Architecture Books

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The Architecture of Health: Hospital Design and the Construction of Dignity

The Architecture of Health: Hospital Design and the Construction of Dignity

Book cover featuring a light grey to white gradient background, paper model of the famous "FALLINGWATER" home, in the center. At the bottom of the cover, there are three smaller images of architectural accomplishments of Frank Lloyd Wright as paper models.

Frank Lloyd Wright Paper Models: 14 Kirigami Buildings to Cut and Fold

A rectangular book cover, taupe with a full-length strip of dark green, textured binding on the left, and a sepia toned photograph showing the curvy iron art nouveau railings, entranceway and signage for a Paris Metro station against a pale image of a multi-story apartment building in the background. The book’s title appears to the left of one of the sign supports in four lines of white text.

Hector Guimard: Art Nouveau to Modernism

Book cover featuring an all-white paper model of the modernist home Villa Savoye, designed by famed architect Le Crobusier. the model display sits in a dark grey to light grey gradient background. The title is centered at the top of the book cover, using a cut-out font with yellow edging.

Le Corbusier Paper Models

Book cover showing gold and silver metalwork of a classical figure with art deco ornamentation. Title vertically rotated in sans serf font in navy blue field to the left

The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s - Hardcover

Fifth Avenue: From Washington Square to Marcus Garvey Park

Fifth Avenue: From Washington Square to Marcus Garvey Park

Cover of Black Landscapes Matter featuring a mostly black cover with a small section at the bottom of the cover that features a landscape drawing of an urban environment. 6 people are placed into the drawing, which includes a bike path, some trees, and street signage.

Black Landscapes Matter

Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan

Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan

A hardcover book with swiss binding. The cover depicts a photo of two bridges made of tree roots, one hanging above the other. Six people carrying various supplies walk in opposite directions across the bridges and are surrounded by foliage from the nearby forest. The title of the book is featured in large white text at the top left corner of the book.

Julia Watson: Lo—TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism

A black and white photograph of a light-skinned woman seated in a chair. The woman wears thick black round-framed glasses and a black long sleeve dress. She has a sly smile on her face and is posed in a direction that looks slightly passed the viewer. A navy trim covers the spine of the book.

Essays on Jane Jacobs

Off-white book cover featuring a black and white illustration of a parade of people wearing tunics and wreath crowns, carrying castle models. Title text in light green and light blue above.

The Architectural Model: Histories of the Miniature and the Prototype, the Exemplar and the Muse

Book cover featuring a blue and black wrap-around image reminiscent of a stage curtain; large white title text at top.

White book cover with photograph of an architectural interior with stone and wooden banisters and disc shaped hanging light fixture. Title above in black sans serif letters

Basic Architecture: Adolf Loos

A Guide to Smithsonian Architecture, 2nd Edition

A Guide to Smithsonian Architecture, 2nd Edition

Square book cover with image of a landscape design featuring a glossy red curving architectural element. Title in retro yellow font overlaid in the center

Futurescapes: Designers for Tomorrow's Outdoor Spaces

White book cover with black and white photograph of mansion with rectilinear volumes and geometric ornamentation. Title in black sans serif letters above

Basic Architecture: Hoffmann

Book cover in a gradient of blues; large text "BLUE" at the top, subtitle text in all caps below.

Blue: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions

Book cover has a solid white background layered with a red 'X' which reaches nearly each corner of the book. The title begins at the top of the book, running cross one side of the 'X' to the other; the title continues at the bottom, the text slightly larger than the text at the top, again, running across one side of the 'X' to the other. Both texts in black font. on the left and right side of the 'X', are small/fine texts in black as well, featuring the title of the book series and the authors namez.

Unmanned: Drone

White book cover with black and white photograph of a modernist building and lawn with lawn chairs and pool in front of a mountain range. Title in black sans serif letters at top

Basic Architecture: Neutra

Book cover with layered strips of wallpaper in a gradient from yellow to red in a variety of patterns

Wolf-Gordon: Sample Book; 50 Years of Interior Finishes

Book cover with dense curvilinear maze like pattern punctuated by the title in black sans serif font

Joris Laarman Lab

Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern: Architecture and the Black American Middle Class

Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern: Architecture and the Black American Middle Class

The cover of Big: Hot to Cold, published by Taschen. The book features a fiery red center with the two corners of the book glaring out to blue mimicking a thermochromic surface.

BIG: HOT TO COLD

David Adjaye Works

David Adjaye: Constructed Narratives

David Adjaye: Constructed Narratives

Bright blue book cover with title in white letters at top in serif and sans serif fonts

Book cover with diagonally divided fields of mint and a light wood pattern. Title in black and white letters overlaid in center

Snøhetta: People, Process, Projects

Light gray book cover with iridescent foil stamped title in upper right with simple sketches of figures standing around a chart filled with letters and numbers

An Unfinished Encyclopedia of Scale Figures without Architecture

Book cover with photograph of a distinctive white building peaking into frame in the lower right against a blue sky. Title in yello miami art deco font in the center

Four Florida Moderns: The Architecture of Alberto Alfonso, René González, Chad Oppenheim, and Guy Peterson

Book cover with photograph of a landscape with deep green grass angular hills and steel bridges. Title overlaid in white sans serif letters

Unearthed: The Landscapes of Hargreaves Associates