Architecture books Architecture books A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction is a 1977 book on architecture. It was authored by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein of the Center for Environmental Structure of Berkeley, California, with writing credits also to Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angel. It is reputed to be the best-selling treatise on architecture of all time ** ; more than 10,000 copies a year are still sold 25 years after its first publication. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Pattern Language"
De architectura ( Latin: "On architecture") was a treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect Vitruvius and dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus. ...more on Wikipedia about "De architectura"
Osbert Lancaster's Drayneflete Revealed (1949, published in the US as There'll Always be a Drayneflete 1950), is an illustrated book on architectural style. ...more on Wikipedia about "Drayneflete Revealed"
S,M,L,XL (ISBN 1885254865) is a book by Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau. It was published by Monacelli Press in 1996. This 1376-page-long book is a collection essays, diary excerpts, travelogues, photographs, architectural plans, sketches, cartoons produced by Office of Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.) in the past twenty years. O.M.A. is a Rotterdam-based company founded by Koolhaas in 1975. ...more on Wikipedia about "S,M,L,XL"
The Culture of Building ( Oxford University Press) is a 2000 book by Howard Davis that details the culture that enabled several vernacular architecture traditions. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Culture of Building"
The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe is a four-volume work by Christopher Alexander published in 2003- 2004. In his earlier work, Alexander attempted to formulate the principles that lead to a good built environment as patterns, or recurring design solutions. However, he has come to believe that patterns themselves are not enough, and that one needs a " morphogenetic" understanding of the formation of the built environment. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Nature of Order"
The Oregon Experiment is a 1975 book by Christopher Alexander and collaborators Murray Silverstein, Shlomo Angel, Sara Ishikawa, and Denny Abrams. It describes an experimental approach to campus community planning at the University of Oregon, in Eugene, Oregon which resulted in a theory of architecture and planning described in the group's later published and better-known volumes A Pattern Language and The Timeless Way of Building. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Oregon Experiment" Please tell your friends about shortopedia
The Timeless Way of Building is a book that ties life and architecture together, written by Christopher Alexander. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Timeless Way of Building"
Vers une architecture is sometimes incorrectly translated as Towards a New Architecture whereas literally, it means rather Towards an architecture. It is a collection of essays by Le Corbusier, appearing in the French journal L'Esprit Nouveau, that were finally collated in Vers une architecture, first published in 1923. ...more on Wikipedia about "Vers une architecture"
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