Architecture Books

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

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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 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

A green book cover featuring bold white text that dominates the cover. The text reads 'Neighborhoods for the future' with the letters made up of a series of small squares meant to mimic an aerial view of a neighborhood.

Neighbourhoods for the Future: A Plea for a Social and Ecological Urbanism

The beige book cover features a graphic image of a perspectival view on a house layout in red, yellow, and light blue colors. The title, the subtitle, and the author's name are places at the top in three rows using bold font.

The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness

Square book cover with a partially colored photograph of a modern living room interior. The title is overlaid in the center in white letters

The Iconic Interior: 1900 to the Present

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

Egyptomania: A History of Fascination, Obsession and Fantasy

Egyptomania: A History of Fascination, Obsession and Fantasy

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

Square book cover in the form of a ceramic tile complete with crackling glaze. Blue and red floral shapes frame the title in red and green sans serif letters in the center

Beige book cover with rounded squares in different colors each containing an architectural sketch of a ramp. Title in black letters near the top

Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design, Paperback

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

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 with printed digital pattern of floral shapes in brown and yellow tones. Title overlaid in thin yellow sans serif letters

Toward an Urban Ecology

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

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

Architectural Styles: A Visual Guide

Architectural Styles: A Visual Guide

Book cover with photograph of a row of trees in a storm with high winds and a gray sky. Title in italicized sans serif font in white fading to transparent with the word "Broken" in red

Critical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet

Book cover features a photo of a town in the mountains taken from above. Two lines of the title in bold gray font are separated by the image. The background of the cover is black with a visible pore texture of concrete.

Justice Is Beauty: MASS Design Group

Square book cover showing a modern kitchen with blue appliances cabinets and flooring. Title overlaid at a slant with yellow sans serif letters

The Midcentury Kitchen

A white cover with a stepped arrangement of vertical binder strips in a spectrum of blacks, grays and colors. The four-line title is aligned left in all-caps, white on the first line and warm gray for three lines.

Chroma: Design, Architecture & Art in Color

Basic Architecture: Gaud’

Basic Architecture: Gaudí

Book cover with large timelapsed photography of figures in a chic hotel room with an image of figures on the ceiling. Title in red on center right of cover backlit by hotel room window

New Hotels for Global Nomads

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

Book cover with photograph in tones of light blue and gray showing a large parking lot with a white cab and a partially obscured stack of cars as a statue to the left. Title in white near the top

ReThinking a Lot: The Design and Culture of Parking

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

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 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

Black book cover feating a small blue blur at center, white white and blue text above reading "The Neri Oxman Material Ecology Catalogue"

Neri Oxman: Material Ecology

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

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

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 black and white photograph of scene with architectural and landscape elements with white title information in upper left

Public Natures: Evolutionary Infrastructures

Book cover features a photo of contemporary architectural structure. The title is visible in the left top corner.

Urban Interventions: Design Ideas for the Public Space

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

Joris Laarman Lab

Book cover with beige and black sketch of globe ship and large geometric forms. Title in white sans serif font in orange field near the top

Education Automation

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

Book cover with a photograph of a bald figure walking on a highway overpass holding a phone to their ear, framed by a black and white square filled with black and white dots over the title in white sans serif font

Check In / Check Out: The Public Space as an Internet of Things

Small book cover with a figure in an environment of layered pink white and light blue orbs. Title in black font in a black square at top.

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

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

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