Criticism Books


Re-Reading Perspecta: The First Fifty Years of the Yale Architectural Journal Best Price: $39.90 Winner in the book category of the AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers of 2004 competition presented by the...	Negrophobia: An Urban Parable Best Price: $7.95 Basically, this book an ultra-pretentious, masturbatory, ego-driven, literary freakout of...	The Modern Functional Building (1926) (Texts and Documents Series) Best Price: $14.95 Adolf Behne (1885-1948) was one of the most incisive and eloquent theorists of modernism. His...	Scenes of The World To Come Best Price: $10.40	The Anatomy of Architecture: Ontology and Metaphor in Batammaliba Architectural Expression Best Price: $26.00 This by far the best research I have read on the subject of architecture. Suzanne Blier takes a...



Modernism in Art, Design and Architecture Best Price: $34.95 This book provides a clearly understandable explanation of the complex ideas that have impacted...	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...	The Universitas Project Best Price: $10.13 In January of 1972, The Museum of Modern Art hosted "The Universitas Project," a...	Josep Lluís Sert: Architect in New York Best Price: $7.98 This exhibition catalogue sets out to examine a particualr period in the professional and...	Sources of Architectural Form: A Critical History of Western Design Theory Best Price: $29.69 This is a great book for architecture and design theory. Pretty easy read with good...



Between Silence and Light If you are inerested in late modern architecture and the thoughts "behind the men", it...	Paris on the Potomac: The French Influence on the Architecture and Art of Washington, D.C. (Perspective On Art & Architect) Best Price: $34.97 In 1910 John Merven Carrère, a Paris-trained American architect, wrote, ?Learning from...	Konstantin S. Mel'nikov and the Construction of Moscow Best Price: $39.67 Konstantin Stepanovic Mel'nikov, in his numerous buildings and projects, demonstrated a rare...	New Landscapes, New Territories Best Price: $25.98 This work takes a fresh look at the relationship between architecture and landscape. In today's...	Perfect Acts Of Architecture Best Price: $29.97 This is a great book, awesome spine and cover design, and the typeset plays really well with the...

Civitas: The Harvard Architecture Review Best Price: $8.97 What constitutes a city? How does human settlement in a specific site create a civilization? ...	Oppositions Reader: Selected Readings from a Journal for Ideas and Criticism in Architecture 1973-1984 Best Price: $68.20 a great project, a necessary book to understand the Seventeens, not only in the architecture,...	The Municipal Art Society of New York City 10 Architectural Walks in Manhattan Best Price: $29.95	Pocket Guide to Los Angeles Architecture Best Price: $19.77	Chicago's North Michigan Avenue: Planning and Development, 1900-1930 (Chicago Architecture and Urbanism) Best Price: $64.89 John W. Stamper is a man's man. He hit the spot with this book, this masterpiece of...

Scotland's Traditional Houses: Country, Town and Coastal Homes (Discovering Historic Scotland Series) Best Price: $24.00	The First House: Myth, Paradigm, and the Task of Architecture Vitruvius' myth of origins is here made relevant to the theoretician and architect today. Not...	Quaderns 218:Mobility (Quaderns , No 218) Best Price: $70.00	Building in France, Building in Iron, Building in Ferroconcrete (Texts & Documents) Best Price: $24.94 With this text--published here for the first time in English--Sigfried Giedion positioned...	Malaparte: A House Like Me Best Price: $90.00 If you go Napoli's gulf you should visit Capri. Don't make the mistake i made by following herds...

AT-INdex: Winka Dubbeldam Best Price: $16.00 European emigrés have been changing the face of modern American architecture for decades....	Manuelle Gautrand Architecture Best Price: $42.25 Manuelle Gautrand (*1961) betreibt seit 1991 ein eigenes Architekturbüro in Paris. Sie...	Le Corbusier: Inside the Machine for Living Best Price: $30.25 The ideas of Le Corbusier on modern furnishings, modern houses, and modern cities are still,...	Buildings and Landmarks of Old Boston: A Guide to the Colonial, Provincial, Federal, and Greek Revival Periods, 1630-1850 Best Price: $4.30 A charming and indispensable guide to the major buildings in Boston built from 1630 to 1850.	Ethics and the Built Environment (Professional Ethics) Best Price: $39.54 Ethics and the Built Environment offers a debate on the ethical dimension of building in all...

