 | In Praise of Shadows (Vintage classics) by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £2.34 an illuminating short read into a world where bright lights and white surfaces don't dominate - historic japanese architecture. a necesary read for all western architecture students
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 | The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses by Juhani Pallasmaa
Buy new: £13.99 / Used from: £11.60 critique of the supremacy of the image - at what cost to other sensory experiences. a quick and powerful read.
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 | A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) by Christopher Alexander
Buy new: £24.69 / Used from: £25.91 a great reference for what works and what doesn't - from balconies to whole cities. a great book alongside jane jacobs
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 | Architects' Data by Ernst Neufert
Buy new: £47.19 / Used from: £44.80 far more comprehensive than baden-powell's pocket book, lots of examples, but too hefty to lug around. one for your desk.
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 | Lessons for Students in Architecture by Herman Hertzberger
Buy new: £32.95 / Used from: £53.01 an enjoyable and informative read reminding you how easy it is to build opportunities for events into your designs
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 | Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture by K Frampton
Buy new: £25.39 / Used from: £24.39 |
 | Building Skins (In Detail) (in Detail (Birkhauser))
Buy new: £41.34 / Used from: £38.00 some great projects exposed in here, including two by shigeru ban
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 | In Detail: Building Simply (In Detail) (in Detail (Birkhauser))
Buy new: £47.00 / Used from: £47.85 beautiful, elegant simplicity
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 | Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier
Buy used from: £6.99 love his work or loathe it, or a bit of both, he was a genius
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 | Between Silence and the Light: Spirit in the Architecture of Louis B.Kahn by John Lobell
Buy used from: £12.00 great introduction to the work or louis kahn
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 | Utzon: Inspiration, Vision, Architecture by Richard Weston
Buy used from: £354.62 the monograph on one of the world's greatest architects of the twentieth century
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 | Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture by Bernard Rudofsky
Buy new: £16.00 / Used from: £22.19 architecture without pretensions
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 | The Anaesthetics of Architecture by N Leach
Buy new: £18.00 / Used from: £9.00 more explorations of how imaging / flattening of our world has affected our notions of reality
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 | The Other Tradition of Modern Architecture: The Uncompleted Project by Colin St.John Wilson
Buy new: £12.97 / Used from: £8.99 great little read explaining how modernism became hijacked and the likes of aalto and eileen gray were sidelined
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 | Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises
Buy new: £35.00 / Used from: £18.63 some great small interventions, some ideas about humanitarian solutions and you're supporting AFH when you buy a copy
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 | The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan Fletcher
Buy new: £16.47 / Used from: £13.90 graphics, not architecture, but fletcher provides stimulation as to how to solve problems in a creative, alternative way
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 | Experiencing Architecture by Rasmussen
Buy new: £13.39 / Used from: £2.31 a good primer for students, makes you recognised the important of feel, smell, sound of architecture
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 | Analysing Architecture by Simon Unwin
Buy new: £28.49 / Used from: £18.00 well illustrated and interesting analysis
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 | Informal by Cecil Balmond
Buy used from: £30.00 the beautiful interaction of engineering and design
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 | Constructing Architecture: Materials, Processes, Structures; a Handbook by Andrea Deplazes
Buy new: £39.90 / Used from: £40.04 how to build, construct - the essence of architecture. very good value and thorough, a must
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 | Gion A. Caminada - Cul zuffel e l'aura dado (English edition)
Buy used from: £58.00 another model for living - shows how it doesn't have to be urban high-rise & anonymous service economy
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 | 100 Houses (Special Edition) by Gennaro Postiglione
Buy new: £14.39 / Used from: £11.33 great value and attractively laid out by Taschen, see what great architects have designed for themselves
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 | Papers 2: Sergison Bates Architects by Jonathan Sergison
Buy used from: £129.14 phenomenology and regionalism grounded in economic reality
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 | Valentin Bearth & Andreas Deplazes: Räumlinge by Akos Moravansky
you can learn a lot from these two... go to the publisher's site www.quart.ch and order spacepieces. constructs is even better, but out of print now
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