Interesting books
We have produced a very short list of books which could provide some interesting and useful ideas and thoughts about architecture, design and town planning. Some of these writings about architecture and urbanism have proved to be the field’s utmost apex. Absorbing these ideas into the notion and service of humanism will produce the results of timeless validity. We hope you will enjoy the reading.
◾Alberti, L.B., On the Art of Building in Ten Books, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1992
◾Alexander C., Ishikawa S., Silverstein M., A Pattern Language, New York: Oxford University Press, 1977
◾Crawford, J.H., Carfree Design Manual, Utrecht: International Books, 2009
◾Haas, T., editor, New Urbanism and Beyond, New York: Rizzoli, 2008
◾Hegemann, W., Peets, E., The American Vitruvius: Architects Handbook of Civic Art, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1988
◾Jacobs, J., The Death and Life of Great American Cities, New York: Vintage Books, 1992
◾Kostof, S., The City Shaped, Boston: Bulfinch Press, 1999
◾Krier, L., Architecture – Choice or Fate, Great Britain: Andreas Papadakis Publisher, 1998
◾Palladio, A., The Four Books on Architecture, New York: Dover Publications, Inc, 1965
◾Papadakis, A., Watson, H., editors, New Classicism, Great Britain, Academy Editions, 1990
◾Pevsner, N., The History of Building Types, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976
◾Porphyrios, D., Classical Architecture, New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc, 1992
◾Ruskin, J., The Seven Lamps of Architecture, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979
◾Serlio, S., The Five Books of Architecture, New York: Dover Publications, 1982
◾Sittè, C., City Planning According to Artistic Principles, New York: Random House, 1965
◾Van Pelt, R. J. and Westfall, C. W., Architectural Principles in the Age of Historicism, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993
◾Vitruvius, The Ten Books on Architecture, New York: Dover Publications, Inc, 1960
◾Younés, S., The True, the Fictive, and the Real – The Historical Dictionary of Architecture of Quatremere de Quincy, Great Britain: Andreas Papadakis Publisher, 1999