Architecture Books

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

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Book cover with photograph of a landscaped environment in the foreground and lower manhattan in the background undera blue sky. The title is overlaid vertically stacked through the center in white sans serif letters.

NYC Walks: Guide to New Architecture

Black book cover with illustration of earth in dark green and black. Title in white upper right

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

Book cover with a floral pattern in blues and greens. A space near the center is indented in the shape of a vial with a white box in the middle with the title information in orange vintage type

Bitten by Witch Fever: Wallpaper & Arsenic in the Nineteenth-Century Home

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

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

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

Egyptomania: A History of Fascination, Obsession and Fantasy

Egyptomania: A History of Fascination, Obsession and Fantasy

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

White book cover featuring a white chair. Both the cover and the chair are covered in handwritten words

Can Design Change Society?

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

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 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

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 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

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 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

Lavendar cover with black and white image of Eileen Gray.

Eileen Gray: Her Life and Work

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

Cover of the book Basic Architecture: Morris published by Taschen. The cover is white with black text and features a drawing of a floral display in shades of dark green, blue, yellow, and white. The style of drawing is from the 20th century and was most likely used as a wallcovering.

Basic Architecture: Morris

The Future of Public Space

The Future of Public Space

Basic Architecture: Gaud’

Basic Architecture: Gaudí

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

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

Red book cover with two offset yellow orange lines in the center and large yellow orange text: Breaking Ground: Architecture by Women.

Breaking Ground: Architecture by Women

Book cover with orange field at top with title in yellow and black sans serif letters above a black and white photograph of a geodesic dome

Your Private Sky: R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Architectural Styles: A Visual Guide

Architectural Styles: A Visual Guide

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

Large book cover featuring a scenic woodblock wallpaper. Text overlaid reads Zuber: Two Centuries of Panoramic Wallpapers.

Zuber: Two Centuries of Panoramic Wallpaper

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

Michael Graves: Design for Life

Book cover with black and white schematic of figures in wheelchairs from different angles. Title in white font in transparent blue field across the top

Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability

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

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