| 1. |  | 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
from The MIT Press
Price: $9.32
Customer Review:
I bought this as a gift for someone. I flipped through the book before I wrapped it, and wish I had ordered one for myself. It is a very small book - about 4" X 6". | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | How Your House Works: A Visual Guide to Understanding & Maintaining Your Home
from R.S. Means Company
Price: $14.93
Customer Review:
I'm a 100% newbie, and the book is very helpful to me. I especially like the illustrations, simple and to the point. | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change
from Walker & Company
Price: $23.10
Customer Review:
On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change, by Ada Louise Huxtable, the architecture critic of The Wall Street Journal (and formerly of The New York Times) is an essential addition to any library. It brings together her columns from both papers along with essays from other... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | The Death and Life of Great American Cities
from Vintage
Price: $10.85
Customer Review:
I bought this book as a required reading for school. It was very easy to read and covered many interesting topics. I would recommend this book to anyone that is interested in learning more about the urban environment. | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | Building Construction Illustrated
from Wiley
Price: $32.97
Customer Review:
I purchased this book about two years ago and it has been worth every penny and more. I often just leave it on my desk for quick reference regardless of what stage in a project I'm in. I am currently a third year Architecture student and can see myself using this text well into my practice as some... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture
from Phaidon Press Inc.
Price: $122.85
Customer Review:
A magnificent book, which is indeed current to within the last year, including buildings such as `The birds nest' used in the Chinese Olympics and Toronto's ROM, but not their recently updated AGO.
The buildings are described well in the text along with Architectural designs and copious images... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 7. |  | The Modern Architecture Pop-Up Book
from Universe
Price: $29.70
Customer Review:
I collect pop-up books. I am also an art dealer so I have interest in this book from two angles. This book is disappointing because the pop-up images are not as well executed as they are in other pop-up books. I had great difficulty in closing the book after I opened it to one partiuclar page as the... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | Gil Elvgren: All His Glamorous American Pin-Ups (Jumbo)
from Taschen
Customer Review:
Without any knowledge; yet a curious fascination for a bygone era, I perused many of the illustrators famous for their cheesecake-girl-next-door pin ups of the fifties on the web. Gil Elvgren came up tops! As Rockwell held a mirror up to the American public, Elvgren manage to evoke Rockwellesque... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | Architecture: Form, Space, & Order
from Wiley
Price: $29.70
Customer Review:
A great reference book along with:
A Visual Dictionary of Architecture
These two books are sort of the Elements and Principles for architecture, your tools and the manual of how to use them.
Architecture:Form,Space,&Order is more instructional and covers architecture principals... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 10. |  | The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
from Knopf
Price: $40.95
Customer Review:
Having grown up in upstate NY and having lived in Long Island recently I saw much evidence of Robert Moses' mark upon the NY metropolitan area. This book is a well-written and thoroughly researched biography on the life of this pivotal figure who shaped modern NYC and state, for the better, and in... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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