Bauhaus Culture: From Weimar To The Cold War Best Price: $13.00 The Bauhaus was the site of one of the most influential experiments in the art world, moving...	Carlo Scarpa--Layers Best Price: $44.73 This book does a terrific job focusing on several of Scarpa's notable projects and does so with...	Greene & Greene: Architecture as a Fine Art/Furniture and Related Designs (Greene & Greene) Best Price: $319.75 Bought this book from Half Price Computer Books on 4 March 2006 and I'm still waiting to...	Hans Ulrich Obrist & Nancy Spero: The Conversation Series Best Price: $13.53 For more than half a century, the influential American artist and activist Nancy Spero has been...	Visionaire 36: Power: Limited Edition For their latest issue, Power,Visionaire has teamed up with the renowned cosmetic house Shiseido...

Architecture: Presence, Language, Place (Skira Library of Architecture) Best Price: $18.35	The Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture Best Price: $33.95 we came to expect from Joseph Rykwert works of great erudition, which incessantly delve into...	Carl Laubin: Painting Best Price: $52.29 The complete works of distinguished artist and architectural illustrator Carl Laubin are brought...	Writing Urbanism (A.C.S.A. Architectural Education) Best Price: $38.99 Urban design continues to grow as an increasingly important and expanding field of study,...	The Victory of the New Building Style (Texts & Documents) Best Price: $19.59 The architect and theorist Walter Behrendt was involved with public housing and urban...

Edifices de Rome Moderne (Reprint Series) it is stellar book. However, this reprinted version reduces quality of original version. In the...	Richard Meier Architect, Vol. 3 (1992-1998) (Vol 3) Best Price: $49.97 Will decrease a many help to you. But it is inconvenient for the photograph to be insufficient.	The Green Braid (ACSA Architectural Education Series) Best Price: $40.14 THE GREEN BRAID: TOWARDS AN ARCHITECTURE OF ECOLOGY, ECONOMY AND EQUITY is a pick for any...	Twentieth Century Museums II (Architecture 3s) Best Price: $7.26 The previous reviewer seems to have written the right review for the wrong book... This is NOT a...	Praxis: Journal of Writing and Building, Issue 0 PRAXIS is a new type of architectural journal which addresses both the architectural writer and...

Chicago's Famous Buildings Best Price: $8.77 This trade-sized paperback published by the University of Chicago provides concise facts and...	Summerson & Hitchcock: Centenary Essays on Architectural Historiography (Studies in British Art) Best Price: $59.95 In this volume, twenty international scholars explore the work of two of the twentieth century?s...	A Living Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Architects Best Price: $21.25 "Three hundred full-color illustrations and elucidating text showcase the work of the...	Venice & the East: The Impact of the Islamic World on Venetian Architecture 1100-1500 Best Price: $60.00 Venice is nothing like the rest of Italy ... everyone can see this ... instead of looking below...	Architourism: Authentic, Escapist, Exotic, Spectacular Best Price: $17.21 This cutting-edge book looks at why the world's most interesting buildings are becoming the...

Places of the Soul: Architecture and Environmental Design as a Healing Art Best Price: $7.00 Are you looking for a book that recognizes the need for designing buildings to meet lofty...	Joel Sanders Best Price: $5.87 Architect Joel Sanders is committed to exploring the role of architecture in the formation of...	Temporary Buildings: The Trade Fair Stand As a Conceptual Challenge Best Price: $19.71 smooth transaction, exact product, nice&easy supplier	Solar Energy in Architecture and Urban Planning = Solarenergie in Architektur Und Stadtplanung= Energia Solare in Archittura E Pianificazione Urbana: Edited ... Kaiser, Michael Volz (Architecture & Design) Best Price: $125.00	Architecture in the Netherlands: Yearbook 2005-2006 (Architecture in the Netherlands Yearbook) Best Price: $50.81 This year's Architecture in the Netherlands has a new editorial team, and their desks have been...

Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge: East Cambridge Winner of the Antoinette Forrester Downing Award sponsored by the Society of Architectural...	Neil Spiller: Lost Architectures (Architectural Monographs No 53) Best Price: $6.99 I found this book to be entirely contrary to the review which precedes mine, one stating that...	Skyline: The Narcissistic City (Cultural Memory in the Present) Best Price: $2.49 One of today?s foremost art historians and critics presents a strikingly original view of...	32 Beijing New York: Issue 1 Best Price: $4.80 The journal has only 32 pages but makes up for it with beautiful design. Each large format page...	Architecture and the Sciences: Exchanging Metaphors Best Price: $6.93 Since antiquity, the sciences have served as a source of images and metaphors for architecture...

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