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The Classic Architect's Library selections comprises seminal texts common to most architect's educational experiences. Books written by such masters as Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright and important teachers such as Colin Rowe, Vincent Scully and Aldo Rossi are among the selections. Subjects include Architectural History, Criticism and Theory in Art & Architecture, Urban Theory, Design Methodology, and some Monograph series.

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A History of Architecture : Settings and Rituals Spiro Kostof
ARCHITECUTRAL PRINCIPLES IN THE AGE OF HUMANISM, 2nd EDITION Rudolf Wittkower
AS I WAS SAYING: RECOLLECTIONS AND MISCELLANOUS ESSAYS: TEXAS, PRE-TEXAS VOL 1 Colin Rowe
COMPLEXITY AND CONTRADICTION IN ARCHITECTURE Robert Venturi
Modern Architecture : A Critical History (World of Art) Kenneth Frampton
Shingle Style and the Stick Style : Architectural Theory&Design from Richardson to the Origins of Wright Vincent, Jr. Scully
The Architecture of Michelangelo James S. Ackerman
The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance Peter Murray
THE MATHEMATICS OF THE IDEAL VILLA Colin Rowe
THEORY AND DESIGN IN THE FIRST MACHINE AGE Reyner, Banham

TOWARDS A NEW ARCHITECTURE

Le Corbusier

 

A Pattern Language : Towns, Buildings, Construction Christopher Alexander,
Architecture : Form, Space, & Order Frank D. K. Ching, Francis D. Ching
Architecture in Age of Reason Emile Kaufmann
Architecture Theory Since 1968 K. Michael Hays (Editor)
Art and Visual Perception : A Psychology of the Creative Eye Rudolf Arnheim
City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History Spiro Kostof
Collage City Colin Rowe, Fred Koetter
Distance Points : Essays in Theory and Renaissance Art and Architecture James S. Ackerman
PALLADIO James Ackerman
The Architecture of the City Aldo Rossi
The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance Peter Murray
The Image of the City Kevin Lynch

 

A History of Architecture : Settings and Rituals

Spiro Kostof, Greg Castillo
ARCHITECTURE AFTER MODERISM (WORLD OF ART) Diane Ghirardo
ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY 1600-1750 Rudolf Wittkower
City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History Spiro Kostof
DESIGN HISTORY: AN ANTHOLOGY-A DESIGN ISSUE READER Dennis Doordan
Fallingwater : A Frank Lloyd Wright Country House Edgar Kaufmann
Modern Architecture Since 1900 William J. R. Curtis
RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE Heinrich Wolfflin
Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio, Morris H. Morgan
THE CIVILIZATION OF THE RENAISSANCE IN ITALY (PENGUIN CLASSICS) Jacob Burckhardt
The Four Books on Architecture Andrea Palladio, Robert Tavernor

 

A THEORY FOR PRACTICE: ARCHITECTURE IN THREE DISCOURSES Bill Hubbard
ARCHITECTURE, POWER, AND NATIONAL IDENTITY Lawrence J. Vale
BETWEEN TWO TOWERS: THE DRAWINGS OF THE SCHOOL OF MIAMI Vincent Scully
CENTER 9: REGARDING THE PROPER Michael Benedikt
MEDITATIONS ON A HOBBY HORSE: AND OTHER ESSAYS ON THE THEORY OF ART Ernst Hans Gombrich
STUDIES IN TECTONIC CULTURE: THE POETICS OF CONSTRUCTION IN NINETEETH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY Kenneth Fampton
THE ESSENTIAL GOMBRICH: SELECTED WRITINGS ON ART AND CULTURE Richard Woodfield
THE PROJECTIVE CAST: ARCHITECTURE AND ITS THREE GEOMETRIES Robin Evans
THE STORY OF ART Ernst Hans Gombrich
THE WERBUND: DESIGN THEORY AND MASS CULTURE BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR Frederic Schwartz
THEORIZING A NEW AGENDA FOR ARCHITECTURE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF ARCHITECTURAL THEORY 1965-1995 Kate Nesbitt
WHAT IS POST-MODERNISM? Charles Jencks

 

Barragan: The Complete Works Luis Barrgan, Antonio Toca Fernandez
Calatrava:Public Building Santiago Calatrava, Stanislaus Von Moos
Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings : Masterworks from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Frank Lloyd Wright
Greene & Greene Edward R. Bosley
Henry Hobson Richardson : A Genius for Architecture Margaret Henderson Floyd, Paul Rocheleau
Irving Gill and the Architecture of Reform : A Study in Modernist Architectual Culture Thomas S. Hines, Irving Gill
Louis Sullivan : Prophet of Modern Architecture Hugh Morrison, Timothy J. Samuelson
Michelangelo : Architect Giulio Carlo Argan
Neutra Houses Julius Shulman
Sketches by Edwin Lutyens (Riba Drawings Monographs, No 1) Margaret Richardson
The Houses of McKim, Mead & White Samuel G. White, Jonathan Wallen

 

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