Architecture Book Genre – What’s the best definition for the architecture genre? Books in the architecture nonfiction genre are about works of architecture, architects and/or the time periods of certain styles of architecture. The books can also be about technical aspects of architecture itself, structurally and aesthetically. The architecture gnre can also include books about the history of architecture and how it has evolved over time, or even characteristics of the architectural signatures of cultures and building materials.
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Architecture Book Genre – Examples
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1. A Global History of Architecture by Francis D.K. Ching
2. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander
3. A Visual Dictionary of Architecture by Francis D.K. Ching
4. Architects’ Data by Ernst Neufert
5. Architectural Graphics by Francis D.K. Ching
6. Architecture As Space by Bruno Zevi
7. Architecture: Form, Space, & Order by Francis D.K. Ching
8. Architecture: Presence, Language, Place by Christian Norberg-Schulz
9. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Robert Venturi
10. Genius Loci: towards a phenomenology of architecture by Christian Norberg-Schulz
11. Houses Made of Wood and Light: The Life and Architecture of Hank Schubart by Michele Dunkerley
12. In Praise of Shadows by Jun’ichiro Tanizaki
13. Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form by Robert Venturi
14. Poetry, Language, Thought by Martin Heidegger
15. Space And Place: The Perspective of Experience by Yi-Fu Tuan
16. Space in Architecture: The Evolution of a New Idea in the Theory and History of Modern Movements by Cornelis van de Ven
17. The Architecture of the City by Aldo Rossi
18. The Classical Language of Architecture by John Summerson
19. The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
20. The Hidden Dimension by Edward T. Hall
21. The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch
22. The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
23. The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin
24. The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander
25. Visual Dictionary of Architecture by Francis D.K. Ching
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