Books about Design

A New Theory of Urban Design

Christopher Alexander, Hajo Neis, Artemis Anninou & Ingrid King

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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa et al

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A Theory of Architecture

Nikos A. Salingaros

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Architecture: Choice or Fate

Leon Krier

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Atlantis

Leon Krier

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Beauty: A Very Short Introduction

Roger Scruton

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Camillo Sitte and the Birth of Modern City Planning

Goerge R. Collins & Christiane Crasemann Collins

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Design as Art

Bruno Munari

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Discovered, Not Designed: Building Things in the Age of Complexity

Sean McClure

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Durability in Construction: Tradition and Sustainability in 21st Century Architecture

Richard Economakis

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Form Follows Fiasco: Why Modern Architecture Hasn't Worked

Peter Blake

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From Bauhaus To Our House

Tom Wolfe

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Human Scale Revisited: A New Look at the Classic Case for a Decentralist Future

Kirkpatrick Sale

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Just Enough: Lessons in Living Green from Traditional Japan

Azby Brown

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Solomeo: Brunello Cucinelli- A Humanistic Enterprise in the World of Industry

Bruno Cucinelli

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Stones of Venice

John Ruskin

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Studies in Perspective

Jan Vredeman de Vries

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The Alhambra

Robert Irwin

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The Art of Building Cities: City Building According to Its Artistic Fundamentals

Camillo Sitte

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The Art of Classic Planning: Building Beautiful and Enduring Communities

Nir Haim Buras

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The Building of Horyu-ji

Tsunekazu Nishioka & Jiro Kohara

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The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition

James Howard Kunstler

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The Culture of Cities

Lewis Mumford

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The Decorated Tenement: How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age

Zachary J. Violette

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The Golden City

Henry Hope Reed Jr.

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The Making of Classical Edinburgh

A. J. Youngson

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The Mosaics of Jordan

Michele Piccirillo

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The Old Way of Seeing: How Architecture Lost Its Magic (and How to Get It Back)

Jonathan Hale

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The Red Fort of Shahjahanabad

Anisha Shekhar Mukherji

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Thermal Delight in Architecture

Lisa Heschong

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Tools for Conviviality

Ivan Ilich

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Transport for Humans:Are we nearly there yet?

Pete Dyson & Rory Sutherland

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Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

Jeff Speck

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