Architecture Books | My Library of Essentials

A list of the architecture books essential to my practice and a look at my personal library. These are the books I keep close at hand in my studio and I've arranged them into six themes: history, narrative, process and making, machines and architecture; details, and fundamental architectural principles.

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Links to the books in the order they're presented:
Architecture: From Prehistory to Postmodernity (Trachtenberg) http://amzn.to/2q71hYK
Modern Architecture: A Critical History (Frampton) http://amzn.to/2qtjnas
Field Guide to New England Barns and Farm Buildings. (Visser) http://amzn.to/2plZdio
Reading the Forested landscape http://amzn.to/2plVJwz
The Granite Landscape (Wessels) http://amzn.to/2q6V9Qr
Thinking architecture (Zumthor) http://amzn.to/2plFVtn
In Praise of Shadows (Tanizaki) http://amzn.to/2qtuEHX
Condemned Building (Darden) Out of print (=insanely $$$$)
Ghost (MacKay-Lyons) http://amzn.to/2pyFwPG
Anarchitecture (Woods) http://amzn.to/2q47gj0
Type Variant House (James) http://amzn.to/2qt87L5
Boundaries (Maya Lin) http://amzn.to/2qt8chR
The Work of Shim Sutcliffe https://taubmancollege.umich.edu/pdfs...
-Tom Kundig Monographs. http://amzn.to/2q71YRQ
Peter Zumthor: Buildings and Projects 1985-2013 (Durisch) http://amzn.to/2q77SSQ
Building Machines. http://amzn.to/2q40FoM
Instrumental Form. Wes Jones. http://amzn.to/2pm1uu6
Gyroscopic Horizons. Neil Denari. http://amzn.to/2qtzGnw
Morphosis. Buildings and projects. http://amzn.to/2q44dr0
Blast Furnaces. (Bernd + Hilla Becher) http://amzn.to/2q4e9RC http://amzn.to/2pyziiN
Detail publications
Detail in Contemporary Residential Architecture Series. http://amzn.to/2plLUhO
The Works: Anatomy of a City. http://amzn.to/2q76HCX
Wood and Wood Joints (Zwerger) http://amzn.to/2plXfyu
Architectural Graphic Standards. http://amzn.to/2q4zDgL
Form, Space, and Order. http://amzn.to/2q704R6
Architectural Graphics. http://amzn.to/2qUAFNm
Programs and Manifestoes on 20th Century Architecture. http://amzn.to/2plM2OA
Lego Architecture Studio Companion book, http://amzn.to/2qUKaMC
Unbuilding (Macaulay) http://amzn.to/2q4Sc4d
Underground (Macaulay) http://amzn.to/2q6NEsM
Cathedral (Macaulay) http://amzn.to/2q44Q3Q
Castle (Macaulay) http://amzn.to/2qUKn2m
Pyramid (Macaulay) http://amzn.to/2q733Jo

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