My 10 All-Time Favorite Architecture Books by @FrankCunhaIII plus a BONUS Book (Updated with Video & Audio Track)
Posted: December 26, 2012 Filed under: Architecture, JustArch | Tags: Architects, Architecture, architecture students, aspiring architects, Books, FC3, List, Philosophy, recommendations, suggested reading, Theory 19 Comments
Audio Version:
https://soundcloud.com/frank-cunha-iii/my-top-10-architecture-books
These are my top Architecture books to read:
(#10)
A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals
By Spiro Kostof
(#9)
Architecture and Disjunction
By Bernard Tschumi
(#8)
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
By Rem Koolhaas
(#7)
Intertwining
By Steven Holl
(#6)
Learning from Las Vegas – Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
By Robert Venturi, Steven Izenour, Denise Scott Brown
(#5)
S M L XL
Rem Koolhaas
(#4)
The Space of Encounter
By Daniel Libeskind
(#3)
Ten Books on Architecture
By Vitruvius
(#2)
Towards a New Architecture
By Le Corbusier
(#1)
A Field Guide to American Houses: The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America’s Domestic Architecture
By Virginia Savage McAlester
BONUS!
Mask of Medusa
By John Hejduk
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Sincerely,
FRANK CUNHA III
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What about ‘Form, Space, & Order’ by Francis D.K. Ching ???
AND ‘The Dictionary of Architecture’ also by Ching ???
You list should be 12 …
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Alrightyyyyy then….. We are going to need a bigger boat, I mean list!!!
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Yeah….There are LOTS more! 🙂
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Brian, This was just off the top of my head (ass I was dozing off last night). Help us compile the “Best 100 Architecture Books of All-Time” post. -Frank
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We are going to repost a larger list 🙂
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Vol. 1, ‘The Timeless Way of Building’ & Vol. 2 ‘A Pattern Language’ by Christopher Alexander.
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Thanks so much for sharing!
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Right off the top of my head, before even thinking:
Building with Frank Lloyd Wright by Herbert Jacobs and
From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe.
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Thanks for your contributions to my blog ~ Much appreciated!
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Great selection!
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Frank:
I blogged about my ten favorite books about architecture a while ago. Check out my list here: http://sworegonarchitect.blogspot.com/2012/03/toptenbooks-challenge.html
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I don’t even know if I could stop at ten… Architecture Without Architects and Streets for People by Paul Rudofsky come to mind immediately. Scully’s The Earth, The Temple and The Gods is another. BIG’s Yes is More is really cool, too, not to mention all the other “coffee table” architecture books one can own. All of David Macaulay’s illustrated books are wonderful! I think that’s about ten, already! And I’m just getting started…
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Keep going — Thanks for your contribution! 🙂
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What about any books by David Macaulay? You take your pick. In many words, they are about architecture and construction.
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Very nice! Thank you.
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[…] See on ilovemyarchitect.com […]
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Great list, Frank. Thanks for posting this and launching the discussion.
My personal goal is to write works of fiction that make lists like this.
Architecture Holds a Thousand Stories that the world wants to read, watch, and play (I’m including Gaming now with Books, Blogs, TV, and Film). We cherish these academic books – they don’t.
Let’s give the people some stories!
Collier
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I’m re-reading your post and my replay four and a half years later. 2018 may be the year I finally publish some worthy short stories of architects and architecture.
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