,...	Stud: Architectures of Masculinity This excellent book offers a variety of perspectives on not only the psychology of space but...	The Edifice Complex: How the Rich and Powerful--and Their Architects--Shape the World Best Price: $3.07 It took me some time to figure out what the Edifice Complex meant. I first thought, being an...	Airspaces (Reaktion Books - Topographics) Best Price: $23.50 As mass air transport shrinks the world and requires airport complexes large enough to be...	From Agit-prop to Free Space: The Architecture of Cedric Price Best Price: $31.05 Cedric Price was one of the most visionary architects of the late twentieth century, taking a...

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