 | In Praise of Shadows (Vintage Classics) by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Buy new: £1.85 / Used from: £1.96 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 ,Prof. Pallasmaa
Buy new: £11.25 / Used from: £11.25 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: £22.82 / Used from: £36.36 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: £42.02 / Used from: £49.77 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: £23.50 / Used from: £60.26 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: £17.27 / Used from: £16.84 |
 | Building Skins (In Detail)
Buy new: £31.77 / Used from: £41.49 some great projects exposed in here, including two by shigeru ban
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 | In Detail: Building Simply (In Detail)
Buy new: £31.58 / Used from: £31.87 beautiful, elegant simplicity
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 | Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier
Buy used from: £5.02 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: £38.09 great introduction to the work or louis kahn
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 | Utzon: Inspiration, Vision, Architecture by Richard Weston
the monograph on one of the world's greatest living architects
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 | Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture by Bernard Rudofsky
Buy new: £11.81 / Used from: £17.40 architecture without pretensions
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 | The Anaesthetics of Architecture by N Leach
Buy new: £7.01 / Used from: £6.00 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: £9.54 / Used from: £9.54 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 used from: £15.47 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: £17.47 / Used from: £5.00 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: £9.31 / Used from: £9.23 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: £19.98 / Used from: £18.00 well illustrated and interesting analysis
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 | Informal by Cecil Balmond
Buy new: £26.99 / Used from: £15.50 the beautiful interaction of engineering and design
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