Architecture Books

Selection of publications on architecture history, interior design, urban planning, landscape design, and more.

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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

A black book cover featuring a graphic illustration in white of two figures bending toward each other to clasp hands, encircling golden-yellow title text: Art Nouveau

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

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

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 a partial view of a well lit interior to a modern glass house, located on the edge of a cliff, overlooking the night sky and lights of a city in the distance.

Architecture in the 20th Century

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

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

3 vertical stripes make up the background for the cover of In Search of African American Space. The stripes are red and include geometric detailing. The title of the book is printed vertically across the cover and is made up of bold purple text.

In Search of African American Space: Redressing Racism

Book cover vertically divided into two parts: the top features an architectural sketch of gallery space with several visitors confronted by a colorful painting. The lower beige part presents the title 'How Architecture Works' and the author's name in a dark-brown font. The subtitle 'A Humanistic Toolkit' is visible via a red handwritten type.

How Architecture Works: A Humanist's Toolkit, Paperback

Architectural Styles: A Visual Guide

Architectural Styles: A Visual Guide

A small book with a royal blue spine. There is matching blue text on the front of the book that reads 'STEVEN HOLL Inspiration and Process in Architecture'. The text is printed over a green and white illustration of a blueprint for a building. There are scribbled notes in pencil included in the illustration.

Steven Holl: Inspiration and Process in Architecture

Book cover features an image of skyscrapers looking up to the sky, buildings engage the open skyspace at the center on all four sides. the title and author's name centrally grouped in five lines using a white bold font. The subtitles are visible in between in a smaller typewritten black font.

What Goes Up: The Rights and Wrongs to the City

Book cover featuring a close up, ghostly double exposure image of two children; the image is in black and white with a green filter overlay. Of the two children, one is lying faced up with their eyes slightly open, and a bright light shinning upon their face, the other child lies beside the other with their eyes closed and head faced toward the book viewer. There is a narrow red trimming along the left edge of the book, and in yellow text towards the lower left is the book title.

Bauhaus Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and Body Culture in Modernism's Legendary Art School

Book cover features a photo of a green tree captured with a concrete wall on the background. Title and subtitle are placed in two lines on the bottom of the cover using a slender white font.

Coen+Partners: Contextual Minimalism

Black cover with pink scheme of symbols related to the topic of this book: internet, clothes, locations, water, parking, transportation, light, coffee cup.

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

Blue book cover features a graphic terrazzo pattern in grey, yellow, turquoise, and light green colors. The book title and subtitle are placed below in silver. Three horizontal light blue lines are visible at the lower-left corner.

Material Matters: Stone

White book cover featuring an abstract loop graphic made up of yellow lines. Black and yellow text above reads "The Future of Transportation"

The Future of Transportation

A black and white book cover featuring a horizontal and vertical line display. The title of the books is printed in pink and displayed on the white horizontal lines.

Postmodern Architecture: Less Is a Bore

Borderwall as Architecture

Borderwall as Architecture

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 square book cover with central photograph of a museum gallery with wood floors white walls and ceiling with skylights. Title in gray letters above.

Light in Nature: North Carolina Museum of Art: Fisher Island House

Book cover featuring a figure in a cave like interior with white porous panels casting intricate shadows on the floor

Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques

Book cover colored in quads of green, blue, fuchsia, and orange; title in white bold type.

Design with Life: Biotech Architecture and Resilient Cities

White book cover with black square askew and a smaller white and red cube inside. Title in black sans serif font slanted with the square

Walter Gropius: International Architecture

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

Gray chipboard book cover with pattern of squares made from dots in greens and yellows. Title in white sans serif letters

Bright blue book cover covered with text. "Elements of Archtitectre*" at top in gray, highlighted in green, "Rem Koolhaas" below in white, highlighted in pink. Different architectural elements listed below in white, each word highlighted in yellow-orange.

Rem Koolhaas: Elements of Architecture

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 colorful illustration of green magenta orange lavender and pink forms. Title in black letters on top in green and orange fields

Roberto Burle Marx Lectures: Landscape as Art and Urbanism

Book cover with image of a landscape design in flowing pink and green spaces. Title in white letters and numbers in upper right and lower center.

30:30 Landscape Architecture

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

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 black and white photograph of an exhibition gallery with large architectural drawings on paper in frames. Title near bottom

Drawing on Architecture

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

Joris Laarman Lab

Book cover with a red spine, featuring a full bleed photo of a modern facade against a blue sky. A translucent, white rectangle overlaid has red text that reads "A New History of Modern Architecture"

A New History of Modern Architecture

Cover image with photograph of the designer and smaller images showing sample of his iconic designs.

Michael Graves: Design for Life

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

White book cover with photograph of a lobby space with white double staircase brown walls and dark brown ceiling. Title above in black sans serif letters

Basic Architecture: Chipperfield

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