Architecture Books

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

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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 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 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

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

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

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

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

A bright red cover featuring 5 yellow lines that are drawn diagonally across the cover. The title of the book along with the publisher are printed in bold white text across the cover of the book.

Snøhetta: Collective Intuition

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 book with a dark green cover. The cover features text that reads 'Studio Gang, in white text, and 'Architecture' in green. The text is surrounded by a series of curved lines that cover the book, including certain sections of the text. Phaidon, the name of the publishing company is printed in green text on the bottom left of the cover.

Studio Gang: Architecture

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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

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