Criticism Books


L'Architecture (Reprint Series) Best Price: $43.37 Few architects have had a vision of architecture as provocative as that of Claude-Nicolas...	The New Downtown Library: Designing with Communities Best Price: $31.75 The past twenty years have seen a building boom for downtown public libraries. From Brooklyn to...	The Old Way of Seeing: How Architecture Lost Its Magic - And How to Get It Back Best Price: $84.54 The first several pages of this book were good, and showed comparisons of old and new...	Buildings and Landmarks of Old Boston: A Guide to the Colonial, Provincial, Federal, and Greek Revival Periods, 1630-1850 Best Price: $6.18 This is a book for Boston visitors interested in the architecture and character of the...	Le Corbusier Talks with Students Best Price: $8.66 First published in France in 1943 and translated for English-speaking readers in 1961, Le...



Giuseppe Terragni: Transformations, Decompositions, Critiques Best Price: $44.00 Over the years (decades actually), Peter Eisenman's "Terragni" took on something of...	Eccentric Spaces Best Price: $15.74 I've read this book three times. After the first two readings, I still had no clue what the book...	Viva Las Vegas: After-Hours Architecture Best Price: $50.00 I've read other Alan Hess books- Googie come to mind. I really enjoyed Hess's style for this...	In What Style Should We Build?: The German Debate on Architectural Style (Texts & Documents) Best Price: $10.49 That's a very usefull selection of essays on theory of architecture for research the...	In The Scheme Of Things: Alternative Thinking on the Practice of Architecture Best Price: $11.42 This book is essential reading for anyone who cares about the future of architectural education...



Differences: Topographies of Contemporary Architecture (Writing Architecture) Best Price: $15.95 The mediocrity of thought culled in these essays is equal to the quality of the translation. De...	Europan 9 (Europan) Best Price: $29.26 This year's Europan architecture competition focuses on the sustainable city and new public...	Architecture and Meaning on the Athenian Acropolis Best Price: $15.01 Not only is Professor Rhodes's book far from boring, but rare in that it allows easy access to a...	Joel Sanders Best Price: $5.87 Architect Joel Sanders is committed to exploring the role of architecture in the formation of...	The Snow Show Best Price: $8.33 Every once in a while, a monumental art event takes place that makes us rethink what can be done...

Surface Consciousness (Architectural Design) Best Price: $4.67 "Surface" is the current buzz-word in contemporary architecture and is the main focus...	Rafael Moneo: The Freedom of the Architect: The Raoul Wallenberg Lecture Best Price: $7.40 In The Freedom of the Architect, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Rafael Moneo speaks on form,...	Campsite: Architectures of Duration and Place Best Price: $25.00 Camping is perhaps the quintessential American activity. In one sense, we camp to escape, to...	Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture (The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art) Best Price: $25.90	Featherweights: Light, Mobile and Floating Architecture (Architecture in Focus) Best Price: $28.30 From Bruno Taut's glass house to the Crystal Palace, geodesic domes to the Millennium Dome,...

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...	Patkau Architects Best Price: $36.41 I have met her through my school days in MA. As a guest critic, she was a great mentor and great...	Whitman Insider Guide Smart Coin Collecting (Whitman Guidebook) Best Price: $3.24	Rooftop Architecture Best Price: $29.47 For Westerners, there is a distinct cachet attached to living on a rooftop. Maybe its attraction...	Airspaces (Reaktion Books - Topographics) Best Price: $23.50 As mass air transport shrinks the world and requires airport complexes large enough to be...

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...	Documentary Now: Contemporary Strategies in Photography, Film and the Visual Arts (Reflect) Best Price: $26.60 From nineteenth-century double-exposures that allegedly captured ghosts to painted, airbrushed...	Venice: The City and Its Architecture Best Price: $26.37 The author has certainly accomplished what he set out to do, "The purpose of this book is...	Sense of the City: An Alternate Approach to Urbanism Best Price: $43.80 Challenging the dominance of the visual in the urban environment, the exhibition catalogue ...	Gnostic Architect Best Price: $5.78 ....about the creator, the work and the ambitious nature of all three intertwined together.

Russian Architecture and the West Best Price: $49.84 This is the first book to show the development of Russian architecture over the past thousand...	Pandemonium: The Rise of Predatory Locales in the Postwar World (Architecture at Rice) Best Price: $18.21 In our global society, information processing transpires so quickly that it is essentially...	Architecture: From Pre-History to Postmodernism i had used this book for a survey history course on architecture. since we only learn about...	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...	Sociopolis: Project for a City of the Future Best Price: $29.48 These designs for a "low speed," "rurban," neighborhood in Valencia, Spain,...

Modern Architecture: Romanticism and Reintegration Best Price: $12.98	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...	Spirit and Place Best Price: $35.30 Built environment surrounds us for 90% of our lives but only now are we realising its influence...

MVRDV: Costa Iberica Upbeat To The Leisure City Best Price: $23.09 A disappointing buy. Pretty much the same presentation, approach & set of ideas as...	On Architecture (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought) Best Price: $23.50 Essays on Architecture & Design	ItalianBaroque and Rococo Architecture Best Price: $51.00 From the late 1500s to the mid-1700s, Italy gave the world some of the liveliest and most...	Peter Gisolfi Associates: Finding the Place of Architecture in the Landscape (The Master Architect) Best Price: $35.98 Gisolfi has successfully produced a volume which is so much more than documentation of grand...	Chicago Architecture and Design 1923-1993: Reconfiguration of an American Metropolis (Chicago Architecture) This major volume on Chicago's urban history is the first to document the architectural...

New Orleans Architecture: Faubourg Treme and the Bayou Road : North Rampart Street to North Broad Street Canal Street to St. Benard Avenue (New Orleans Architecture) Best Price: $24.99 This wonderful book is the second in the now-classic survey of historic New Orleans...	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: $14.99 San Francisco is a city with a long and unique history. With this history comes a wide variety...	?lamos, Sonora: Architecture and Urbanism in the Dry Tropics (Southwest Center Series) Best Price: $31.69 The town of ?lamos in the state of Sonora, Mexico, a one-day drive from the Arizona border, is...	The Tao of Architecture Best Price: $4.93 As the title suggests, the premise of the book (actually an extended essay) is to discuss the...

AT-INdex: Winka Dubbeldam Best Price: $15.85 European emigr s have been changing the face of modern American architecture for decades. Winka...	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...	New York 1930: Architecture Between the Two World Wars Best Price: $129.99 This is the New York people fall in love with, the iconic Art Deco skyline, the great...	The Buildings of Byzantium Text and illustrations describe the characteristics of churches, palaces, basilicas, hospitals,...	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...

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...	Public Spaces - Prototypes Best Price: $4.97

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