Cultural Architecture

1. Classical Swedish Architecture and Interiors 1650-1840

   Johan Cederlund, Lani Summerville-Sternerup

   The beautiful, often breathtakingly lavish architecture and interiors of Sweden between the 1600s and early 1800s have been among the art world’s best-kept secrets.
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2. Key Houses of the Twentieth Century: Plans, Sections and Elevations

   Colin Davies

   A companion to the popular Key Buildings of the Twentieth Century, this book includes classic residential works by such seminal architects as Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and Alvar Aalto, as well as houses by more recent masters such as Tadao Ando, Rem Koolhaas, and Glen Murcutt.More

3. Exhibition Design

   David Dernie

   A survey of the conceptual themes and practical concerns—display, lighting, color, sound, and graphics—of exhibition design.More

4. The Harvard Five in New Canaan: Midcentury Modern Houses by Marcel Breuer, Landis Gores, John Johansen, Philip Johnson, Eliot Noyes, and Others

   William D. Earls

   A virtual tour of thirty-five landmark houses, 1947-1966, built in a quiet New England community.More

5. A Field Guide to Sprawl

   Dolores Hayden, Jim Wark

   A visual lexicon of the colorful slang, from alligator investment to zoomburb, that defines sprawl in America.More

6. Inquiry by Design: Environment/Behavior/Neuroscience in Architecture, Interiors, Landscape, and Planning

   John Zeisel, John P. Eberhard

   This update of a classic text folds the new field of neuroscience for design into well-established environment-behavior (E-B) methods and approaches.More

7. Windows of the World

   Dominique Lenclos, Jean-Philippe Lenclos

   The "eyes" of a building, windows separate viewer from view, inside from outside, public from private. Windows of the World tours the infinite richness of this basic architectural element, from the simple, square porthole of a stone farmhouse in Brittany to the fine ironwork details of the mashrabiya that screen windows in Morocco to the windows of New York’s Greenwich Village, crisscrossed by a complex, ornate maze of fire escapes.More

8. Pocket Guide to Chicago Architecture

   Judith Paine McBrien, John F. DeSalvo

   “A handy guidebook that profiles a building per page, with a drawing and vital statistics on most of Chicago’s major historic and modern buildings.”—Chicago TribuneMore

9. Dinner for Architects

   Winfried Nerdinger, Ingrid Li, Philip K. Howard

   Included in this beautifully produced volume--an ideal gift not only for architects--are contributions by Tadao Ando, Mario Botta, Steven Holl, Josef Paul Kleihues, Dominique Perrault, Venturi, Scott Brown, and many more.More

10. Colors of the World

    Dominique Lenclos, Jean-Philippe Lenclos, Gregory Bruhn

    Colors of the World presents a chromatic journey through the colors of vernacular architecture from the United States to the far corners of the globe.More

11. American Architecture: An Illustrated Encyclopedia

    Cyril M. Harris

    Since the Spanish established their first settlement in St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565, America has been an architectural melting pot, reflecting the contributions of every immigrant group that brought its traditions across the sea and adapted them to the places where they settled.
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12. Master Builders: Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Frank Lloyd Wright

    Peter Blake

    The story of modern architecture is told here through the lives and works of three men who changed the face of the cities we live in.More