Architectural Books

Here is a list of important books along with the links which you can and should read or go through in you architecture degree…

1. History of Architecture by Sir Banister Fletcher, Andrew Saint
2. Architecture: Form, Space and Order by Francis D.K. Ching
3. The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin
4. The Ten Books of Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
5. The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
6. Analyzing Architecture by Simon Unwin
7. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
8. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Robert Venturi
9. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander
10. Structure Systems by Heino Engel
11. Constructing Architecture: Material, Processes, Structures by Andrea Deplazes
12. Neufert: Architect’s Data by Ernst Neufert and Peter Neufert
13. Architecture as Space by Bruno Zevi
14. A Global History of Architecture by Francis D.K. Ching
15. A Visual Dictionary of Architecture by Francis D.K. Ching
16. La Humanization del espacio urbano: La vida social entre los edificios by Jan Gehl
17. Notes on the synthesis of Form by Christopher Alexander
18. The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
19. The Four Books of Architecture by Andrea Palladio
20. A Field guide to American Houses by Virginia McAlester
21. Architecture: Presence, Language, Place by Christian Norberg-Schulz
22. Architectural Graphics Standards
23. The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community by Peter Katz and Vincent Scully
24. 101 Things I Learned in Architecture by Mathew Frederick
25. Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier